{"id":4298,"date":"2012-08-26T06:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2012-08-26T06:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:25:05","slug":"sad-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>\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).<\/p>\n<p>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. I think 2 Kings 17:26 holds the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you may disagree on some level.\u00a0 You could argue that each and everyone of us knows how to worship, or point to an innate predisposition to lift our hands to our Creator or that God-shaped hole within us all. \u00a0You might even bring up Scripture that states our purpose in life is to worship the Sovereign Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Considering these factors&#8230;if 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?\u00a0 Would you agree 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<p>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<p>Yes, we\u2019re a culture that just doesn\u2019t know how to worship\u2014and what\u2019s even sadder\u2026we don\u2019t care to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray that you might worship the Lord in spirit and truth today. Then, pray that same request for those within your congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\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). What\u2019s caused the downfall of our culture, the dysfunctionality of our families and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4298","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\/4298","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=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}