April 19, 2013 – 2 Kings 10

I don’t know what to think.  Jehu is so passionate about defeating all of Ahab’s descendants and fulfilling prophecies, then fails to worship God correctly and allows Israel to continue to keep false idols.  It makes me wonder about his motivation for going through the cleansing that he did cause when he wouldn’t complete the job.  Was he really interested in doing God’s will or merely gaining power?

Then again, you look at our lives and there are parts we do great at and then there are parts we can never seem to get right or avoid sin.  We even judge people when they get things wrong that we do not struggle with or have under control, but then push under the rug those black spots in our lives.  It is like the man with the beam in his eye judging the one with the speck.  Maybe Jehu was sincere in doing God’s will in what he did accomplish, he just struggled with those things that he didn’t fix because that is just where his human weakness was.