Today's Lessons from Jehu

 ¹ And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Get yourself ready, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. ² Now when you arrive at that place, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inner room. ³ Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee, and do not delay.”-2 Kings, chapter 9.

We can see here that Yahweh God sent his servants to anoint Jehu to be King over Israel. As the story goes, Jehu did indeed destroy all vestiges of demonic BAAL worship and cleaned away the terrible treachery of the house of Ahab and Jezebel, however, he did continue to keep the false worship of Jeroboam in place with the symbolic, "golden calves" and the priests that were not from the family of Levites.(1kings, 12:25)

 ³⁰And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

 ³¹But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

 ³²In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

 ³³From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.- 2 Kings, chapter 10

This, of course was an attempt to keep control of the people, It seems he wanted to preserve his authority and control, leading to the gradual destruction of Israel.  What can we learn from this lesson?

Even though we are mostly obedient and serve the Lord in part, if we do not allow Him to complete the work in our lives then there will be an eventual falling away from the overcoming victory we have in His presence. A constant struggle to maintain our walk in Christ. It was the desire to maintain control that allowed the substitute calf and false system of worship to continue by Jehu that led to the gradual destruction of the kingdom, bit by bit. We may say the same thing, we didn't set up the false system, we just go with the flow.

Jehu didn't establish the idolatrous system, Jeroboam did that. He just allowed it to stay in place, likewise, we may not have intentionally caused a sinful stronghold to gain ground in our lives, but we are responsible when we continue to play with it or use it for our selfishness. Clean the kingdom of your life totally, not just in part, start a fresh and new walk with the Lord, today!