Title: Live lowly or hide your success.

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The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
2 Kings 20:15 NIV
Devotion: Praise God, it's a year end when we visit our towns and villages to celebrate yuletide and new year. 
Many will like to show off their success, new cars, treasures in their beautiful houses, but they forget that they are very few among the poverty stricken citizens.
 The poor has nothing to lose except his life so he can take risk to forcefully take from the rich. In the process some rich persons get killed. 
  Hezekiah showed foreigners the treasures of his palace and in few years time he lost all. Isaiah said to Hezekiah that "The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord .
2 Kings 20:17 NIV." This was fulfilled in 2 Kings 24:10-13 and 2 Kings 25:11-17, under the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
  Therefore I counsel you dear reader stop living flamboyantly, hide your success, there are kidnappers, armed robbers everywhere. 
May God protect us all. Happy new year in advance.
Share your concerns with us or prayer request. 
    -JO

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