Education is useless without the Bible.
Noah Webster
The writer of Webster’s Dictionary was never at a loss for words.
His quote reminds me of this verse.
Mark 8:36 – 36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Our country is full of people seeking education and not God. The result today is a bankrupt America. America is Bankrupt in just about every way. Our nation’s problem is not economic, it’s spiritual.
1 Corinthians 3:19 – 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;
Man is busy at work trying to fulfill his own ideas or pleasures. He doesn’t want anything to get in the way of the things he is trying to accomplish. Right now in the last days man is concerned about the planet.
We must not destroy it.
We must not destroy ourselves.
We must not overpopulate it.
While being responsible needs to be a concern, man thinks he needs to do them by himself and cannot fathom the idea of obeying God.
Strangely enough if everyone tried to live for God, we would be looking out for each other and we wouldn’t have most of these problems. Sin is where the problems come in. Selfishness is linked to many of them. Flat out demonic evil can be attributed many more that a lot of us can’t even understand.
Isn’t that how the fall happened in the first place? God I can’t stand the perfect world you provided me, I (selfish pride) have to be in charge! That happened with both the devil and Eve. With a little persuasion, you now have one third of the angels and all of mankind that refuses to repent.
How many refuse to repent?
Matthew 7:13-14 – 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Many more don’t find it than do find it. All man has to do is seek God and they will find His redemptive plan. Instead overall man still wants to do it his way. It is foolishness in God’s sight.
The blind leading the blind is a popular saying. When people don’t read the bible and know what God’s Word says, they are completely susceptible to man’s foolishness.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to discover the Lord. Actually over time intellect seems to have driven a certain prideful gene that gets in the way for many in finding the Lord. However, when one with much intellect does submit to the Lord, wow, we are blessed even more as the body of Christ.
Foolishness….. it’s thinking yourself away from God and apart from God’s will.
Get into the Word and submit your will to Him and watch your relationship with the Lord strengthen.
Psalm 84:10 – 10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
I was walking at work when the thought of how exciting it will be for us to be with the Lord. The thing that was going through my mind is the best day we have ever had here won’t be as good as the worst day on a scale in heaven. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it.
Then I get home that evening and I sit down at my computer and the Holy Spirit put Psalm 84:10 in my mind. Not just Psalm 84, but 84:10. It is really neat when this kind of stuff happens. It’s one of those assurances that the Lord wants me to blog on the topic.
We sing a song in church a lot which the chorus is on this verse. Better is one day in your courts, better is one day in your house, better is one day in your courts than thousands elsewhere.
How great will it be? Well God created the earth and every living thing on it. The earth is cursed after the fall and man has entered into sin. Still we have wondrous beauty and can still have great time in fellowship together and in God. It is beyond imagination of how a perfect world that God created along with his creation redeemed can be.
One thing we can rest assured and that is it will be great. Don’t listen to Satan’s voice. He’s a liar when he tries to convince you and others that Heaven sounds boring. Don’t buy into the lie of you better get while you can while its guarenteed.
John 8:44 – 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
The devil wants you to live for yourself. He doesn’t wanting you trying to help others find Jesus and share in His happiness later. We need to live by that faith and not listen to any doubt the wrong voice is saying.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln
Interesting that even a hundred and fifty years ago one our greatest presidents was saying this about our country. We’re definitely even beyond that now. The true biblical form of Christianity is so far gone in this country that it is under fire every day.
It’s not the first time it has happened. God’s hand blesses a nation and the people slowly turn away. They become spoiled in their success thinking nothing bad can happen to them.
Any nation that leaves God behind and becomes proud, gets left behind.
We’re coming up to the Lord’s return for the rapture. Be ready! Focus on the Lord and allow Him to work through your life.
Galatians 2:20 – 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Let’s say you walk into your home and go into the basement. There is an inch of water covering the floor. Do you think to yourself, wow that doesn’t seem quite normal or right then continue on in your day?
No. You’re hopefully going to look around and find out where the problem is.
Let’s say you’re driving down the road and smoke starts coming out from under your hood and fills the inside of your car? Are you going to continue to drive and hope that it goes away?
No. You’re hopefully going to pull over and investigate where the problem is coming from.
Let’s say you’re eating something and you’re starting to have problems breathing. You start itching also and breaking out into a rash. Do you shrug it off and continue eating or do you not worry about it and hope that it goes away as you’re about ready to pass out?
Most people wouldn’t and the ones that would do so, only do it once.
Yet…….if one looks around in this world and pays attention…..something has clearly gone wrong!
Turn on the news. Murder, greed, arrogance, infidelity, pain, death, selfishness, bullying, lying, disrespect, covetousness, drunkenness, starvation, child abuse, drug abuse, and loneliness. The list goes on more than just this and as humans we are numb. As long as it doesn’t happen to us, we can sweep it under the carpet. Is that reality?
Just in the turn of the last century we had two world wars. Warlords have literally taken over countries and when the food comes in have stolen it themselves and let millions starve even help arrived. Normal? No, not normal. When 99% of the people know something is wrong or evil including many of those who do it, there is something drastically wrong.
So what is it? It’s worth looking into isn’t it? Most in today’s world, even as they witness the madness do not.
The most so called brilliant minds want you to believe that you came from pond scum and evolved from monkeys. THAT’S A MORE BELIEVABLE DESCRIPTION OF HOW WE CAME INTO EXISTENCE OVER SOMEONE WHO CREATED US? REALLY?
