{"id":35248,"date":"2025-03-27T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=35248"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:32:53","slug":"1-kings-22_29-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-kings-22_29-40\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Run But You Can’t Hide from God"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Kings\u00a0 22:29-40 \u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 22:29-40.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

1 Kings 22:29-40 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, “Surely this is the king of Israel.” So they turned to attack him, but when Jehoshaphat cried out,
\n33\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel and stopped pursuing him.
\n34\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.”
\n35\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.
\n36\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As the sun was setting, a cry spread through the army: “Every man to his town; everyone to his land!”
\n37\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried him there.
\n38\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed), and the dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had declared.
\n39\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As for the other events of Ahab’s reign, including all he did, the palace he built and inlaid with ivory, and the cities he fortified, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
\n40\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Ahab rested with his fathers. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a029-40: King Ahab of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah get ready to fight the King of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. Knowing that the Lord’s prophets had prophesied that he would die instead of the King of Aram (e.g.\u00a01\u00a0Kings\u00a020:42 and 22:20), King Ahab thinks he can outsmart God\u2019s Word by disguising himself.\u00a0 That way no one can readily recognize him as the king.\u00a0 Despite that, “someone” (we don’t know who — it could have been an Aramean, and it also could have been a newbie Israelite soldier) draws his bow at random and ends up hitting King Ahab, wounding him fatally.\u00a0 The king dies and dogs lick up his blood, just as the prophet Elijah had predicted (1\u00a0Kings\u00a021:19).<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0You can try to run from God, but you can’t hide from Him.\u00a0 You can try to pretend to be someone you\u2019re not, but God sees right through you.\u00a0 You can try to outsmart God\u2019s Word, but it never works.\u00a0 God will always have the last word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Father, You are Sovereign and You will have Your way no matter how hard I try to fight. So rather than fighting against You and running away from You, may I always default to surrendering to You and running to You.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 22:29-40.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!\u00a0<\/p>\n

1 Kings 22:29-40 (NIV)
\n29\u00a0\u00a0So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
\n30\u00a0\u00a0The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a029-40: King Ahab of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah get ready to fight the King of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. Knowing that the Lord’s prophets had prophesied that he would die instead of the King of Aram (e.g.\u00a01\u00a0Kings\u00a020:42 and 22:20), King Ahab thinks he can outsmart God\u2019s Word by disguising himself.\u00a0 That way no one can readily recognize him as the king.\u00a0 Despite that, “someone” (we don’t know who — it could have been an Aramean, and it also could have been a newbie Israelite soldier) draws his bow at random and ends up hitting King Ahab, wounding him fatally.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35251,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions\/35251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}