July 3, 2019 – All Suddenly Done

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All Suddenly Done

 July 3
 Daily Reading – 2 Chron. 28-30 / Acts 9:1-19

GOD SAID:

2 Chronicles 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.


GETTING INTO GOD’S WORD:

       I’m amazed at today’s verse. Not even the entire verse. Just the last line. “… for the thing was done suddenly.” If I didn’t know better, it would sound like this revival took place overnight. However, there was a lot of work that went into this renewal of worshiping of God. In the first part of the chapter, Hezekiah is made King, and decides to lead these people back to worshiping the Lord. He has the temple doors reopened that Ahaz had nailed shut. He then tells the priests and Levites to clean up everything, beginning with their own hearts. Following this cleaning and restoration of the Temple, they began the process of sacrificing animals for the sins of the King, and the past sins of the leaders and the nation. Next, the people began to bring in their sacrifices to be offered up for their own sin. So many, that the priests could not keep up and had to enlist the help of other Levites to flay the animals for the priests to sacrifice. The singers and musicians then assemble and the people began to sing and praise the Lord. Does that sound like it just suddenly happened?

       However, if we read the verse again, it doesn’t say all of the preparation to worship happened suddenly. What happened suddenly was, God had prepared the hearts of the people for the work to be done and the worship to be given. When God moves on His people, it doesn’t take long to see the evidence of God’s hand in their life.


GETTING GOD’S WORD INTO ME:

    When God saves our soul, it happens in an instant. However, the work He does in our lives to make us more like His Son Jesus can take a lifetime. People’s lives at the moment of salvation change suddenly, but the changes in that life can take time.


Has God suddenly changed you?

     
Living In His Word Ministries
    “Getting people into the Word of God…
                               … and the Word of God into people.”

Dr. Franklin J. Senters Th.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Hebrews 2:12

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