Prophecy and Promise: Devotions from Time of GraceSample

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED

Children don't like to have to think ahead, and they really hate warnings that their present pleasures are coming to an end. They like to pretend that the day of reckoning will never come. They want summer vacation to be endless. They don't want to hear that the science project is due next week. They forget to apply for financial aid, and they dawdle away precious months in selecting a college or tech school because graduation day seems so far, far away.

Grown-ups are actually just large children who have gotten more subtle with their childish behavior. We like our ruts. We have become comfortable in our routines. We resist accountability and change too.

God's Old Testament spokesmen, the prophets, often met with fierce resistance to their message because their hearers did not want to feel accountable to God, nor see their own sinful need, nor respect the terrible shortness of time. You need to know these things. Read on . . .