September 9, 2009 When God Is The Enemy
Today’s Bible Reading:Lamentations 1, 2; Obadiah 1; Revelation 14
Scripture Focus:
Lamentations 2:4 Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.
Observation:
The Bible says, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” The opposite is also true. If God be against us, who can be for us?
This verse talks of God as Israel’s enemy, an adversary. How did that happen—that God should be against the very people he chose and blessed? It was because they were disobedient to his laws and commandments, and though he warned them through his prophets for years and years, they refused to turn from their ways.
God is patient and gives his people ample opportunity to turn around, but there comes a point when it is time for judgment. Then, beware, for God “stands as an enemy.”
Application:
Has God been trying to tell me something? Am I listening? Am I making adjustments in my life to line up with God’s perfect will for me? It’s better to be sensitive to God’s direction than to ignore his voice and eventually find that God becomes like an enemy to me.
Prayer:
Father God, keep me sensitive to your corrective voice.
Scripture Focus:
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.
