April 23, 2021: Day 48 – II Chronicles 15

The story of Asa continues as we see the faithfulness of this king.  He is also able to rally his people and get them to profess loyalty to God in a way that had not been done for generations.  We read that he gathered all of the people and they all sacrificed to the Lord and they all swore an oath.  As a result we read in vs.15 that the Lord gives them rest all around.

The consecration of the people and the of the king is extreme enough that Asa finds out that his mother had desecrated herself by offering up an idol to the high places.  As a result he removed his mom from being the queen mother because of this action.  No one is spared and there is no nepotism.  You can see the loyalty of Asa by the fact that not even his mom is given a pass.

The most telling of the verses is probably vs.19 where we read that there was peace in the land for 35 years.  That is incredibly impressive for a land that has seen wars for generation upon generation since even before the time of David.  That certainly is not the case today as war continues to ravage that region.

Here is one that would fit for this Scripture.