“Charlie Brown“ is a popular Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song that was a top-ten hit for the Coasters in the spring of 1959. Charlie was constantly saying, “Why is everybody always picking on me?” However, if he had examined his actions in life, he would have had the answer.
The nation of Israel has the same question about the last three thousand years of troubles. If they were to turn to 2 Chronicles 7:21-22, they might find the answer.
And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore, he has brought all this disaster on them.’”
The Scriptures have the answers to life’s most perplexing problems, but most don’t read it. Then, the majority of those who do believe it to be speaking of someone other than themselves. Thus, the answer to their problems are blowing in the wind.
Give it some thought.
Gary