There was an interesting report on Fox News about current Voodoo practices in Haiti. Predominately Catholic, the recent earthquake in Haiti has the country’s Voodoo priests focusing their worship on the, “Big God of the Catholics”. Those same priests however feel that once the country settles down their Voodoo worshipers will return to them asking for help to invoke spirits. Regardless of one’s religious persuasion, when things get rough, people turn to the ‘Big God’.
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Gail;
-----Have the Voodoo priests and worshippers turned to the “Big God”? “No one has ever seen God; the only Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known.” (John 1:18) Every one else operates on imagination. Even those of us who have turned to Christ to know God must rely extensively on imagination. But the truth about a turning to God is in what source one uses to feed the imagination about both the God turned to and the turning itself. A true turning to God excepts the Word of God as that source because it is the information God has given and verified. This is the basic principle of repentance, turning from feeding the imagination with imagination to feeding it with God’s expressions. From that repentant condition, Christ comes into view as the avenue to God, and all past imaginings about God enter a process of being rejected, adjusted, or accepted based upon their alignment with what God’s Word says about Himself. That begins the process of coming to know God. But the caveat the priests made about voodooists returning to them after some amount of adjustment to the disaster implies the turn to God was not a turn to His Word for knowledge nor a turn to Him for everlasting security. Rather, it is merely for security from current despair, and an inadvertent admission of continuing non-repentance.
-----This brings to mind Jonah and Nineveh. The Ninevites heard Jonah and repented. So God averted His planned destruction of Nineveh. But for how long? How real was their turn to Him? Alexander the Great’s ranks marched right over the top of Nineveh never even knowing it was there, so thorough was God’s final destruction of it. If their turn to Him at the time of Jonah had no caveat, then it at least was made with some other failure. I can imagine God’s assistance for Haiti based on His raining and shining on the good and bad alike. And maybe He will even move more than that because of their turning to Him just in this situation. But will He walk with them down a non-repentant road? I imagine He might help them to the point of their need in this situation, then wait for them, as He does for us, at the repentance fork of the road upon which He is willing to walk with anyone.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
PS
On that fork of the road, imagination gets more closely aligned with truth.
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