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This has been the
clarion call of none other than Satan himself. His invitation to come follow me has netted
him billions of followers over the years. They are as outspoken as their master in
proclaiming in word and deed their freedom from GOD’S laws.
For many their
lives are like a boat without a tiller and just go where the winds drive it.
This isn’t
anything new for what started in the Garden of Eden became in full bloom in the
time that followed the expulsion from the garden.
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw how
great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every
inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
If you think things are bad today, in Noah’s day it was as bad or worse. One reason for giving Noah’s day a second look is found in
If you think things are bad today, in Noah’s day it was as bad or worse. One reason for giving Noah’s day a second look is found in
Matthew 24:37
"When the Son of Man comes again, it will be exactly like the days of
Noah. The key issue in the days of Noah was the masses rejected GOD’S
leadership and did it their way.
A similar thing
occurred in Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel;
everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Can anyone deny that this is the place we have come to today?
Can anyone deny that this is the place we have come to today?
A poem by William
Ernest Henley;
Out of the night
that covers me,
Black as the pit
from pole to pole,
I thank whatever
gods may be
For my
unconquerable soul.
In the fell
clutch of circumstance
I have not winced
nor cried aloud.
Under the
bludgeonings of chance
My head is
bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place
of wrath and tears
Looms but the
horror of the shade,
And yet the
menace of the years
Finds and shall
find me unafraid.
It matters not
how strait the gate,
How charged with
punishments the scroll,
I am the master
of my fate:
I am the captain
of my soul.
The poem seems to
be a cry for dependence on no one, not even GOD. The popular words “I did it my
way” requires my “doing it my way” on a daily basis.
While this is a
noble thought most often it is not realized for we are part of a crowd being
led by the uninitiated. Trying to break
away from the crowd is a hope seldom accomplished.
In a world where
all is not well we dare not be foolish enough to try to eliminate God from the
equation called life, for to do so leaves us depending on the unstable arm of
flesh.
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