Day 279 - Where are the MEN of backbone?

Today's Reading: Jeremiah 5-6 and John 3

In these chapters we see Judah's complete rejection of the Lord. Obviously there seems to be a lack of godly strong men...

So the appeal is made in Jeremiah 5:1. "Run ye to and fro...and see if you can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgement, and that seeketh truth."

Where are the men who are really seeking TRUTH? Where are the men who will stand for TRUTH no matter the cost? We live in a generation that is largely lacking, especially in the area of godly strong men....

This plea from Jeremiah 5 reminds me of the quote from Education, "The greatest want of the world is the want of men--men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for right though the heavens fall."

How do such men come to be? Ellen White continues: "But such a character is not the result of accident; it is not due to special favors or endowments of Providence. A noble character is the result of self-discipline, of the subjection of the lower to the higher nature--the surrender of self for the service of love to God and man." (Education, p. 57)

Let us pray that God will raise up more men (and of course women too, because the challenge applies to us all) that will be self-controlled, controlled by Christ and who will stand, no matter the cost!

Tomorrow's Reading: Jeremiah 7-8 and Ps. 114, 115