Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days,
keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.
Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”
Psalms 34:11-14
Have you noticed how unruly and ungodly our own culture, society, world, etc., have become? It is slowly degrading everyday. It makes me wonder what kind of world my grandchildren (if my kids decide to have kids) will see. Faith is being attacked from every angle. God and Jesus are being taken from the public eye while other faiths can keep themselves out in public view.
Yet, if you look around, there are still plenty of people who fear the Lord. The Lord will teach those who are getting rid of Him that they should fear Him. The final punishment will be one that they probably can’t even imagine because they have not been taught how to fear the Lord. The Lord is perfect. And the Lord is jealous…as the Israelites found out many times before.
The Israelites turned from God many times. They ended up in slavery in Egypt. Cities were destroyed because they became intertwined within the cultures that had accepted the Israelites into theirs. Sodom and Gomorrah paid the ultimate price—complete destruction. If we continue on the path we are on today then our culture, society, world, etc., is looking at its own destruction from God’s power soon. Jesus will return for God’s children, and the end will come.
For those of us who fear the Lord and accept His blessings and teachings, the end will be great. We will see many good days here on Earth, but we will see an eternity of good days in Heaven. God’s children’s lives are immortal if they have accepted the one true Savior, Jesus Christ. Just think about these verses:
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
By accepting the Lord, by fearing the Lord, and receiving blessings from the Lord, we will have many good days here on Earth and in Heaven. We must turn from evil to good and seek God. If the rest of the world would do this then maybe there would not be so much disaster and heartache in our world today. Maybe our children would get the examples they need instead of the ones they don’t need.
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Dear Lord, we thank You for our earthly days. We look forward to the days we will spend with You in eternity. We believe that Jesus died for all here on earth. We pray that this message of love and sacrifice reaches everyone. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
