When God anointed me, he showed me how Idolatry grieved His heart! I got to see first hand, how our God feels about our love of anything other than him. I think of this Idolatry or (love of the world) as being high places in our heart! Places we need to tear down and give up to our God in heaven to qualify for the rapture!
Azariah was king of Judah at the age of 16 and reigned for 52 years. Things were very hard for Azariah as his father had just died, Jerusalem was in chaos. Some of God’s people had been taken and put in captivity. Some large sections of the cities walls were completely destroyed and much of the palace furnishings were all taken. Azariah was a good king. He was zealous about the things of God but at his death we learn that Azariah did not remove the high places of worship.
2 kings 15:3-5
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Amaziah had done. The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. The Lord afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, and he lived in a separate house.
As with many kings of Israel and Judah, we see their reign as king was successful and they even were accredited with ‘doing what was right’ in the eyes of the Lord but they would not remove those places of hidden worship. Those places of Idolatry. The places that seem so small and insignificant that we think they don’t matter. But in the end, Azariah was not buried with the kings and placed in a prominent place of history. No, the high places kept him from true surrender to the Almighty God.
Just like the kings of old, we too sometimes harbor hidden places of Idolatry before the Lord and we too refuse to demolish our ‘HIGH PLACES.’
What is in your heart today? What places has God been talking to you about removing to get you ready for the rapture? What HIGH PLACES of your heart are holding you back from a surrendered life before God?
Let me encourage you to just give up before it is too late.
Think on these things
Prophet Ruth
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