I try to avoid watching the news. That’s hard to do since there are televisions all throughout the sitting areas where I walk at work, all tuned to CNN. I am SO tired of the talking heads who used to report the news, but now seem to be in the business of being the news, commenting, dissecting, discussing to death every political and non-political statement, tweet, post and response. They are hoping for ratings so they will do anything to grab our attention.
God has a way of grabbing attention that can’t be ignored. He told Solomon to be on the look-out for His call to attention: “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people ….” [2 Chron 7:13-14 NIV]
Massive snow falls. Hurricanes. Flooding. Earthquakes. Wildfires. I have heard people commenting that God is trying to get our attention. I even had a total stranger say that to me one day when we walked by a video of the flooding in Houston on one of those talk shows. Is God trying to get our attention? Is He making a statement to us like He made to Solomon? Or is it just “Mother Nature” or climate change or global warming? I’ll leave the answers to those questions to the prophets.
I will say that there has been “no rain of the Spirit” in too many of our churches. The ways of the world have invaded and “devoured” the land. There has been a “plague of sin and arrogance” among God’s people. God IS speaking to His people and it is time to listen.
Holy Spirit, open our ears so that we might hear “what the Spirit is saying to the churches” today. Amen.
