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Jeremiah 48:11-12 "'Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his lees; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I shall send to him tilters who will tilt him, and empty his vessels, and break his jars in pieces.'"

 

Over the course of keeping this journal, I have written several times of how it feels we are on the brink of a needed correction (in fact my very first blog post, It Would Be Wise to Heed Him, posted five years ago almost to the day, deals with this feeling). I think my country has "settled on its lees", as has most of the West. Our taste remains in us, we have not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and are in need of "tilters who will tilt" us and empty our vessels in order to bring us back to God. It will be very difficult to go through (it has been already, and will get worse before it gets better), but it is the only way of waking us up. In the Book of Heaven Jesus tells Luisa many times that He uses chastisements and trials to bring humanity back to its senses before it is too late.* 

 

This weekend I was talking with friends about that feeling we get sometimes in life when things seem too good or too easy, and you're kind of waiting for a shoe to drop. We talked about how we should receive those times of consolation with gratitude, while also knowing that hardships will be coming again, and we should accept them as well (also with gratitude, if we can swing it). Those hardships are us being emptied from vessel to vessel. We learn more from those times, and grow closer to God in them, than from our times of consolation.

 

However, we can't let our times of consolation become our expected norm, or we risk becoming settled on our lees. That is what, I think, much of the West has done, and therefore God is sending us "tilters to tilt us", many of whom are already here. After the tilting, when we are righted again, we will be in much better shape. Then we will remember to be grateful for the time of consolation, and the One who gives it to us.

 

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*One example: "I will use all means to make them surrender, to make them come back to their senses, and to make them know that only from Me can they hope for true peace - and lasting peace. ... I will do unexpected things in order to ... make them comprehend that God alone is the stable Being from Whom they can expect every good, and that if they want justice and peace, they must come to the fount of true justice and of true peace. ... My daughter, the way things are now, only My omnipotent finger can fix them. At the right time I will place it, but great trials are needed and will occur in the world." Book of Heaven Volume 12, October 14, 1918.