The Feed Mill

Today’s Bible Reading: 1 Kings 21-22

Today’s Devotional: 1 Kings 21:1-7

Not despising our gift we have in Christ.

Ahab, the King of Israel at the time, is on of the kings who’s life and some key choices of his are recorded throughout scripture, and in 1 Kings his life has been placed on display for us from the end of 1 Kings 16 through a majority of 1 Kings 22.

Ahab was one who constantly acted wickedly in the sight of the Lord and here in 1 Kings 21 is no exception. Ahab coveted another’s possession and allotment of what the Lord had set apart for him and his family, which was not to be despised and traded.

God desires that each of us will not despise the gift(s) He’s given us, but that they will be cultivated and built up by being grown in and through His Word and in His way. They are His and have been given to each individual so who better to know their purpose, proper use, and how to develop them. They don’t belong to the world so they can’t be perfected by the world.

Ahab’s actions then because he was not content with who he was or what the Lord had entrusted him with and which he continued to seek throughout the world for the world or other individuals to be the source of fulfilling those gifts, Ahab continued to be led by the world and not by God. Ahab chose repeatedly to get his identity and clarity from any and everyone except for who has placed him as King and where his gifts, possessions, and his identity and problems; Ahab never sought the Lord but instead his comforts and the desires of his own heart instead of the desires of God’s heart.