Cast Down Those Idols

Today’s Through the Bible Reading: 2 Kings 11:1–12:16; 2 Chronicles 23:1–24:16

Abbreviated / Highlights: 2 Kings 11-12:16

"Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD's people. And all the people went to the temple of Baal, and tore it down. They broke in pieces its altars and images…” 2 Chronicles 23:16-17 NKJV

Devotion to God leads directly to the destruction of idols. Israel’s repentance and renewed love for the Lord ushered in a distinct disdain for idolatry. This pattern is just as true for you and me as it was for the ancient Jew.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

 Try to picture the scene – the Israelites were, in a moment, so zealous for the Lord that they must have stormed the temple in a righteous rage to tear down those idols and finally be freed from their bondage to false gods. So too, should you and I be zealous for our Lord to the point that we rush to tear down the idols in our hearts, where the true and living God now lives.

So like Jehoiada the priest and Joash the king in today’s reading, let your heart be zealous and fully devoted to the Lord. Cast down, in righteous rage, those things that exalt themselves above Him.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5

We've been redeemed, bought with the precious blood of Christ. We're now new creations, free to walk as imitators of Christ and live an abundant life, free from false gods and idols that only want to enslave us to sin. So let’s cast ’em down and lift up the Lord in our lives.

 Keep reading: 2 Kings 10:28–36; 2 Kings 13:1–3

by Sharon Kaselonis / All rights reserved ©