Jeremiah 3-4: The Lord's Fierce Anger

I looked at the earth,
   and it was formless and empty;
and at the heavens,
   and their light was gone.
I looked at the mountains,
   and they were quaking;
   all the hills were swaying.
I looked, and there were no people;
   every bird in the sky had flown away.
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;
   all its towns lay in ruins
   before the LORD, before his fierce anger. -Jer. 4:23-26 NIV

We fear all the wrong things.  We fear famine and pestilence.  We fear the enemy with the dirty bomb.  We fear the young misguided terrorist.  We fear our president.  We fear those who don't look like us.  We fear those who have more money than we do.  We fear those who have less.  We fear those halfway around the world.  We fear our neighbor.  We fear everyone and everything but the one we should fear.  We have very little fear for the one who formed the earth from nothing and who can once more turn it to nothing should he desire to do so.  In a heartbeat, all we see as being so powerful, so mighty can disappear.  The mountains, even the sun, could disappear at his command.  That being the case, what should we be doing now?  How should we be living?  We should be quaking in fear, but not over the petty issues that we think are so critical to our survival.  Nothing that happens to this nation or the world can be as catastrophic as one sweep of the creators hand.

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