The
Great Commission bids us teach the disciples to observe all things commanded.
Our word “observe” has two meanings today. It may mean to behold, to look on,
to view the scene. It may also mean to adhere to, keep the rules, abide by the
terms, obey the laws of an organization or society. Most Christians belong to
the first category; they are balcony Christians, spectators, onlookers,
nonparticipants. We hire a church staff to do church work, and on Sunday we sit
and watch them do it. Too many are in the grandstand, too few are playing the
game.
We asked for it
Hast thou not procured this unto
thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the
way?
Jeremiah 2:17
Jeremiah 2:17
Are not these evils come upon us
because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy 31:17
Deuteronomy 31:17
Our
plight today is our own fault. We asked for it. All our modern evils are come
upon us because God is not among us. Of course, He is omnipresent, but He is
not among us in that we have not His favor, the smile of His approval.
God
has been among us in blessings unnumbered, but we have forgotten Him. And to be
lost it is not necessary for a nation to blaspheme God. “The wicked shall be
cast into hell and all nations that forget God.”
Even
God’s people sometimes ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” And in the absence
of Him we are faced with the presence of evils galore.
We
have lost the sense of God in the nation, in the churches, in our lives. The
biggest business of the hour is to draw nigh to God that He may draw nigh to
us. His presence with us is too often an assumption in our heads instead of an
awareness in our hearts.
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