The Story of God: Kings & Chronicles

1 Kings 2:1-4

“Entropy: A process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder” - Webster’s Dictionary

“You should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.” - Elon Musk

1 Kings 11:1-8

1 Kings 16:29-30
2 Kings 18:1-8
1 Kings 19:1-8
1 Kings 19:9-18
2 Kings 25:27-30
2 Chronicles 36:22-23 

“God will not withdraw from his commitment to the world, a commitment given at creation and the affirmed through the call of Israel. Accordingly, the disappointments of the present, argues the Chronicler, must spawn a theology of hope.” William Dumbrell

“Christianity did not become successful through Constantine giving it imperial approval. Instead, Constantine adopted Christianity likely because it had already become so successful despite earlier efforts to destroy the movement. By contrast, the growth of Christianity in its first three centuries, the most crucial period, was largely by a combination of the power of persuasion, whether in preaching, intellectual argument, “miracles” exhibiting the power of Jesus’ name, and simply the moral suasion of Christian behavior, including martyrdom. - Larry Hurtado

If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on. - David Foster Wallace

“Our problem is not that we desire happiness. No, our problem is that we continue to foolishly believe that we can attain it apart from him. We think that if we just try hard enough, the next time we'll get it right (whatever it is) and we'll be happy. Instead of pushing through to the true source of all joy and happiness, we sinfully believe the false promises of lesser gods.” - Elyse Fitzpatrick

1 Peter 2:9-12

How to prevent rot:
Worship God. Destroy idols.
Follow all His ways.