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via IFTTT The price of missing it. God is patient, long suffering, yes. But there is always a time limit. The israelites missed the opportunity and spent a generation in the desert. The world missed the warnings of the flood and perished. Sodom and Gomorrah missed the call to repent and burned. So many stories of God's patience coming to an end with grave consequences. We like to concentrate on the patience, and ignore the reality that there is in fact an end. There is a day of reckoning coming when it will be too late. Jerusalem passed that day here, and was destroyed. Israel was looking for a Messiah to be a military leader and free them from Rome. Their eyes were on this world, on government. Jesus came and they missed the truth because they were looking on Earth, not Heaven. The end result was not the freedom as a nation, but total destruction. There is a price! Where are our eyes? Are we engrossed in the same search for salvation through government? Are we more concerned with the dealings of man and this life, or God and Heaven? Are we doing the same as Israel? Are we missing it? I am sorry to say, yes. As a nation we are repeating the age old mistakes, trusting in the arm of man to save us in this life. But just as in Israel, a powerful move of God is underway! Right now a remnant of dedicated, truth seeking, faithful servants is rising. Their eyes are not on deceitful selfish man, but on God. This remnant is not about politics, not about military might, not about government at all. It is about hearts and heaven. Sure those things positively touch politics, but that is not the focus! In fact, it is getting our eyes off this world and onto Jesus that affords the freedom to leave the "lessor of two evils" death spiral and find peace. Politics becomes simple, not fearful. Our focus becomes changing hearts, not laws, and then laws change. Jerusalem missed their opportunity. They had Jesus in their town. Walking those streets, and they preferred a political /military leader. How sad. They had access to everything and chose nothing. Then, the play was over, the curtains closed, all that was left was the price to pay. You have a choice today. Become part of the remnant, or part of the crowd. Put your eyes on Heaven or on Earth. Choose this day whom you will follow, because tomorrow may be too late.
