Give God no rest

It is a foregone conclusion that God is a just God.

Even folks who claim no allegiance to Jesus who experience injustice say, "If there's a God in Heaven, how can He allow such things?!" Sentiments like that only prove that God has placed within our hearts the notion that He is a just God who will not tolerate evil.

We also realize as we read Scripture that the just God who reigns in Heaven is patient. He gives people and nations time to repent (2 Peter 3:9).

Yet, after a designated time that He has set, if repentance doesn't take place, He moves in judgment.

All we need do is read how God moved against a rebellious Israel in the Old Testament to see that He punished them with enemy armies, disease, drought, economic collapse, and any number of other things ... that America is beginning to experience.

So, what are we to do?

Throw up our hands in despair? No!

Bury our heads in the sand and focus only on the menial self-centered tasks of our day? No!

God will move powerfully on our behalf when "His people who are called by His name pray..." (2 Chronicles 7:14).

In fact, we see in a couple of verses that I read this morning that we are to 'pester' God. We are to pray and pray and then pray again. If God were a God who needed rest, we should pray so often that He never got to rest.

When our passion for God to powerfully demonstrate His glory in our midst is that intense, only then can we assume that He is about to show up.

Isaiah 62:6-7 (New Living Translation)

"O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;

they will pray day and night, continually.

Take no rest, all you who pray to the LORD.

Give the LORD no rest until he completes his work,

until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth."