The Folly of Self-Will
2 Chronicles 26:17-18
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:…


God has sacred places, God has allotted specific duties to men; every man will be wise in proportion as he sees his own calling, and makes his calling and election sure. Reward lies along that line. Leave your native heath, take your life into your own hands, say you will create a sphere for yourself and do as you please, and you shall be stung with disappointments as with a cloud of insects. Say you will insist upon having your own way in the world, and every rock you strike will but injure the hand that smites it. But live and move and have your being in God. Say, "Lord, not my will, but Thine be done; make me door-keeper, or lamp-lighter, or hewer of wood or drawer of water, or a Zechariah having learning in Thy visions and power of reading all the apocalypse of Thy providence: what Thou wilt, as Thou wilt, as long as Thou wilt: Thy will is heaven." It is towards this end that all Christian education must tend.

(J. Parker, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:

WEB: Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:




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