2 Kings 16-17; 2 Chronicles 28 Compromise is Deadly

One thing we can learn from scripture is that God reveals both the good and the bad. Again we recall Jeremiah’s words: the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it but God alone. However, the evidence is recorded that we might learn from history to not repeat the sins of those who went before us.

King Ahaz was a compromising king. He knew what was right but chose to ignore it and follow the ways of the nations around him. He looked with his eyes and not with his heart. His sins are recorded that we might learn the result of compromise. When we see the worldly success of others do we too desire what they have and ignore God’s truth so we can gain what will be burned up in eternity? Not only did he compromise but he ordered the high priest to also compromise and he obeyed rather than following the way of God. He did what Ahaz ordered by building a new altar fashioned like those who are ungodly. 

There are so many lessons here in these chapters but the one that stands out is the price we pay for compromise. Gal 6:7 God will not be mocked, that which a man sows, he also will reap.