2 Kings 16

Ahaz found a new way to sin against the God of his ancestors.  He admired an altar that he had seen in a pagan land, and had one built for the temple in Jerusalem.  He made a few more  renovations.  The reader is not surprised to read this.  After all, Ahaz had so succumbed to syncretism that he had sacrificed his own son on the fiery altar of Molech.   While Israel is beginning to decline in physical power, Judah is leaping into spiritual sacrilege.  Ahaz wanted to change things just because he had the power to – not because it was right. Change is not a good thing when the change leads people away from God, life and truth.

LORD, give us wisdom to keep going in the right direction, not to change just because we can.