One of the things that has a tendency to frustrate me about reading blogs is that it seems like there's rarely anything new to read. I check the same sites, day after day, but no new posts have been made. Since I have not posted anything new to my own blog in a solid month, I hardly have license to complain about such a thing, but said frustration did lead me down the following path of thinking. In our age of the information superhighway, it seems we have quickly developed an overwhelming desire for instant gratification. We want the latest toy, the latest song, the latest fad, the latest news, and we want it all now-now-now, because we know that it's all been made possible for us.
Recently, I heard on the radio a profound statement that hit me like a slap in the face. "God's never in a hurry, and the devil always is." I had never before considered things from that simple perspective, but once I heard it said, the notion seemed perfectly obvious to me. Satan has every reason to hurry, because he knows his time is short. Satan has every reason to cause us to hurry, because all our hurrying causes our focus to stray from God.
God is eternal, omnipresent, timeless. God exists everywhere, and in all times at once. His Word (the Bible) is full of prophecy in order to prove its authenticity, because He is the only One who could possibly know for certain what will happen in the future. He's never in a hurry, because He has no reason to be. He already knows exactly when and how every event will take place. How could a temporal being ever think he could become greater than his own timeless Creator? It boggles the mind, yet we find that Satan is perpetuating this very notion throughout all the world today.
Millions in this world are duped into believing that their eternal security rests in what they do. Others are duped into believing that there is no God. The vast majority are duped into worshiping false gods. What you do for the God with whom you have no relationship ultimately means nothing. Telling yourself and others that there is no God does not make Him any less real. Calling someone or something God, perhaps even calling someone or something by the name of Jesus, does not make that object of worship a real savior.
Yes, I said it. There are whole masses of people in the world today who call their object of worship Jesus, yet they have no relationship with the Jesus of the Bible - the Messiah, the Christ, the Savior...and they are all doomed to an eternity in the lake of fire. Satan is very crafty, and he has devised a whole slew of ways to blind us from who Jesus truly is and why He came. Satan wants only one thing - to steal glory from God and heap it upon himself. His best shot at that is through humanity, because we were created in God's image, for the sole purpose of glorifying Him.
The good news is that, no matter how much ground Satan gains in this spiritual war, he cannot win. Therefore, humanity's only remaining concern is...who are we siding with? The Bible is very plain about who we are siding with if we choose works, atheism, or false gods. The Bible explains in detail who Jesus truly is, and it gives us very specific instructions for joining the right side. Friend, if you do not have a relationship with the Jesus of the Bible, chances are you're still in a hurry.
If you do not know Jesus, you should be in a hurry! You could die today not knowing Him, condemned to spend eternity in the lake of fire. Start reading your Bible, and find Him! When you do find Him and trust Him with your life, I guarantee that you'll never need to be in a hurry again.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. - 2 Corinthians 11:3-4
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. - Revelation 22:18-19
Recently, I heard on the radio a profound statement that hit me like a slap in the face. "God's never in a hurry, and the devil always is." I had never before considered things from that simple perspective, but once I heard it said, the notion seemed perfectly obvious to me. Satan has every reason to hurry, because he knows his time is short. Satan has every reason to cause us to hurry, because all our hurrying causes our focus to stray from God.
God is eternal, omnipresent, timeless. God exists everywhere, and in all times at once. His Word (the Bible) is full of prophecy in order to prove its authenticity, because He is the only One who could possibly know for certain what will happen in the future. He's never in a hurry, because He has no reason to be. He already knows exactly when and how every event will take place. How could a temporal being ever think he could become greater than his own timeless Creator? It boggles the mind, yet we find that Satan is perpetuating this very notion throughout all the world today.
Millions in this world are duped into believing that their eternal security rests in what they do. Others are duped into believing that there is no God. The vast majority are duped into worshiping false gods. What you do for the God with whom you have no relationship ultimately means nothing. Telling yourself and others that there is no God does not make Him any less real. Calling someone or something God, perhaps even calling someone or something by the name of Jesus, does not make that object of worship a real savior.
Yes, I said it. There are whole masses of people in the world today who call their object of worship Jesus, yet they have no relationship with the Jesus of the Bible - the Messiah, the Christ, the Savior...and they are all doomed to an eternity in the lake of fire. Satan is very crafty, and he has devised a whole slew of ways to blind us from who Jesus truly is and why He came. Satan wants only one thing - to steal glory from God and heap it upon himself. His best shot at that is through humanity, because we were created in God's image, for the sole purpose of glorifying Him.
The good news is that, no matter how much ground Satan gains in this spiritual war, he cannot win. Therefore, humanity's only remaining concern is...who are we siding with? The Bible is very plain about who we are siding with if we choose works, atheism, or false gods. The Bible explains in detail who Jesus truly is, and it gives us very specific instructions for joining the right side. Friend, if you do not have a relationship with the Jesus of the Bible, chances are you're still in a hurry.
If you do not know Jesus, you should be in a hurry! You could die today not knowing Him, condemned to spend eternity in the lake of fire. Start reading your Bible, and find Him! When you do find Him and trust Him with your life, I guarantee that you'll never need to be in a hurry again.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. - 2 Corinthians 11:3-4
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. - Revelation 22:18-19
