Good Morning Blog Family!

You guessed it… I’m reading in the book of Isaiah this morning. Don’t worry, I’ve already considered how the word judgment is not a tolerated subject in today’s world. Over the past 100 years, we have convinced ourselves that a loving God never judges. And because of this wide spread belief, our society heaps sin upon sin without fear of consequence.

History: Right after the death of King Solomon, Israel divided into two kingdoms. The northern kingdom “Israel” and the southern kingdom “Judah.” The capitol of Israel was the city of Samaria and the capitol of Judah was the city of Jerusalem. Because Solomons Temple was located in the city of Jerusalem, most of the priests and other worshipers of God left the northern kingdom of Israel and relocated in the southern kingdom of Judah. Israel then created their own places of worship and started up the worship of other gods.

Because of this worship of foreign gods, the northern kingdom came under Gods judgement much faster then the southern kingdom. Israel went into captivity first… and then over time, Judah followed Israels ways and met Israels fate. Isaiah, was a prophet to the southern Kingdom during the time that the nothern kingdom was heading into captivity… and he spoke to Judah warning them not to follow the ways of the nothern kingdom. He warned Judah that they were becoming sinful and they were heaping judgement on their land. Read these stunning messages from Isaiah to the nation of Judah…

 Human pride will be brought down,
      and human arrogance will be humbled.
   Only the Lord will be exalted
      on that day of judgment. (Isaiah 2:11)

 For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
      has a day of reckoning.
   He will punish the proud and mighty
      and bring down everything that is exalted. (Isaiah 2:12)

The very look on their faces gives them away.
      They display their sin like the people of Sodom
      and don’t even try to hide it.
   They are doomed!
      They have brought destruction upon themselves. (Isaiah 3:9)

Destruction is certain for those who say
      that evil is good and good is evil,
   that dark is light and light is dark,
      that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. (Isaiah 5:20)

From this, we see that judgement is a neccessary component of Gods justice, PURIFYING DECAYED SOCIETIES. Every so often, we humans get so far out of control… so broken beyond repair… that we necessitate a day of reckoning. God lovingly warns us for many years to turn away from the path of certain devastation… and in our pride we refuse his prophets. Eventually, Gods justice makes its final demand… and we are humbled.

I have to wonder, whats ahead for America if we keep racing down this FAR LEFT pathway we have chosen. 

Sorry for laying such a solemn message on your guys today… it came to me, so I wrote it. This is not my ussual happy message of the day… but it seems to be a message from the Lord. It certainly has the power to change our lives for the good! Let’s all reflect on these verses from Isaiah today and figure out what kind of decaying effect our darkening society has had on us. Let us chose to follow hard after God in a day when that is not the popular thing to do!

I love you guys and I am praying for you this morning… have a SUPER AMAZING DAY! See you tomorrow!