Your Work Shall Be Rewarded
“But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
2 Chronicles 15: 7
King Asa ofJudah had just come back from battle. God had just given them a great victory. A miraculous victory! Odds makers would have said it was 1,000 to one odds that Judah could win, but God stepped in and saved the day. “For nothing will be impossible with God.” Luke 1:37
Asa could have sat back and relaxed. He could have had an “after party” at the palace. Celebrating with the soldiers.
But no, Asa set to work on returning the hearts of the people to the Lord. He removed idols and rebuilt the altar. Asa gathered Judah together and held a great sacrifice.
“Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;”
Who encouraged Asa to do all this? Azariah the prophet. (Also called Oded.)
“And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and he restored the altar of the LORD that was before the vestibule of the LORD.”
II Chronicles 15:8
Sometimes all it takes is a word of encouragement to inspire someone to greatness.
Could it be that God has placed a word of encouragement in your heart, to share with someone today?
