Thursday
21st December
This is not a very pleasant read, one
of the bits of the Bible that I would prefer not to be there. To put it mildly
God is annoyed with how the people who purport to follow him are behaving.
God
is angry with his people because outwardly they worship him. They pay their
tithes and follow the rules, they stand sit and kneel at the correct time. The
money markets are important, they help to pay for a bigger and better house,
but this is not what the Lord wants. He wants silence, he wants humility. One of
my current hobby horses is that Jesus commended the Samaritan, not the
worshipping Jew. He ate with the tax collectors and took on the role of a
foot-washing servant. Moses was a murderer and a divorcee. And I will not start
on King David. Who is it that God uses? Not necessarily the goody two shoes of
life. Yes, I do believe that Jesus died to redeem me. But whatever our
shortfalls God wants us to seek Him, to be humble, to do what he commands, to
be silent. And in the silence…
The word of the Lord came to Zephaniah.
Sometimes a thought comes into one’s head. Perhaps something would be a good
idea, do this or do not do that, say this or don’t say anything. Sometimes you
have the courage to listen to the prompt and act upon it. Sometimes it can have
a life-changing effect.
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