Legacy Wasn’t On His Radar
S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: 2 Chronicles 21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. O-bservation: Jehoram […]
Stick With Your Own
S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Number 36:9 No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits. O-bservation: This was the way the Israelites did things in the Old Testament. Each tribe had to stay within its own tribe […]
The Capstone
S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Psalm 128:6a May you live to see your children’s children. O-bservation: I could have called this devotional “The Blessings of A Godly Man,” but this short line that ends this chapter is “The Capstone” to a man who would live his life for the […]
Just One Man, All But Dead
S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Hebrews 11:12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. O-bservation: The writer of Hebrews talked about the great prophet and […]
A Sad Legacy
To this day, the monument that Absolom built for himself still stands today in the Kidron Valley. But to be honest, it’s really “A Sad Legacy.” If you read the whole story of Absolom from beginning to end, he was an unloved son. When his father wept at his death, I believe that he was weeping because he had failed as a father. Absolom came to a place in his life where he had crossed the line and tried to wrest the kingdom from his dad. In so doing, he built a monument to himself in order to seal his own legacy.