Anything Goes.
NOT!
Now Think On
This
by Steve
Martin
“And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come
perilous times, for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, without
natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers
of those who are good, traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God, having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from
these be turning away…”
2 Tim 3:1-5 (Young’s Literal Translation YLT)
There used to be good, well-established standards in life. It
used to be where everything was “black and white”, and you could count on grounded
“Do this. Don’t do that” principles to help guide you in day to day decisions
each are called to make.
In the past, if a law was in place, you didn’t break it. If
the item wasn’t yours, you didn’t take it. If the photograph was not good to
look at, well, you just didn’t look at it.
Not so anymore. Or so it would seem in this American and
other worldly cultures that are so prevalent now. Anything goes, or so we would
be led to believe. Many now think that you can do what you want to do and live
with whom you want to live with. You can say whatever you want to say, and
never have to own up to the fact that it was just simply wrong. “Must have been
the previous guy’s fault, or the way my parents raised me” is an acceptable
excuse.
You would think that all is OK, that you won’t be held
accountable. If you are caught, you can just say, “I made a mistake,” give a
press conference, and keep the job you had. Or if you are asked to step down
from a position of authority, whether in the government, both national and
local, or in the sports spotlight, or Lord forbid, even in some church settings
– you will still get full pay, as others around you, that you yourself have put
in place, will soften the sin and lengthen the lie. They will report to the
public that you have been placed “on a leave of absence until it is all worked
out”, acting as if it never happened in the first place.
You can even assume that because that guy is doing it, they
won’t tell on you, because most likely they are doing it too. “You do your
thing. Let me do mine, and we will all get along just fine.”
Is that the way it is? Is that the way it was meant to be?
Is there not a God in heaven who established a righteous way of living, and
will hold us accountable for it, based on His goodness and not our own unrighteousness,
or on our warped mindset that “whatever will be will be?”
There certainly is! There certainly is a righteous way of
life, of living, of having moral guidelines set in place, which is to our
benefit if we walk in them. There certainly is the eternal God, whom the Bible declares
is absolutely true; the heavens above declaring that which is absolutely true
of His glory; the history of Israel, which absolutely declares and proves His
promises fulfilled – there certainly is the God of Glory and Righteousness, Who
will judge and hold each responsible for his life lived on this planet!
Those who have known the commands of the Lord, which still
remain in solid stone, even if the ungodly judge sitting on the court glibly says
otherwise…we need to be the ones who stand up and proclaim His Name. We need to
be the ones who say to our children, “This is the way, walk in it.” We need to
be the ones who don’t just sit by the well and watch the world go to hell.
The Holy Spirit in me compels me to speak up. The holy
commandments, given to keep us living with peace, joy and righteousness, need
to be kept established in our hearts, and then lived out for the world around
us to see.
I for one am not going to trust in some wrong teaching that
some rapture will take me out of here and let the nations perish without the
knowledge of the Living God, the Creator of All. We have been called to be the
light on the hill, the proclaimer of His Good News, the ones who are the hands
and feet of our Lord, to take and make a clear and sound message in all the areas
of life we inhabit and have been providentially placed in.
Let us rise up, empowered by the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy
Spirit), and sound the alarm that death and destruction are not the way it has
to be. We have the Truth. We have the Life. We have the Way. It is Jesus,
Yeshua Himself, giving us all that pertains to eternal life. It is meant to
start in this life too.
And if we get martyred in the process, as least we will
have died with our boots on, and didn’t shrivel up watching some wasted TV
program to pass the hours away.
We serve the Living God of Israel. We serve the King of
kings and the Lord of lords. Through His grace, mercy, and love for all, let us
be the ones we have been called to be, and let the world know it too.
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
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Now Think On This #135 - Anything Goes. NOT! by Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord 2014 (03.27.14) Thursday at 5:00
am in Charlotte, NC.
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