The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Micah 7:13,
"The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds."
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"The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds."
The desolation that comes to the earth is at the hand of God. It is his response to the deeds of mankind. What are the deeds that brings God's desolation upon the earth? As we listen to Micah, it is sin - rejection of God and rebellion against him.
As I read of the desolation of the earth, I don't read of carbon footprints here. I don't see anything about man-made global warming. Nothing about polar bears being swept out to sea and baby seals dying at the hand of mankind's developing economies, technologies and productivity. Here is a desolation that has nothing to do with "Big Oil", "Big Pharmacy" or whoever the current bugaboo is of the political left, the progressives (both Democrat and Republican), the socialists and communists, the "global crowd".
No, what we read of here in Micah's prophecy is sin. The sinful acts of mankind. And... they are not of the environmental type. God's desolation of the earth is due to man's rebellion against him, man's morally sinful activities manifesting his rejection of God.
I has always been a fascination to me to watch those who pollute themselves and one another, our communities, our nation through immorality, through the slaughter of innocents by way our abortion practices, by the embrace of homosexuality and other perversions - how they always seem to be attempting to clean other things up , like the environment, like our attitudes and political correctness... you get the picture.
I have to ask, what good does it do to recycle, to have our cars tested for emissions, to mandate crushing EPA rules and regulations when the filth in our lives themselves are bringing God's desolation on earth anyway?
Just a thought this morning...
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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