Psalm 81
The life of following the Lord is a vigorous life and often we are not very interested in the rigors and effort required to be an effective discipleship. God calls His people to a celebration of His care and deliverance, but he worship of God at the time of the festivals was no casual thing. Their rescue from Egyptian slavery didn’t result in an instant and magical appearance in the Promised Land. Israel had to walk out of Egypt, but they also had to get the Egyptian gods out of their hearts, they had to leave the pagan gods. Sadly that was more than they were willing to do.
One of the most heart breaking verses in this Psalm, or any book for that matter, is verse 13. If we read that carefully, slowly and repeatedly with our heart listening carefully we can hear the disappointment in God’s words. Verses 14-16 describe the great and wonderful blessing God wanted to give Israel but couldn’t because of their sin and rebellion, because they didn’t want to give up their false gods. Every short term gain of their spiritual laziness was nothing compared to the loss they suffered by missing God’s blessing. If our spiritual pursuit of God is not passionate we will suffer loss because we chose the easy way.
“Lord, convict me if I am not passionate about Your will. AMEN”
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