Maybe Your Spiritual Eyeglasses Need A New Prescription…

If reading this passage doesn’t make you think of modern day America (as of November 2020), then maybe your spiritual eyeglasses need a new prescription. And people say the Bible is irrelevant. Politicians, protesters, the media, celebrities, athletes, and even nominal Christians seem to fit the descriptions in this passage. Times may change but people certainly don’t. The best news in all of this is God doesn’t change. He is worthy of our attention, the only One worthy of our faith. This book, the Bible, has the answer to the world’s problems, but unfortunately, it’s losing its popularity to political correctness. God never intended His word and His ways to be a popularity contest. He will use whomever responds to His call. Jesus picked 12 (11 served Him), and look what it did to the world! Stay the course, hold fast to what is true, and finish the race that’s been set before you. Then you will hear those all encompassing words, “well done, good and faithful servant”.

23 Again a message came to me from the Lord: 24 “Son of man, give the people of Israel this message: In the day of My indignation, you will be like a polluted land, a land without rain. 25 Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They make many widows in the land. 26 Your priests have violated My instructions and defiled My holy things. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach My people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard My Sabbath days so that I am dishonored among them. 27 Your leaders are like wolves who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people’s lives for money! 28 And your prophets cover up for them by announcing false visions and making lying predictions. They say, ‘My message is from the Sovereign Lord,’ when the Lord hasn’t spoken a single word to them. 29 Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.30 “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one. 31 So now I will pour out My fury on them, consuming them with the fire of My anger. I will heap on their heads the full penalty for all their sins. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!” Ezekiel 22:23-31