Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Daniel 1:1-2
by: Linda Harris.
Despite Josiah’s purification campaign, the prophesied calamity of 2 Chronicles 34:24-25 came to pass. Isaiah also foretold, “The time will surely come when everything in your palace … will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left” (Isaiah 39:6, NIV).
When circumstances seem out of control, people ask, “Where is God?” God was in Babylon with the captives, just as he had been with them in Jerusalem. When you feel powerless, what is your response? Do you try to dominate in the situation or allow God to rule? Take time to acknowledge to God his authority in your life.