WE ASKED FOR IT
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 2:17
Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy 31:17
Our plight today is our own fault. We asked for it. All our modern evils are come upon us because God is not among us. Of course, He is omnipresent, but He is not among us in that we have not His favor, the smile of His approval.
God has been among us in blessings unnumbered, but we have forgotten Him. And to be lost it is not necessary for a nation to blaspheme God. “The wicked shall be cast into hell and all nations that forget God.”
Even God’s people sometimes ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” And in the absence of Him we are faced with the presence of evils galore.
We have lost the sense of God in the nation, in the churches, in our lives. The biggest business of the hour is to draw nigh to God that He may draw nigh to us. His presence with us is too often an assumption in our heads instead of an awareness in our hearts.