Leaving God? 4

INTRO: We have looked at the context of this verse, and now we are looking at the content. We looked first at the process of leaving God, as it happened to Israel in the days of Isaiah. The process of leaving God, with regard to man involved the fear of man. The process as related to God involved lying about Him, forgetting Him, and not having Him on their heart.
We are now ready to look at the reason why man leaves God. We find the answer in the verse have been looking at Isaiah 57:11. It says, And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old That you do not fear Me? Why does man lose his fear of God? According to this verse, and there may be other reasons, but Israel in this case had lost their fear of God because they began to fear man. Proverbs 29:25 says, The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe. The problem of Israel in leaving God had been a growing fear of man, which caused a declining fear of God, and a declining fear of God set in because they began to sin and God remained silent. When Christians sin and God holds His peace, it wants to be an ever downward spiral.