Peace and Righteousness
The hardest thing for me to wrap my mind around during this time of upheaval, is the panic of my fellow believers. I see them flailing and floundering and grasping hold of anything that seems to make sense. In doing so, they end up aligning themselves with ideologies and organizations that don't hold with Biblical truth.
Why are we so shocked that our society is suffering? Why are we so blown away that the sin of racism still exists? I believe it's because we've learned to comfortably ignore the sins of our times.
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,The Holy One of Israel:“I am the Lord your God,Who teaches you to profit,Who leads you by the way you should go.Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!Then your peace would have been like a river,And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.Your descendants also would have been like the sand,And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;His name would not have been cut offNor destroyed from before Me.”Flee from the C…
Why are we so shocked that our society is suffering? Why are we so blown away that the sin of racism still exists? I believe it's because we've learned to comfortably ignore the sins of our times.
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,The Holy One of Israel:“I am the Lord your God,Who teaches you to profit,Who leads you by the way you should go.Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!Then your peace would have been like a river,And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.Your descendants also would have been like the sand,And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;His name would not have been cut offNor destroyed from before Me.”Flee from the C…
