Hey, everyone! I had another blog in the batter’s box for today, but the line-up has changed. I woke up this morning to head out to work at our church’s Homeschool Co-op. While opening the car door, I noticed a yellowish haze on the driver’s side window and down the door. Yes *ahem* my car was already egged and it was only morning! Our devotion today was on how Christians should not engage in this “holiday”; but it seems like no matter how much we avoid it, it’s hard not to be affected some way or another by its influences. But like Pastor’s message yesterday, we may not be able to control the situation, but we can control our attitude in the situation. So, even though I dreaded boiling water to wipe away the frozen yolk, eggshell, chipped paint, and slight paranoia, I must just deal with it and smile.
I read this verse in my Bible Time today: “But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you.” [2 Peter 2:12,13]
What a verse for this day, I thought, because the Judgement of God to the corrupted Lost is a terrifying thought! So, when you see dozens of folks (and yolks) “celebrating” today, may I encourage you to pray for those souls?!
And just when you thought it couldn’t get any more frightening… the Bible says there is an even worse judgment for another group of people; any guesses whom?
"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption... For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. BUT IT HAS HAPPENED unto them according to the proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." [2 Peter 2:10-22]
Answer: those who have been influenced by Christians and learned of the Biblical Truths, yet have gone astray. This group is worse off, because they have all the resources they could possibly need (the Bible itself) and they still deny God and His ways. They refuse to live the Christian life and produce Fruits of the Spirit; hence they live like the world. Without fruitfulness, their tree of life will wither away and die. Just picture a full moon behind that decaying tree, and you have an image of scary, all right, and it’s not pretend.
Everyday, many souls are experiencing death and torture; (the biggest torture is not the fire, but the eternal life without God.) So may we just pray earnestly for the Lost today, and keep in perspective that they “know not what they do.” And for those that do know, yet pleasure in the sin, may we still never cease to pray for their repentance! This is how we can have a set-apart attitude from the world today!
♪ Bring the wandering ones to Jesus! ♪
“But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” [Matthew 13:23]
