Is the USA acting like a Strong willed Child?

Isaiah 42:18-25

Have you watched a strong willed child?  Maybe you were one, or maybe you have one, but they seem to be deaf to any instruction other than what they want to do.  God is addressing Israel’s failure to hear and see and He refers to them as His servant, His messenger whom He has sent.  Though God is using physical disabilities they represent spiritual disabilities; Israel sees many things, but does not hear, so God magnified His instruction and made it glorious.  In fact, God sent His prophets, like Isaiah, and later Jeremiah and Ezekiel, but they were not heard, for like the strong willed child, they were deaf and blind to any instruction other than what they wanted to do. 

Could that not be said of the United States of America today?  Have we not turned our backs on all that is holy, have we not told God to stay out of our business, our schools, our courts, our government?  Now the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. – 1.8 million have told God they have a better plan than His on marriage, they should read Isaiah 42:18-25 about the judgment that came on Israel for choosing to go against the commandments of God.

When judgment comes on America, as it did on Israel, no one is coming to help, in fact they became the plunder and all there resources were looted.  Verses 23-24, is a question for the future and I believe it is a question for America: “Who among you will pay attention to this?  Let him listen and obey in the future.  Who gave Jacob to the robber, and Israel to the plunderers?  Was it not the LORD?  Have we not sinned against Him?  They were not willing to walk in His ways, and they would not listen to His instruction.”

It is because of my fear of God, for He keeps His Word, that I see judgment coming to the country I love, to a people who are heading down the same road as Israel has gone, the blind leading the blind.  Church, our only hope is Jesus, unless the people of God humble themselves and repent, we will see judgment in our lifetime.  It was a choice for Israel and it is now our choice, for God has spoken, He has stepped out of heaven and taken our form, and taken our sins to the Cross, in fact He who was pure, our Creator, loved us so much that He became the payment to a Holy God who is just and required the shedding of blood for the payment of sin, but only God is without sin, only Jesus could pay the price required by the Father. 

Independence from God will lead us as a people and a nation to a place we would never have chosen, but like Israel, we have a choice.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice