“If my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land.”  (2 Chronicles 7:14)

The First and Second Books of Chronicles in the Bible do just that. They chronicle the lives and works of the kings of the Hebrew nation, the people, the events, successes, failings, and calamities.

When reading them, something becomes very clear.  You can never be so high up that you cannot be brought down.  Likewise, you can never be so far down that God cannot bring you up.

You are never so poor that God cannot make you rich. You are never so sick that God cannot heal you. Your heart is never so hard that God cannot soften it.  There is never so much darkness that the Light of God cannot pierce it.

Clearly, we must turn from what is wicked in humility, pray and seek God’s face.  We must also remember that God’s riches, God’s healing, God’s heart, and God’s Light may be very different from the world’s.