8/31/07 - Life Journal - Light Weight Christianity

" 'Because they lead my people astray, saying, "Peace," when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash, therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, "Where is the whitewash you covered it with?"
Ezekiel 13:10-12

These prophets were telling the people of their "visions". They were preaching a message of peace that was not from the Lord and in their human weakness the Jewish people happily accepted this incredible lie.

We all want a rosy outlook but to gloss over the warnings of scripture and the seriousness of the Gospel is akin to the false prophets of old. We're turning Jesus into a social activist and our Lord into a benevolent grandfather that's waiting to leave you his fortune if you'll only visit him every once in a while in the nursing home. Come to our country club..er..church! Happy, happy, say a prayer, live forever and get rich. How can you not fill a church? People will preach about the bountiful blessings He wants to gloriously bestow on us and we gobble it up without looking around at the blessings we have already been given. I don't mean to be crude but we're the only country on earth whose poor are fat while 3/4 of the world is starving. Enough of the whitewashed wall.

Lord open my eyes to your love and gifts already given to me so I can stop asking for what I can get and concentrate on what I can do.