High Places

2 Chronicles 14: 2-8

The High Places. What are these high places, and what does that have to do with you?

Those high places are idols. In Asa’s time it was a false, or foreign, god. They have constructed altars, pillars, wooden images, and high places. They were Solomon. Asa was Solomon’s great grandson. These altars were built for the Moabites and the like. The high places were built just like the high places for God. 1 Kings 15:14 tells us, “The high places were not removed.” Meaning the high places for the idols were removed, but not God’s. Asa was so serious; he removed his grandmother from her office of “queen mother” because she had an obscene image of Asherah. Then, he cut down the image and burned it! See 1 Kings 15:13.

Now, I am not telling you to go burn your grandma’s wood carvings, but you better know your family’s history. You better know if great granddad was building altars for idols. If he was, and someone down the line did not demolish the strongholds that creates, I am sorry, but that’s on you. Just like Asa, you’ll be the one to tear the idols down.

Let me tell you what an idol is. Whatever you are waking up in the morning thinking about. Whatever you are going to bed worrying about, I mean thinking about. That is the lord of your life. That is your idol. I don’t care if it’s your parents, your spouse, or your kids. You better put some order in your house. God is number one, and we are called to pray without ceasing. You can’t do that if He isn’t your first and last thought every day! You might say, “Well, I can’t change my thoughts.” You can, take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. That’s in the bible!

You must focus on Him. The only post you need to react to is the one drove in the ground that they hung Jesus on. Then those high places will fall. That’s what Asa did. The bible says after he cleaned up Judah, he built fortified cities in it. He was able to do that because he had no war in those years because the Lord had given him rest. Asa said the Lord had given him rest on every side because they had sought Him.

Would you just seek him with everything you’ve got for a day? If not a day, a half day, a quarter, an eighth? Can you just give me ten minutes a day? The bible says you will get peace if you seek the Lord. So, let us seek him. In our coming and going. In waking and sleeping. In our good times and bad times. As much as we can. He will say, “Be still, and know I am God!” Ps. 46:10