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No Remedy
by Jerry Ousley Remedies can be pretty important. My grandmother used to have a lot of old home remedies. For instance, if you got a splinter in your finger she would cut up a potato, and wrap it in a bandage around your finger and within a day or so it would draw that splinter out. Or if you had a boil she'd cut up some other vegetable, or go out in the yard and pick something that I had no idea what to call except a weed, and she would prepare that and wrap the area with it and it would make the boil come to a head. I don't know where she learned all those old home remedies. She's with Jesus now and I've waited too late, but I sure wish I would have asked her about them and written them down because a good part of those old home remedies really worked, and they were a whole lot cheaper than going to the doctor and then paying through the nose for a prescription that might take a week to do the same thing. Don't get me wrong; I'm not slamming the medical profession but folks, these days we've got to save our hard earned cash any way we can! In 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 the Bible says, "And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy." This passage of scripture is speaking of the latter days of the kings of Judah. Some of them had been good and wise kings guiding the people to love and worship God. But some of them had been very wicked kings and had led the people into sin and idol worship. The last few kings of Judah had fallen into this last category. God had been very patient with Judah and had given them every chance to turn from their ways. He had sent the prophets to warn them but the people had hated them, made fun of them and called them liars. Time after time God gave them one chance after another until finally He had no choice. The Bibles says that His wrath arose against His people until there was no remedy in other words, there was no other way to fix it. As punishment God allowed the Chaldeans to overrun the nation and carry them into captivity. The majestic Temple was robbed of all valuable material, and then burned to the ground along with the entire city of Jerusalem. Because of their sin, this holy city lay in ruins. The good part about this story is that after seventy years God brought up people who once again had a vision for Him. They were allowed by Divine providence to return to Judah, rebuild the Temple and the city of Jerusalem and once again begin to worship God. There are times in our lives when it seems we have caused God to turn His back on us once too often. You know what? We serve a merciful and loving God. We often hear of the unpardonable sin. Do you know what the unpardonable sin really is? It is turning our backs on God. It is denying Him after we have experienced Him. It is refusing salvation offered by the grace of His Son, Jesus Christ. If we die refusing to be saved we cannot be pardoned. There is no remedy. Some people believe that they have angered God to the point that they have no chances left. But folks even before grace, God extended grace. The only way that He will completely refuse us is if we just plain turn our backs on Him and refuse His grace. Even when it may seem that there is no remedy, as long as we have life we have the hope of a remedy. Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge. Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |