Today is Tuesday, November 19, 2019 and here is your Daily Devo.
Hardness of heart and lack of repentance walk hand in hand with pride. Zedekiah had every opportunity to repent, but he didn’t. He could have listened to the council of Jeremiah, humbly acknowledged the word of the Lord, and demonstrated that acknowledgment by turning away from his own wisdom and coming back to the Lord. However, Zedekiah was convinced his way was right, and he felt no need to turn away from it.
Another sign of hardness of heart in these verses is the lack of distinction between God’s people and the rest of the nations. From the beginning God planned for the people of Israel to be a distinct people on the earth. They alone would shine forth His glory as a kingdom of priests set apart specifically for the Lord. But in the days of Zedekiah, “all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations” (2 Chron. 36:14a CSB). In other words, they abandoned their distinction as God’s people and began to follow the ways of everyone around them instead.
Think about this: What can we learn about the nature of pride from this account? When has God revealed to you some uncomfortable truth through His Word? How did you respond? Based upon this account, how should we respond in those moments?
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