WHERE ARE WE???
INTRODUCTION
God is in the picture above. God is everywhere. God is omnipresent! If God was gone so would we be gone into non-existence. God is existence itself. (I Am). God is in your home, at your work, in your park, and at the bowling alley…. Where are we when it comes to God?
We may be living through the most troubling times of our lives and ask ourselves, why isn’t God doing something about this? Doesn’t God care! God does care! He watches. He sees. He cares.
Look at the “chosen” people in the Old Testament when they turned away from God, what was the result of going on their own… famine, slavery, and exile. Not only separated from the one true God but also their homes and native lands. They needed to turn back to God and so do we.
In this world today, God has been pushed to the margins, denied, ridiculed, mocked and suppressed by man-made laws and moral relativists who make up their own truth. Is it any wonder that we who abandon God suffer the fate of going it on our own. Consequences of sin.
God’s wrath is not of an angry person out of control but is felt as a consequence of our sins. God is holy and the unrepentant sinner cannot endure His holiness; the sinner experiences God’s holiness as wrath. Unrepentant sin is totally incompatible with the holiness of God.
God heard the cries of Israel enslaved in Egypt in the Book of Exodus. Back then, they were crying out for deliverance for decades. What about our patience and perseverance?
Let us imitate St Paul
For I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have competed well; I have finished the race;f I have kept the faith. From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearance.2 TIMOTHY 4:7-8
ISAIAH THE PROPHET WARNS US IN OLD TESTAMENT
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the Lord,
To rebel against His glorious presence. Their very look bears witness against them; they boast of their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves. Woe to them! Happy the just, for it will go well with them, the fruit of their works they will eat. ISAIAH 3:8
CONCLUSION.
We live in an immoral world perhaps like never before. We sacrifice our young in the womb; we approve of same sex couples marrying. God never wills evil but allows evil to happen out of respect for our free will. We no longer live in the world that God made but the world we have made
Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment. For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God, a Moral conscience (CCC #1776-1778)
PRAY. PRAY. PRAY
FOR OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBOR, OUR COUNTRY