Everyone knows this verse! I hear it quoted almost weekly!
It seems that people think by quoting it something magical will happen! That our once great country will recover and once again rule in power! Nothing could be further from the truth!
For "His people" are not humbling themselves, nor are they "turning from their wicked ways!"
It's more than going to church every time the doors open! It's more than volunteering to feed the hungry! It's about surrender! It's about laying aside "self" or giving up your life's wants and desires for His! It's actually about "finding yourself!"
My generation has been most vocal about "finding yourself!" Knowing what you were meant to "do"! We've had this feeling that "there was more to life than all of this!" And there is!
The only way to find yourself is to lose yourself in Him!
“Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.” Luke 17:33 KJV
We have all missed the boat!
Being saved is not about us! It's about Him! Our salvation is not about making us happy! When we fully surrender we have joy unspeakable, which is so much better than being happy! But if we were never happy again, it would be alright, because we are here for His pleasure not ours! When we become His servants our fulfillment, our existence is found in doing His will!
If you are living to suit yourself; make yourself or your family happy and comfortable; seeking your own gain, then you are not surrendered to Him! You may go to church but the god you worship is made in your own image! Your god is Self!
That is why our country won't recover! This calamity that has befallen us is from God - in judgment of our wickedness!
“But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.” 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 KJV
You are responsible for the downfall of this nation! You turn from your wicked ways! You repent and humble yourself before the Creator of all things!
If we all will -
then He might relent!
Even so - MARANATHA
From 11/11/14
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