October 31

Micah 2
I find some aspects of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement amusing. Look at this statement from their website:
Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
This #ows movement empowers real people to create real change from the bottom up. We want to see a general assembly in every backyard, on every street corner because we don't need Wall Street and we don't need politicians to build a better society
I find it amusing because by definition a leaderless movement is doomed to be led nowhere. If find it amusing because a movement being led nowhere can only in the long run be destructive, even if it uses non-violence and wants to build a better society. I find it amusing and sad that they think they can accomplish these things, and yet they leave God out of the equation. (Sounds like the American church) I find is laudable because it protests the greed and corruption of our society, but are they really any less greedy? In some senses I suspect they protest the greed only because they don’t possess what they think is wealth. I find it sad because they are expending a tremendous amount of energy for something that will accomplish nothing. How can one accomplish anything by protesting what is really a problem of the individual and corporate heart? Protests don’t change hearts. Greed can only be changed by changing the heart.
“From their children you have taken away My Glory forever.” The rulers and aristocrats of Judah and Israel had arranged things in their country to increase their own wealth. The result was the expulsion of widows and orphans from their homes. He labels that as “taking away His Glory forever.” Now that is greed. How did God handle it? He kicked the people out of the country. Only the poor remained. There comes a time when a society’s greed is great that He removes their place in the world. Now that is severe! When His glory is obscured so much that the poor children of the society can no longer have opportunity to see His glory, He removes them. I wonder if He does the same with churches?
But along with the promise to destroy the nation, He brings a promise to restore His people. This promise looks beyond the return from Babylon to the return of the King in the Millennium. The Lord will be at our head. The only way a fair society will be produced is through a leader who has only one goal in mind, the exaltation of the glory of God as He rules in justice and power. A leaderless movement will not produce it. A movement lead by a mere man will not produce it. He will produce it for His glory! Indeed, we serve a glorious King! Speak His glory to someone today!
--Pastor john