Daily Manna Devotion: Insincerity

SATURDAY 24TH OCTOBER, 2020

INSINCERITY

📜📜 TEXT: 2 CHRONICLES 25:1-10
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🔑📖 KEY VERSE: “And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart” (2 CHRONICLES 25:2).

During the scramble for the control of Africa at the end of the 19th century by imperialist European rulers, Belgium’s King Leopold II left arguably the largest and most horrid legacy of all.

While the great powers competed for territory elsewhere, the king of one of Europe’s smallest countries carved his own private colony out of 100 square kilometres of Central African rainforest. He claimed he was doing it to “protect” the natives from Arab slaves, and to open the heart of Africa to “Christian missionaries” and Western capitalists, but ended up taking their lands and enslaving the people.

King Amaziah in our text was said to have done that which was right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart. While revenging the death of his father, he declined killing the children of the murderers claiming he was obeying God’s commands not to kill those not directly involved in a crime. He equally obeyed the prophet, when he was told to dismiss the soldiers he hired from Israel. But later showed his true colours by introducing strange gods into the land, and oppressing the people.

Like King Leopold II and Amaziah in our text, many so-called believers have through their actions brought shame to Christianity in their communities and neighborhoods. They would initially show much and appear outwardly to be saints, only to defraud, deceive, and destroy those who fall victims to their sweet promises.

Our claim to Christianity and righteousness should not end by mere words of mouth; it should be backed up by a corresponding action of truth and sincerity.

✍🏽 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: True Christianity is not lip service.

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