The Old Testament Israel, can be used as a huge comparison to the New Testament Church. Israel had the eye of God. He was devoted to them, and loved them above all nations. He had chosen them to be His people, in which He would be so real and great to, and through them, and be made known to all other nations as the One True Living God. He loved them so much. He would bless them greatly in so many ways, and they would love God, but only with a temporary love. God would consider Israel to be as His wife. He found joy in loving Israel, but she would turn her eyes elsewhere, and commit spiritual fornication by placing God Almighty to the side, and worshipping a false god of another nation. God would get angry with a Holy Anger, and would cause His beloved to be punished by a nation that worshipped not Him. He would then woo the hard hearts of the people of Israel, until someone would remember “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” the only Almighty God. Then God would hear the cry of His people, begging Him to come back to them, and save their souls from the pain they was in. God would come and mightily save them from their oppression, but very soon again they would allow wondering eyes to the other side of the fence, where the grass seemed greener. They would wonder off from God again, ignoring the pleading of God to stay with Him, and love Him only. But being filled with determination, they would drink the cup of lust, and walk away from their first love. Again and again this is the story found in the Old Testament. And again and again, God would come and deliver His tramping beloved.
Dear soul, is this not like the Bride of Christ is mostly today? Calling upon Christ when life is at its worst, but mostly never caring enough to have true intimate time with Him, and always looking with lustful eyes to the other side of the fence. Most of the Church today as I have seen Her, has only a temporary love for Her Savior, and soon coming Groom. O how this must break the heart of Christ! The Church will see the Bridegroom come again, and there will be someone somewhere truly walking as the Book of Acts Church walked. For Christ will not come back for no more than what He left. He is coming back, but all those found living in temporary love… will not go back with Him. My question to you is this, are you living in a temporary love for Christ? Most of us are just as Israel, loving Christ on our own terms, but this temporary love will not work. This is why 99% of the Church is dead to the fullness of Christ today. And this is where we must start for our Church to be revived. If someone would stand up with Holy Authority, after being set down for days with God alone, and challenge this “modern Church” to come back to loving nothing but Christ, we would see the Book of Acts move of God again. But it starts with you and me first. Are we loving nothing but Christ with everything in us, or is our love trampish, and simply temporary?
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