MY OWN GOD
Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 16-20

"He sought his father's God..." 2 Chronicles 17:4 NLT

"...But Jehoshaphat cried out to the Lord to save him,.." 2 Chronicles 18:31 NLT

One of my favorite accounts in the Bible (how often I say that) is about Jehoshaphat. I love seeing what God did through his life in the pages of the Word.

Today, as often happens, I saw something new. Something that gave me pause. Something I will chew on the rest of the day.

Jehoshaphat sought after his father's God.

Been there. Have done that.

You see, having been raised in a godly family, I 'did' the church thing. I knew the lingo. I could participate in just about any service the church leadership would throw at us. I spent a lot of my early years playing 'Simon Says' in the church house. I had even prayed the right prayers, testified and had been baptized as any good Christian girl should be.

But then, as with Jehoshaphat, I came to a point in my life when I cried out to God as my own Savior, Friend and Comforter. Leaned against a fish tank on the Neuro wing of a hospital in another state, He became my Lord.

Not my father's God.

Not the God of my pastors, deacons or Sunday School teachers.

My own.

And our walk has been growing more deeply ever since.

He had to become real to me. God had to move from the words I'd heard and the lessons I'd been taught to the heart that beat within me.

He is mine. He is my God.