I was studying the Sunday School lesson this morning and ran
across a passage that mentioned how people sacrificed their children to idol
gods by making them pass through fire, and it made me very sad for mankind that
we have sunk so low. These endless mass shootings… oppression… betrayal… and
the list goes on. The other day I was doing a study on The Works of the
Flesh. I made a list of all the things named in the word of God that
defines the flesh and it almost filled up a whole page. Wow!😲 We have a built-in
tendency to be evil, and some people violate their conscience so much till
their immediate response to everything is to respond with evil.Then I remembered a verse in Proverbs that says, “The eyes
of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” At times it
may seem like evil is running rampant in this world and God is not paying it any attention, but actually He is. In The Great White Throne Judgment, the
apostle John said he saw books opened and the dead were judged by their deeds
recorded in these books. It’s not forgotten, and when the great day of His
wrath has come, the wicked will stand before the King of kings and the Lord of
lords and receive the judgment for their actions, and His judgment is
righteous.
The apostle Paul wrote in Romans 2:5-9, In accordance with
your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself
wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
who "will render to each one according to his deeds": eternal life to
those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and
immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness — indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every
soul of man who does evil. No one escapes judgment. Not one.
Hell and Destruction holds no secrets from God. The psalmist
David prayed, “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your
presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell,
behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right
hand shall hold me. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall fall on me,’ even the
night shall be light about me; indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, but
the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You” (Ps
139:7-12).
The psalmist David also said, “Do not fret because of
evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be mowed
down like the grass, and wither as the green herb” (Ps 37:1-2).
In one of Jesus’s final prayers while He was on earth, He
prayed to His Father for us: "Father, I pray for them. I do not pray for
the world, but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. I do not
pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them
from the evil one” (John 17:9, 15). Jesus prayed for us and I certainly do believe in His prayers.
I’m not trying to depressed you with this blogpost, I
am hoping to encourage you that God has not abandoned mankind. He is the Good
Shepherd, and we are His beloved sheep. The Good Shepherd gave His life for the
sheep. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his
friends.
Someone wrote a song that says, “As long as I live and
trouble rise, I will hasten to His throne.”
Go in peace.To God be the glory.Dee Richardson, Voice of the Dove
