2 Kings 20:1 (NIV)
20 In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the
point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is
what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die;
you will not recover.”
Man condemns himself by his refusal of God’s way of
salvation. In love and mercy, God is offering to men and women a way of escape,
a way of salvation, a hope and anticipation of better things. Man in his
blindness, stupidity, stubbornness, egotism, and love of sinful pleasure,
refuses God’s simple method of escaping the pangs of eternal banishment.
Suppose you were sick and called a doctor who came and gave you a prescription.
But after thinking it over you decided to ignore his advice and to refuse the
medicine. When he returned a few days later, he might have found your condition
much worse. Could you blame the doctor? Could you hold him responsible? He gave
you the prescription, he prescribed the remedy. But you refused it!
Just so, God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human
race. That remedy is personal faith in, and commitment to, Jesus Christ. The
remedy is to be “born again.” If we deliberately refuse it, then we must suffer
the consequence; and we cannot blame God. Is it God’s fault that we refuse the
remedy?
Thought for today:
Do I give God reason to grieve?
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