“DO YOU NOT FEAR ME?”

Jeremiah 5:18-23                                                          (ESV)

“18 "But even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not make a full end of you.

19 And when your people say, 'Why has the LORD our GOD done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken ME and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'"

20 Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah: 

21 "Hear this, O FOOLISH and SENSELESS people, WHO HAVE EYES, but SEE NOT, WHO HAVE EARS, but HEAR NOT. 

22 “DO YOU NOT FEAR ME?” declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before ME? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it. 

23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have TURNED ASIDE and GONE AWAY.”

The book of Jeremiah was purportedly written in 13th year of the reign of King Josiah (627/626 BC) and continued he his ministry until after the siege and capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC.  The nation of Israel was in a terrible rut ‘as you have forsaken ME and served foreign gods in your land’.  Why did the forsake ALMIGHTY GOD, their CREATOR?  Why would a people that had been BLESSED with so much seek to serve other gods, to voluntarily surrender to their enemy???

Then again, why has the AMERICAN CHURCH become so weak and ineffective to be led astray by every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:4)?  Could it be that we have become a “...FOOLISH and SENSELESS people, WHO HAVE EYES, but SEE NOT, WHO HAVE EARS, but HEAR NOT”?  Have we become the people who “DO YOU NOT FEAR ME?”  

This land was founded on July 04, 1776 by a document that begins with these words, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”.  A definite FEAR (Respect) for our CREATOR existed then, but it appears that, ESPECIALLY THE MEDIA in our country, has deliberately excluded ANY reverence to GOD ALMIGHTY as our CREATOR and SUSTAINER?  

GOD’S WORD doesn’t change to fit the sins of the day, nor does HIS JUDGEMENT.  The Believers that we’re used to found our country were NOT perfect people.  They ALL were sinners, but were used to give us the gift of FREEDOM that we have enjoyed for 243 years this week.  And we show our thanks by our arrogance and pride???  There have been MANY WARNINGS sent by GOD ALMIGHTY in the last 50+ years, but we have become they “WHO HAVE EYES, but SEE NOT, WHO HAVE EARS, but HEAR NOT”.  GOD is quietly asking “DO YOU NOT FEAR ME”!!!  What will your response be???