Ahaziah Had A choice

Ahaziah Had A Choice To Be Different 

I Kings 22:51-52 NKJV

[51] Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel. [52] He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin; 

Ahaziah had a choice to be different. Theres no law that you have to be like your parents. I am familiar with ancestral and parental influence on our upbringing. By such training, we are supposed to follow certain life patterns, but we can break those patterns. That is what the New Creation does for us. It translates us out of old paradigms to a new one and a new starting block.

   Ahaziah, like so many did not know this, so he continued in the fathers footsteps ( v.52 ). Hear me, you can remove the shackle. You can resist the devil. You can refuse the bet to continue in family patterns. The choice is yours to make when you're born again. 

   Simple by Emmy is not a preacher or a theologian, but her observations make a good reading. She's talking to mothers. " Our lives are the summation of the choices we make, and as much as I’d like to say that I am always intentional and mindful about mine, that is definitely not the case. I sometimes parent out of anger. I eat out of frustration. I stare at a screen out of boredom. Many times these choices are a result of a negative choice I made just prior: a choice to yell rather than listen, a choice to inhale food rather than exhale a deep breath, a choice to numb my discomfort rather than to acknowledge and work through it". Does that sound like what we do? Thats how life is lived.

   Greg McKeown in his book Essentialism deals with this matter of choice. " We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do. This experience brought me to the liberating realization that while we may not always have control over our options, we always have control over how we choose among them.”  I know we may say its the fulfillment of the word that was spoken to the father Ahab. Well here is another scholar: " In 853 BC, King Ahaziah of the northern Kingdom of Israel also relied on his faith for recovery. Yet, his faith actually became the cause of his death. He had a sincere faith, but there was just one problem—he was sincerely wrong. After suffering a major injury, he called upon the false god Baal-zebub, rather than Yahweh. And it cost him his life". Choice. What are your choices for today? Will they serve God or the devil? Good morning.