The Devotional - 61

The Devotional

Comment:

Several years ago I was assigned to a program in the Navy where we gave some of our old destroyers to foreign Navies. My first experience was that our group met with the sailors of a nation (I will not identify them since it is not necessary) but just going into the auditorium where we met the crew was a struggle. The stench of tobacco and the lack of good ventilation in those days when smoking was allowed inside government buildings was very strong. My immediate impression of these folks was not good and I was not a believer in Jesus Christ at that time. Even the officers including the Commanding Officer of that crew sported longer hair, beards and a general unkempt demeanor. I found myself thankful that our Navy had better regulations and discipline, by the way this was the early 1960’s. Now the analogy of this fits in some ways to what I will say below but not totally and all analogy will miss the mark at some point, but what is important is that we see that as a nation, we the people have lost sight of “REGULATION AND DISCIPLE” in our HOMELAND.

Challenge: Lamentations

Israel could do nothing but watch in the year of 586 BC when King Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian army marched into Jer-USA-lem and laid hands on ALL the treasury of the nation. She saw and witnessed PAGAN nations (Medes and Persians) allied with Babylon enter the treasury and the temple. Israel could do nothing but watch in horror as all was destroyed and plundered.

Now the events of Lamentations did not happen without warning, God repeatedly warned the nation of His pending judgment, beginning in the eighth century BC with the Prophet Isaiah, God began to cycle discipline into the nation of Israel because the nation turned away from God to the worship the false gods of the pagan nations around them.

Are we so blind in our own nation that we do not see this very same thing going on? Some of our cities in the north Midwestern states and the northern New England townships are totally controlled by pagan worship. I see that, as the northern kingdom of Israel fell in 726BC that the north side of any nation is easy pickens for pagan worship to infiltrate. The stench of relaxed biblical regulation and discipline has overcome the freedom and liberty of our way in these cities and townships, all the devil needs is a foothold.

Those pagan religions who were once FORBIDDEN now sit in our churches and temples of worship and the list of why we cannot chase them away is a legal writ from our very own government and from the pagan laws within the false doctrines of these unholy religions. What do we do, some of us watch in horror, others who are ignorant of the danger, join this ungodliness, they pat each other on the back, they wipe their mouth and say they have done nothing wrong while barking at the moon, Proverbs 30:20 we have become adulterous with the gods.

Lamentations 1:10-16 – the auditoriums of pagan worship are surrounding us and all we do is watch. Immorality is ramped up, sort of like this: idolatry is the tap (faucet) that immorality flows from. We groan over our national decay, our young people have no direction to do right or to do wrong therefore they are left to themselves to pursue the flow of false systems of belief. Our CHILDREN sell their souls for spiritual direction and many commit suicide because they are starved from knowing the LOVE OF GOD.

Lamentations 1:17-22 – the LORD, He is Righteous, even so Israel rebelled and so have WE. We have rebelled from His Way. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16) again we have rebelled from the LOVE OF GOD. Should I say that again? Yes we have rebelled from the LOVE OF GOD!

There is coming the day in the near future when our priests and holy men of God will wander the streets begging for food to keep themselves alive. I do not understand…I am distressed over this, tormented within and my heart is disturbed, yet I am also rebellious. On the outside I would rather reach out with a weapon and put an end to all the ungodliness in front of my eyes. Yet I am constantly reminded from the Holy Bible that it is not the stench of death, but it is FAITH IN the LOVE of GOD that is the victory.