"Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are God-- You alone-- of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see.Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God. Lord it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands== wood and stone,. So you have destroyed them. Now Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone." Isaiah 37: 16-20.
If only I had the heart of Hezekiah, who was burdened by the offensive words that were spoken against his God.
I think so often that I allow mockery to take place, blaming it too often on worldliness. I allow my friends, and even family to mock the name of God. Whether intentional, it happens often. I'm not just talking about using the Lord's name in vain. I'm saying they blatantly make the sacrifice and blood of Jesus a joke. They make the Word of God their doormat. Walking over the person of truth, directly into the arms of sin and death. How selfish am I to not stop them?!!?! If not vocally, in prayer! Why am I not interceding for those who mock my God?! Why am I not earnestly seeking God, asking him to show himself to them?
1 Corinthians 1:18-25: "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the experts. Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn't God made the world's wisdom foolish? For since, in God's wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached. For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and a foolishness to the Gentiles. Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom, because God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength."
Sure, those around me may have education. They may be exalted for wisdom in this world, and sure I may appear foolish when trying to witness the truth of Christ, and him crucified. But if I don't show them, if I don't tell them, if I don't labor in prayer for them, then who will? Who will intercede for my loved ones? Who will bring them to have a heart felt understanding and life transforming encounter with the truest wisdom, the glory of God found in Christ Jesus, if I don't?
I don't want to see my friends have such a heavy and weighty knowledge of the world and it's ways that they are pulled straight into the deepest pits of hell.
