A Look at the Book #455
by Jesse Abel
Daily Devotional – A Look at the Book #455
A Thought for today by Papa “J”
Collectively as a nation you might think that we could do something right! Just a personal thought about this; but God must think so too! Since with Israel and another nation His anger burns so fierce that smoke comes from His nostrils. Isaiah 65:5
We live in a complex world of disorder, even confusion. Listening to the news this morning the weather person and the news anchor were discussing things related and unrelated to the news. The anchor said that she has been married for seventeen years and has children. The weather person said that he and his male friend had the anchor lady beat in that they had been together for eighteen years. (There was a mechanically generated applause) What? What brought about these comments? The anchor person had noted that a married couple in the public eye was separating. This sparked the troubled mind of the weather person by reminding him of his parents’ divorce of which he was very bitter over. Broken hearts, confused minds and bent adherence to the code of ethics (integrity) seek to normalize, abnormal behavior. This is not what I think, nor is it a personal attack on any one individual. This is what God thinks and not just on one individual; but on a nation of peoples who now suppress the truth in unrighteous behavior. Take the time today and read Romans 1:18-32. This is the judgment of God on all nations who start out under the blessing of God, but in the end becomes disobedient to parents; verse 30 and who are now full of abnormal behaviors revealed in these last fifteen verses of Romans One. As a nation; we still have time to repent; will we be like Nineveh? If not we will end up like Sodom; or even Gomorrah. Awe, go ahead and laugh, but know this. This nation is not a just step away from natural disasters it is the local news these days brought about by the spiritual disaster of our nation. Money and grass root promises will not heal this condition, only prayer.
James 4
James 4:13-17 – The Word of the Living God is such an encouragement and comfort, if it were all I could do I would spend my day just walking through His Word. What would it take to explain to you and me that God is reasonable in all things? “Come now” or “Come on, lets take a look at your plans” We all have plans do we not? We often find ourselves looking for opportunity and now it is your turn to say; “so what is wrong with looking or even planning to do better or even to make a profit. Nothing and we should plan!
The problem develops when we boast about our future as if it were already a done deal. This sort of selfishness is not of God since our life is not in our control as we desire to believe. We cannot know what the morrow will have for us and to make plans apart from the infinite wisdom of God is nothing more that foolishness. Is it not true that if you reflect on many of the past plans, these are unfulfilled and dissipating? The death of a loved one or even the departure of a friend will often crush the future and you along with it.
Yes, we ought always to say in sincereness of heart that if the LORD wills, we shall live and do this or that. To boast about the future without including God who knows your future is what I call – top shelf arrogance! God calls it evil. The bottom line; we have allowed our thinking and planning to ferment in selfish ambition, then when the head clears from this hangover, self-pity takes over and knowing this to be true is the sin of self indulgence.
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