I have been in Zechariah and Luke for the last few weeks. I have been very lazy in my writing but pretty good in my reading. I have found that when I am lazy in my writing, I don't take the time to really read into the scripture. I read it like a catalog and put it down. There is very little effect on my life. Today I read Zechariah 10. Now, Zechariah has been a bit of a struggle for me. It really doesn't make a lot of sense to a "theologically disabled" person like me. I'm sticking it out though because, if the Bible is the inspired word of God, every book can have some application to my life. Maybe I won't get it the first time I read it but maybe when I go back in a year of so, Zechariah will begin to make sense.
Zechariah 10 starts out talking about asking to Lord for rain. "It is the Lord who makes the storm clouds." The people of Israel were a fickle bunch. They would worship God and then over time they would revert back to worshiping "gods." Zechariah reminds them that it is God that brings the rain that waters their crops and, in turn, feeds them. Yet, not unlike us, the Israelites would go back to worshiping whatever god was popular at the time. It's been 2000 years and we have not learned a thing. "God please just give me more money and my life will be good. Then I can live for you." So what happens when we get that big raise at work? We buy a nicer car. We buy a bigger something. Then where are we? Same place. Same faith. Then what do we do? Pray to God again to fix things for us again.
Verse 2 tells us "Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for the lack of a shepherd. My anger burns against the shepherds and I will punish the leaders."
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