Category: Devotion of the Day

CALL TO AMERICA

Hear the word of the Lord.
Isaiah 1:10

We need to recover Isaiah’s thundering call from the mothballs where we have relegated it. The first chapter could be proclaimed, with a few names changed, to America and be strictly up to date. Surely our people “doth not consider.”

Surely the moral putrefaction Isaiah portrayed (vs.5, 6) smells just as bad in our land. And God hates our Sunday-morning religion without reality as much as He despised the sham formalities of Judah (vs. 11:15). Religion is popular nowadays, but we will not put away evil and learn to do well (vs. 16, 17). We want a religion that involves no break with the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Still, God invites us to reason with Him (v. 18). We reason within ourselves and among ourselves, but we do not want to accept God’s reasoning. We want to be saved on our terms, not His.

When America is willing to turn from sin to God and accept His provision, willing and obedient, we shall eat the good of the land. If not, we shall be devoured with the sword, for “the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

ENDLESS QUEST

Ever learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
II Timothy 3:7

When we come to a decision about a spiritual matter, Satan would worry us and keep us in fear that perhaps we did not do right. But never to come to a decision is still worse unbelief than to come with weak faith. To settle a matter as best one knows how in accordance with Scripture, even though one’s cry is, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief,” is certainly nearer the truth than not to come at all. Christ will receive all who come. In the Gospels they simply came, and He commended their faith when they thought they had little.

What pleases God is faith, and the weakest faith is better than no faith. Faith does not look at itself. One does not see sight by closing his eyes and looking around on the inside of his head. He looks at something, and what he sees confirms the fact that he has sight. Looking unto Jesus we find that He meets our need and proves that we have faith.

“Ever learning” is not the way to truth. Look and live and learn as you go.