And my people love to have it so....

The church of God has become like Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah, with the walls of protection torn down, and every evil beast can walk in and take His people captive and no one even raises their voice. Because sin still has place in a man's heart, he says "Who am I to judge truth" and lets mens souls be taken captive right in front of him and yet he utters not a word.
Why are none crying out to God for holy hearts as He promised us? Give us gold dust! Give us miracles! Give us prosperity!" the cries ascend up to Heaven as a stench in God's nostrils. Why do none cry out as the man in the temple "God be merciful to me a sinner!" Sadly we have grown quite content with a Christianity stripped of its power to save us from our enemy rather than come back to Him, broken and contrite for our foolishness and hardened hearts at the feet of Jesus, crying out for deliverance from our own sin-filled and selfish hearts.
Listen to the words of Jeremiah in chapter 5. They were written for our benefit:



"Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.


And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.



And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them:



Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:



This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.



Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.



For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich."



But the saddest part? God's own people are the ones clamoring to run into the snares of these wicked men! And the wicked men gladly oblige. And it is not hidden from God's eyes.



"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so."


But now the question of questions needs to be answered.



"and what will ye do in the end thereof?"


                                          -God

It is not too late. God is slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. Shall we not humble ourselves and cry out to him for real deliverance, real victory, real holiness? He has a walk for each of us that will astound us, a walk of real victory over the world, the flesh and the devil. A life of His love being poured out through us onto others. He asks but two things of us. Yield to His hand fully. Believe Him fully. Then simply watch Him work in your life miracles that if your own eyes did not see, you would not believe.