With Him, Or Against Him….

With all the craziness going on in America today, you have to wonder what the cause could be. Reading through Jeremiah chapter 51, you might be given a possible reason. It tells us that Babylon was a gold cup in God’s hand. And that the world has drank from it becoming intoxicated, making it lose its mind. In God’s sovereignty, He uses all things, good and evil, to accomplish His will; to bring all believers into His kingdom. Maybe all these crazy people with all their crazy ideas and actions are drunk from Satan’s deceptive gold cup. Maybe God allowed them to drink from it to separate the sheep from the goats. Maybe all these violent protesters, who don’t really know what they want, are being used to bring new believers closer to God. Maybe long-time followers of Christ are being given a reminder to stay strong and persevere. And maybe just maybe, the absurdity of this craziness with either be a conviction in new conversions to the faith, or a condemnation to those reveling in their wickedness. Regardless, God will get His glory in all of this. The paramount question remains, which side are you on? Are you a faithful believer trusting God’s sovereignty, continually pursuing Him daily, regardless of the emotional swing it brings upon you? Or are you one contributing to the chaos, rejecting truth, and participating in the “hatred to end hatred”? Either way God is sovereign, He will accomplish what He has set out to do. We are either with Him, or against Him, even if we are complacent.

7 Babylon has been a gold cup in the Lord’s hands, a cup that made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank Babylon’s wine, and it drove them all mad. Jeremiah 51:7