DEVOTIONAL INSIGHTS & REFLECTIONS

God is All-Seeing - October 18

Today, as He called out to Israel in times past, listen to the voice of God crying out to us---a nation founded on Christian principles, founded in His name, to honor Him. For we have become a rebellious nation:

"Even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning."

Rend your heart and not your garments (an ancient custom of the Jewish people in times of mourning, sorrow, great grief). Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing--grain offerings and drink offerings for the Lord your God.

Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, "Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, "Where is their God?" ~Joel 2:12-17

----and also----

…"If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. "Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.… ~I Chronicles 7:13-15

Today, the eyes of the whole world are watching America... and so is God.