Do I Have Any Obligations on the World Stage?

   Way back in Old Testament times, the psalmist wrote these lines as a supplication to his God, pleading for help for his people:

   "Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord:
that he looked down from his holy height;
from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,
to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die,
that they may declare in Zion the name of the Lord,
and in Jerusalem his praise,"
   I can't help but think of the current day situation in that same land, where the tension would seem to an outsider, to be so great as to almost be unbearable. Both Jews and Palestinians not knowing when the next rocket or bomb may snuff out a life. Maybe you just get numb and go about your business, trying not to think about it and the consequences of those daily occurrences.

   I'm sure that there are still those in The Holy Land who went through the Holocaust, and, coming out of that experience, migrated to that spot, coming back home so to speak. Since the founding of the nation of Israel back in 1948, God has blessed that land, protecting them through 3 major wars and numerous acts of violence. Against huge odds, a country has been built and has prospered.

   God's hand seems to be on that nation. As a people they have spent many lifetimes moving away from and then back to God and His laws and love. They have been nearly destroyed and then risen from the ashes. They have been scattered around the world, and now many of their descendants have returned to that land. But they seem to be a very secular land today. There does not seem to be a returning to the Hebrew religion, or any other for that matter.

   What is God up to there today? Could it be the events foretold in the Book of Revelation, and the end times?

   We do not know the ways of God, except to know that He is in control of every situation, and His Word will come to pass. So as we watch the news and read of the things going on over there, what should we do? Or, since this is my blog, what would God have me to do if anything right now?

   The psalmist says in 122:6

   "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
   May they prosper who love you."

   There is also that promise to Abraham from God way back in Genesis 12:3:

   "I will bless those who bless you,
   And I will curse him who curses you;
   And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

   One reason often given by Christians in this country, for God's continued blessings on America, is because we have helped Israel over these past 60 plus years, both from a governmental standpoint and an individual one. So what do I do, right now, today?

   I can pray, for the people and the nation, as well as the ones all around them that would destroy them. I can pray that all might see the miraculous hand of God in the affairs of that small country. I can pray that His will would be done in all that area, and I can urge my country's government to keep up their support for those people.

   Thy Will Be Done