The One Year Bible - Day 180

The divided kingdom has suffered in many ways. The kings of Israel are generally evil in God's eyes and they go from disaster to disaster until ultimately, it seems that whoever kills the king becomes the new king with no reference to God at all. Although Judah is better in this respect, it is still said of most of these kings that they did not serve God wholeheartedly. That they still allowed pagan shrines and incense to be burned there. I often wonder about churches that on the surface are successful and could be said to be "doing good before God" but which have little hollows with things hidden that are un-Godly. Whether bad relationships, idolatry of people or buildings or certain teachings or whatever rather than destroying everything that is not of God. I wonder how much better these churches would be without that and whether the reason why many churches do very well and then not so well is not due to people getting bored but with issues not dealt with! We then get a bad egg in king Ahaz as we sometimes do in church who decided to marry the church with the world and to join forces with a foreign king. Would we do that nowadays? What would that look like?