You've heard it, you've seen it, you've probably done it... spilled some milk. It's a function of gravity... one of the many laws that control the natural universe in which we live. When something is not being held up by anything else... it falls. This law does not change no matter what we believe or how strongly we believe it. We could read a thousand books that tell us that if we just trust in our inner person and visualize the outcome we want then gravity will change in our favour but it won't so we accept this unbreakable law and when we spill milk, break a dish, or when a bird "bombs" our heads we don't get mad at gravity or the universe... well, most of us don't.
Spiritual laws work the same way. They are unbreakable and are always at work. Sin has consequences... not always clear and not always immediate but consequences nonetheless. When a person sins, they are essentially pushing away the protective, supporting hand of God. Spiritual gravity then takes over and they fall. Why is it when many people rebel against God and suffer the consequences of their own choices, they tend to blame God as if He had stepped into their lives and purposely delivered a truck load of pain? If people drop a hammer on their foot and yet don't curse gravity, why do some let their morals drop, reap the consequences and then curse God?
The same holds true for whole nations. In the book of Jeremiah, the people had been warned for decades that their sins would bring judgement if they did not turn. As the time drew near, Jeremiah added specifics. He said, "This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which shall take it." (Jer 38:3) but still they did not repent. When the siege of Jerusalem began, the hearts of many of the people began to grow even colder towards God. They claimed in chapter 44 (after they had fled to Egypt against another of God's warnings) that their lives had been better when they worshipped their false gods. Instead of attributing their current suffering to the sin and rebellion in their lives, they attributed it to having stopped those (sinful) practices.
Our whole world is suffering under the hand of our own sin... we cannot blame God. The first four trumpet judgements of the book of Revelation; massive deception, major war, global famine and widespread death are all the work of the hands of men. Many are falling away after "new" doctrines to follow leaders who promise what they want to hear. The whole world seems to be on the brink of war because of greed and selfishness. Food reserves are lower than they have been in a long time, also as a direct result of man's greed and selfishness... and so on. It is after this that God steps in and unleashes HIS judgements on a fallen world that refuses to acknowledge His ways. Whether saved or not, all who read this will be stronger if they come to terms with the fact that we have created this mess ourselves and cannot blame our Creator who yearns to extend mercy and forgiveness if we would only turn and submit to Him. It is now time to see better than ever that the God of heaven is our only salvation... our only hope of making it successfully through a time when the world is falling and is about to break.
Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways (Jer 18:15)
For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty looks (Psalm 18:27)
Shalom
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