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Today’s daily Bible reading

This year I along with my family and some friends have been reading through the Bible in chronogical order and we share by email what we have gotten from the days reading. Today the reading was from Isaiah 13-17 and it was about Gods judgment against various nations. As my wife (Gaye) and I talked about it we were struck by Isa 15:5. It affected Gaye so much that I found her weeping this am in her office and after some discussion and a hug she later in the day wrote the following. After I read it I thought I would share with the thousands of others who are geting daily emails and reading through the Bible with us. At the end of Gaye’s thoughts I have added a video by David Wilkerson Titled A Call to Anguish check it out. If you would like to join us go to Daily bible reading sign up and join us.

This year I along with my family and some friends have been reading through the Bible in chronogical order and we share by email what we have gotten from the days reading. Today the reading was from Isaiah 13-17 and it was about Gods judgment against various nations. As my wife (Gaye) and I talked about it we were struck by Isa 15:5. It affected Gaye so much that I found her weeping this am in her office and after some discussion and a hug she later in the day wrote the following. After I read it I thought I would share with the thousands of others who are geting daily emails and reading through the Bible with us. At the end of Gaye’s thoughts I have added a video by David Wilkerson Titled A Call to Anguish check it out. If you would like to join us go to Daily bible reading sign up and join us.


Gaye Writes: Today in the chronological reading program the passage was about God’s judgment upon several nations….a most difficult passage to read. At one point Isaiah writes these words:

Isaiah 15:5 My heart cries out because of Moab’s plight, and for the fugitives stretched out as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah. For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith; they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.

After reading this we began to ask questions…Is it God that is crying out or Isaiah as they observe this procession? Either way our hearts joined in the weeping for this judgment and impacted our emotions with a depth that comes when we realize that judgment is for the sinner and their sin as Is 13: 9 indicates: Look, the Lord’s day of judgment is coming…. annihilating its sinners. Fast forward to today; do we weep for the sinners entering a Christ-less eternity or do we just walk on by with no emotion much like the priest and Levite as they saw the robbed individual or are we doing something about it like the Good Samaritan? Today is Friday and two days from now we will, as Americans, enter a sunny sanctuary filled with fresh flowers, robed choir members, and suited clergy to present God’s Word to us. But, are we there to weep over the sins of the many who are not present or are we there to "get our ticket punched" because it is our duty? Jesus told a parable about going out into the byways and compelling people to come in but are we doing that? Are we weeping over our neighbors like ours who has still in the last years of his life has refused to bow the knee before the Almighty Savior? Where is our heart for him, where is our weeping knowing what lies ahead if he does not accept Christ? Where is our heart for the neighbor who moved in down the street who is a follower of Yoga-onda? Or the Muslim neighbor? Or just the person we see in the store next to us in the market line? I ask: Are we weeping for them? Your thoughts?

GEA


I ran across a video by Daveid Wilkerson that expresses the same concern. Its titled A Call to Anguish watch it here