Joel 1:2 (ESV) —
2 Hear this, you elders;
give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
NOTE: Pandemics,
plagues, war, and famine are interspersed through history. They are not common,
unless you look at all 6000 years of recorded human history. They are not
common because they are usually separated by quite a few years. Even during the
middle ages, plagues were not a yearly occurrence. So, these events are out of
the ordinary and are to remind us of something. In Israel's case, they were to
remind them to return to God or as a precursor to an even greater judgment
unless the nation repents. We have not seen a lot of catastrophes in the
western world, outside of localized events, usually weather related. For most
of us, life goes on. But when an event effects a whole area of the world or
even the world itself, it is time to wake up. God is calling us to repentance.
We have disobeyed his commands in marriage, sexual immorality, sexual identity,
and selfishness. The church has also joined the sin by accepting false views of
the world. We can't force people to change but we can stand our ground on what
God calls sin. And the church does not live holy. We too are caught up in the
sin of the world if only by living vicariously through the television screen.
PRAYER: Father
forgive us for our ugly unholy sin. Open our eyes. Help us to see that for all
of your word that we know, very few of us live any of it out in our lives.
Forgive your church. Forgive me for my sin and sinful thoughts.
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