Our world is changing, there is no question about it and we can’t change it. But the concern we should have is are we changing our thoughts right along with the world. We are so bombarded by what is around us that we tend to forget the truth. It is easy to just go with the flow. We hear something and we are taken in by it and suddenly before we know it we have changed our views. My biggest concern is that even as Christians we are allowing it to change us. When a “Christian” shares, it sounds good so we go along with it and before we know it we also have changed how we think about history. And along with the world, without even realizing it, we have taken God out of history.
I wonder how many people in Bible times looked at the history of the Israel and wondered whether God was really a part of any of it. The wickedness of what some of the people did and what “clubs” or “societies” they might have been a part of might have made them question whether God had led or not.
Right now I am going through and reading, with my daughter, about the pilgrims coming to America, the setting up of the Constitution and such. I am seeing, again, how the Lord was guiding in bringing them to the New World and how the Lord had His hand in it. This is all being taken out of the History in our world now. And there are Christians that are doing the same. As a Christian they say, “Well so and so was in this “society” so this could not be led of God, it was being controlled by this “society”.” There are Christians that are taking God out of History and they don’t even realize it. Is anyone bigger than God? If we want to question whether God was involved with the founding of this country we better watch ourselves because we can start to question if He was able to bring a pure Word through all the wickedness of this world and the wickedness of men. Who really is in charge?
I think that we can say we all know people who did not grow up as a Christian and maybe didn’t even know about God. But when they were introduced to God and they gave their life to Him, they can look back and see that God was leading them through their whole life. They can even see how “All things worked together for good” took place in their lives.
What is my point? We need to leave God in History. It doesn’t matter who the people were through history, how good, wicked, or what society they may have belonged to, God led. God leads through whom ever will do His bidding. He is the One that is leading and is over all. He is the one that puts kings in and takes them down. He is leading and if we take Him out what do we have.
He led Peter to walk on the stormy sea but as soon as he took His eyes off of Jesus he started to sink. We are living in stormy times and Jesus has bid us to following Him through these times but if we take our eyes off of Jesus we will sink. The devil doesn’t care what he gets us caught up in, he just wants to get our eyes off of Jesus so that we will sink.
Dear Father,
I praise Your name that we can know that You have led in the past history and You continue to lead. What peace we can have if we keep our eyes on You and know that You have everything under control. Help us to stay so closely connected with You that we will not sink in the storm of life.
In Jesus Name,
Amen
Remember if we take God out of History, as a Christian, what do we have to share. He either has led in all History or no History. We need to be careful what we are thinking. If this has been an area that you have not really thought about I pray that you will think seriously about it.
Love you all.
If you did not grow up as a Christian but now you have given your heart to God, how can you see that He was leading you even when you did not know Him?