Wednesday July 4, 2012

Is there anything in your life that is currently            offending God.

Deal with it today.

 

Read Deuteronomy 32:1-6

 

When we think of anger we probably think of hissy fits and rages and short fuses. We probably think of uncontrolled bursts of anger,  a child’s screaming fit in the middle of the supermarket aisle or an ex wife’s tirade upon his new car.  Rarely do we see anger as a positive thing.

 

But when we talk about God’s anger we need to realise that His anger is righteous anger and He never loses control. He does not have a short fuse and He never ever throws a wobbly. God has more than enough reason to be angry with His people. Read vs 4 again and note just what a beautiful description it is of our God. His works are perfect. His ways are just. He is faithful and does no wrong. Yet even so, Israel has acted corruptly towards God. Read vs 5 again and notice the huge comparison with vs 4. And in vs 6, God asks the hard question, ‘Is this how you repay the Lord who is your creator?’  A people who should have loved God because they were the apple of His eye, treated Him with scorn and contempt.

 

Sin, no matter how small we may think it is, offends God and makes Him angry. God hates sin.  When we sin we kick sand in God’s face. We repay him with insult. We trash the love, the grace and mercy of God every time we sin. As God says, it is a foolish and unwise way to react towards our God.

 

Prayer:

¥ Pray that each and every person in your congregation would know and experience how much God really hates sin. Pray that a healthy fear of the Lord would be upon every person in your congregation and that together you would strive for holiness.

¥ Pray that God would bring blessing upon those in your congregation who are striving for holiness and who fight against temptation. Pray that God would be close to them and that His strength would be with them.