There will be a reckoning...
It
is nothing new that people do what they want. As a matter of fact, it's nothing
new for people to think they are doing right when they are flat wrong:
"All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the
spirit." (Proverbs 16:2 ESV)
See
that last part? "The Lord weighs..." On the one hand, that's
terrifying, but on the other hand, we can trust God to settle all the accounts
of the foolish and wicked.
It's
happened before: "The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, 'I will blot out man whom I have
created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds
of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.'" (Genesis 6:5-7
ESV)
The
only hope for any is the hope Noah discovered: "But Noah found favor in
the eyes of the LORD." (Genesis 6:8 ESV) Noah found favor through God's
grace. That grace is available today through Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of
God.
As
the ark was the safe place in the days of the great flood, so is Jesus the safe
place in the coming Day of Judgment.
Many,
many people are only doing what is right in their own sight, and such people
believe their ways are pure. God weighs the heart.
There
is a coming reckoning. Are you safe in Jesus?
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