Remembering No Kindness

Bible Reading:  II Chronicles 24:15-27

Key Verse: Verse 22 – “Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his   father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.”

Key Words:  remembered not the kindness 

Joash began to reign over Israel when he was seven.  Much of his success could be attributed to Jehoiada, the high priest (verse 2 and verse 12), but after Jehoiada died, Joash forgot the high priest’s kindness toward him and slew Jehoiada’s son. 

It reminds me of the old saying, “What have you done for me lately?”  How quickly we forget the kind deeds of others, and as a result, we begin to treat those who have shown us kindness with unkindness.  At this point, we become dangerous to everyone, including ourselves.

London held its breath in June 1987.  While working on a building site, a construction foreman thought his workers had hit a cast iron pipe while using a pile driver.  After picking up and then dropping the huge object, they realized the pipe strangely resembled a bomb.

It was – a 2,200-pound World War II bomb, one of the largest the Germans dropped during the blitz which killed more than 15,000 Londoners.  After evacuating the area, a ten-man bomb disposal unit worked eighteen hours before finally deactivating the seven-foot device.

Hatred is like an unexploded bomb.  Unless it’s deactivated it can detonate and cause great damage.

                                                                        Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do: 

      ✞Show kindness to all.  Remember, you can’t control what people say and do to you, but you can control  your reaction to it.