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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Isaiah 44:10
‘A God ... that is profitable for nothing’
Read Isaiah 44:1-28
Did you ever notice what a great difference there is between the God who is revealed in the Bible and the god that is being preached today? The God of the prophets and apostles is not even similar to the god of today’s preachers. The modern conception of God, which is prevalent today, even among those who profess to believe the Bible, is a miserable misconception and a terrible perversion of the truth. The god of the twentieth century is a helpless, effeminate creature, who commands the respect of no truly thoughtful man. The god of this age is nothing more than an emotional, sentimental, sympathetic being without any real power. The god who is preached in most pulpits, even in the most conservative churches, is an object to be pitied, not a God to be worshipped.
Arthur Pink stated the issue very plainly: ‘To say that God the Father has purposed the salvation of all mankind, that God the Son died with the express intention of saving the whole human race and that God the Holy Spirit is now seeking to win the world to Christ, when, as a matter of common observation, it is apparent that the great majority of our fellow men are dying in sin, and passing into a hopeless eternity is to say that God the Father is disappointed, that God the Son is dissatisfied, and that God the Holy Spirit is defeated.’
I am stating the issue very plainly, but there is no escaping this conclusion. Let me be perfectly understood. To say that God is trying his best to save all men, but that the majority of men will not let God save them is to say that the will of God is impotent and that the will of man is omnipotent. That is nothing short of blasphemy! Many try to remove the difficulty by throwing the blame on Satan but that doesn’t work either. If Satan is defeating the purpose of God, then Satan is almighty and God is no longer supreme. That too is blasphemy!
