Who’s Fault Is it Anyway?
2 Chronicles 7:11-22 New Living Translation (NLT)
11 So Solomon finished the Temple of the Lord, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do in the construction of the Temple and the palace. 12 Then one night the Lord appeared to Solomon and said, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. 13 At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. 14 Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 15 My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. 16 For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart. 17 “As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 18 then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said, ‘One of your descendants will always rule over Israel.’ 19 “But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 20 then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 21 And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’ 22 “And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them.’”
Yesterday someone attempted to attack, my Christian convictions based upon their political views, and attempted to say I denied the truth of God based upon the fact that I pointed it all back to responding in this situation by looking to Jesus and identifying the Word of God and how it pertains to how we should approach this political season. As I began to pray to even consider whether I should respond or not, the Lord reminded me of the fact that we are all looking for someone to blame, but yet we have not taken the responsibility for the condition and state of our nation, we want to base our issues on whether one man can turn a nation around, or if he has a particular stand or not, when it is us who has turned away from God and began to remove Him from everything, but yet we still want His Blessing and for Him to turn our country around and bless it. We have allowed this separation of church and state, and God and man to become such a problem, that we are in a place as the Children of Israel were in the wilderness, having only a form of Godliness, but deny who He is supposed to be as far as our country is concerned.
It is sad when we will spout the philosophical ranting’s of people and we do not speak the oracles of God; we only condemn others by what we perceive His will is by the writings and understandings of others. God is the Spirit of truth and if we would seek Him, and read His word He will reveal truth to us. But instead we want to return to the Adamic nature and the self-serving perspective that leads us to place blame on others instead of taking responsibility for what we are doing in the eyes of the Lord. How many of us have fallen to our knees and asked God to forgive our nation and to heal our land? How many of us have seen the need to become a proxy for the people of this United States? Probably not many because we don’t see it as a spiritual problem, we don’t see it as a commitment issue as it concerns God; we see it as a political problem, an economic issue. If we study the Word of God it shows us principles about these issues, like economic challenges, and job situations. The widow who was going to make the cake and die, the Man of God told her to first give to Him, and she would have enough to survive. The mother who’s sons were about to be taken, was told to borrow vessels and pour the oil into them, she followed the voice of the man of God, who was sent to her. The issue with us now is that the voice of the church has fallen silent. If we had what most identify as street credibility, our President probably would have never came out in support of issues not supported by the church, but because the church is so busy talking a game that they are not living and judging everyone to include their own instead of standing in the gap, and becoming powerfully enough to stand we are more worried about losing a tax exempt status, or our ability to claim our contributions on our taxes, that we remain silent and under the radar. We are not a force to be reckoned with but an entity that has become disregarded, and often not consider in politics.
Jesus asked the question of His disciples who do men say I am, and he obtained three different answers, but it was Peter who gave the response revealed by the Spirit of God, because He allowed Himself for that same spirit that was abiding in God to have access to Him. Why are we finger pointing when there are still three fingers pointing back at us? We must identify our part in this countries state of affairs and repent for what we have allowed, and condoned. No one man can ruin a country; a leader is only as good as the people who follow, and the weakest member of his following. All of us are responsible and we need to see that, we elected more than just a president we elected senators and congress people who play a part in what comes to pass and does not come to pass. We in the church have become weak, and ineffective, if we would understand that it is about picking up God an laying down us,; it is about this nation being called to repentance and to a place to understand that without God failure is imminent. The strength of who we are lies in what we put our faith in, and most of us have placed our faith in man, and the Bible clearly states, the arms of flesh will always fail us. It is God alone who can sustain us and bring us into the place most of us are aspiring to.
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