"Today Thing Are Going To Change"

“Today Things Are Going To Change” This I believe will be my quote from this time on; into the New Year.
This is what I have been pondering, a quote by Charles Dickens
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct to hell - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only”.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870)
Very apropos and sounds a lot like the state we are living in and for what I feel the Lord is saying to me. In pondering many scriptures came to mind,
Jeremiah 39: 15-18
Psalms 81
Joshua 4 and 5
Hosea

In Jeremiah 39:16-17a “Behold I am about to bring My words upon this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day, “BUT… I will deliver you on that day,” declares the Lord.”
Why was Jeremiah rescued; because he trusted in the Lord? Our trust MUST be in Him (Christ Jesus) alone, we have been so long on our own path and in our own destination. Yes we have loved the Lord, but taken so much for granted. A wake up call is coming upon us, we will see things we have never seen, yet we will also see his Amazing Grace, for those of us that choose, to follow His ways. As I read on in Psalms It is again stating that the people need to listen or be turned over to the stubbornness of their own heart, and to walk in their own devices. This is Not a good thing; “Left to our own devices?”
In Psalms 81 “I the Lord am your God”, is He? He is mine, yet how often being here in America do I pamper my wants above my need, my NEED for more of Him, and more of His ways? Even the lowest on the economical scale here in America is pampered. Sorry but so very true. He calls to us, and woos us with an everlasting Love, “BUT My people did not listen to My voice, So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices.” Time after time we see the tragedy in this… “Oh that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!”
Joshua chapters 4 and 5; The Lord is calling us to be a people set apart. To have our hearts circumcised; to be cut off from the world, different from the norm. After all we are not of this world. At least we are not called to be of this world.
As I was reading I found this part interesting; in the fact that it was after they crossed over into promise then they were called to be circumcised. So it challenged this thought in me, and I challenge this thought to you also. We are crossing into a new era= (a date or an event forming the beginning of any distinctive period), so it is time to again have our hearts circumcised unto God. For the generation before is old and gone, those now crossing into 2010; the army of the Lord need to have our hearts circumcised, fixed and ready.
Then I went on to read in Hosea, the Lord did not give me specifics on chapter or verse, so I read it all through. WOW! This is another word all in itself; I think I will continue in the next blog. SMILE!