Gen.1:1-3 – – In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Things sometimes get really bad before they begin to turn around. I think of Abraham and Sarah and many, many years of barrenness before Isaac was born. Then there was four hundred years in Egypt before Israel was led out by Moses only to experience another forty years in the wilderness before they got to the promised land. Then there was the Roman occupation before Jesus the Messiah appeared. Going through history there had never been a much darker time than the 1500’s when the Lord raised up Martin Luther amongst others to pierce the darkness with their message of justification by faith alone. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes this spiritual reality.
“When God began to make the world and put it into order and cause light to shine, it was a chaos, in a state of utter confusion, “without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep” [Genesis 1:2]. So commonly things are in a state of great confusion before God works some great and glorious work in the church and in the world, or in some particular part of the church or world, and oftentimes towards particular persons. . . . So we may expect it should be before the beginning of the glorious times of the church of God, and after this confusion, light will be the first thing that will appear —light, clearly to explain and defend the truth.”
America was born out of a time of religious persecution in Europe. The Puritans came to North America to begin a land with religious freedom as its foundation. Is it possible that the darkness that has engulfed our world in these last several years is just a precursor of things to come? I believe it is. In the midst of chaos, disorder and darkness the light of the gospel begins to shine. Awakening is not just a glimmer of hope, it is as certain as the coming of the dawn tomorrow morning. Christ will return for His church. Christ will return for His victorious church full of power, not some defeated weak shadow of her former glory. The rays of His coming dawn have begun to pierce the darkness, the glory of the Lord is upon us.
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Amen !!!! ❤️❤️❤️
It takes a hunger and thirst for righteousness which few are able to maintain, if not for His grace. Who will fix their gaze regardless of the turmoil and thick smoke, refuse the entertainment in opposition to the Holy? While one standard reaches new lows, His standards go higher. It’s life or death but too few see it that way.
The Lord’s judgement is his mercy… I pray in the name of Jesus for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened….
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
2 Chronicles 7:13-16