God is smart!
The People Are Deserving
During the course of events and the lifetime of a Nation there are many changes that take place and the lives of the people are subjected to many forces and pressures, both physical and spiritual. Leaders come and go, ideas come and go, theories come and go, good times come and go, hard times come and go, even Nations come and go. I don't intend to make a play on words but the one thing 'in the world' that seems to be constant is change. I believe there are some things that never change. God does not change. Jesus said in Matthew 24:35, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."
Note: This page is not complete yet but the main theme of the message is, "God gives, allows or raises up what the people of a Nation are deserving."
The Prophet Jeremiah spoke these words from
the Lord.
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to
his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve." Jeremiah 17:9-10
NIV
Oh, Oh, we're in trouble now! What do we deserve?
We should also remember that the Lord does not settle his accounts at the end of the month but at a time of HIS choosing and in a way or manner that he sees fit. His ways and the manner in which he does things may not be at all the way that we think issues should be resolved. God is smart! God asks us to believe him and trust him, not try to figure him out. God's ways are past finding out.
Romans 11:33 KJV O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
"Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is the man who gains riches by unjust means. When his life is half gone, they will desert him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool." Jeremiah 17:11 NIV
The Psalm writer in Psalm75:2 speaks of the
Lord, "You say, 'I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge
uprightly. When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars
firm. To the arrogant I say, 'Boast no more,' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up
your horns. Do not lift up your horns against heaven; do not speak with
outstretched neck." No one from the east or the west or from the desert
can exalt a man, But it is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts
another.
Psalm 75:2-7 NIV
God is smart!