Verse from Isaiah

“看哪！主万军之耶和华，快要从耶路撒冷和犹大，除掉人所倚靠的和所倚赖的，就是众人所倚靠的粮，众人所倚赖的水；”

以赛亚书 3:1 

“For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah. Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;”

Isaiah 3:1 

What do you think the world looks like when the world stops loving God?

Really, stop and think about that for a second. What do you think that looks like? there are a lot of words we could use to describe it, but we can probably use this to sum it up: Ruin.

Everything falls to pieces, right? When people stop loving God then they stop loving each other. Families break down. Governments become corrupt. Businesses oppress people. Crime rates soar.

The road to ruin happens incrementally, little baby steps at a time. If your marriage is on the road to ruin, it’s not going to be ruined overnight. If your business is on the road to ruin, or if your country is on the road to ruin, it’s because there are many steps that have been taken.

Now, here’s the encouraging thing—each one of these steps provides the opportunity to turn back, to stop going that way, because that way is nothing but misery, catastrophe, heartache, and pain.

Do you realize that God gives us choices? He gives us forks in the road, options that provide an opportunity to come back to Him. In fact, God sent prophets to His people throughout the Old Testament to help them to see their chances to turn around before they ruined themselves. They could have turned around at any moment, and on the rare occasion that they did, God saved them. But when they didn’t, He allowed the disaster to come.

In all of that, do you see the constant? The constant is God’s heart to save us. He never wavers in that. What varies is whether or not we’re listening.