repentance

1 Kings 21:41-42 Ahab was judged for not killing God's enemy the rival king. God gave him the total victory but Ahab spared the king. So a prophet tells him he will be cut off instead of the king God wanted him to kill.

Rather than acting on the information Ahab goes away and sulks. His sulking got him into more trouble as we see in chapter 22. So much of the time we do the same thing. But in times like this we are to repent and ask God's forgiveness.

We have the example of the Ninevites in Jonah, David, Job, the Centurion when Peter spoke to him, and others. God loves to change his mind when we are repentant and change our behavior in response to his correction.

Let us learn to repent and not sulk.

1 Kings 22:27-29 Ahab does humble himself in the sight of God after the murder of Naboth. And God responds by repenting of his first curse against Ahab.

But we are not told that Elijah goes to inform him of that. I wonder if he did. God decides to lesson the curse but he does not totally eliminate it.

We do not get a prophet to speak to us but we do have the Bible and the Holy Spirit teaching us. Lord help us to have a heart that is soft and willing to be taught and to repent when we do fall into temptation and sin.