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March 5, 2025
Alliances can be good or bad. Who we spend time with, is ultimately what we will become. Because of that, we need to be wise.
Over the last few years, Kevin and I have become increasingly involved in political issues in our city and state. Over that time we have watched some really good people make some really bad alliances. Every single time the good person aligned with someone lacking in discernment, integrity, etc, the good person would end up becoming like the bad person they aligned with. It never seemed to go the other way.
It reminds me of the proverb, “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
The problem is, at least from what we’ve seen so far, the good politicians/friends don’t even seem to realize they have moved far, far off true north.
We see the same in the Bible and need look no further than King Jehoshaphat. He made good alliances and bad ones. A bad alliance almost cost him his life and another cost him great wealth.
But he made a really good alliance as well —-that saved his life and the life of his people!
In reviewing at least three alliances we learn:
- 2 Chronicles 18:1—he made an alliance with King Ahab by marriage.
- 2 Chronicles 18:3—he aligned with Ahab to go to war without first consulting the Lord. Ultimately one good prophet was consulted and said it was a bad idea. But Jehoshaphat did it anyway and it almost cost him his life!
- 2 Chron 20: Jehoshaphat then repented when a vast army was coming out against them. And he did the right thing. He cried out to God and had the people corporately fast and pray. He aligned himself with God and they had a mighty miraculous victory as all three armies who challenged them were defeated. It could ONLY have been by God’s deliverance.
That’s the power of a God alliance, right?
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You would have thought he would have learned from that, but evidently not. Before that chapter is even completed we learn he made another alliance with an evil king to go into business together.
2 Chron 20:35 –36: Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah, made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, whose ways were wicked. He agreed with him to construct a fleet of trading ships. We learn God wasn’t happy with the alliance at all and the fleet of ships ultimately wound up on the bottom of the sea.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
Nothing has changed since those days. Alliances matter.
In fact, let it be a warning to us that who we align with can ultimately either save us or destroy us.
Who we spend time with is who we ultimately will become. If we spend time with someone who lies and cheats and then go into business or some other relationship with them, it WILL rub off on us—and ultimately, like in the case of Jehoshaphat, it destroyed almost everything.
I wonder. did the prophet Baalam recognize he had gone off course? What about King Saul? People who seemed to start good, but then turned bad…
That leads us to the question we should ask ourselves. Who am I aligned with? In business? Friendships? Politics? It’s an important question and one we would all do well to ask ourselves and take heed to the Spirit.
Because who we align with is ultimately who we become.
In Christ,
Kevin & Karen
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