August 12, 2025

CALLED BY HIS NAME

Baruch 2:14-15

O Lord, hear our prayer and our petition, and for Your own sake deliver us, and grant us mercy before those who have carried us into exile, in order that the whole earth may come to know that You are the Lord our God, for Israel and his descendants are called by Your name.

Personal Challenge

Baruch lived in a day when God’s chosen people had been taken captive and into exile. This was allowed by God because of their sin and refusal to submit to God. He had called them to be light to the world and to bring the world into God’s family. Instead they kept their covenant with God all to themselves and ultimately rejected Him. Sometimes it feels like the church of today, those who say they are Christians, are going down this same path and seeking a king to lead them. This will not end well. We may very well be entering into a time of winnowing where the Church will go through a cleansing of the false followers. This always a painful time for the true followers of Christ. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!