Righteous and Wicked

"I have loved you," says the Lord. But you say, "How have you loved us?" Malachi 1:1

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name." Malachi 1:6

"You have wearied the Lord with you words. But you say, 'How have we wearied him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.' Or by asking, 'Where is the God of justice?' " Malachi 2:17

"Your words have been hard against me," says the Lord. But you say, "How have we spoken against you?" You have said, "It is vain to serve God." Malachi 3:13-14a

The sad thing is that God was talking to His people all this time. God had many more points in the book of Malachi.

"For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish." Psalms 1:6

It's awful when you can't distinguish between the righteous, and the wicked. A holy people set apart unto God has blended into the world so much that neither they, nor God can see the difference anymore. His people had given up on serving God, they would rather do evil, they no longer honored and feared Him, and then they were incredulous that God loved them.

Sound familiar? Sounds like a lot of people we all know. Some who are even Christians. Those verses in Malachi sound an awful lot like our world.

Don't allowed yourself to fade into this world. Sometimes we don't even realize how much we have fallen. Don't forget all that God has done for you. Don't stop serving Him. Allow yourself to be separated from the world, and joined to God.

There is nothing that stings a Christian more then when someone says, "Oh, I never would have guessed that you were a Christian." And its like a knife in the gut when God says that.

Moses was so tight with God, that when he left the Lord's presence, his face shown with the glory of the Lord. Let's aim for that.