Today I read 1 Kings 22 where Ahab continues his war against Siria. It is so interesting to me, Ahab, despite everything he has seen Elijah do, still has priests of false gods hanging around. He is trying to decide if we should go up to war or not, and so he asks his false priests if he should and they all say yes. However, despite all his false priests, he still has at least a small spark of what is right because he also asks Micaiah, a prophet of Heavenly Father. Micaiah, despite all that the other priests have said, tells Ahab not to go up or he will die.
Instead of taking Micaiah's advice however, Ahad gets upset stating that Micaiah never has anything positive to say and goes up to war anyway. Sure enough, he dies in battle. I almost wish it had recorded his last thoughts to see if he saw the irony that I see in the fact that he died, or if in fact he died cursing God. It doesn't really matter but I sometimes feel that some people's entire lives are a huge warning to other people on what NOT to do with themselves. At the very least we can learn from Ahab's life to follow the prophets and listen to what they say. We certainly know what happens when we don't! Until tomorrow.
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