Jaws

Zephaniah

There is a great work of contemporary art.  It’s titled “The Physical Improbability of Death To The Mind of Someone Living.”  It is a great white shark, razor teeth extended for the kill, dead and preserved floating in formaldehyde.  It is so true.  The insidious evil of death lurks razor thin at ever human’s door but we live like it’s a benign object floating harmless in unconsciousness.   

The same can be said of Gods judgment on His people.  Zephaniah 1:14-18 forces us to face the absolute truth that God will judge the faithfulness or unfaithfulness of His people.   We have an uncanny willingness to ignore the absolute call of Christ’s ownership over all we are, have and do for a “go to church religion” of self-righteousness.   God will not be mocked!

“Near is the great day of the

         Lord,

Near and coming quickly…” 1:14

But never close the book without reading the whole story.  Judgments coming, it’s not a dead promise floating in the preservation of the Bible.  But restoration is always the aim of our Father.

Read the last eleven verses of the last chapter, the last room in the museum.