Money and Power
And after all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers. He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 21:18-20 (ESV)
All people will answer to God for their lives and account for how they used the gifts God gave them to honor Him. Jehoram was an evil king who killed his brothers to protect his power and tried to make ignoring God normative. He, like anyone who is intoxicated by their power and authority will experience, came to a tragic end.
What is it about money and power that so quickly corrupts man? Could it be that those who have money and power begin to have a glimpse of what it is to be God in that all those around them seem to subject themselves to them for their gain? Wealthy, influential people can be the most disadvantaged of all.
2 Chronicles 21:18-20 (ESV)
All people will answer to God for their lives and account for how they used the gifts God gave them to honor Him. Jehoram was an evil king who killed his brothers to protect his power and tried to make ignoring God normative. He, like anyone who is intoxicated by their power and authority will experience, came to a tragic end.
What is it about money and power that so quickly corrupts man? Could it be that those who have money and power begin to have a glimpse of what it is to be God in that all those around them seem to subject themselves to them for their gain? Wealthy, influential people can be the most disadvantaged of all.
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