Your Way to Victory

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“’Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,’ says the Lord”... (2 Chronicles 34:27)

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

How many truly victorious Christians do you know? How many genuinely victorious churches are you aware of? You know the problem with many of us? We are failing, but we don't weep over it. We are not living in victory, but it doesn't seem to bother us. We know very little about victory, and we seem to be quite content to live day after day without it. We seem to think that victory is for others, but not for us.

Today’s verse occurred at a time of utter devastation in Israel. Young Josiah—a mere boy—became king. He wanted to get things right with God. He humbled himself. Our Bible passage today is God’s answer! Read it again.

ACTION POINT:

This is a beautiful chapter—one you should read today. Do you think you were behind the door when victory was passed out, and it's not your fault you live in defeat? Could it be that it is your fault that you’re not victorious? You ought to be weeping over your shame and over your sin. Follow Josiah’s example in this chapter and humble yourself before our great God.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers