The Devotional – 1454 – Even so, come LORD Jesus

The Devotional – 1454 – Even so, come LORD Jesus

Proverbs 30:20 – This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth, and says. “I have done no wickedness”

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Recently I decided to play golf in the Tuesday night league in the town where I live. It is two seasons since I stopped playing in these leagues because of the language of the men in the league. Last evening it was a cold (literally) slap in the face reminder of why I do not enjoy the game that I enjoy so much in other settings. What was additionally upsetting is that, this is the town that we call home and of the other three players, I know two of them very well.

Two of these men I have played golf with before and one I served on a board with as “trustee”. One who at every meeting hears the opening prayer of someone in the meeting, I do not remember if he has offered prayer, but I do know that he has heard me pray at these meetings. Now it has been a few years since I was on the board, but I know that the board is theologically liberal and cursing is not permitted. 

As we progressed through the nine holes of golf, the man who is in his last year as a member of this board; the term is seven years, made a specific purpose to get face to face and for one whole sentence spoke nothing but curse words. He seemed provoked and he was able to make each word resemble the countenance of the adulterous person who says. “I have done no wickedness”! I turned away from him without comment, and through the remainder of our time on the course, he had little to say to me.

Now this is not all that transpired, but it is enough for us who are saved by the grace of God to consider what we are against in the world of adulterous actions against God. Yes against God; we live in times that are similar to those days when Jesus said to the religious people of His time on earth. Note: Matthew 12:38-42.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

God is not slack like a man, the promise of His return is absolute; He will return. Also He speaks boldly that when He does return, He will bring “reward” with Him for He says in Revelation 22:12 – “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work”. The adulterous nation will have a “wiped mouth” but the national breath will give off the stench of death. Revelation 22:15 – But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.