And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
Hard times call for strong leaders. Zedekiah wasn’t one of them.
Jeremiah 38:5 (KJV)
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
· He was afraid of the Chaldeans.
· He was afraid of the Jews who were not afraid of the Chaldeans.
· He was afraid of the Jews who had surrendered to the Chaldeans.
· He was afraid of what they had done to Jeremiah.
· He was afraid to stand up for Jeremiah.
It’s never right to do the wrong thing when you know it’s the wrong thing, but in Zedekiah’s situation, any decision would have been better than no decision. The wrong choice would have been to fight Babylon. It’s not a good outcome. It would have cost him and his sons their lives on a field of valor.
Zedekiah ended up watching his children slain and then having his eyes poked out.
Death would have been better.
Had he feared the Lord more than men, the right choice, Zedekiah would have surrendered to Babylon, spared his country, and saved the lives of his children.
Fear of God can make a soul strong, decisive, and capable of making the hard choices necessary to lead others safely in difficult times.
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