What will it take for God to allow to happen to us and this earth before we turn our hearts back to him?!?!?!?!

 Amos 4:6-11

(6) "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities.

And lack of bread in all your places;

Yet you have not returned to Me,"

Says the LORD.

(7) "I also withheld rain from you,

When there were still three months to the harvest.

I made it rain on one city,

I withheld rain from another city.

One part was rained upon,

And where it did not rain the part withered.

(8) So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,

But they were not satisfied;

Yet you have not returned to Me,"

Says the LORD.

(9) "I blasted you with blight and mildew.

When your gardens increased,

Your vineyards,

Your fig trees,

And your olive trees,

The locust devoured them;

Yet you have not returned to Me,"

Says the LORD.

(10) "I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt;

Your young men I killed with a sword,

Along with your captive horses;

I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me,"

Says the LORD.

(11) "I overthrew some of you,

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;

Yet you have not returned to Me,"

Says the LORD.

2Ch 7:14-20 KJV 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; 18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

We have become so distracted, discouraged, disappointed, and detached from God so long we long for trends of the next best thing to belong to instead of having the courage to be different. Doing things afraid in the Lord!!! Even if it means going at it alone because truly we know with the Lord on our side we are never alone. Therefore we must break away from the fades from the temptations from the things of this world and really focus on the Lord. All he wants is you. He wants your love and obedience!!! Your faith and trust in him. He knows we will mess up but he cleans us up and a lot of times he puts back better than we were. But the world is in shambles because the children of God have become a wayward people drawn far from him. Return!!

I've mentioned before that through the inspiration of God the birth of Courageous-Beauty came through wanting to remind myself daily to face my fears head on. It's one thing to be beautiful externally but, to me real beauty is internal. Courage is not the absence of fear but, it's being able to use the fear as fuel and face life's challenges face to face! Being Courageous makes me beautiful!

It takes courage to return to God! We have to first deny our flesh what it wants and listen to our spirit and admit we were wrong and turned our backs on God and his precepts to begin with. That can be hard because if you say you love God then it will hurt your heart to fail him. Even though he sees it coming and has already prepared away of escape from our own demise it still pains God bec