Correction and redirection are things none of us want to experience, but they are tools God uses to help direct us to His narrow path.
God did everything He could to cultivate a loving relationship with His people. He calls them a vineyard. Instead of being rewarded for His careful design and effort to grow and enjoy the sweetness of the vine, all he was given was sour grapes.
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. Isaiah 5:2
What’s worse is that God has done this more than once. Isaiah’s prophecy was lived out when Jerusalem became a wasteland during the Babylonian captivity. However, the same thing happened again when the J*ws rejected Jesus and hung him on the cross. Not long after that, the Romans desecrated the Temple, destroyed it, and burned down the city after starving and torturing the inhabitants. However, the Romans did suffer for their part in this tragedy. If the people continue to ignore ancient history and the word of God from the Bible, it won’t go well with us either.
Look at the United States and the deplorable actions of the majority of the people. If we think it can go on like this without any repercussions, we are delusional. We are sitting in a Christian nation that has allowed inhabitants to come in who are not like-minded when it comes to the things of God. If something doesn’t happen soon to remedy our situation, we can expect God to handle it himself, and it won’t go well for us because we are crucifying Jesus again with our words and actions.
If you have wandered away and taken yourself out of the fold, repent and turn back to Jesus before it’s too late. Repentance means feeling sorry for your actions, asking God to forgive you, turning around, and going in a new and better direction, which is toward God.
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