FAITH CAPSULE: what is turning you from maintaining your commitment to God?

2Chronicles 25

The book of 2Chronicles 25:1-2 recorded, “Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.  And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a loyal heart.” The story of Amaziah sounded like that of acclaimed believers of today. Today, so many acclaimed believers are doing the right thing without a loyal heart in the sight of the Lord. Are you doing the right thing but disloyal in the sight of the Lord?
It is a right thing to know about and accept Jesus as the Lord and savior. It is a right thing to be coming out on a regular basis to worship in the church. It is a right thing to be actively engaged in church activities such as prayer and fasting. It is a right thing to be engaged in maintaining church properties. However, it is possible to be engaged in doing all that is right in the sight of God and not have a loyal heart.
Amaziah’s right doing in the sight of God was documented, “Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established for him, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king. However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not 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.”(2Chronicles 25:3-4) Amaziah carefully obeyed the Law in the book of Moses and it was counted for him as doing right in the sight of God.
Amaziah’s disloyalty in the sight of God surfaced after winning a battle against the Edomites. It was a battle he would not have been able to win but divine intervention of God gave victory to him and Judah when they defeated the Edomites. After his victory, “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?”” (2Chronicles 25:14-15) Amaziah was unwilling to listen to the prophet sent by God.  Amaziah could not maintain loyal heart for God that won him battle.
As an acclaimed believer, what is turning you from maintaining your commitment to God? Are you right in the sight of God and unconsciously disloyal in His sight?

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you not to be a disloyal vessel in His hand.