I'm reading through Jeremiah at the moment. I have a service to prepare around Jeremiah 20 1-11 for July 5th. I like to think well ahead and as I am retired I have the time for that.When did you last hear a sermon that warned your congregation, indeed when did you ever deliver such a sermon? I have a strong desire to warn, and so have to remember to encourage as well.There is a great need for warning when we are all so inclined to put other things before God.We all say,"Oh God won't mind, He'll understand." this is foolishness and presumptious folly at that. God is not some jolly old gentleman in the skies. He is totally other and all powerful, and the only one who deserves our praise. But is He getting our praise? Even we christians only allow Him one hour a week and even then we spend part of the service thinking about what is going to happen in the up-coming week.Our God deserves far better than that.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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