I want you to think, think about man. Man in his many ways to make his life full to make life easy. To live life better than before, to always be improving, mans quest to live for himself, independent, free. But with the suicide rate up, crime running like never before, man in his quest to be independent is failing in a global sense. Today we have so many ism’s, so many that are depressed, Doctors hand out drugs to people like it’s candy. Think about it, man, trying to fix the flesh to affect the spirit.
Since Adam we have been taken out of God’s presence. Today with the world is pumping in anything to take the place in man spirit. Money, possessions, success and they help you deal with the loss of these through medications. Not understanding that nothing will fill the void of mans eternal soul, the void that keeps so many up at night crying with out cause. That drives grown men to feel so desperately out of control that they; in their mind contemplate on how to justify taking their own life to end it all. This void that teens feel at an early age and with no Godly direction try to fill it with drugs, bending their mind and twisting their innocents into an addictive waste of sin. Pushing them into a world where sex is polluted with immortality hitched at the hip with an abomination of God and it is presented to our upside down world as a persons right to express themselves. As God the father sits in heaven, yearning and waiting to pour out, to pour in, to show up in His presence, His glory.
Recently I have helped buried a man who thought that there was nothing left in this life, so he took his own. The absence of God in this world is becoming more and more clear. This nation was formed in the mindset that you should be able to get as close to God as you want and how you want. To worship Him and to experience His presence, the awesome power of His presence forged this country into existence. But yet we have allowed 1 person to stand up and speak and in a moment prayer was removed from school. We face even today more and more issues from this stemming out from the schools into the homes. Divorce runs as a normal occurrence with no second thought of why or how. Kids are subjected to sex and drugs in elementary school. Bibles are removed from school libraries and children are taught that it is a book with fairy tails. Comedians entertain with foul language and sexual content, while defying God’s name in every other sentence.
Have we forgotten God’s presence? We go to church but leave so that we can still watch the game. We attend and give what we think is generously to how we feel we should in the offering. Have we forgotten that we are not saved by our acts? Have we forgotten the grace that covers all?
In this doom and gloom this darkness, I ask you this, Where is your light? Are you shining bright? If you were gone tomorrow, would you be missed? Would this world realize that something is missing?
Let us wake up, lets us be like Jacob and realize that we need the presence of God. For where His presence is, where His Shechinah glory rests, there is no sickness that can stay, in His presence all depression must leave, in His presence there is Joy unspeakable and it is full of Glory. But all in this we must be careful to be aware of this. As Jacob said after seeing the ladder extending to heaven:
Gen 28:16 (NKJV)
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
Gen 28:17 (NKJV)
And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!”
God, Father, bring us into your presence Lord; show us your tangible presence, bring your Shechinah glory down in our midst. Pour out your spirit on us! Let us be the light in this dark world, let our salt not loose its flavor. AMEN!
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