Psalm 14:1 – 1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
It is insane the depths man will go to, not to have to obey or worship anyone he doesn’t want to. Spiritual blindness? Satan and his demons? They may all play a part, but the real reason is man doesn’t want to serve the very God that created him.
Why don’t people take time out of their busy schedule to look for God? Why don’t people who actually say they know God take the time to serve Him? It’s all in the Bible. We need to get into God’s Word for our lives. It’s a living word!
Selfishness has never been admired.
C. S. Lewis
I will say the closest selfishness has been admired is in this generation. Books on becoming rich, controlling one’s own destiny, and doing what it takes to make it were never more popular in the world as they were in the Eighties and Nineties.
However, the statement is completely true. All you have to do is hang around a loving, caring, nurturing person who cares about you, versus someone who is only concerned about themselves to bring you back to reality.
It took me awhile to really appreciate the individual that gives up his earthly life to serve God and love others, versus living in comfort. Now it is the only way I view it. Heroes are not people who make tons doing exactly what they seek to do for themselves. We learned that with Christ on the cross.
No marriage would fail if both people made a choice to give one hundred percent back to their spouse. Instead people focus on what’s best for them or their own selfish needs or desires.
God wants us to be anything but selfish, especially in our relationship with Him. Give Him lots of time in your day and watch your Spirit and understanding grow.
Just acknowledging He exists or there is a higher power is ridiculous. That’s like getting into the 5th Grade and discovering “A” is at the beginning of the alphabet and then looking around and feeling pretty good about yourself.
God didn’t create man to just acknowledge He exists. He and Jesus created them to be worshipped and have fellowship. Any human being that has been created thinks that is wrong or ego-ish, has a prideful heart that is being affected by sin and Satan’s lies.
We don’t have time to worship the LORD of all? We don’t have time to thank Him for our meal? We don’t have time to pray or talk to Him throughout our day? We don’t have time in our busy schedule for the One that is supposed to be the most important in our lives?
So when it’s time to stand in front of Him in the end, how does that equate?
That doesn’t sound too good to me and I’m just a simple fallen human.
Involuntary ignorance is not charged against you as a fault; but your fault is this—you neglect to inquire into the things you are ignorant of.
Augustine
I’ll tell you what I get out of that quote. We’re born into sin. As sinners we’re going to do ignorant things in our lives. The more in touch we are with God’s Word and caring about what God wants we will do less ignorant things, but were still fallen creatures.
The second part holds us accountable. Look around you. People are not even looking into God. They don’t care to take the time to even seriously look into why we’re here. Then there are others who are only looking for what they are seeking. Truth or finding the most obvious reason of why we’re here and what happened, isn’t as important as finding what we want it to be.
That’s where people are going to get in trouble when standing in front of the Lord. All they had to do was make a small effort to find Truth or the True God and they would have found Him. Just the simplest effort with a genuine heart.
Make an effort today to know Him better. We all need to make it a goal everyday to know Him better.
Why would I write on this?
Today too many people are so caught up into this world. I can’t help but believe they think it’s exciting here and now and the whole eternal church service or ghostly spirit world will be boring.
Why would anyone believe that? In what way would that make sense?
It doesn’t. It’s a detractor from Satan. He’s convincing people this is the here and now and you need to live it to the fullest. It’s about you and all that you deserve. Time to take care of numero uno. Don’t let it pass you by without giving your all because you only have one life to live. Live however you want you can always play the forgiveness card at the end.
Lots of lies from the devil and they all come in the same big package.
Heaven boring?
Look around you and see what God has created and it has been cursed in the fall of man. Just think if there wasn’t a curse. Look at the universe and the billons of stars and tons of galaxies out there. Look at the extraordinary detail we are finding out about our bodies every day.
The bible tells us that Jesus is making a place for us. Does that sound like some ghostly boring abode?
John 14:2 – 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. KJV
I had to go with the King James Version on that. Many mansions give you an idea that he is going to prepare a great place for those that love Him.
Why would God and Jesus make Adam and Eve the way They did? They were made perfect until they fell. Jesus was perfect when he bypassed the sinful gene on the virgin birth and also displayed his resurrected body to the disciples.
Luke 24:36-39 – 36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
Jesus is making it very clear that our resurrection bodies will resemble our earthly bodies, but one very important thing will be different. Sin will no longer be present in it and He will renew it a make it perfect again. It will be able to do many more things and have much more capabilities. Jesus went through a wall to appear to them in the room.
Luke 24:40-43 – 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
He revealed to us that this body will still eat. How exciting and also makes sense because we read about the wedding supper of the Lamb in Revelation.
Revelation 19:9 – 9 Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
There is a reason why we have bodies. Does it makes sense for us to live on this earth in a body and then, noting in Heaven resembles anything were used to? It doesn’t make sense to me if that were the case.
Heaven is going to be anything but boring, but it will be a place for those who love God. Not for those who like the idea of loving God, but for those who have sought Him out, accepted His only Son’s sacrifice so they may be redeemed and forgiven.
I think one of the things I am most shocked at anymore is how I see so many people out there with no desire to seek or love God. Love the Lord first and foremost in your life. He has wonderful things planned for those who do.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Martin Luther
Proverbs 16:25 – 25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Everybody always thinks that how they view things is right. But if you don’t look at things the same way you did say 10 years ago, we’re you thinking wrong now or back then.
The point is as man were only thinking correctly when it’s in line with the Lord. Where do we discover how were supposed to live? From God’s Word!