Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Educated Beyond Our Capacity

Joshua 10:12 Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel:"O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."
The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. 14 There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the LORD listened to a man. Surely the LORD was fighting for Israel!
the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them from the sky, and more of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
42 All these kings and their lands Joshua conquered in one campaign, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

Our very God, who created the heavens and the earth…isn’t powerless in the world He created. I think we have a myopic view of God. This God isn’t only the creator of heaven and earth…he holds it in his hand, controls it, has dominion over it.
Stopping the sun, stopping the moon, sending hailstones to destroy the enemy of Isreal, surely God was fighting for Israel.
I wonder if today…..there was a revival or a battle and the Lord caused the sun or moon to stand still (to glorify himself) what we would do? I would bet scientist would work like crazy to disprove the fact that it actually happened, there would have to be a ‘logical’ explanation.
I wonder if the reason we don’t see miracles anymore in the US is that faith is dying, faith in everything. We (as a people) don’t have faith in each other, in our government, education, God…..in general we have become so skeptical that something as simple as faith is cute and passe’. Logic has replaced faith. We have become a people educated beyond our intelligence….or maybe beyond our capacity to know what to do with it.
It’’s hard for an educated person to admit, much less put faith in something they can’t wrap their minds around.
What is it going to take to restore faith? How can we ask people to have faith in our God if they can’t have faith in us? How can people have faith in us, if we remain skeptical of everything around us?
I pray God reveals himself to this generation in a new, maybe even an old way, so that faith is restored.

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