Saturday, May 12, 2012

Wicked World

1Jn 5:19  And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Again we talk about this world and its wickedness. Why? Because tragically this world is consumed by wickedness.

We don't want to talk about the wickedness in the world, we'd much rather talk about the good things, the things pleasing to our ears. Why expose the wickedness? Unfortunately when the wickedness is exposed it's mostly excused. So gradually over the last hundred years or so- step by step the world has reverted into acceptable depravity and far be it from someone to stand up and yell that it's wicked.

People love to bring up how things were way back in ancient Greece, ancient Rome and you know what, the world supposedly wanted to turn away from that sort of acceptable horror- it wanted to become civilized.

Standards were introduced, and yet today you'll hear so many say that it was all wrong to civilize society whose natural tendencies are not towards what it has deemed puritanical mores, but rather base desires.

It's true, I won't deny that man's flesh nature is what steers him towards depravity under the guise of normal tendencies, normal desire, normal actions.  Man's sinful nature will most decidedly desire to rule over all.

If you believe in GOD you have to believe that man became corrupted when He sinned, and that the natural man WARS against the spiritual man inside us all. So to hear people applauding the removal of moral standards and touting they are being replaced by BETTER more natural standards, more humane standards is heartbreaking. What they're really applauding is sinful flesh overcoming the spiritual nature. They are applauding the depravity coming up to reign once again in a very acceptable way rather than being fought against as something to abhor. They've made sin acceptable! They've made bad - good, and if you try to stand among those crying out against the sinful nature of man coming to rule once again in society you are deemed narrow-minded, old fashioned, a bigot, a fool, the list is endless and made to get you to believe you are in the wrong- as wrong seemingly becomes right. 

It's true, I know many, many people who LOVE the new standards coming to reign in society, they believe they have developed an acceptance of people when the truth is they've developed an acceptance of sin.  It's AWFUL that man even has the tendency towards sin, and how it reigns in everyone is different. My tendency to sin might NOT be something that calls for me to sacrifice the physical love of another, but another's might. I will however have to sacrifice in another way as my tendency to sin demands if I would seek NOT to indulge sin. We ALL have a path to walk and to say one person's is harder than another's is to be foolish because we DO not live inside anyone other than ourselves and we only know our own tolerances, and inability to tolerate.  I cannot believe that there is anyone who lives a life free of the horrible and very real temptation to sin.  Just because people have had to struggle NOT to indulge in sin, just because more and more people are struggling with the same or very similar sinful act- DOES NOT make it less sinful or acceptable! 

Yet we've made so many sins acceptable because the masses have succumbed to them.

The sin of selfishness is right up there on the top of the list, and worldwide in the smallest country to the largest this sin is alive and well and accepted, so accepted it's hardly ever called a sin.

As this WICKED world nears its end the depravity will abound so that the struggling follower of Christ will be turned against as an outcast, a non-conformer, someone who is a rebel, they will be considered the criminal one in the minds of the wicked. They will be called the compassionless, the unenlightened, the haters.

1Jn 5:19  And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

This world, this ENTIRE world, exists in wickedness, it was true in the days of our Savior and is still true today. 

With spiritual blinders removed by the Holy Spirit those who are of God will see, they will know and accept that the world is truly wicked, understanding they live for a world made new by our Savior, they live to inhabit the place being prepared by our Redeemer Jesus Christ.

May God keep our blinders off, enlightening us in all things Spiritual, all things in Him, in ALL truth so that we are not among those willingly allowing themselves be deceived as Satan lays his wicked traps to ensnare all but the very elect.

In HIS amazing LOVE!

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