Eternal Life in Jeopardy

Mal 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?


Making God weary. Saying that those who do evil are good to the Lord, that the Lord is pleased with them even though they do evil. Questioning God's ability to judge.


We can understand a little, and personally because we become tired of people questioning our reasoning and this is fallible, human reasoning. A judge sitting on the bench in court passing judgement won't tolerate people challenging their judgement. They put people in contempt of court if they're belligerent and openingly questioning of decisions they pass. There are proper channels for people to take when they believe a judgement wrong, but to outright challenge a decision is cause for being fined. This is our court system. God is infallible, God's judgment is perfect even if we don't understand it all. When we question God we reveal our lack of faith in Him. Having your faith questioned is very tiring. A couple with one of the partners constantly questioning the others faith is very, very tiresome. We want our loved ones to believe in us and not question our faithfulness, don't we? Imagine how it must be on the level of God.


When we make claims that evil is good and live our lives in what we call acceptable evil, we also weary God. God is in control though many would think otherwise. It's easy to question God when we look at the horrors of life, when we ourselves find it so incredibly impossible to keep from sinning. We become numb to the true horror of sin and we begin to condone it and call it natural and good but in truth, God sees through the thick clouds of confusion we succumb to. We cause the Lord to be wearied by denying the evil that we do, and that others do in His sight, actually claiming that God is delighted in the evildoers, or questioning God's ability to judge, all of this displeases God as it should.


We might question God's ability to be wearied, but there are many forms of being weary and it's not at all hard to imagine God fed up with evil and evil doers.


We live in a world that promotes instant life after death. That death is just a slip into a new existence and more often than not we stress that people should go towards a light- to the good life that waits. We have shows on television that portray people after death struggling to find the right path after death and the majority seem to find it and go the right way with the minority succumbing to the evil, dark side. The Bible tells us that the broad is the way that leads to death and narrow the way that leads to life, and it also tells us death is a sleep and the dead will wake to their judgement. Matt.7:13,14; 1 Thess. 4:14-18


We also read this-

Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.


There is no instant life after death and the reality of it all is that FEW will be resurrected to life, the majority of people will be resurrected to damnation. We don't WANT to believe this. We want to sugarcoat salvation and believe that everyone will go to heaven. We'll see our loved ones in heaven even is we know they've led a life contrary to God, it's because God is good and forgiving, right? The Bible doesn't teach us that the majority will find Salvation in Christ, it teaches the opposite. We have to question whether we are among those that call evil good, if we say God is delighting in the evil- because we are calling that evil good. Truthfully it's easier to believe that the evil doesn't matter because few want to truly realize the possibility of their own eternal life in jeopardy.


May God bring to light and reveal to us any evil in our lives and in revealing it help us to overcome through Christ. We find salvation in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, through forgiveness of our sins-- may we recognize our sins so that we may ask for forgiveness, may we not sugar-coat our sins trying to fool ourselves that they are good.


By His Grace and Mercy now and forever.


Amen.