Ezekiel 9:9 KJV
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
There is a sin involved in lack of faith.
There is sin involved in simply saying that God has forsaken us and that God does not care.
There is sin in denying that God either knows or that He cares.
But there is another sin implied in this passage; that being the sin of denying our own responsibility for sin.
God had sent the kind of trials Israel was enduring because of their own sin. God was moving His glory from their nation, and they were blaming God for that. They refused to see that their own sin was the issue and not that God was either forsaking them or that God did not see their trials.
God is not unrighteous to judge us for our sins. To feel like we are forsaken as God chastens us is no fault of the Lord and is even a sign of God's loving-kindness. It is only through those times of chastening that He moves us toward righteousness.
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
There is a sin involved in lack of faith.
There is sin involved in simply saying that God has forsaken us and that God does not care.
There is sin in denying that God either knows or that He cares.
But there is another sin implied in this passage; that being the sin of denying our own responsibility for sin.
God had sent the kind of trials Israel was enduring because of their own sin. God was moving His glory from their nation, and they were blaming God for that. They refused to see that their own sin was the issue and not that God was either forsaking them or that God did not see their trials.
God is not unrighteous to judge us for our sins. To feel like we are forsaken as God chastens us is no fault of the Lord and is even a sign of God's loving-kindness. It is only through those times of chastening that He moves us toward righteousness.
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