Know that I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before my day comes, that great and terrible day. He shall turn the hearts of fathers towards their children and the hearts of children towards their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a curse.
Mal.3:23,24
The prophet Malachi foretells the reappearance of Elijah to herald the coming Messiah. John the Baptist fulfills this role.
The final prophecy of the final book in the Old Testament carries both joy and warning. The Messiah is coming, but if hearts of fathers are not turned the land will be struck with a curse. Are we not witnessing this very curse today with the current wave of youth crime over the nation? The common factor in the lives of these young offenders is the absence of fathers. They are a broken generation from broken families.
Good news! They can be fixed. Turn their father's hearts back to them. This requires a miracle and God is in the business of miracles. As today's Psalm cries out, "Lift your heads high and see: your redemption is near at hand."
"God defend New Zealand. Come Lord Jesus, come!
Mary, patroness of New Zealand, please pray for us.
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