Sin, too much sin

At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. (1 Kings 18:27-29 NIV)

This is so funny! Elijah was so sarcastic! Perhaps he is deep in thought or busy or traveling! Hahaha! Praise The Lord! Are we not like the Israelites? Who remember The Lord in a moment and forget Him in another moment? What nonsense right? Are we not like that when God show us His awesome power or when we need Him then we remember Him? And when He is silent or when we are in the valley then we forget about God?

The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Arameans think the Lord is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the Lord.’ ” (1 Kings 20:28 NIV)

Because they thought that The Lord is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys. This metaphor is interesting because they think Lord is the God of something but not God of the other. Can we be in the same situation too? Do we see God as the God of our school life but not God of all? Or is God only God of your Saturdays and Sundays but on weekdays you are serving other gods?

“Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.” (1 Kings 21:29 NIV)

God will punish the wicked, He Will. That is written in the bible and it is certain that He will punish the wicked. It is not a question of whether, it is a question of when. If you humble yourself before The Lord, maybe God will show kindness to you and punish you later or lighter. But God will punish. Then you ask, if Jesus died on the cross for all of us then god would not punish us? No. God will still punish us. No matter what, God will still punish us. Not in the same extent and magnitude that Jesus had died on the cross for All our sins, but God will judge us and we will still have to bear the consequences of our sin. Sin? Think about the next generation. If you in this generation sin, then next generation will suffer. But if you in this generation is obedient to God, your next generation prospers. See what David did and see what Solomon received. And then see what Solomon did and what his sons received.

Now it was the time in which Israel had no good kings. Kings after king led their people against God, not towards God. Now the only true prophet is Elijah and Elisha. They are the only 2 in whole of Israel to follow God's word and commandments.

But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage. (2 Kings 5:11, 12 NIV)

When God tells us to do something radical, will we do it?

Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.” (2 Kings 6:28, 29 NIV)

What sin? Eating human flesh?