22nd.: Do what the Lord tells YOU to do
God does not always give us the names of people he uses.
1st Kings 13 gives the story of one such nameless man.
This unnamed man had to give a message to the Israelite King Jeroboam.
Although an important prophesy, the prophesy is not the subject for today.
Rather we shall focus on the second half of the instructions that God gave that prophet.
The second half instructions to that man were, “Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again the same way that thou came.” (1st Kings 13:1-10).
After relaying the message to the king, the prophet had to immediately leave the territory of Israel.
Now it happened that the story of how the prophet gave the message to the king, and the miracle that accompanied the message,
reached the ears of a old prophet. (1st Kings 13:11).
The old prophet then went after our hero. By lying, the old prophet persuaded the hero to come to his [the old prophet’s] home and eat and drink.
But this disobedience displeased God.
God then prophesied against our hero.
“For as much as thou has disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and has not kept the command which the Lord thy God commanded thee …
thy carcass shall not come into the sepulcher of thy fathers.” (1st Kings 13:21).
The hero prophet then died on his way home, and was buried in the grave of the old prophet (v30).
Just because a renowned Christian leader tells us to do something, we must do what the Lord tells us to do.
We can consider the famous leader's suggestion, but we must take those suggestions to the Lord.
“But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.” (Job 36:11-12)