“Where there is no prophetic vision the
people cast off restraint”
Proverbs 29:18
It is disturbing
to me to read the news these days; men and women being beheaded and killed in a
far away land; three men being shot in the head in a land I call my home. It gets beyond overwhelming to me and my
spirit is grieved. People just seem to
be so mean and hurtful to one another.
There doesn’t seem to be any respect for one another and certainly a
shortage of love and concern for one another. Cruel and disrespectful words being spoken
under the guise of free speech are hurtful to the people themselves but also
cast a dark shadow on our so called liberties.
It is discouraging.
I try to remain in
a positive state of mind, but at times reality does not allow that. Somehow I think these things are the
consequences of a nation that throws off God and a Church that is too concerned
with itself and not the world. Jesus said
of the Church that he built, “the gates of hell will not prevail against it”. Where has that Church gone in the midst of
our revisoning and changing what Church is?
Have we adhered to his plan or are we continually creating church in our
own image? Our world is filled with a
lot of words and platitudes to loving one another, but is our world a better
place to live?
The Church is to
be the light and salt to the world. It
is to hold forth the prophetic vision.
Where is that vision? Jesus
proclaimed the prophetic vision when he began his ministry here on earth.
“Repent, the Kingdom of God
He wasn’t asking
people to revision his church. He was
commanding people to repent, and to put themselves under the governance of
God. When God’s people do that, God will
add to their numbers, just as He did in Acts.
Then we will bring restraint to the evils done in the world and the True Church
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