The
Devotional
Comment:
If you have ever been in a fist fight you have no doubt
taken or given a “sucker punch” that is when your opponent punches you and
while he is looking over your horizontal frame on the ground says to you “sucker!”
and when you say in your mind looking up “I did not see that one coming”. At this
point the fight is usually over and if your opponent is a gentlemen he will
help you up, you may even become friends and life goes on. Our views and
thoughts in the “flesh” travel a busy road, physical fighting is not normal and
we should be NOT be thankful; since most of our battles with one another or far
worse than a childhood spat. Today in the lives of families all across this
nation, men women and children are caught up in another “fight” more bitterly
fought than that simple sucker punch. Sometimes this battle is physical,
sometimes it is mental; but it is ALWAYS spiritual, meaning then that domestic violence
of all kinds is a SIN.
Devotional:
When Isaiah was called to be a prophet of God, he witnessed
a vision and when he understood what God was saying to him, he said to the LORD
in prayer “Here I am send me” the context of this event is found in Isaiah
6:1-13 an event in the life of Isaiah that is a wonderful Truth as the LORD
God, the Creator of the universe and all that is in it says this. “Go and tell
this people (Judah) they keep on hearing without understanding” “they keep on
seeing without perceiving”
Isaiah 6:9KJV – and He
said, go, and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye
indeed, but perceive not.
Nationally we are such a people, we have churches, and “Oh
do we have churches!” in most cities there is one on every corner, in the suburbs
the steeples are visible from far away and the landscape of the farmlands are
dotted with places of worship. – Most people will tell you they go to a church.
But and sadly, ask them if they can find Isaiah chapter six! The LORD Jesus who
spoke these words to Isaiah, quotes this section of Isaiah and it is recorded
for us in Matthew 13:10-17. Jesus goes on to say to that generation (in Jesus
day) that their eyes and ears are blessed because they saw Jesus, but they too
are dull of hearing, see also acts 28:27 as the apostle Paul quotes the Isaiah passage.
Yet again in our day, because the apostle Paul goes on to
say this in Acts 28:28KJV – Be it known
therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they
will hear. So when the Jews living in Rome heard these words of the apostle
they went their way “reasoning among themselves the things spoken by the
apostle. I am not an apostle or a son of a prophet.
Yet today in our nation we
are a nation of people who say they know Jesus, but in asking them… where do
you find this quote from John the apostle? Beloved,
let us love one another: for love is of God and everyone that loveth, is born of
God and knowth God. He that loveth not, knowth not God, for God is love.
I say that nationally we do not know God as we ought as such
we do not love God or our fellow man as we ought. Our families are trashed, our
communities are unsafe and our nation is facing extinction because we have
become dull of hearing and equally dull of seeing.
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