Just as Israel was scattered with a ‘storm among them’ and they made the ‘pleasant land desolate’ because of their disobedience, so we to are following that same path today.
We are being scattered by the storms of selfishness and disobedience and our land is changing from a place of ‘pleasant’ to a ‘land desolate’…
There is lawlessness in the land. Everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes. And many people believe that truth is relative. Mammon is king of their lives and they believe it to be the answer to all life’s problems…while we no longer believe in the sanctity of life…
We have become as a country - one who mocks God.
It is time, people of the Living God, to stand firm. Let us dispense TRUE JUSTICE and practice KINDNESS and COMPASSION. And do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor and DO NOT devise evil in our hearts against one another.
This is not the government’s role (as some seem to believe) it is our job; we, the living body of Christ - it should (must) be our passion to serve the Living Lord as He has instructed and directed us…
Let us not turn a stubborn shoulder nor stop our ears from hearing. Might we pay attention to the things of the Lord and not allow our hearts to be as flint.
For I hope that we shall not find ourselves in a place where we have made the pleasant land desolate.
Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying, "Thus has the LORD of hosts said, ' Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother; 10 and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.' "But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing. "They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. "And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen," says the LORD of hosts; "but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate."
(Zech 7:8-14)
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