God Did It Before He'll Do It Again

God Did It Before He’ll Do It Again

1/3/20

Many people forget that once God has done something in the past He has the authority and the power to repeat such activity toward humanity.  Mainly, we place this authority of God on His benevolence because we personally have witnessed so many blessings from His heart.  But do we understand that this repeated status of God can be on the not so good side of things as well?  Remember God is a complete God which includes all aspects, not just one or two.  God has shown His hand against many nations during human history, some of those nations more than once, even to His own chosen people God has demonstrated devastating techniques that can only be described as supernatural.  Do we still have enough common sense to know that when God blesses He does so according to the hearts of the people He blesses?  And do we understand that when He must use His hand against a nation or group of people He does so because of the condition of their hearts?  God does not hand out blessings and destruction unequally; it is all up to what we harbor within our hearts that predicate God’s course of action.  It is our choice to either defend God or defend the world, and that choice determines which way God shall act.

All throughout our lives, we come to a point sometime where we have to make decisions that could affect many people around us.  It does not matter on what level these decisions are on, they still have to be made.  Friends, family, co-workers, total strangers are all subject to these encounters and in fairness treated with the equal integrity they deserve.  But these decisions are usually based upon the things that these folks have done in the past that determine what the present course of action will take today.  It is at this juncture that some of these decisions have good outcomes while others have distance letters of denial that could force physical reactions that do not favor healthy settings for some involved.  Most people would identify this part of our lives as having free will or commonly known as choice.  There are only two choices that mankind has each choice serving a master and it is this served master that dictates which type of response individuals, groups, and nations shall see from God.

I know that I have given God plenty of reasons to send fire and brimstone down upon me but for some reason, He has chosen to wait on His wrath against me.  God has chosen each one of us for a purpose and that purpose was given to us even before we were conceived in our mother’s womb, see God even controls our before birth status as well something that we take for granted when we come of age and figure out what we want to be in life.  It is up to us to either develop what God has given us as our passion or to allow it to become a grudge of selfishness that is displayed for everyone to see.  Blessings and cursings stem from our hearts this is a truth from God and of God and while many of us believe that these conditions grow at an adult age, they are born in us as is God, it is just our choice to submit to one of the two kingdoms that vie for our eternity.  It is this representation of ours that directly contributes to the overall spiritual recognition that a nation displays which in turn displays itself on a large stage that not only affects the nation we call home but grabs the attention of other nations as well.

Genesis 12:1-3

“Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curse thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

Our Scripture passage for this article comes from a well-known passage in Genesis and it is one that has sequential meanings and representations for generations past and to follow.  We have God instructing Abram to leave his country, his family home and go out in faith to a land that God will show him.  This means that Abram leaves his entire home for a place that he has no idea where it is all coming from a “being” that he has hardly any understanding about.  Talk about having the total package of faith in action, how many of us would do this sort of following if God physically said for us to go and do something like this?  But as great as this single verse demonstrates to us about Abram, it is not the portion of Scripture that we are going to focus on but it does set the stage and the foundation from which God bases His statement in the next two verses about who and what will encompass our lives in our futures.

How easy is it to forget that God watches over us from angles we did not know existed?  While our eyes are usually focused on the physical words and sometimes actions around us, God goes deeper and looks into everyone’s heart in order to determine exactly what is transpiring.  A person may not lash out at one single opportunity but sit and wait until the moment is right according to their calculations, all of which are being determined within the confines of the heart.  We cannot forget that when God speaks something into existence it is permanently fixed into the Living record of life which means that whatever He has spoken will continue to be in place forever and ever.  Once again, it is easy for humanity to remember this concept when the blessings flow upon and into our hearts but when it comes time to remember that God sees all things from the heart, our memories become fuzzy and it is this principle that God wants us to see in these next two verses.

