God Would Never Do That! Or Would He?

God would never send a famine or economic distress to get our attention.

God would never send disease to open our eyes to our bad choices and to call us to repentance.

God would never use wars or violence to cause us to cry out to Him.

God would never use a tornado, earthquake, or tsunami to draw our hearts back to Him.

God is not like that.  He is a soft, squishy, all-loving God who would never dream of punishing or disciplining or causing any kind of pain for us.  He just wants us to be happy.  He’s all about catering to our requests and pouring out His goodness on us and allowing us to live life on our own terms, because we are the center of the universe.  We are the lords of our own lives.  Aren’t we?  

Surely, in this day and age of rampant sexual diseases, violent wars, economic recession, famines, natural disasters, devastating consequences of our choices, etc., none of this has been allowed by God in order to open our eyes to our need for Him.  God would never do that!

Would He? 




Amos 4:6-12:

            “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord. 

            “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. . . People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord. 

            “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, I struck them with blight and mildew.  Locusts devoured your figs and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

            “I sent plagues among you . . . killed your young men with the sword . . . overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah . . . yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

            “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”
 

            How many of His calls to “return to Him” have you missed?  What if the events going on all over the world - the fires, the droughts, the famines, the disease epidemics, the earthquakes, the volcanoes, etc. - what if these are all warnings from God that the end is coming?  Are you prepared to meet your God?


"... for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape."  (1 Thess. 5:1-3)


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