Maybe it's Time To Make the Connection

644 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from 2Sa 21:1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, "It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites." Famine and drought. Can we just explain these periods away and just cope with them with all of our modern technology, or should we pay attention to them as God's tools to call us to repentance? I think the answer is found in Am 4:6-10, "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. 7 "I also withheld rain from you, When there were still three months to the harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, And where it did not rain the part withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, But they were not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. 9 "I blasted you with blight and mildew. When your gardens increased, Your vineyards, Your fig trees, And your olive trees, The locust devoured them; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. 10 "I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; Your young men I killed with a sword, Along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD. All these things came upon God's people for the sole purpose of bringing them to repentance. Turning away from their present course and RETURNING to God. (Which is the essence of repentance.) In Israel's case in the days of David, the drought occurred specifically because of the bloodthirstiness of the house of Saul when he slew the Gibeonites. You see, the innocent blood of Abel and others has always called out to God from the ground, and He doesn't ignore it. It matters to Him because it was the innocent blood of Jesus His Son, that had to be shed to pay for our sins. (including abortion) Maybe it's time for us to connect the current drought that is affecting 60% of our land with the innocent blood involved in legalized abortion.