The promise of God making Abram a great nation at this time of his life seems kind of cruel since Abram has no children to call his own, but what God shows Abram is the future and how things shall be well after Abram is gone from this world.  God tells Abram that He will bless him and make his name great.  Then God continues to place a hedge around Abram and this nation by stating that whoever blesses him will be blessed and whoever curses him shall be cursed.  This seems rather bizarre since Israel was attacked and destroyed even after God made this promise many years before these feats were claimed.  It was not God who initiated these reversal tactics against Israel; it was the choices of the people of Israel that made it possible for everything they knew as a society disappears before their eyes.  God understands sin and what it does to the individual, He also understands what sin does if it is left unrepented within the heart; it grows and becomes a normal portion of a person’s daily life.  The same rings true for a nation’s heart as well which means that a majority of the individuals within a nation feel like a certain sin really does not matter and is alright as long as everyone leaves it alone.  It is here that the backside of these last two verses has its meaning.

God has His way of teaching nations and their inhabitants that He sees what is going on within their hearts.  God does not begin with capital punishment for a sin that is isolated among few individuals or regions within the nation, but He does deal with those who have been previously warned a bit harsher than the so-called “first-timers”.  Over time if a nation allows sins to inhabit their lives unabated, they place their status in jeopardy through the eternal promise of God which will be allowed to occur as a reminder of exactly what is going on.  Of course, God desires His people to repent and He hopes that we receive the message of repentance before He must act further and deeper, which defines the title of this article because while God may not like repeating Himself with reminders to His people He shall do again just as He did in biblical days of old.  A specific word that God uses here in this passage is the word “will”.  This word is indicative that this process, in either direction is going to occur at some point in the future if not careful the process could become cyclic due to the fact of human actions.  This passage gives us further proof that God shall defend His people when necessary and then correct them when necessary as well.

One of the most dangerous positions we can place our lives into is the false sense of safety when we stop a sin, let it lie dormant and then pick it back up again after a short or even extended period of time again.  This means that we never really were free from what held us captive and in slavery, but allowed it to stay present within our lives thinking that as long as we did not entertain it that it would eventually leave or even die.  Even in this “dormant” state it really is not just laying around not doing anything, it is actually lying in wait until it can find something else to attach itself to which serves as a growth process with a tighter hold than before.  Ironically, when this process occurs more turmoil ensues within the person or nation that harbors such combinations for sin alone cannot survive by itself but neither can combined sins either; that is why Jezebel drove herself and everyone around her nuts because she could never settle her spirit down for it was always in competition against her and against others simultaneously.

If this lifestyle is allowed to voluntarily continue, God will at some point have to mention His definition against it and intervene according to His holy presence and existence.  Because of the attitudes of the heart of Israel, God had to watch the kingdom split into two not solving any issues but multiplying them as each year passed.  Over time, both kingdoms became wicked enough to grieve the heart of God and thus He was forced to allow nastiness fall upon each kingdom; at separate times, however, a process that should have woken the other one up before destruction arrived but as history tells us they did not listen or hear what God was showing them and saying to them.  Eventually, both kingdoms saw their individual status’ fall into the hands of other warring nations and the inhabitants of both kingdoms taken out of their lands and led into captivity.

It is this process that God shows us what can occur if we do not lead and live in a repentant life as a nation.  There is no question that Israel was the apple of God’s eye and she still is but it also gives us representation of how God cannot tolerate an individual, group, or nation that refuses to live in holiness.  It does not matter if your feelings dictate your belief that God is a sugar daddy or if He does not even exist, He is alive and watching our hearts night and day and if He sees a process where our hearts have gained enough sin within them that it will lead to sure and total destruction He shall intervene beforehand.  It did not matter that Israel had to see this demise and it sure will not matter for God to allow some type of devastating disaster or disasters occur on our land as well.

