The Devotional - R036

The Devotional

Comment:

In our small corner of the world we are witnessing a stubborn attitude to the Word of God. People do not seem to be caught up in the worship of self, they are worshiping self. This selfish attitude has changed our communities and our churches. We frolic with one another to the point of disorder in our streets to the point of killings, rapes and every crime imaginable. Then we run off to a religion and celebrate or worship a god or Thee God whom is not known to us. This is not something new! When we turn our back to our Creator the soul of the individual and the soul of the nation collapse. Failure to know God is not only a personal sinful condition of the soul, it is also a national sin that paralyzes communities throughout the homeland. Namely the United States of America.

Challenge: Romans 10:14-21

Yesterday we saw that the individual; needs the TRUTH, today we will see that the individual and the nation need to be re-established in the TRUTH. How can we nationally return to God whom we have personally and nationally rejected? If we have stopped believing in God, how then can we believe again whom we deliberately refuse to hear? I am told that thousands of Preachers and Teachers of the Word of God have quit the ministry, if this is true and I believe it is; how then will anyone hear without a Preacher or Teacher?

Has the Righteousness of God failed, absolutely NOT! Has Calling and Election ceased, NO! As it is written; “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things”. The message and the messenger are beautiful. There will always be a remnant of those speaking Peace and Righteousness in the Power of the Holy Spirit and there will always be those who have trouble believing. But notice; individuals and nations will continue to hear because FAITH comes by hearing.

Also we cannot say that we have not heard, better that we should own up to our ignorance. God’s righteousness, calling and election is revealed FIRST in God’s Powerful Creation. Psalm 19:1-6 in that the universe around us reveals the majesty of God (His Righteousness). Psalm 19:7-10 reveals the majesty of His Word (His calling) and lastly Psalm 19:11-14, the response of man (God’s power to elect). Like Israel, we as a nation are without an excuse.

So are we provoked to jealousy by those who are not a nation? Creeping into our country from every border are people with every religion known to man. They set up the proselyting tents and in a short period of time the churches of our nation change, the tents are replaced by the new owner’s isms. As a national people we certainly are jealous as we watch with little effort to resolve our downward trend.

All day long the LORD God stretches out His Hand to a disobedient and contrary people, today in this country we are no different than those of Israel some two thousand years ago.