Rejection or Restoration?

March 26

"’Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, but shall not find it. In that day the fair virgins and strong young men shall faint from thirst. Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, who say, As your God lives, O Dan! and, as the way of Beersheba lives! They shall fall and never rise again.'" Amos 8:11-14

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness…” Romans 1:18.

“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness, “ II Thessalonians 2:9-12.

Would anyone add to or take from the Word of God in this matter! Would anyone be so bold as to purport himself to be capable of expounding upon a word that is pregnant with truth!

Can anyone fail to see the veracity of this warning to the people of our day? Indeed, there is not a lack of the Word of God, but a refusal to hear the Word of God! We who have had the blessing of freedom of worship have turned our liberty into license. We have joined the ranks of those who “call evil good and good evil,” Isaiah 5:20.

We have accepted man’s wisdom and his skewed interpretation of law and we have denied the Law of God that is immutable. We have determined that we can save ourselves; but by our rejection of the Truth of the ages, the ever-true Word of our Living God, we have rejected the Savior who is “the way, the truth, and the life,” John 14:6.

In our rebellion, we have exalted the flawed word of man and trampled under our feet the eternal Word of the Living God. Can we do anything but fall on our faces before Him in repentance, recognize Him to be the holy Christ that He is and implore that He cleanse us afresh and restore us to the Word of Truth that makes us free.