Activities or Dedication?

Elijah was a man dedicated unto God. In 1 Kings 19, verse 14, he says “I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy alters, and slain thy prophets with the sword”

Jehu on the other hand, even though he was chosen by God to reign as King over Israel, was more interested in carrying out activities for God, than serving Him.

In 2 Kings 9, verse 33, he ordered eunuchs to throw the notorious Jezebel down from the window, to her death. In 2 Kings 10, verse 7, he sent a letter to the rulers of Jezreel and the elders that brought up Ahab’s children, telling them to take off the heads of Ahab’s sons (all seventy of them). In verse 25 of the same chapter, Jehu ordered guards and captains to slay all the worshipers and priests of Baal. They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day. He destroyed Baal out of Israel (2 Kings 10, verse 28).

In 2 Chronicles 22, verse 8, “when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them”. He also sought, found, and killed Ahaziah (Ahaziah was hidding in Samaria at that time). Jehu fulfilled the prophecy of Elijah in 1 Kings 21, verse 17-24.

Howbeit, Jehu departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, he worshiped the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan (2 Kings 10, verse 29). He did activities for God but walked in the way of Jeroboam, leading Israel to sin and provoking God's anger (1 Kings 16, verse 1)

Jehu is someone you would naturally say achieved a lot of things, but not the one thing that was the most important. God wants more than just activities. In the church today, we find a lot of people who are very active but whose hearts are not actually receptive to God. They are the first to give when there is a need, they are usually the first volunteers when there is work to be done. Some of them are celebrated as doing great things for the church of God, but they bow down to other gods. Dedication to God can only be 100 percent because the bible says a double minded man is unstable in all his ways (James 1, verse 8).

Sometimes, it's not even the case of bowing down to other gods, it is the case of getting so engrossed in church or other activities, so much that our personal relationship with God suffers. Deuteronomy 6 verse 5 says, "Love the Lord with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 10 verse 12-13 says, "And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and to observe the Lord's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?" .

The activities we do for God is not enough to secure the salvation of our souls, our dedication to Him will!