“Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.” - 2 Chronicles 20v33
Jehoshaphat followed Asa his father in following the Lord and doing what was right in God’s eyes. It was one of the very few times that Judah had two good kings in a row.
Yet Jehoshaphat left something undone. He did not rid the land of the high places because the people’s hearts were not prepared to the Lord. They followed God, the walked in His ways, but they never changed their hearts and always left provision to return to their old ways. These high places, which they could just not let go, proved their hearts were not totally sold out to the Lord.
What about the high places in our lives? What are the things we just can’t get rid of because our hearts are not truly prepared to the Lord? Isn’t it about time we tore down the high places in our lives?
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