In their houses all you hear are cries ,children crying ,parents crying their blindness is driving them to an endless pit ,They have rejected wisdom and understanding all their judgements are based on old woman's fables .
They toil day and night but hunger and poverty has become their middle name ,their barns are empty . Confusion and depression is their master , an easy target for adulterer and a thief . But were they made this way?
What happened here , aren't these the same people who were once favoured by God . They used to enjoy health but nowadays it's sickness after sickness why did you forsake them ohh God . A city once once envied has become ruins but what happened .
“But they have acted corruptly toward him; when they act so perversely, are they really his children? They are a deceitful and twisted generation. Is this the way you repay the Lord , you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?
Deuteronomy 32:5-6 NLT
Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom , we see here the true nature of a fallen man .After God has saved them from Egypt they had started worshipping idols again.History has proven to us the effects of peer pressure how it affects a nation ,they knew God had fought their battles but because of smaller things decided to worship idols.
Ungrateful nation , they had been liberated from the traditions and brutal force of the Egyptian Pharoah but still the Egyptian way of life was still engrained in their minds. Liberated from the world but still struggling with adultery . Liberated from the yokes of the devil but still eager to sin .
Liberated from using your mouth to curse your life but still have a habit of murmuring to God. Pharaoh had brainwashed this nation they had forgotten their true way of life , they had been accustomed to worshipping Egyptian gods . Could this be you still engaging in sinful behaviour ,Have you already forgotten how Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sake.
“The Lord saw this and drew back, provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters. He said, ‘I will abandon them; then see what becomes of them. For they are a twisted generation, children without integrity. They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles. For my anger blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. It devours the earth and all its crops and ignites the foundations of the mountains. I will heap disasters upon them and shoot them down with my arrows. I will weaken them with famine, burning fever, and deadly disease. I will send the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust. Outside, the sword will bring death, and inside, terror will strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged.
Deuteronomy 32:19-25 NLT
Do not be fooled ,the Bible says Be ye Holy as I am Holy .Be ye separate ,there is no reason or purpose to sin . You don't have to do things that drives God to anger just because our neighbours are doing it. We are different from them ,we are the Light of this world a higher office we can't afford to defile self.
Soldier on, you are almost there God loves you .Pray that you do not fall into temptations .
Shalom