Today’s Thought “Kathmandu, A Real Place” G. Ward

”Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.” Jeremiah 29:7

South Asia’s country of Nepal is known for its highest mountain, Mt. Everest. Rarely do we contemplate a nation of more than 27 million souls. Many of us are awakening to another day after a huge worship day to now juxtapose adherence unto traditionalism vs. the message shared at their place of worship that should have exacted denial, sacrifice and surrender. These are central tenets in our existence throughout this dispensational era.

Every television network seeks to saturate our thinking concerning the very recent, tragic earthquake in Nepal that’s responsible for 3700 (and climbing) deaths. I languish at what inevitably will be foolish criticisms from the spiritually pompous who will seek comparing this to what occurred at Sodom and Gomorrah (Ge. 19). Why, you may ask? It’s because Kathmandu, the capital, has a mazelike old quarter filled with Hindu and Buddhist shrines (in excess of 81% are expressly Hindu). Their disconnect to the only Deity (Holy God) delineates their culpability towards calamity. Question; with all the illicit behaviors in this Western society, along with all its false religious practices, howbeit that a perpetual monsoon is not the substitution of where the United States used to be? Pray for the Christian missionaries for Nepal.

Happy Monday!