Comment: The
world (people) around us seek to be happy. This happiness is bitter sweet,
jokes carry underlying thoughts of misbehavior or worse immorality and
idolatry. Laughter is sinister and the listening ear (if you can find one) is a
direct cause of bitterness toward each other. To add to this, James the
half-brother of Jesus while writing the Jews after the dispersion, writes in
chapter 3 that the tongue of mankind is untamable, he also says that the tongue
is a flame of fire, set on fire because it is surrounded by a world full of sin
and iniquity, it has no control, but to react the same as the world. See James
3:1-18, if you have not read this before, you will be shocked, if you have read
this before, read and be shocked again.
Devotional: Mankind, Jews included; live in a world of
hostility, yet while they slander one another and walk in every sin and
iniquity known to man they will quickly claim the following, “I am okay, it is
the world (people) around me that are no good!” Little do you realize my
friend, that you are as much the problem as everyone around you. Notice if you
will Psalm 2.
1 Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain
thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take
counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, 3 "Let
us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us." 4
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. 5
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep
displeasure: 6 "Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of
Zion." 7 "I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me,
'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. 8 Ask of Me, and I will give
You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your
possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash
them to pieces like a potter's vessel.' " 10 Now therefore, be
wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord
with fear, And rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest He be
angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
Jesus the Christ/Messiah is coming
again and this is the bottom line. People (the world) destroy one another with
the pleasures of the world because they do understand that the battle they
fight is really against God and His Children. Problem, they also know that they
are defeated and confused. Read and meditate on the Psalm and return to the
LORD who created you. Read Romans 10:9-10 and believe it and your mind and soul
will rejoice. God will change your happiness in this life to JOY, a joy that
the world does not, nor could ever know.
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