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Entries for February 2014
"But the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?" Genesis 3:9
When I was a child, my mother set limits on where I went to play and how long I stayed. Occasionally, an odd thing would happen. When I was out of limits, beyond my boundaries, I would hear my mother's voice call me,"Jean, Jean! It is time you came home!"
I'd run home as fast as I could, to avoid the consequences. More than once, as I rushed in breathless, my mother would be surprised to see me. I'd ask, "Didn't you call me?" She would smile and say, "No, but it was time I did."
When we feel troubled about what we are doing or sense we are in the wrong place, it is probably God disturbing us with his probing question: "Where are you."
It is not that he doesn't know where you are, but do you know?..(to read more click on article title)
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"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters. and hewn themselves cisterns -- broken cisterns that can hold no water." Jeremiah 2:13
God defines two evils, a compound sin, his people committed. One was their break-away from him, abandonment of the source of life, their desertion of a life-source, the fountain of fresh flowing water. The second was their effort to solve the problem on their own, their hard labor of finding water on their own, and how inferior their solution was after all their hard work. Their do-it-yourself- water storage was useless. Their self-dug cisterns leaked, would hold no water. Their cisterns were sieves.
The desertion of a successful provision to develop an unsuccessful project; to discard something that works, to create something that doesn't work, seems stupid. It is stupid, it is the insanity of sin. No wonder God complains. Sin, is really foolish and heart-breaking. Desertion of God causes hard times. We forsake God, reject what he provides, do it our way, the hard way, and find it never works. (to read more click on article title)
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