Hello Guys and Gals!
I would like to talk about our attitude of careless disregard today. I don't know how or why, when someone speaks the truth about any situation, they can be dismissed out of hand by uncaring people because what they speak about 'does not really matter'!
I do not know if I am a considered a 'prophet' by any stretch of the imagination. I am not saying that I am. What I am saying is that History repeats itself and we can look to the actions of those in the past to predict the actions of those who are doing the same things in the present!
Yet we have seen 'prophets' rejected even back before the time of Jesus! In Matthew 23:34-36 we see Jesus speaking about how the prophets He has sent have been rejected time and again:
34 ``Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.36 Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
So when people speak the truth, whether it be from God directly, or whether it be from knowing the where the actions of those leading us will lead if we continue to let them go down that path, why is it that so many do not take it to heart? Why do so many dismiss it out of hand? Why do so many think that the person who is speaking this truth is a 'Kook'?
Is it because your hearts have hardened so much that you no longer recognize truth when you see it?
Today, of all the times in the world to have the privilege of living, we can research the facts given so easily! Just twenty years ago we did not have this ability. If someone did research, they had to go to actual libraries and spend hours researching facts to come to the truth behind what someone was saying. They had to go to the archives of newspapers and seek through microfilm to find the reference that would allow you to pull up the actual newspaper and read what it actually said back at that time! Today we have the internet and search engines! We have the ability to type in key words and pull up tons of information that has been written about those key words!
Now it is true that you have to use reason and logic and follow sources listed and check them out to find out if they're true or not in order to disseminate whether what you pull up is accurate or not. But you can do that in record time today! Why do people not do this? It is so easy!
The simple answer is that, because it is so easy, we have become lazy! We do not see if someone is lying or telling the truth! We simply render a judgment on what we already perceive to be the truth and either judge it to be accurate or false on our perception! What ever happened to doing your homework?
What if what someone says is actually from God in His effort to put a stop to what is happening today through the warnings of the past? What if you have dismissed what this person has said without doing the research? What if it comes true? What if, had you listened to the person previously, you could have been instrumental in stopping it from happening? What if you had that opportunity and you failed in it? What if millions of people were killed because of your inaction?
Personally, I'm not willing to be one of these people who are indifferent to the truth! I do my research! I do my fact checking! I do compare everything I have to God's Word and see whether it lines up with His truth or not!
Mostly, and most important to me, I do not want to stand before the Throne of God and have no excuse for me not doing everything I can do to help other people come to a saving knowledge of Him in my lifetime! I do not want to stand before my Lord and my God and have Him be disappointed in what He gave me to work with and not having done all I can with it for His glory! Even though I am already afraid I have failed Him for the past I have lived.
So what about you today? Will you stand idly by and dismiss what is the truth because you didn't do your homework? Will you stand before the Throne of God and have no excuse because you stayed silent when you could have spoken out?
All it takes for Evil to succeed is for Good Men to do nothing!
May God bless you all this day!
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