What If God Called?

Following the post from yesterday, I would pose that there were other passages that should be taken into consideration when thinking about this generation, or previous generations, living prodigally in regards to our Christian riches.

I had in mind the passage from Matthew's gospel when as he finishes letting John the Baptizer's disciples know that He indeed was the Messiah, He rebukes of the cities that had rejected Him (chapter 11:20-24). In this passage in the NKJV (New King James Version) it describes the miracles done as "most of His mighty works". These cities were being rebuked for rejecting Him in spite of the miracles He had performed in them, and that if these same miracles had been performed in Sodom even, it would have remained until His day.

This echoes the passage that the Jews did not know the day of visitation when the Lord had come for a season in their midst (Luke 19:41-44), and yet as they were blind spiritually to His presence, so too were they blind to the many clues that He gave them as to His true identity as given by the prophets of old (now known as the Old Testament prophets).

Yet, even today, as we have this abundance of spiritual wealth as Christians that seemingly we have squandered, and have need to come to the Lord repenting corporately as a church, as the Body of Christ, seeking restoration as the son did with his father. We know that we will be received as our Lord will rejoice at our returning as we who were lost (perhaps some entirely so, and just now realizing their true spiritual state?) are now found, and are welcomed home.

The point of the posting today, and it's title "what if God called?" is about the idea that God called to His people in His day, and they ignored Him at best, and at worst they just didn't hear Him. Do we hear His call to us today? Can we hear Him calling us to return to Him, and to serve Him in our generation? Are we preparing the next generation for hearing His call? Or are we endangering them by coddling them to the point that their faith is meaningless and irrelevant because they can't see the applicability and meaning of their faith in their daily lives? I am not sure; but I know that the Lord does still call us today, not on our cell phones, not by writing messages in the clouds, but by luring and drawing us with His Holy Spirit, and speaking to us in our dreams, and by those who are around us not knowing that the very words they speak at times can be done in a manner that is done by the will of God without their even knowing their purpose for telling you what has been said.

Are we listening? Please pray that our ears would be opened for hearing the voice of God today!
Soli Deo Gloria~