Revelation 9
God Meets People at the Bottom of any Pit!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, March 10.
When I read the judgments of God found in the Revelation of John, my heart breaks for people. Not in a prideful, I’m ‘better than you’ kind of way, but sincerely and in empathy, my heart breaks because I know what it is like to resist God and to keep putting my trust in myself to go where I want to go. I get it. I’ve been there and I’ve done that.
Revelation 9 is a stirring chapter. After the woes of God are released upon the earth and 1/3 of the earth’s population is killed, people are still unwilling to repent and turn to God. Listen to Revelation 9:20-21,
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.
What does it take to get people’s attention so that they will turn to God?
How low do you have to go? How low does our culture have to get?
Remember, God specializes in meeting people right where they are! God meets people at the bottom of any pit! If you find yourself feeling like you or a loved one is hitting bottom, there is hope—His name is Jesus! Turn to Him today and He’ll lift you up!
Seize the moment and put your trust in God today.
I encourage you to continue to review all of your memory verses. Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Romans 12:3 (NAS95), “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.”