Today, December 21, is the last day for the world, according to the Mayan’s calendar.
Tomorrow, some time not known by anyone other than God is the last day for the un-repaired world. It will be the day of reckoning for all who have relied on their own opinions concerning right and wrong; who have refused to heed that which is right in God’s eyes.
Is it not true that each of us do that which is right – even the wrong we justify – in our own eyes?
Adam is everyman’s encounter with God. In Genesis 2:9-17, He is saying to humanity: “And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground–trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”
“You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”
The tree of life is there for us. Life in a fullness we cannot conceive; everlasting life; a forever life which shall never know sorrow and shall always be as a cup overflowing. We cannot create it; not with government or without, can we make a better world than the Lord did long ago.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought forth evil which, having mixed itself with good, spoiled the whole. We need salvation from the result of trying it without following God’s recipe; from “. . . every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes.” (Deuteronomy 12:8)
Independent thinking is most subtle, is it not? “Hire a teenager while he knows everything,” is written on Danny’s restaurant window in Kenosha. Do we think we know better than God? We have been deceived in our thinking.
Whether we know it or not, “We live and move and have our being in Him. ” (Acts 17:28)
Before we came to know so, the earth was a globe, not a flat structure.
Before we came to know, infection was spread by bacteria.
Before we came to know, it’s a common human characteristic that we say sometimes, “If I had only known.” And this we still do after centuries of knowledge gathering and clarifying.
We were not created capable enough mentally to go it alone, to do “that which” (temporarily) seemed right in our own eyes.
“Has God said,” is the sound of Satan. (Genesis 3:1)
God “saves to the uttermost” because when we look to Him alone we grant to Him that we will be His workmanship.
Jesus, Savior, is the Tree of Life. The cross has been since and is the emblem of new and eternal life. But, He is the “way” of life as well. (John 14:6)
We should not be afraid of guilt. God’s word says every person has strayed from the LORD. Every one of us, are like sheep that have gone astray. We are all the focus of the Great Shepherd, who alone can redeem us from our wandering.
Oh Lord, “Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it to Thy courts above.”
Buddy