Thought For Today - October 1, 2024
Have We Been Spanked?
By: Robert A. Searles
The bible tells us how the prophets of Israel warned God's people, the
nation of Israel, that because of their turning away from him and their
worship of idols, and committing all kinds of whoredom, adultery,
fornication, even offering their children to be burned as sacrifices in
the fires of false gods, and turning their backs on him who had loved
them and delivered them out of bondage from Egypt - that unless they
turned back to him in repentance and obedience, he would have to bring
judgment and destruction upon them which history has shown did actually
happen. Just one example is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
I wonder if perhaps, through some of our natural disasters, which has
brought so much misery to so many people, and has left so many dead and
homeless, that God may be warning us as individuals and as a nation that
unless we turn back to him in repentance and ask forgiveness for our
sins and idolatry; unless we turn from our killing of our children
through abortions; unless we stop our whoredom and fornication; and stop
worshiping the idol of sex, money, and power, and return to a revival
of the Christian principles upon which this nation was founded; and
instead of glorifying "mother nature" which is a non-entity, and
recognize that it is God the father who is sovereign over the elements
and the entire universe, that there may be worse things to come.
We may have just received a mild spanking from a loving father to warn
us of worse things to come in way of judgment. May we as individuals,
and as a nation not wander so far away from God that he has to rebuke us
or draw us back to himself through his anger, wrath, and hot
displeasure.
"O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." Psalm38: 1.
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