My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Verse 2
That piece of a verse says a lot. If I can truly make that confession, then I am on the right path. If I thirst for God and can acknowledge it, something is going right.
Zephaniah 2:3,6-10
I like the admonition in verse 2:
Seek GOD, all you quietly disciplined people who live by GOD's justice.
Seek GOD's right ways. Seek a quiet and disciplined life. Perhaps you'll be hidden on the Day of GOD's anger.
The rest of today's passage reveals God's actions against those who have taunted and mocked Israel.
Moab, says God, will become a ruin. Ammon a ghost town. God's people will pick them clean and take over.
What are the sins of Moab and Ammon? Crude taunts, mockeries, cruel talking, pride.
Some of these sins feed off of each other. Pride and self-importance seem to breed mockery and taunting.
Have you ever experienced such treatment? Or worse, have you ever doled it out? I would have to say that, in my lifetime, I have been on both the giving and receiving ends of these sins. It shames me to think that I ever taunted or mocked someone (except for maybe the Yankees, but that's a subject for a different blog).
Consider if there was a time when you were being taunted or mocked that God came to your rescue. If not at that time, then consider that God will ultimately rescue all of us. In fact, it is alread done. It is a done deal.
Grace and peace, friends.