Spend time in prayer and silence with God asking Him to meet with you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the Lord delivered into their hands a much larger army. Because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash. When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded. His officials conspired against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
-2 Chronicles 24:24-25
Devotion
The Aramean invasion signaled the end of Joash’ reign. The leaders that encouraged him to turn away from the Lord were killed. Joash himself was left in mortal condition after the Aramean’s departed. Finally, his own servants murdered him. Joash reigned for forty years in Judah; but in death he was not recognized as a “true” king. Yet, how fitting. Jehoiada the priest, who lived a godly life, was buried like a king. Joash the king, who turned away from God, was buried like a non-king.
The Big Question
Think about your epithet. How do you want to be remembered? What will be your lasting legacy? Will you be remembered as a faithful servant of the living God? Or will your life be a testimony of one who may have started well but finished poorly?
Spend some time in prayer meditating on what God revealed to you today.