Year 6, Day 325: 2 Chronicles 26

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Discipleship Focus: Calling

• Calling asks whether or not God has called the person to the particular work at this point in their life.

Uzziah is another great leader of the Hebrew people to study.  He is a king ho gets most of his life.  He follows God, for the most part.  But in a way, that’s what makes him a good study.  Who among us can’t say that we occasionally don’t get something wrong?

If we look at Uzziah, we can see that he is faithful.  He listens to God and God’s prophets.  He gives God praise and glory.  He clearly cares about the worship of God and the things that are happening at the temple.

The problem with Uzziah isn’t that suffers from a lack of focus like his father before him.  Uzziah’s problem is that he may just care too much.  Uzziah goes forth into the temple and wants to offer up a sacrifice.  He wants to partake in the worship of God.  But it isn’t for him to do.  He is warned that what he wants to do is reserved for the Levites and priests.  Uzziah doesn’t listen.  He cares too much to listen and submit to God’s ways.

Uzziah goes forward and does what is not his to do.  Uzziah takes something that is pleasing to God but does it in a way that is not pleasing to God.  Uzziah has to live with the consequences for the rest of his life.

But the neat thing is that even in the consequences, he is still remembered as faithful.  Uzziah’s few points of failure don’t taint his overall heart.  He is a good king, generally leading the people in the way they should go.

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