Things seem to be getting crazier every single day. There is so much evil, it is hard to see the good that exists out there in the world.
I’ve been reading about another time when evil was covering the entire earth. It was so bad, that every thought of man was evil. When God looked at his creation, he was sorry he had ever created mankind.
There was, at that time, only one man who found favor with God. The man was Noah. Because he walked with God and had not turned to evil ways, he and his family were saved.
God gave Noah directions to build an ark which would house him, his family, and a host of animals. Some of the animals were in single pairs, just one male and one female. Others, which were considered clean, were saved with seven pairs, seven male and seven female.
Noah obeyed and built the ark even though, at that time, there had never been rain on the earth. The idea of so much water pouring from the sky would have beyond anything that a man could imagine. Still, Noah did as God asked, just as he had done throughout his life.
Because of his faithfulness to the word of God and doing as he was told, he was saved and mankind was given a second chance.
It’s taken thousands of years, but sometimes it feels like we are heading right back to the same situation. It seems like so many people have given in to the darkness that is at the root of man’s fallen spirit.
There are still many people who follow God, though we all stumble and fall, because we are sinners. God sees us and keeps us from falling too far when we stray.
Still, it must grieve God’s spirit to see so much evil. What seems to becoming worse is that people are accepting evil as normal.
The way that people treat each others, talk about one another and lie and cheat and steal is not seen as evil. If you agree with a person’s evil thoughts, then it is normal. One never likes to think of themselves as evil, right?
I know, from reading the Bible, that Jesus talked about a time when mankind would be as in the days of Noah. At that time, people would lose the ability to see that their actions were wrong-headed. They would care more about themselves than anyone else. Paul gave us a further insight, in 2 Timothy 3, what type of evil individuals we should look for and avoid.
While, to a degree, self-caring is not unusual, it is unusual that it is now turning into an accepted way of hurting others. Not just hurting them but wishing people, who are on the other side of what you think, would just go away. Now, it isn’t just wishing, there are many who are willing to take action.
It seems like respect for human life is getting lower and lower. There is not just abortion, there is also euthanasia and outright murder.
When society stops respecting life, the thought of murder as something to be punished, becomes a thing of the past. When individuals are allowed to create their own moral code and if their code says they can kill, they can do so with impunity. Society, for the most part, will either turn a blind eye or worse, applaud those who are willing to kill for their social cause.
There have been things happening recently that have caught me blind-sided. The idea that one can self-identify as something other than what they were born as, is unthinkable to many of us. It is like slapping the face of God.
God made us all and he does not make mistakes. Mankind is broken and if there are any mistakes made, it is all because of man. It seems like we are busy trying to break every single thing that exists.
Sadly, that means we are breaking our children. We are breaking them physically, emotionally and spiritually. I can’t imagine how much this both grieves and angers God. Abusing innocent children to either make money or to get attention is unthinkable and yet, it is happening and it is getting worse every day.
The thing that Jesus talked about, when mankind gets back to the evilness of the days of Noah, was that would be the time when God would bring judgement upon the earth.
It feels like those days are approaching ever more rapidly.
For Noah, salvation was in the form of an ark. Today, salvation is available through Jesus Christ.
He died to get you a pardon and to give you a way to be saved. The judgements that will be meted out to those who don’t accept Jesus are things you do not want to experience. However, they are just and right for those who harden their hearts and stiffen their necks and deny the sacrifice that Jesus made for them.
If you want to be saved, call out to Jesus and ask him to make himself known to you. If you are sincere, he is there and waiting with your gift of salvation in hand. He’s been waiting for you since before the entire creation was made. Please don’t miss this opportunity. Life is frail and fleeting and you may never have an opportunity ever again.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.