{"id":3246,"date":"2011-08-27T00:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2011-08-13T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T16:41:13","slug":"sad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe people whom you have resettled in the towns of Israel do not know how to worship the God of the land\u2026\u201d\u00a0 (2 Kings 17:26 NLT).<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve figured it out. \u00a0I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about it lately, and I\u2019ve finally come to an understanding of the problem\u2014and quite possibly a solution.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s caused the downfall of our culture, the dysfunctionality of our families and the darkness of evil to fall over our land, our churches and our homes? \u00a0I\u2019m glad you asked\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people whom you have resettled in the towns of Israel do not know how to worship the God of the land\u2026\u201d \u00a02 Kings 17:26 NLT<\/p>\n

Oh, I\u2019m sure you disagree on some level. \u00a0You may want to argue that each and everyone of us knows how<\/em> to worship; you might point to an innate predisposition to lift our hands to our Creator or that God-shaped hole that is in us all. \u00a0You could even bring up Scripture that states our purpose in life is to worship the Sovereign Lord.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll state my case as mildly as I can: \u00a0If we know how, if it\u2019s in us to do it, if worship is what we\u2019ve been made for\u2014could it just be that we\u2019re choosing not to? \u00a0Or would you rather see in print that we\u2019re not valuing the privilege of worship to the degree that we deem it necessary to pass on to our children?<\/p>\n

Personally, I do believe it\u2019s a matter of not knowing how. \u00a0Not knowing how to put aside all others and worship the One. \u00a0Not knowing how to push aside self-admiration to admit our powerlessness and His majesty. \u00a0Not knowing how to throw aside burdens, sins and appearance issues to be able to worship in Spirit and in Truth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll stand on my final answer, we\u2019re a culture that just doesn\u2019t know how to worship–and what\u2019s even sadder\u2026we don\u2019t care to learn.<\/p>\n

Malinda Edgell
\nIllinois<\/p>\n

PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>As you prepare for worship, remember the goal is pleasing God\u2014not entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe people whom you have resettled in the towns of Israel do not know how to worship the God of the land\u2026\u201d\u00a0 (2 Kings 17:26 NLT). I\u2019ve figured it out. \u00a0I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about it lately, and I\u2019ve … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}