Could Anything Be More Clear?

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,                                  

the Holy One of Israel:
I, the LORD, your God,
teach you what is for your good,
and lead you on the way you should go.
If you would hearken to my commandments,
your prosperity would be like a river,
and your vindication like the waves of the sea;
Your descendants would be like the sand,
and those born of your stock like its grains,
Their name never cut off
or blotted out from my presence.
(Isiah 48:17-19) 

I do not know how much clearer God could have made it for the Israelites in the days of Isiah. The Lord says, "I will teach you what you need to know and if you listen, things will be great"  They had the commandments, they had prophets, they had their history of showing what God could do and yet they strayed from the path and disaster followed.  What more could God do or say to these stiff-necked people? 

The words of Isiah echo down to us through history.  What more could God do for us than he already has?  We have the commandments, we have had prophets and our history of seeing first hand what God can do and yet we strayed from the path that God showed us, even after He sent His only Son to die for our sins.  What more could God do to this stiff-necked people?

Why do we turn away so often and run from the arms of our loving God?  I do not understand why we do it.  The United States was founded by men who knew their place in the cosmos. Most of the founding fathers honored and worshipped God.  Our motto is, "In God We Trust" but we have legislated Him out of our public life. Our former president, Obama, did what he could to chip away at our religious rights and made it a rule of law that we had to violate our consciences and provide abortion and birth control as a matter of inalienable right in spite of religious convictions to the contrary. 

In this season of Advent, as we close in on the feast of God coming to earth, let us pray for one another.  Let us pray for our country that the United States returns to the realization that God has indeed blessed America.  Let us remember that it is His blessing to give or withhold.  Pray that God continues to bless us and that His grace returns us to His family.

Poor Souls - Pray for them today.