The anger of the LORD will not diminish
until it has finished all He has planned. In the days to come you will
understand all this very clearly. Jeremiah 23:20
The anger of the Lord.
Moses relayed God’s message to the Hebrew
people before they entered the Promised Land. He is a great and awesome God and
He had a plan for the Israelites. No other gods before Him—worship Him alone.
No one should want to be on the wrong side of the Lord.
When the LORD your God hands these nations (the
nations occupying the Promised Land) over
to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaties
with them and show them no mercy. You must not intermarry with them. Do not let
your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters, for they will lead your
children away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will
burn against you, and He will quickly destroy you. ... But He does not hesitate
to punish and destroy those who reject him. Therefore, you must obey all these
commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today. If you listen to
these regulations and faithfully obey them, the LORD your God will keep his
covenant of unfailing love with you, as he promised with an oath to your
ancestors. ...No, do not be afraid of those nations, for the LORD your God is
among you, and He is a great and awesome God. Deuteronomy 7:2-4, 10-12, 21.
Again and again throughout the Old
Testament, God struck people down for their disobedience, frequently for their
idol worship.
This happened because of all the sins Baasha
and his son Elah had committed, and because of the sins they led Israel to
commit. They provoked the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, with their
worthless idols. 1 Kings 16:13
He gave them fair warning—quick destruction
for disobedience. Did they not understand? Are we guilty of the same thing? What
are the idols that ahead of or in place of our worship of God?
The righteous anger of God is nothing to mess with. He has a plan. Listen and obey.
Prayer
~ Dear Jesus, open our eyes to any idols that we may have in our lives. May we
wisely take our eyes off those things that would keep us from obeying Your
commands. Bless us with Your unfailing love.
© 2016 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT)
unless otherwise noted.
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