June 30

Obadiah 1
This is an interesting prophecy concerning Israel.  However, this little morsel in verses three and four can easily be applied to anyone: “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’  Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.”  In our modern world where the sky isn’t even the limit, there are those who turn their backs on the Lord, those who refuse to believe the Creator of all the universe.  We have reached the stars and returned to earth.  Our technology keeps advancing, producing miracle-like results.  We have become so self-sufficient that many believe we can control the functions of nature that God has set in place.  It is from this high and lofty position that He will take us down.  Let us who follow the Lord beware, lest we fall into the same prideful trap.