It Boggles My Mind

I've been doing a little reading in 2nd Chronicles lately, that's in the Bible. It seems a real theme is coming through everything that I'm reading. For those of you not familiar with this part of the Bible (it's in the Old Testament), it's telling about the history of Israel and Judah, and the actions of their Kings. Most Bible scholars will tell you that the Old Testament is a foreshadow of what was to come in future times, so I think that we can safely compare the actions of then to the actions of now. Let's compare the leaders of back then and what they did to the leaders of today.

I sort of stand in awe as I'm reading what happened to both the Nation of Israel and the Nation of Judah at how the people are led off into losing the favor of God so easily. I noticed that when the King followed the commands given to the people by David, they lived in peace and had prosperity in the land. I mean these were no had things to do, things like honoring God, keeping the Sabbath days, and most importantly, NOT worshiping other gods. I mean what could possibly convince these people who were so blessed by God to turn and worship other gods? It just blows my mind. Whatever the reasons were, when they turned their backs on God and started worshiping other gods, the God that they knew to be the true God would lift His hand of protection and blessing from them. What really boggles my mind is that this didn't just happen once, but over and over.

Upon looking at the situation a little closer, I did notice that it was when the leaders of the nations started seeking the advice of of foreigners, or in some instances younger people, what they got was bad advice.Sometimes they got in trouble because the Kings would marry women outside of their faith. This is never a good idea, but that's for another blog. Soon we see that the wives who didn't believe in the God of Israel and Judah influenced the Kings to lead the people into worship of foreign gods. Then once in a while a young King would ignore the advice of the wise advisers of his father and go with the poor youthful advice of his friends, and this caused problems too.

If I can bring this all up to date, I can't help but notice that this great nation of ours was formed with the Christian principles that seemed to bring God's blessings with them. With the exception of God's judgment on slavery, causing us to war between ourselves in the Civil War, we have been extremely blessed from the 1400s through the middle 1900s. Then we ran into the "if it feels good do it" generation of the 1960s and from there we have run amuck with the god of self satisfaction. Since the 1960s we have had wars that just won't seem to go our way, families that just can't seem to stay together, and finances that we can't seem to get in order. We can't seem to understand that it's because we have left the faith of our fathers, and for a large part have left the God of our fathers. We have adopted the god of tolerance, which says that we can no longer be a Christian nation, but we must put all religions the same.

We serve a jealous God, and He is not going to be tolerant of us sharing His glory. What will turn this nation around? Revival!!!!!