Sometimes the Word of God can be challenging in this day and
time, but if you look at His Word as truth then there is always a purpose and
reason for what He has said and what He will do. It comes down to our obedience
and willingness to walk the path of truth. We must be willing to accept what
God has said, we must be ready to face persecution when it comes, and
regardless of the consequences, we must be ready to stand firm and strong on
His Word.
We can see that our world has changed and it’s not a change
that we can be proud of but rather one that destroys the idea of what a
Christian nation looks like. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says “if my people, which are
called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn
from their wicked ways…” now this
is not the world that He is talking to, but HIS people, HIS chosen, HIS called
out ones; have our prayers reached heaven or the ceiling in our home? Have we
ask God to “search me, O God, and know
my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in
me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Ps. 139:23-24).
O God, “if I have walked
with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; let me be weighted in an even
balance, that God may know mine integrity” (Job 31:5-6). “examine me, O Lord, and prove me: try my
reins and my heart” (Ps. 26:2) “Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an
end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins”
(Ps. 7:9). We must put ourselves under the microscope of God and ask ourselves some
hard questions, have I been walking the way I should, have I compromise my
values or morals just to go along, have I become lazy in my prayer life, do I justify
my sins and do I faithfully read and follow my Bible, do I put other things before God?
There are many question, hard questions that we must ask
ourselves, but most importantly we must be truthful. You see this is between
you and God, there is no one else there but Him and if you can’t be truthful
with Him then you are not truthful with yourself. If your condition looks like
this then you are in need of repentance: the Word says “…because
thou are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because
thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and
naked:” (Rev. 3:16-17).
For thus saith the Lord “I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and
white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness
do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. I stand
at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will
come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me…He that hath an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Rev. 3: 18,20,22).
