WE LIVE IN A MIXED UP WORLD
Have you ever traveled to a town or place that was completely new to you? Maybe your children had a sporting event somewhere with which you were unfamiliar. Travel around, twist and turn, up one street and down the other. Exhausted you arrive late, the event has started and your child doesn’t get to play because you were late. Enter GPS and Smart Phones. Put in the address and wham’o you have the directions.
Our world is mixed up. Paul describes it like this, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (Rom. 1:22-23). Paul said, “…they dishonor their own bodies…served the creature more than the Creator…even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature” (Rom. 1:24-26).
Riches have become tantamount in the minds of many as with the rich farmer in Luke. “And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry” (Lk. 12:19). God is of no consequence.
Pleasure and popularity has become the goal for our families and yet failing to realize just where that concept leads. Paul said, “But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth” (1 Tim. 5:6).
Would you just continue to drive around a community without seeking some guidance to get you to your destination? No! Your children are screaming at you to find the location and your wife is saying, “Why don’t you stop and ask someone where the field is?”
Since we live in a mixed up world, just as a GPS will get you to your target so will the Word of God guide you through the maze of sin in which everyone wants to seemingly live.
The word of God is a lamp (Ps. 119:105). It will guide you. Don’t live confused about morality (Col. 3:5). The Bible is a book that will keep you stable in all of your dealings. The greatest instruction we can receive in a mixed up world are the words of the Lord Jesus in The Sermon on The Mount (Matt. 5-7). Read it! Study it! Contemplate it! Practice it! It will keep you from frustration as you live in a mixed up world.
Larry