(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless
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Starting well, finishing badly
Having started well, if you finish well as well, that is swell! Even if you start badly, but finish well, that is okay. I don’t think Usain Bolt was the quickest off the block. If you start badly and finish badly, you don’t make it to the podium. Joash is a classic example of a good king gone bad. As long as his mentor Jehoiada – who saved his life, taught him, made him a king and found him wives – was alive, Joash was okay.
But as soon as Jehoiada died, things started slipping. The leaders of Judah and king Joash decided to abandon the Temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors. Zechariah, Jehoiada’s son protested and Joash had him killed.
Murder in the Cathedral!
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*20 July, setting 1 January as Day 1