The
Lord said if you will not obey my commands, you will be punished. If you refuse
to obey my laws and commands and break the covenants. I have made with you, I
will punish you. I will bring disaster on you- incurable disease and fevers
that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will show your
seeds but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat
what you have grown.
I
will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you
will rule over you, you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is
chasing you.I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your
land will be dry and as hard as iron. All your hard work will do you no good,
because your land will not produce crops, and the trees will not produce fruits.
I
will cut of your food supply, so that ten women will need one oven to bake all
the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have to eaten it
all, you will still be hungry. Your hunger will be so great that you will eat
your own children.
How
admire me this Scripture.
I like this Scripture
so much because it is so relevant to our Chin Community. The reason is that
nowadays we the Chin People have been to migrate from Chin State in Myanmar to
Western Countries because of poverty and financial problems.
When
I read this Scripture, I think that God punishes us because of our sins of
pursuing His Gospel into our own way instead of pursuing His way. We are facing
a lot of problems like social problems and poverty in our Country now. In the
Scripture God said, I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain,
and your land will be dry and as hard as iron. All your hard work will do you
no good, because your land will not produce crops, and the trees will not
produce fruits.
The Lord said if you
will not obey my commands, you will be punished. If you refuse to obey my laws
and commands and break the covenants. I have made with you, I will punish you.
I will bring disaster on you- incurable disease and fevers that will make you
blind and cause your life to waste away. You will show your seeds but it will
do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have
grown.
In
this way we do the most dangerous and terrible thing in front of God without
realizing the consequences of our activity. So that we get massive migrant and
encounter a lot of problems as punishment from God. This is what I am thinking.
So I want to conclude that we must obey the commands
of Lord and we need to do the will of
God in our daily life. If not, our life and our nation can be destroying the
word of God.
God bless…. Be a happy and meaningful Sunday for
you!
With love!
Dawt H. Tial (CLSU)
Manila
Philippine
