Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

We're going to read two verses from 2 Chronicles chapter 26, both about Eusiah, King Eusiah, verse

5, verse 2 Chronicles 26, 5. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed

him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.

So this picture is crystal clear, the prosperity from God accompanies the pursuit of God.

That when we pursue God, we will experience prosperity from God. I'm not promising, nor is the Bible

promise that means earthly, material, physical prosperity. But it does mean prosperity in all the

ways that matter most. That kind of prosperity always accompanies the pursuit of God. But then you

get to verse 16 in 2 Chronicles chapter 26 and listen to what it says about Eusiah there.

But when he was strong, in other words, when he had grown prosperous, he grew proud

to his destruction. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord

to burn incense on the altar of incense. Do you see the picture here? Eusiah pursues God.

He experiences prosperity and then he is prideful in his prosperity as if he's the one who made

that prosperity happen. And what a lesson here for all of us, all of us, anything and everything

good in our lives comes ultimately and only from God. You might think, well, but I've worked hard

to acquire this or to achieve this or to get to this or that point. I've done all kinds of things

and yes, I don't doubt that you have, but who gave you the grace to wake up in the morning?

All those days that you are achieving this or that. Who gave you the strength to do that?

Who gave you the gifts to be able to do that? Who gave you the abilities to be able to do that?

All of that comes from God. So put aside all pride in all of our lives. Put aside pride,

anything good in us is ultimately from God. Put aside pride then and pursue him and keep

pursuing him until the day you die. That's the lesson from King Eusiah in 2 Chronicles,

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