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 Zechariah 10:1-2,
"Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime;
it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.
He gives showers of rain to all people,
and plants of the field to everyone.
The idols speak deceitfully,
diviners see visions that lie;
they tell dreams that are false,
they give comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep
oppressed for lack of a shepherd."
What happens when a people reject their Creator in favor of that which does not and cannot manage and maintain the creation? They become oppressed.
A big push in our politics today comes from those who falsely claim they can lower the oceans, keep the weather from fluctuating, save the polar bears from extinction - you know the drill. Future generations will laugh at the outright foolishness and simple-mindedness of folks today who reject their God in an effort to supplant him for the vagaries of "science".
Not real science, but the kind that threatens all those who would question the methodology utilized, who would question the validation of data, who might not "believe" in man-made climate-change. (I recall in the 80's it was global cooling the folks were all atwitter about, then in the 90's and 2000's it was global warming, and now, finally, any movement in the climate - as if the climate never shifted in the past.)
These man-made-climate-change advocates today are no different from the idols who spoke "deceitfully", diviners who saw lying visions and told of a false future. And, just as their predecessors, these advocates for a religion of man-made-global-climate-change attempt to oppress freedom loving peoples everywhere.
It is the Lord who provides the rain, he is the one who sends the thunderstorms. The writer of Hebrews tells us it is the Son of God himself who maintains the cosmos, "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."
"Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime;
it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.
He gives showers of rain to all people,
and plants of the field to everyone.
The idols speak deceitfully,
diviners see visions that lie;
they tell dreams that are false,
they give comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep
oppressed for lack of a shepherd."
What happens when a people reject their Creator in favor of that which does not and cannot manage and maintain the creation? They become oppressed.
A big push in our politics today comes from those who falsely claim they can lower the oceans, keep the weather from fluctuating, save the polar bears from extinction - you know the drill. Future generations will laugh at the outright foolishness and simple-mindedness of folks today who reject their God in an effort to supplant him for the vagaries of "science".
Not real science, but the kind that threatens all those who would question the methodology utilized, who would question the validation of data, who might not "believe" in man-made climate-change. (I recall in the 80's it was global cooling the folks were all atwitter about, then in the 90's and 2000's it was global warming, and now, finally, any movement in the climate - as if the climate never shifted in the past.)
These man-made-climate-change advocates today are no different from the idols who spoke "deceitfully", diviners who saw lying visions and told of a false future. And, just as their predecessors, these advocates for a religion of man-made-global-climate-change attempt to oppress freedom loving peoples everywhere.
It is the Lord who provides the rain, he is the one who sends the thunderstorms. The writer of Hebrews tells us it is the Son of God himself who maintains the cosmos, "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."
Where western civilization carried mankind to its apex of existence, fueled by the tenants of its Judeo-Christian heritage, with the decline of that heritage in Europe, and now, frighteningly, the United States, it appears mankind is now over the top and sliding down to resume the state of the underdeveloped nations of the world. An existence marked by the darkness the great nations and empires suffered in prior to the proclamation and advancement of the gospel.
Economically, scholastically, culturally, politically, in every way, the world renews its oppression of its own peoples as the Lord is jettisoned for its anthropological idol: the Progressive in search of a global community to seize control of that which only the Creator can maintain - his creation.
Just as folks in Zechariah's day needed to recognize how things really happen in the cosmos, so we have an urgent need today!
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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Trevor Fisk
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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!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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