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God's Wrath
Posted on Jan 10, 2006 at 2:11pm
I have been reading this book that Bahb gave me a long time ago and I haven't gotten around to it until recently. I just read something that directly applies to my life right now. It is in regards to this passage:
It seems rather cruel doesn't it? Well actually, it's not. Here's why:
And you know what, this is sooo true. I decided to let my emotions get in the way of something that God told me had to be done. He even told me exactly when it should be done and how it should be done, but even with all of this, I felt too shy, or too scared, or worried or whatever it was that was preventing me from doing it, and I never did it. In light of that, God caused something, well, I guess you could call it "bad" to happen in my life. Now it is going to take some repairing, some praying and some waiting in order to fix the problem and hopefully make it how He wanted it in the first place. The scripture says I need to humble myself, pray, seek to please Him, and repudiate (or reject) my sinful practices. With God's help I can make everything okay. So many people lose their faith in God when something bad happens to them, but to me this only strengthens it. God has revealed himself to me in a powerful way.
God does not just blindly give blessings to everyone who asks for a blessing. He gives us what we need. If it is a blessing that we need, he will bless us, but if it is a plague that we need, he will give us a plague. God is all-loving, and only He knows the way to love us best. Love is not all praise and admiration, but love can also be discipline - just like parents should discipline their children when they do something wrong. You don't punish your children because you hate them! You do it because you love them and you want the best thing for them. Children need to learn what they should and shouldn't do and that when they do something that they shouldn't, there should be consequences to this misbehavior. The same way God tells us what we should and shouldn't do and gives us consequences when we don't listen to Him.
I can do this...
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people, if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.It seems rather cruel doesn't it? Well actually, it's not. Here's why:
He speaks of these because He knows that human beings do not do well in prosperity, whether spiritual or material.
What God seems to be saying to Israel is that it will be necessary once again to get their attention about their spiritual condition. Verse 13 tells us three ways (out of many ones) He will do it: through drought, disease and locust infestation. These manifestations are renderings, amazingly enough, of His grace. He is trying to help His people meet the first prerequisite for revival [note: earlier he defines this as "God's people must recognize that there is a desperate need for spiritual awakening"], recognizing the desperate need for spiritual awakening. And often the only things that can get our attention are those things which cause us pain. "Pain," C.S. Lewis said, "is God's megaphone."
Though God may first send prophets, preachers, and his word to warn us, quite frequently it takes disaster and dragedy to strike hard enough to make us turn to Him for answers. This need recognition must come first in our list of priorities, or we, as God's people, will go on our own oblivious ways down paths to ever-greater harm.
What God seems to be saying to Israel is that it will be necessary once again to get their attention about their spiritual condition. Verse 13 tells us three ways (out of many ones) He will do it: through drought, disease and locust infestation. These manifestations are renderings, amazingly enough, of His grace. He is trying to help His people meet the first prerequisite for revival [note: earlier he defines this as "God's people must recognize that there is a desperate need for spiritual awakening"], recognizing the desperate need for spiritual awakening. And often the only things that can get our attention are those things which cause us pain. "Pain," C.S. Lewis said, "is God's megaphone."
Though God may first send prophets, preachers, and his word to warn us, quite frequently it takes disaster and dragedy to strike hard enough to make us turn to Him for answers. This need recognition must come first in our list of priorities, or we, as God's people, will go on our own oblivious ways down paths to ever-greater harm.
And you know what, this is sooo true. I decided to let my emotions get in the way of something that God told me had to be done. He even told me exactly when it should be done and how it should be done, but even with all of this, I felt too shy, or too scared, or worried or whatever it was that was preventing me from doing it, and I never did it. In light of that, God caused something, well, I guess you could call it "bad" to happen in my life. Now it is going to take some repairing, some praying and some waiting in order to fix the problem and hopefully make it how He wanted it in the first place. The scripture says I need to humble myself, pray, seek to please Him, and repudiate (or reject) my sinful practices. With God's help I can make everything okay. So many people lose their faith in God when something bad happens to them, but to me this only strengthens it. God has revealed himself to me in a powerful way.
God does not just blindly give blessings to everyone who asks for a blessing. He gives us what we need. If it is a blessing that we need, he will bless us, but if it is a plague that we need, he will give us a plague. God is all-loving, and only He knows the way to love us best. Love is not all praise and admiration, but love can also be discipline - just like parents should discipline their children when they do something wrong. You don't punish your children because you hate them! You do it because you love them and you want the best thing for them. Children need to learn what they should and shouldn't do and that when they do something that they shouldn't, there should be consequences to this misbehavior. The same way God tells us what we should and shouldn't do and gives us consequences when we don't listen to Him.
I can do this...
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