The Taking Of Property

"...but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants. And it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hands and take it. ”  1 Kings 20:6

It sounds like a communist takeover or maybe a total surrender to a conqueror, but neither worked out in this story, for the Lord God of Israel had another plan of His own making. The Lord gave to King Ahab the victory over the Syrians at this time, and then again the next spring. Must be a different Ahab than the one we know, we might say, but nope, it's that Ahab. It would not be long in the scriptures before Ahab and Jezebel would become the evil rulers we are familiar with and a certain famous prophet would arrive on the scene. Can it be that a man, the king of Israel, would have the favor of the Lord for a period of time and then lose it to his evil ways? Surely it is so, there are stories throughout the Bible of those who did well before the Lord and then later fell into sin and suffered the consequences. Moses and David are a couple of names we may have run across in the Bible stories. However, if a man shows up at your door with a message about the taking of your property, check with the Lord first. He may have a different plan in the works. 

May the Lord grant us wisdom as we walk in His light,

Bucky