I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Joshua 23-24.

This is one of several passages where I see an implicit statement that is not quite said outright.  Joshua called on the Israelites to choose what god(s) they would serve going forward.  God was but one of the options which Joshua gave to them.  The unspoken point which Joshua made was that if they chose God and later failed to faithfully serve Him it would be worse for them than if they chose some other god, or god, in the first place.  Which brings me to where I want to go with today’s blog.  At several points throughout modern history, the peoples of various countries which are part of Western Civilization have chosen to serve the God of Israel, often times with poorly formed understanding of what He truly wanted of them.  These acts of dedication have generally resulted in these countries becoming prosperous.  However, sooner or later, the peoples of these countries drifted away from serving God, in even the imperfect way which they started out.  This has always resulted in hardship and difficulty.

I see God’s judgment in the situation of the world today.  Following World War II many people in the countries of Western Civilization saw the evils that had led to that war and dedicated themselves to eradicating them.  That dedication was a dedication to serving God, although many of them had an imperfect understanding of what that meant. However, as time went on, more and more of those people rejected the idea of serving and worshiping God and crisis resulted.  In each of these crisis, a revival occurred and people turned once more to God.  Until we get to today, once more the world is facing a crisis.  This time I see few people turning to God.  I myself have been slow in examining the ways in which I have turned from God.  Because of that, I have failed to use this platform, limited as it is, to call others to turn to God.  Those of us who have previously dedicated ourselves to serving God must recognize that where we have failed to follow through on that dedication has contributed to the rise of this current crisis  We must turn to God and beg His forgiveness.