1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 5
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COORDINATOR: AFOLABI JOSEPH OLAJIDE
COMMENTARY
The beginning of chapter 5 tells of Reuben and his birthright loss to Joseph because of Reuben’s sin (5:1-2).
We may have special privileges by birth, unusual access to education or the higher echelons of society, but all is in God’s hands and can be reversed if we are unfaithful to him—and the blessing given to another instead
He tells the story of a war that was successful because the war was of God (5:18-22).
Do what is right, seek God, and let him take care of the results.
The moral lesson is also drawn from the half-tribe of Manasseh, who whored after other gods (5:25) and therefore was subject to God’s intervention against them and their being taken off into exile (5:26).
God is a God who, like a lover, requires fidelity to his love. Be loyal to God, worship him as God, and have no other gods before him (Ex. 20:3).
Dear brother or sister; you and I become caught by the same snare when we become complacent in our faith in God. When we lose sight over time of how dependent we truly are on Him for everything in our lives
when we begin to trust less and less in Him, and more and more in our own resources and strength; then we don't simply become "neutral" and "plateau-out" spiritually. We actually begin to fill the God-shaped void in our hearts with a false god—to our own destruction!
So; these very people, who were raised to greatness because they trusted God, slipped into sinned because they grew to be unfaithful to Him and turned instead to false gods that could not help them.
The chapter teaches us of our own desperate need to be sure that we are constantly, consistently faithful to look to, cry out to, and rely upon the God who faithfully helps all those who genuinely trust in Him. "For," as the Bible tells us, "the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him"
Perhaps this very evening, God is using this passage to call you to repent of the failure to make Him your first trust. Perhaps He is calling you to stop looking to other things, and to learn to look to Him for your help.
And another thing that I believe this passage would teach us is of our need to make sure that we are faithful to pass a trust in God on to the next generation! Successive generations had, over time, forgotten what God had done for their forefathers.
Are there some young people that God has placed in your life that you can protect from the downward slide into unfaithfulness?
May God help us to pass a genuine faithfulness to the infinitely trustworthy God of Israel on to the next generation; and to speak to them as it says in Psalm 78:1-8 in Jesus name
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