Zechariah 7
Then this message from ADONAI came to Z’kharyah: 9 “In the past ADONAI-Tzva’ot said, ‘Administer true justice. Let everyone show mercy and compassion to his brother. 10 Don’t oppress widows, orphans, foreigners or poor people. Don’t plot evil against each other.’
11 But they wouldn’t listen, they stubbornly turned their shoulder away and stopped up their ears, so that they wouldn’t have to hear it. 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as a diamond, so that they wouldn’t hear the Torah and the messages that ADONAI-Tzva’ot had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.
This is why great anger came from ADONAI-Tzva’ot; 13 and it came about that just as they hadn’t listened when he called, so ADONAI-Tzva’ot said, ‘I won’t listen when they call; 14 but with the power of a whirlwind I will disperse them among all the nations which they have not known.’ Thus the land was left desolate after them, so that no one came or went. They had turned a pleasant land into a desert.”
Can we expect blessings from disobedience? Many hold to the passages of Scripture that give blessings and cursings in Deuteronomy 28.
Is it for just anyone? Is there a prerequisite?
Is it salvation? Is it believing in Jesus? Is it believing in Yeshua?
12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as a diamond, so that they wouldn’t hear the Torah and the messages that ADONAI-Tzva’ot had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.
We stubbornly turn our hearts from his Torah and ignore the Scriptures that Messiah himself walked in, and we cry out to him when we are not blessed. This life is not played by our rules. It is played by the Creator’s – the Father’s – YHVH. He established the covenant by which we are his people. It is our choice to walk in it or to excuse it. It really is not a choice of how we are his people, but to choose to be his people.
Shalom!!
Mrs. Jacque Dixon and her husband, Matt, train their nine children up in the LORD home schooling on their small homestead in Indiana. They are the founders of Gleaning the Harvest, presenting widows and fatherless to the Body of Christ. She is owner and publisher of Training Sons to Be Men, and Training Daughters, Teaching Wives, where she is a regular columnist. You can also read encouraging home school articles and more about the Dixon family at Walking Therein.
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Thanks for this. I have been pondering my stubbornness, selfishness & lack of self-discipline lately, and this really spoke to me. I am so unbelievably grateful for the grace of our Father–I am such a wreck on my own!
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