Rapid progress in science and technology... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 13:11

Rapid progress in science and technology; growing prosperity in the industrial nations; a social network covering many needs; decades of peace after the Second World War. All this is making mankind "haughty". He thinks he has everything under control. Any thought of God is pushed into the background. His will is not sought, nor His verdict on good or evil. God is not wanted, and many assume that He does not exist.

For such pride God will call man to account. But He exercises patience, not wanting any to be lost but converted to Him. So he lets us feel some of the consequences of our pride. Technological progress is exploited for terrorist purposes. The age pyramid of the population is turning topsy-turvy. Prosperity and the effectiveness of the social network are in danger and causing dissatisfaction. Then there is armed conflict close by. Have we really everything under control? Or is God speaking to us?

Then something happens that is normally not over-exciting. A volcano erupts far away from us in Europe - in Iceland. Does it affect us? The cloud of ash reaches the continent of Europe and paralyses air traffic. Some hundred thousand flights are cancelled, and eight million passengers are stranded at airports for days on end.

Even in that cloud of ash, and in other interventions in our personal life, we can hear God's voice admonishing us, not threatening, but warning of the coming judgment. Let us heed His warning!

Today's reading: Judges 7:1-8 · 2 Corinthians 7:1-9