Isaiah 26:18 KJV
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
There are a number of promising texts found both in this chapter and the one preceding it, which were my reading portions for the day. However, I chose this text because it continues a theme I have been working most of this week; that being the failure of humanity; including Christianity. Our hope is in Christ, not in His church. Surely there is a place for church and we should hold it as a priority in our lives. But the Supreme of our life is to be Christ and not the church.
Just like Israel, when they said they would obey everything God commanded and the prophet warned them, they could not obey
Just like again, when they turned the brazen serpent into an idol and
Just like Israel turned their faith in the One true God into an abomination
It appears to me that the parables of Matthew 13 say the same will happen to Christianity; we will make more of it than it is. We will give to it a place it does not properly hold. We will make Christianity our God. And though that church is pregnant with potential to glorify God, because it has become our God we will bring forth, as it were, wind - nothing.
Our hope is Christ. We must return to Christ. We must trust only in Christ.
Father, make it so!
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
There are a number of promising texts found both in this chapter and the one preceding it, which were my reading portions for the day. However, I chose this text because it continues a theme I have been working most of this week; that being the failure of humanity; including Christianity. Our hope is in Christ, not in His church. Surely there is a place for church and we should hold it as a priority in our lives. But the Supreme of our life is to be Christ and not the church.
Just like Israel, when they said they would obey everything God commanded and the prophet warned them, they could not obey
Just like again, when they turned the brazen serpent into an idol and
Just like Israel turned their faith in the One true God into an abomination
It appears to me that the parables of Matthew 13 say the same will happen to Christianity; we will make more of it than it is. We will give to it a place it does not properly hold. We will make Christianity our God. And though that church is pregnant with potential to glorify God, because it has become our God we will bring forth, as it were, wind - nothing.
Our hope is Christ. We must return to Christ. We must trust only in Christ.
Father, make it so!
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