"In Him we live and move and have our being". Acts 17:28.
Every one of us has that moment of reckoning.
After the 'glory days' of David and Solomon, Israel sank into a cycle of rebellious and tyrannical kings until it finally knew the open evil of Ahab and his perniciously malicious wife, Jezebel (1 Kings 16:29).
It appeared like no one was equal to the task of confronting such a vortex of unbridled disregard for genuine worth and dignity, but God sends His word of reckoning to this hellish couple through a man whom he empowers to bring a reckoning, and from that moment on, the land and the people encounter a day similar to our own - when 'powers' raise themselves in denial of the divine mark upon us, but found themselves inheriting the whirlwind of forces they cannot circumvent or bring to the whim of their will - forces that unveil their smallness and the eternal majesty of whom they deny.
It is not easy to live through such a day. Elijah - God's prophet - found himself undone by the magnitude of those moments. Imagine being at sea in a ship in the foulest of storms - where the waves move so high that all you can see is water one moment, and nothing but sky the next. That was the age of Ahab and Elijah, and that is the day we now face.
The reasons for this are clear. Never before in human history has there been a day when we have unveiled such astonishing evidence through the instrument of science of the perfection of the work of God in the structural formation and function of life (the data on the complexity of the cell is breath-taking), and yet, so many dismiss such unique and unrepeatable processes as if they were nothing. Vaunting ourselves as creatures holding power over life and death (though, in truth, this is only a contrived vanity on our part), we think we know better than what the splendour of creation actually tells us, and go on to make ourselves the single arbiters of what is good and evil and require the annihilation of anyone or any truth which stands against that.
We must weather the storm. The Mount Carmel moment, when God finally answers by unquenchable fire, is coming. For those who trust, that moment will be one of astonishing radiance and splendour - a wrapping up the old and a glorious unfolding of the new. For those who aggressively reject, it will be a day of terror, as the realisation of the absolute nature of the Lord in respect to His intentions becomes undeniable.
You were impressed with His image, and whilst you can currently deny this all you wish, the day is coming where that denial is exposed as a total sham.
God is watching us, and we are drawing close to the hour where the distance between ourselves and that gaze becomes indescribably small.
Better to live each day now "Corum Deo', and be ready.
Seek the truth, and find it uniquely in Jesus Christ.
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