“I keep the Lord in mind always. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” [Psalm 16:8 HCSB]
“I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” [Psalm 16:8 NIV]
The world is being shaken. The church is being shaken. While we have spent most of the month in our Gentle Shepherd’s green pastures and beside the still water, it has always been with the goal that we will be renewed and restored for our work with Him in this world.
Many during this time of shaking are sensing that there is a change on the horizon, God is calling His people to repentance. The church is being asked to return her vision to Him, away from the trivial and dangerous idols we have allowed to infiltrate us.
We have preached a Gospel that is not a gospel. We have embraced comfort and complacency and allowed courage and commitment to grow cold. We have thought in terms of prosperity and abandoned sacrifice. The church today, in many ways, would not be recognized by those early disciples that gave their lives to see the Gospel carried into their world.
Joel 2:12: “Even now— this is the Lord’s declaration— turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” [HCSB]
God has always called on His people to repent, to turn from their wicked ways back to Him with all their hearts. We are being awaked and called to fast, weep, pray, intercede, and mourn. It is a sacred duty of the church. It is one we better heed well or the church in America will fade from influence, truth, and power.
“If my people ….” Amen & Amen.
