Learn ( Luke 15 v11ff)

After Solomon died his son Rehoboam reigned,but he lacked the wisdom of Solomon,the result was the nation split in two,ten tribes became known as the northern kingdom,the other two became known as the southern kingdom . It was not long before the northern kingdom deteriorated spiritually.It reached it's pinnacle under king Hosea,in 2 Kings 17v16ff ,we read that they forsook  all the commands of the Lord' They committed idolatry,and worshipped the starry hosts,and sacrificed their children  in the fire,and many other things.The result was God sent the army of Assyria against then defeating them and taken them into exile, so all that was left was Judah. Spiritually they also declinded and ,they would suffer the same fate as the northern kingdom,when God sent the army of  Babylon against them.(2 Kings 25). It leaves me asking questions,why did they not learn a lesson from their own history?,but they never did.I  watched a video on Utube  as regards John Wayne,it talked about his finance.and how he left it in the hands of someone he trusted,but he made a mess of it,and lost a lot of money.He did the same again,trusting a family member,and the same happened again,but then the penny dropped ,and he started to manage his own affairs,and that went well he learned from his mistakes Judah didn't ,time and time again they repeated the same old folly.Let us all learn from the mistakes we have made in our history,and stop making the same mistakes again and again.In my early life I went away from Christ a number of times,and I suffered,it took me a long time to realise there are no advantages in walking away from Jesus,again and again.