"The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; surely nothing shall escape them." (Joel 2:3b)
I was in Germany in the 1970s. There were still places where you could see significant damage from the Second War. Even today you can still see the scars of that war. I once met a German parliamentarian who is my age. He said that he and Schroder were the generation which grew up and asked their parents, "What have you done?" If you look at photos of many German towns and villages before the war, you see "land like the Garden of Eden." Photos after the war reveal "a desolate wilderness." The German rejected the Word of God for the solutions offered by a gifted orator which dealt with the immediate problem--------------- not the root problem.
Fast forward to modern America. By the early twenty-first century, America had not had a foreign army on our soil for nearly 200 years. But on September 11, 2001, the world came "home." The world said to America, "The gig is up! You are no longer invulnerable." I had a friend who toured the Word Trade Center in the 1990s. The guide told the group, "You are now at the financial center of the universe." I came across an article this morning which reveals the root arrogance of this philosophy. "The entire universe is a projection of consciousness. We experience the universe as a projection through us because each of us is a center of consciousness. Therefore we are all centers of the universe. There really is no here or there because everything is at one point where consciousness is. We all do not exist in different places but are all present at one point. The realty of here and there is all created and experienced within the singularity of consciousness itself. Where you are is the center of the universe." If this thinking continues, then America, which is for so many, "the Garden of Eden," will become "a desolate wilderness."
If this is depressing to you, just remember that the Bible never leaves people in despair. Just read further in Joel 2 and you are given a "what-to-do" and an encouragement which is just as relevant today as it was over 2 millennia ago. "'Now, therefore,' says the LORD, 'Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.' So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful....Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him."
"Who knows," indeed!
Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to walk in fasting, weeping, and mourning, rending my heart, not as the religionists do, but as You purpose. Amen.
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