Within the solemn days of our occasions who will search His phrase, who will search their hearts? We could ignore God? We could desperately attempt to preserve going and preserve doing what we have been doing earlier than? If the locusts descended upon you and the entire earth shook must you not look to the heavens and cry out to God to know the error of your methods? The Lord tells us in His phrase that we must always let our tears run down like a river day and night time, that we must always give ourselves no reduction and no relaxation. We must always stand up from our slumbers and cry out within the night time. Will we observe any of this brothers and sisters? The Lord additionally advised us in His phrase that the He has prompted the appointed feasts and the Sabbaths to be forgotten, In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.The Lord has spurned His alter and deserted His sanctuary.
Lam 2:7 The Lord hath forged off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the partitions of her palaces; they’ve made a noise in the home of the LORD, as within the day of a solemn feast.
Considered one of our favourite parts of Scripture says “By the Lord’s mercies we aren’t consumed as a result of His compassion fails not. They’re new each morning, nice is His faithfulness. The Lord is my portion says my soul subsequently I hope in Him” These phrases have been penned within the midst of nice affliction. They have been the hearts cry of a person drowning in darkness, crying out to the residing God. Within the midst of these cries he discovers mercy and faithfulness and hope. One other favourite portion of Scripture is “If my folks, that are referred to as by my identify, shall humble themselves, and pray, and search my face, and switch from their depraved methods; then will I hear from heaven, and can forgive their sin, and can heal their land (2Ch 7:14) Do you ever surprise why we by no means quote verse 13, the verse that comes earlier than ” if I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I ship pestilence amongst my folks.”
You see, we don’t like that half. We like all the advantages of Calvary however we don’t like the price. What price you say, Jesus did all of it. Sure He did however He instantly instructions us to take up our personal crosses, day by day. We’re advised that we should raise up the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone have to be preeminent within the midst of our lives and within the midst of our gathering. We’re the Ekklesia, we’re the referred to as out ones. And within the midst of these referred to as out ones who collect collectively, Jesus and He alone is to be lifted up. He directs His folks and He does it by means of the ability of the Holy Spirit. And once we do certainly raise up Jesus and amplify Him, then the ability of God comes down and rests upon us.
What’s the Lord saying within the midst of a world consumed by darkness ? Is He saying “maintain on, finally you’ll be able to return to enterprise as ordinary?” Actually? You actually suppose He’s saying that? If He isn’t saying that then what’s He saying to us within the days that we discover ourselves in? Actually, every thing on the planet that may be shaken is being shaken. If we won’t ask ourselves exhausting questions and search our hearts then the darkness of our hearts prevail and the storms shall proceed to come back and batter us solely with yearly the depth will increase, and I’m speaking in regards to the non secular state of our world, not the local weather, though the judgment that rains down upon us is whole. Like a constructing storm in an enormous ocean the waves get increased and better.
There may be mercy to be discovered for the damaged and the contrite. Now we have trampled His identify on the street. Shall He reduce of the rain, shall He ship the locust? Or we could return to our roots, our Biblical roots, all the way in which again to the start, the previous paths? Now we have gotten terribly off observe. Now we have so many centuries of custom and error upon error that we bear little or no resemblance to what we learn in 1 Cor 14. The easy natural worship of the referred to as out ones. Ones who want to be led, wholly led, not by males, not by traditions not by liturgy or by program and lethal routine. God is chatting with us loudly and clearly. The query is, are we listening? If we might certainly humble ourselves and switch from what? Our depraved methods! Who’s He speaking about right here? The individuals who name themselves by His identify. You, and me. Our depraved methods brothers and sisters. Now we have denied and defied the Phrase of God in favor of our depraved methods. You cry out “how are we depraved?” Then I’ll let you know We maintain the covenants of God in our mouths and we declare His statutes. Sure certainly, it’s a part of our indictment.
And name upon me within the day of bother: I’ll ship you, and also you shalt glorify me. However to the depraved God says, What enterprise do you have got declaring my statutes, or talking my covenants ? Seeing that you just hate directions and put my phrases behind you (Psa 50:15-17) You see brothers and sisters He isn’t chatting with an unbelieving depraved world, He’s chatting with those that name themselves by His identify (If my people who find themselves referred to as by my identify) It’s theirs/our depraved methods He’s chatting with.
The Lord tells us to name upon Him within the day of bother. Name upon Him in repentance and contriteness and brokenness. If we do that and pray and search His face, then He’ll hear from heaven and forgive our sin. What sin? All of our sin however particularly the sin of getting demoted Jesus to some sort of mascot or figurehead and elevating up the idol of the pulpit in favor of really listening to from God. Now we have one million little Moses who willingly ascend that pulpit each Sunday, elevating themselves and taking the place and the position and the authority of Jesus. These males ought to tremble and repent and we must always too for permitting such a travesty to unfold. And in that trembling and in that repentance we will discover a merciful God whose mercies are new each morning.
