“Behold, the LORD’s hand is not so short that it cannot save; nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.” (Isaiah 59:1-2)
We cannot ignore God, pursue immorality and the false gods of this world, and then expect Him to intervene as soon as we begin to feel the consequences. We stop teaching our children about God and then wonder why they grow up to not honor their father and mother. We gaze upon the lewdness of Hollywood and then wonder why our marriage is falling apart. We remove God’s virtues from our national laws and then wonder why the experiment is failing. We cease to be grateful for the blessings and then wonder why the blessings are no longer forthcoming.
2500 years ago, Israel was taught a lesson that every society should heed. God can save, but that does not mean God will. It is not in His character to preserve a culture that ruins the generations raised in it, and more and more we must ask ourselves if that is what our culture has become – a culture that destroys instead of builds.
If we wish Him to bless us, we must repent and return, not cry for help and continue to wade in the filth of our sins.
Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites