PEAK OF SHENIR AND HERMON

PEAK OF SHENIR AND HERMON

You have also to depart from the peak of Shenir and Hermon (Song of Songs 4:8). The peak of Shenir and Hermon was located in the land of the Amorites who were very wicked and idol worshippers in the days of Moses. This land was later possessed by Moses (Deut.3: 8-9). These days, the children of God who claim to have been filled with the Holy Spirit may not be very different from the children of this world in matters of covetousness, materialism, self-gratification, etc. Though you are in the world, you are not of the world. Though you have possessed the land of the Amorites, you should not be lured by the fading vanity of the peak of the mountains in this land. We are shocked to see that today many children of God are as wicked and materialistic as the Amorites. They don’t want to share the materialistic blessings with the poor and the needy. They worship their material possessions so as not to part with a small portion of these for the sake of missionary work. “Love not the world, neither things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world”(I John 2:15-16).

The divine Shepherd bids you to look down the top of Shenir and Hermon to the poor people on the earth who don’t have the shelter and the bare minimum of food and clothing. As a child of God, you ought to share the material things with the downtrodden of the society. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus must serve as an eye opener to those children of God who are apathetic to the needs of the poor. Our churches should abound in charity. The Gurudwaras of the Sikhs provide free food to the poor, whereas our churches throw lavish parties to the rich people on occasions like Christmas. You should now depart from the heights of materialism and share your material blessings with the poor and the needy. If the judgment of God begins at the house of God today, we will be judged by God mostly on the sin of apathy towards the downtrodden and Jesus would say “I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not” (Matt 25:42-43).

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