Signs Pt 8

Mat 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Sometimes don't we wish we lived in an isolated place, far from the outside world with all its many horrors? I know I long for that but the truth is what we are truly longing for can only be found in another world, not this one.  We could hide away in some place here on earth but the horrors won't cease to exist.  In that isolation death and sickness, injury and pain will still find us all on our own without any outsiders contributing to it. The fact remains that this world is under a curse and has been given over to the ruling power of Satan.  This means that from the beginning after sin entered our world that it would fight for dominance and for the most part, it wins.  Of the innumerable amount of people that will have lived from earth's beginning until Christ comes again and take all those that are His with Him to heaven, the overwhelming majority will belong to Satan.

We can read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and know by that example alone that the majority of people belong to Satan. 

This verse here in Matthew 24:12 tells us that BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND- the LOVE of MANY SHALL WAX COLD.

All you have to do is read one day's worth of news to know that this is factual.

All you have to do is turn on the television and watch a day's worth of television, and you'll know.

Of course, if you've been BLINDED to what is evil, you won't comprehend the evil that exists and you'll actually call evil...good.  To you the world might be a mostly good place, the majority of people might be mostly good people, but the truth is vastly different. We can spin things in many directions but the truth is the LOVE of many is ICE COLD.

And the corresponding truth is that it is ice cold because, iniquity abounds.

SIN rules this world.

The closer you grow to Christ and His love, the clearer you can see the true evil of sin in its many, many forms- large and small.

And your heart breaks.

We have to stop donning our rose colored glasses called optimism, called wishful thinking, because the clearer sight they give is truly called deception.

Love, true love, God's love has been practically frozen solid it's so incredibly cold in our world today and sin reigns from the tiniest evil to the greatest.

Please LORD help our LOVE not wax cold but be burning hot, alive, on fire for YOU and all others as YOU would have our love truly be!

All through YOUR LOVE! By YOUR GRACE, YOUR MERCY!

And just moments ago on the news I heard the following:

A seventeen and fourteen year old are being charged in the murder of a toddler. They went up to the mother who was walking her baby in his stroller and demanded money. Then they shot the baby.  My heart breaks!  Love is ice cold, ice cold and iniquity abounds!

Save us, Lord, please, save us!