Why, Oh Lord? Many years ago, as a young Christian, I found my | Family Bible Fellowship of Ridgeville
Why, Oh Lord?
Many years ago, as a young Christian, I found myself pleading with the Lord asking that very question, why oh Lord? Why God would you allow such evil destruction to take place? Why would you allow so many people to die at the hands of the enemy? I was a young believer and I have never been faced with an event like 9/11. I had great questions of why good God would allow such destruction when I truly believe the God is sovereign and in control of everything in this world. I remember getting to church really early on Sunday, going to the altar on my knees and begging God to show me why. There on that huge pulpit Bible that sits down at the front of the church, I opened it to Jeremiah chapter 5, and I’ll never forget what I read.
Jeremiah 5:19 (NAS): It shall come about when they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
God revealed to me an amazing truth that day the nestled down in my soul. And it was this! That when a nation, that when a people, a Church, or community forsake the Lord and serve false gods, it doesn’t end well! When people who have been blessed by God in amazing ways reject him and worship false gods devastation comes, it comes in the now or it comes in the later, but every time it comes! The wages of sin is always death.
He asked the question in verse 29
Jeremiah 5:29 (NAS): Shall I not punish these people?’ declares the Lord,
‘On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?’
The answer is yes; He says an appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land, and that was that false prophets were prophesying falsely, and priests are ruling on their own authority. Sadly, He ends chapter 5 with this Stark reality, His people loved the wickedness! Wow! Sound familiar?
There are a few lessons that I learned here!
1: The first lesson is that when you forsake God and follow false gods you will either end up hurting someone else or you will end up being hurt. Eternal hell is problematic!
2: being a false prophet is an appalling and horrible thing to God! Don’t be so quick to speak on behalf of God, He has spoken fully in His Word. Also ruling on your own authority is a train wreck and causes great devastation in the body of Christ and out of if as well!
3: Dont be like the wicked and love evil! We live in a nation that Loves evil and hates that which is Good!
Beware! Should God at some point treat our nation like He has his own? A nation who has been so blessed! Jeremiah 5:29 (NAS): Shall I not punish these people?’ declares the Lord, ‘On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?’ Yes He should!
I know this isn’t a text against us as America, God isn’t speaking to us here, but isn’t God unchanged! Doesn’t God hate evil? Doesn’t God has the same rights and ability to turn the wicked?
Let us return to God before our lives are ruined and our Children and their children are utterly destroyed from the the very wrath of almighty God, who will not be mocked!
2 Chronicles 7:13–14 (NAS): 3 “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, 14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
So what shall we do? We shall pray? Shall humble ourselves before the Lord or we shall be humbled by the Lord! I say let us seek His Forgiveness and repent!
