FAITH CAPSULE:Doing right without a loyal heart will be impossible to please God.

2 Chronicles 25

The Bible described Amaziah king of Judah, “And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a loyal heart.” (2 Chronicles 25:2) Doing what is right in the sight of God without a loyal heart will be impossible to please God. The Bible makes us to realize that without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrew 11:6) In the case of Amaziah, he did what was right when he executed those who killed his father and not execute their children. Amaziah’s was obeying the Law of Moses as documented in Deuteronomy 24:16, “The father shall be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin.” It was the same Amaziah that experienced the hand of God, defeating the Edomites. Amaziah’s loyalty to God became altered when he gave into the God of the people he defeated. The Bible recorded, “Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them. Therefore the anger of the LORD was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?” (2 Chronicles 25:14-15) It is clearly mentioned in the above scriptural verses that after he brought the gods, he set and sought the gods of his enemy. Indeed, whatever you set you will seek and that was the case of Amaziah. It qualified him as doing right but not with a loyal heart. As a believer that has given life to Christ Jesus, which position have you taken? The apostle Paul pointed out in Colossians 3:1-2, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.” As a believer, what you seek and set your mind on is what will make you up in the journey of life. In all your seeking, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”  (Matthew 6:33) The word of God is true and never fails. When you seek the kingdom of heaven first, not second nor jointly with any other agenda, the result will be true to God’s word. Deuteronomy 4:29, “…seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to do what is right with a loyal heart all the days that He has given you.