If I fashion the words just right I can dissuade you from your just pursuits and lead you into pointless wandering.  These are evil times my friend and we must be on guard.  Careless words given to children can create anti-social or self destructive behavior that outlasts parenthood.  When I reflect back on the “bad” direction I was given, the subsequent missteps and mistakes which may have been completely avoided it compels me to deliver a stark call to all those who would walk the straight and narrow.  What type of salesman am I being to those easily influenced folks in my life, how am I aiding the enemy by leading them “one degree” off course, resulting in altered destination?  That is why the enemies of God love the grey area, they abhor the absolute truth, because in the truth there is no hiding place for self-justification.  I cannot explain away my poor behavior, lusts or personal servitude when there is such an unavoidable, “unchanging” God who has laid down for eternity the words that will never pass away, against which all my thoughts, behaviors and inaction will be measured.

Those caught in apostasy and God denial rationally have no other choice than to ridicule the Lord.  For if God’s standard is true then their destination is determined and a love for “self-determination” forces them to illusion and blindness.  It is eerily similar to Satan’s circumstances, may the Lord rebuke him, who has lost the war yet refuses to turn about and rectify his rebellion.  Having only one purpose now, with no self salvation available but to corrupt every other soul possible leading all those naive hearts astray from their redemption out of spite, jealousy, rage and despair.

Do you measure yourself against the Word or do you go about your own business then look for justification wherever available, perhaps in a Bible verse taken out of context or in the world through “self or worldly” opinion.  Let us briefly look back at the rapid downfall of America as a promised, God fearing nation.  When Darwin published his briefings and hypotheses back in 1859 it was widely received by a population looking for a way out of guilt.  We eagerly embraced the absence of God in our liberal hunt for alternative justification.  By 1865 we were almost torn apart by the Civil War, which some may say was immediate evidence of God’s displeasure with our pursuits.  Then in 1872, Harvard left the Bible basis for Law, inserting instead Law based on the determination of the history of mankind.  Since that time we have been on a decadent spiral, careening from fat to lean, born on the pendulum of self determination.  No longer were we edified by the Providence of God but were as the Lord always does with His children who depart from the path, “left to our own understanding and outcome”.  We have been reaping what we have sown and wickedness, decay and death are entwined.  The current state of affairs in this nation is in direct response to our denial of the truth that is the Lord our God.  We have received the consequences of said action just as Romans 1 predicted for all who go astray.

There are only two sides those for God and those against Him.  There is only one absolute truth and His name is Jesus.  Men who are governed by the law will be judged by the law.  Those who confess, repent and believe on the works of the Lord shall be pardoned and made free for eternity.  Intolerance is a convenient word expressed by the dying to free themselves of the light of truth.  I am no one’s judge, but in truth I must declare the Word of Him who is faithful and true.  His Word is truth, His love and grace sweet, His Justice Swift.  I pray that my words have led no one astray for the Truth that is Christ the Lord of All.  He is Lord after all not because I say it is so but because He Is.  Whether you accept that fact is up to you, but it does not change the fact that He is our Creator and has all the right in this world and the next to make the rules and expect that we live by them.  I implore you to seek the truth and come out of the pitch darkness or shadowed gray.  Stand in the light where all is seen, all revealed, all cleansed and alive.  Praise God in Jesus’ Holy Name.  Amen.