What Happens When We Refuse To Obey God?

There are many answers to this question in the Bible. However, here, we are not talking about the person who sins and repents. Instead we are talking about those people and countries who refuse to obey the Lord and do NOT repent.

In Ezekiel 19, the Bible writes what is referred to as a Lamentation. A lamentation is a deep expression of grief or sorrow. There are grave consequences to refusing to obey God, consequences that can not be ignored or escaped. But because God loves us, He takes no joy from our sufferings, rather He suffers with us.

Ezekiel 19 is really about the grief that came from the fall of Israel. Because Israel had evil kings, kings that did not obey God, Israel fell from God’s Grace.

America is in the same place as Israel was many years ago. Blessed for many years, America as a nation, has turned away from the God who has Blessed it so richly for so long. Rejecting the lessons of the Holy Bible in favor or earthly desires, America, as a nation, has fallen from God’s Grace.

But as frightening as that is, we have something that Israel did not have. We have Jesus. So for us who believe, we need not fear. Christ will be with us – all the way 🙂