NOW THAT is a question to ponder! I have heard many say that God knows everything about us; from what we are going to do, to our every thought. I question that idea because of what I have read in God’s Word. Several passages come to mind; “And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart. So the Lord said; “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” Genesis 6:6-7 Remember when Samuel confronted King Saul and the King confessed he had sinned against God’s commandments? The scriptures then say; “And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord repented He had made Saul king over Israel!” 1 Sam.15:35 Interesting huh!
HOW MANY times was “the anger of the Lord kindled?” Why did God get so angry with the Israelites if He already knew what they were going to do, and what their thoughts were? Remember the time that Moses intercedes for sinful Israel? God was pretty angry because of their sinful ways; “And the Lord said to Moses; “Go down; for our people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!” Exodus 32:7 God was so angry that He told Moses that His anger was burning hot against them, and He was ready to consume them; but from Moses, He would make a great nation. (Read about it in verse 10)
MOSES WAS GOD’S servant during the travels of the Israelites and was able to converse with Him in a way that no one else ever did, or has ever done since. “But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said; “O Lord, why does your anger burn hot against your people, whom you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say “with evil intent did He bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and repent of this evil against your people!” Exodus 32:11-12
WHAT ABOUT Jesus going into the temple and upsetting the money changers by breaking and tossing things; letting the birds and animals to run free . “And He told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; you shall not make my Father’s house, a house of trade!” John 2:16 This was at the beginning of His ministry and His disciples remembered that it was written “Zeal for thy house will consume me!” Right after the triumphal entry they went again to the temple, and this time He again overturned the tables of the money-changers and; “He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you make it a den of robbers!” Matthew 21:13 Didn’t Jesus know what they would be doing?
WHEN GOD was ready to destroy all from the face of the earth His Word says; “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord!” Genesis 6:8 When God was ready to give up on the Israelites, He stopped and listened to His servant Moses and changed His mind once again. And it saddened God to have given up on king Saul for He had chosen him, and even gave him a new heart. But God was ready to move on, and He had already made plans for David.
I WRITE these things because our community is in the midst of a special time of prayer to end abortion! It doesn’t mention abortions in the Word per se’, but the people sacrificed their baby’s, sons and daughters to a god called Molech. “They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” Jeremiah 32:35 It didn’t enter God’s mind! I believe abortion is an act that never entered God’s mind! What God knows is that man is evil! Our evil acts do not surprise Him, and yet He waits for us to repent, and to come to Him! Jane Ann Crenshaw 10/19/15
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