God is a complete God and even though He has shown His hand against other nations, including Israel, in the past do not think twice that God will not show His hand against this nation and other modern nations in the world either.  Being a complete God also means that He is consistent in all ways even if those ways are seen as being friendly in some instances.  God does not administer such instances lightly, but being a complete Figure all the time He requires the same from us as well.  God gives us every opportunity to stop our sins before He has to step in and change our settings according to His Ways and not ours.  Likewise, it is strictly up to us to change our hearts before this type of event occurs for it is us who change and bring on either God or the world.  Just remember, if we choose to allow God to change our hearts in His manner without repentance, everything we know around us shall be taken in such a manner that will not be conducive to friendliness.  This coming year and decade can be one of blessings or cursings and it is strictly up to us to which we shall be witness.  Our answers do not lie within politics, with food, or even in financial institutions or jobs but our hope and rest come only from God and we shall never see this if we do not choose His Ways and His blessings over our lives.  Whatever way we choose, the results shall be quickly noticed.

This article is not all about doom and gloom as some people would say for the other portion of these two Scripture verses state that God will bless those who bless thee.  Do you realize that these two verses are also talking about you and me?  Many regularly fit other nations into these verses and hold them accountable as such but these verses also refer to us as well.  If we do not talk blessings upon our nation what do you expect God to do with those words of cursings?  Remember, God is a complete God and must act on ALL words that come from the heart so even if an enemy who has no ability to attack another from a great distance, God can attack such enemy from within or bless them in such a manner according to His Word.  It has become sickening about how many people are quick to say horrific things about this nation and how they are harmonized and proudly publicized without any hesitation.  This is one of the most frightening settings a human can call upon themselves for when they do they forget that both kingdoms then have access to their dominion.

As of this moment and while we ring in a new year and decade, we need to take a great deal of time and once again allow God to search our hearts and to rid our hearts of such idolatrous sins.  With just a quick glimpse of what the major television outlets promoted on New Year’s Eve, it is easily depicted that our hearts have no intentions of turning back to God, that is fine, but be warned that as our defiance toward God increases so will our calamities.  We have plenty of resources and examples to look at to reinforce this proclamation and even with all of our so-called advances in communication and technology we are still subject to an awesome God who wants nothing less than purity and holiness from His prized Creations.  If we continue to curse ourselves thus creating and allowing other nations to do the same, then watch out folks, a wave from God will arrive that shall shake our land to its core.  Here is a news flash for everyone reading this article, God does not have to restore our land after He has done something to it, He can heal our land before this occurs and everything shall be beautiful again WITHOUT the pain.

But God promises us to heal our land and hearts if we ask Him and as stated above this healing process does not have to occur after devastation occurs.  God has seen fit to bless this nation beyond belief and there is a reason for this, He created this nation to do such an act but to do it in His Ways and in His name, not the way of the world.  Today marks the new year and a chance to change our ways and turn them back into ways that would be pleasing to God.  God shall bless this nation again in ways that make our current way of life look like paupers but He shall not do this until we turn from our wicked ways.  This Truth was established in Abram’s time concerning blessings and cursings and we need to refresh our heart’s memories concerning such Kingdom principle before we have to experience it.  While these verses used in this article have been used mainly for information about other nations, they represent a more intimate reference to ourselves that we have basically ignored.  Remember, like-spirited spirits attract each other before they begin to fight each other for control.

Church, it is our responsibility to shout the Gospel to those who are in need of the Truth, this includes local people first and then to the world.  All have sinned and it is our responsibility to our command from Jesus to reach as many people possible throughout the world.  It is a tough fight and one that is not easily overcome for the world has its home field advantage claws buried deep within every corner of each person’s heart.  The world is prepared to fight until the eternal death for its possessions, are we ready to do the same?  The only way that this nation and the world shall ever see peace again is if we drop our weapons of worldly warfare (words and mouths) and return to God again.  This action shall be the first step that God shall see from our hearts that we want to speak blessings again.  Blessings are the sweetest sound that God hears from His people and then gives in return, an eternal reciprocation that has limitless boundaries which are how God’s Kingdom wishes to be witnessed.  We can read the blessings of God all throughout the Scriptures of His Word and not just in these three verses, God wants to bless His people and shall do so with an abundant heart if we only turn to Him for everything.

DLB