Whose
Thoughts?
Posted 9/2/2009
The problem God had with the prophets of Israel is that they
spoke their own thoughts.
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart,
and not out of the mouth of the LORD. They say still unto them that despise me,
The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that
walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his
word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?" --Jeremiah 23:16-18
How could a mere man who will die and have his brain eaten by worms be so
puffed up as to think that his mind was sufficient to explain the universe and
his place in it? Pride is a sort of insanity and intoxication that even the
strongest liquor cannot produce.
"No evil shall come upon us," they strutted. "God is good and
will not do evil," is the way they comforted themselves, not seeing the
fallacy of their thought, for if God is good it certainly will not be well with
the ungodly. How could a good God approve their blasphemies?
What they really needed to be concerned about was the thoughts of God. For
Jeremiah continues:
"Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous
whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of
the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed
the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it
perfectly." Jeremiah 23:19, 20.
People should not be so drunkenly enamored of their own thoughts and
intoxicated with the pleasing words of the false prophets. What they need to be
concerned about are the thoughts of God. Even more, they need to be concerned
about Him DOING the thoughts of His heart, and that is exactly what He promises
to do. They won't like it when it happens, for it will come in His fury, like a
grievous whirlwind that scatters everything with utter destruction upon the
head of the wicked.
Lesson: God knows, and He knows that He knows. He also knows what He will do
and what He will not do. He has said that there will at some day be a terrible
destruction of the wicked, against which they will not be able to stand.
Drunken stupors brought on by pride will be no comfort in that day.
Ephesians 5:11-14 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those
things which are done of them in secret.
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever
doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."
