The Coming Judgment!
Before the flood, God said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” (Genesis 6:3)
Our God loves, and He is gracious. As He looked at mankind and found “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” He still delayed His judgment and called out Noah and his family to carry on the human lineage. His plans will not be deterred, and His will cannot be frustrated. Yet, along the way, many have paid the price for disobedience. One family out of a global population of who knows how many is a sad testimony to the truth that “whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.” God is not slack concerning His promise, but neither is He negligent concerning His holiness. Sin will not be ignored.
This morning as I was reading Jeremiah, I saw again how God holds nations accountable. In line after line, the prophet speaks for the one true God as he announces coming judgment. Immorality, injustice, insensitivity, and idolatry cannot long be tolerated and go unpunished. King after king condoned it, and the people had become accustomed to it, but God was not ignoring it. Judgment was on the way!
And, has God changed? If He would not tolerated child sacrifice in Israel, will He now turn His head from abortion in America? If He blasted the people for offering sacrifices at His temple while at the same time worshiping at pagan altars at the high places, will He now overlook a nation who’s motto is “in God we trust” but which thrives upon materialism and hedonism while tolerating humanism, sodomy, and every other kind of fornication? I dare say that He will not long put up with it!
As our nation nears another major election, many are talking about the administration’s agenda in Iraq. They point out the loss of life and the seeming lack of an exit strategy. They focus on Iran, North Korea, and the mounting terrorism that is coming out of the Middle East. They are calling for a change, and that change may well come; but, if it does, it will not be the change we need. From God’s perspective, nations do not collapse from forces without. They disintegrate from conditions within. Our motto is true, for God has always been the hope and strength of America. But, when the motto has become a reflection of the past rather than a conviction in the present, the end is near. “The Judge is standing at the door,” James wrote. (James 5:9b)
There was once a “Moral Majority” in America. Is it still out there? If it is, “let the redeemed of the Lord say so!”
Our God loves, and He is gracious. As He looked at mankind and found “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” He still delayed His judgment and called out Noah and his family to carry on the human lineage. His plans will not be deterred, and His will cannot be frustrated. Yet, along the way, many have paid the price for disobedience. One family out of a global population of who knows how many is a sad testimony to the truth that “whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.” God is not slack concerning His promise, but neither is He negligent concerning His holiness. Sin will not be ignored.
This morning as I was reading Jeremiah, I saw again how God holds nations accountable. In line after line, the prophet speaks for the one true God as he announces coming judgment. Immorality, injustice, insensitivity, and idolatry cannot long be tolerated and go unpunished. King after king condoned it, and the people had become accustomed to it, but God was not ignoring it. Judgment was on the way!
And, has God changed? If He would not tolerated child sacrifice in Israel, will He now turn His head from abortion in America? If He blasted the people for offering sacrifices at His temple while at the same time worshiping at pagan altars at the high places, will He now overlook a nation who’s motto is “in God we trust” but which thrives upon materialism and hedonism while tolerating humanism, sodomy, and every other kind of fornication? I dare say that He will not long put up with it!
As our nation nears another major election, many are talking about the administration’s agenda in Iraq. They point out the loss of life and the seeming lack of an exit strategy. They focus on Iran, North Korea, and the mounting terrorism that is coming out of the Middle East. They are calling for a change, and that change may well come; but, if it does, it will not be the change we need. From God’s perspective, nations do not collapse from forces without. They disintegrate from conditions within. Our motto is true, for God has always been the hope and strength of America. But, when the motto has become a reflection of the past rather than a conviction in the present, the end is near. “The Judge is standing at the door,” James wrote. (James 5:9b)
There was once a “Moral Majority” in America. Is it still out there? If it is, “let the redeemed of the Lord say so!”
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