Isaiah 58:2 KJV
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that
did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me
the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Matthew Poole's commentary on this passage sounds
like it was written for modern United
States :
"They seek me daily; they cover
all their wickedness with a profession of religion, from time to time resorting
to my house, pretending to ask counsel of me, and to desire and seek my favour
and blessing.
Delight to know my ways: either,
1. They seem to delight in it; for men are oft said in Scripture to be
or do that which they seem or profess to be or do; as Matthew 13:12,
that which he hath, is thus explained in Luke 8:18, that which
he seemeth to have; and Romans 7:9, I was alive, i.e. I
falsely thought myself to be alive. See also Philippians 3:9. Or,
2. They really
delight; for this is evident, that there are many men who take some pleasure in
the knowing of God’s will and word, and yet do not conform their lives to
it."
Though there is a growing boldness against the
things of God, there is still a feigned religious front that pervades Americanism.
I refer back to the protester in California
who jeered our President for not believing in Christ. Even as they drug the
protester out of the room, the President stopped the text of his speech to
interject that he was a believer in Jesus Christ. I do not question the
sincerity of the President's profession. I question the correctness of his
faith. To rightly believe in Jesus necessitates and dependence upon the Bible
to know who Jesus is. The error America, and most of professing Christendom,
makes is believing that the Jesus they have made up, the Jesus who would have
done as they are doing, is the same Jesus of the Bible.
People happily, anxiously go off to worship a Jesus
they have convinced themselves is the Christ of God, but who in no way resembles
the Christ of the Bible.
And since Jesus is the express image of God, to
miss Christ is to miss the true God.
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