the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
1 Kings 22:19-40
With one voice the four hundred prophets made their prediction in accordance with the king’s wishes. What do they risk? If Ahab wins the war, their prediction will be confirmed. If he fails to return, he will not be able to reproach them. As against these lying prophets, a lone prophet of the LORD, the faithful Micaiah, courageously makes the truth known and must suffer for it. Like 1 Kings 18, this one warns us of a danger: that of judging anything as good or bad from the number of people who practise it. Men today, like Ahab, "after their own lusts heap to themselves teachers" (2 Timothy 4:3). They do not like, in particular, to hear about eternal judgment, and to reassure themselves they find preachers who promise them that in the end everything will work out all right. But sooner or later, God will confound all liars. His Word is truth. (John 17:17).
Jehoshaphat’s lack of will-power all but cost him his life. He followed Ahab, afraid of upsetting him. Ahab in a cowardly manner thought to deflect the enemy’s attention and efforts towards Jehoshaphat, but his ploy could not deceive the LORD, who had His eyes upon the one king to deliver him, and upon the other to bring to pass His infallible judgment (see Psalms 7:12-13).
