2 Ch. 31: The Giving Spreads

2 Chronicles 31:21 "In everything that he undertook in the service of God's temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered."

This revival spread quickly. The people went on from their place of worship, not back to their homes to watch the Detroit Lions get pummelled, but to smash idols and asherah poles and tear down the altars on the high places. It was a radical change. Internal changes, where God takes hold of a wayward life, are the most radical. They seemed to give up themselves.

They also showed signs of this renewal by giving tithes, so much so that the temple was not enough to hold all that stuff. They had to put what was given in storehouses. But it didn't appear to go to waste, it was distributed to the priests, the Levites and their families, as prescribed when Moses first got the orders of the priestly duties.

Should I be amazed by this turnaround? When a country of people leave their ways, renounce their idolatry, and suddenly are so deeply affected by what God has begun to do, is it real? I have to ask. Was it the entire country? How many of the Israelites changed their lives, and made decisions to follow God? How many of them did this following the crowd? We'll see.