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I haven’t seen this much fear in people since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Everywhere people are concerned for the life of loved ones, as well as for their own life. It would appear God has come calling. He warns us:
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” (Galatians 6:7-8)
Many voices for many years have spoken to us prophetic warnings that God would not put up with us murdering our children through abortion; as well as allowing sodomy to exist without punishment: Not to mention the idolatry of sports and other pleasures we’ve embraced as normal. Prophetic warnings about our lust for material things has fallen, for the most part, on deaf ears. Are we now “reaping” what we’ve “sown”? Time will tell.
And while we may not know how much destruction of life and property may be about to happen, we CAN KNOW what God wants us to do in this situation! He wants us to change our minds about who owns these lives which have our name attached to them. He tells us:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2nd Chronicles 7:14)
We have to get serious about REPENTANCE!
We have to reconsider if we know how to build a Godly home; a Godly church; and a Godly nation. We can’t do what we don’t know; neither can we teach what we don’t know. We’ve heard the news commentators, the university professors, and the psychologists. Now it is past time that we come back to God’s Word to look for answers. It’s time for us to develop a new habit for most of us: That is, reading the Bible when we first arise in the mornings. And we read it with an honest heart. That’s a heart that says, “Lord, change me anyway you want to; I want to hear from you out of this Book, no matter what it costs me!” When we seek Him that way, we will find Him more than ready to talk with us. He promises,
“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)
God is serious about us, as individuals, meeting with Him in His Word. This is one of the things He is definitely calling us back to.
And perhaps God has forced us into our homes so we’ll take seriously the need for believers to meet together in our homes like they did in the Book of Acts. The Bible gives us the history of the early church meetings when it says:
“And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,” (Acts 2:46, emphasis added)
Maybe God is serious about us doing church His way: In large gatherings wherever space permits: But also in small groups in the homes. Consider it. Because if we obey Him wholeheartedly, He promises us this:
“Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.” (Isaiah 3:10)
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.