Scripture for the week - Two news items headlined yesterday on the Drudge Report have been tumbling together in my grey matter.
They've left me with one thought.... Okay. A couple of thoughts.
- We're doomed.
- Sin does not stand still.
And
Here's the headlines:
Unhappy as a boy, Kim became youngest ever transsexual at 12
Sour puss sweetened by a dose of Prozac
Granted these two items come from "across the pond," but it's pretty much the current course of humanity no matter on which part of the bank you live.
There's little point in expanding on the gut-reaction of "We're doomed." Other than to say we're not doomed. There is a way out and that way is found in Christ only.
But the thought of sin not standing still is the crux of the what my grey matter finally spilled forth.
Unchecked, corruption does not stop. It increases.
Since I'm in Florida I'll use a simple example of the state fruit.
Once I had a bag of oranges. One of those oranges wasn't quite right. It began to rot. A fungus had been growing on it's skin. It's insides decomposed and it began to ooze all over the rest of the oranges unchecked because I simply forgot about the bag. When I did remember, that fungus had spread to the rest of the oranges.
Sin's like that.
Only sin can't be fixed medically. Which really is the attempt in both the news items above. Medicine is only treating the symptoms and not the cause.
In the case of the cat it comes down to humans being irresponsible for their pets.
For the item about the boy seeking a sex change, the sin is much more complex, in that it is generational and societal.
The spiritual condition of man does not become better over time when it is unchecked by the saving blood of Christ. It worsens. And it's evidences I believe can be seen in the physical realm of illnesses from the ever burgeoning list of sexual diseases to the ever increasing amount of deviant sexual drives in society.
These sins are passed from one generation to the next.
'The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.' - Numbers 14:18.
But the sin does not maintain the status quo. It is not a state of being that is content with what's gone before. Instead generations that follow find themselves in ever increasing states of moral degeneration.
Such news items are just signs of the season we are entering. They do sadden my spirit because I feel for those trapped in the cycle of sin; in the darkness of hopelessness that they find themselves.
But I praise the Lord for he has made a way out of that darkness. The only way, Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God. And all who seek Christ shall find him and be set free from that cycle of sin and find love, joy, and peace.
But Christ won't enter into the heart of man unasked. And when asked, he will not be satisfied with just a portion of your heart. He will not be content to let you keep one of your secret sins.
He will ask you for all your heart; every corner, every dusty, moldy, fungus infested part. And when you relinquish it to Christ, he will clean and redeem it, separating you from death. The result is freedom, rebirth, and life eternal as we wait in hope for the day of Christ's promised return.
The Great Separation continues.
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