Today's Favorite Verse: 2 Chronicles 21:4, 14-15, 19
"Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers."
I pondered on the word "strengthened". My strength comes from the Lord, how it is internal, deep inside me that I feel it. Jehoram sought to strengthen himself by turning from the Lord. What was inside of him was rotten and capable of killing his brothers. Seems rather fitting that one so against the Lord had his bowels inside fall out. That must have been a terrible rotting sickness, he would have no doubt who had power over life or death. The Lord will have a cleansed people, in so many ways it comes from the inside out.
Day 963
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