And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it, but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them. Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink. I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
As Israel suffered from their disobedience, so does the American Christian Church. Our voices are not being heard, our congregations are aging and shrinking, our young people are deserting the faith in droves.
Our country suffers likewise with high incarceration rates, drug addictions, post-abortive women with severe rates of addictions, depression, and suicide, etc.
Are these the bitter foods and poisonous waters?
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 81
Mid-day: 119:65-72
Evening: Psalm 7
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