When we face trouble, many people use the opportunity to complain or to try to elicit pity. But we need to seed trouble as a time to examine our souls before the Lord. Perhaps He is testing us. Or is He chastening us for sin so that we need to repent. In this passage, King Ahaz often rebelled against the Lord and the Chronicler had divine warrant to connect his sin to the trouble that followed. Finally, God's anger was provoked and Ahaz was buried away from the tombs of the kings signifying that he was cut off from the Lord for his sin. Yet the northern kingdom that had rebelled against David, showed proper response to the Lord's intervention by 1) listening to the Lord's Word, 2) stopping the sinful act they were performing and 3) turning to do what was right before the Lord.
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The son of a minister, Rev. J. Bruce Martin has been in the ministry since 1974. Before coming east, Pastor Martin ministered two other reformed churches in the mid-west. Since 1997 he's been the minister of Ridgefield Park RPCNA in New Jersey, which is neighbor to New York...
