2 Chronicles 14:2

2 Chronicles 14:2

There is many a useful lesson to be learnt from the story of Asa's life.

Consider:

I. Where his piety was born. In a most unlikely home. He was brought up in an ungodly family. The court was corrupt. Society was rotten. The moral atmosphere he breathed was enough to poison the finest child that was ever born. The same grace that preserved Asa pure and devout amid the corruptions of the royal court may keep you clean.

II. How was Asa's piety evidenced? (1) By his fervent prayerfulness. (2) By his uncompromising opposition to everything that was sinful.

III. Where did the piety of Asa fail? His prosperity proved I shall not say his ruin, but his loss his eternal loss. It may have added to the lustre of his earthly crown, but I fear it dimmed the splendour of his heavenly.

J. Thain Davidson, Talks with Young Men,p. 219.