Insightful Musings on theScriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Good evening, dear people.
It’s later than I want it to be. I was about to board the bed when it occurred to me that I never did get this sent yet today. Too many things going on. You can be sure my head is working very well about now. I better just press SEND, then find the bed.
Sleep well. Good night. I’ll walk back to the house in the light of that big HONEY MOON just over the hill. Pretty.
Love, Dad/Ray.
What is “NOT SO” about the WICKED? They miss out on the BLESSING of the LORD that leads to ETERNAL LIFE. The saddest part of the whole deal is that their condemnation of perishing is so unnecessary. While they have as much potential for being RIGHTEOUS and getting in on God’s blessing as anyone, they choose to “love darkness rather than light”—they choose to seek pleasing SELF rather than seeking GOD and living to please Him.
By viewing our present world and pop culture through the lens of Scripture, I have to believe that Satan is as aggressively and effectively at work to thwart the purposes of God as he ever was back in the Garden—deceiving people, influencing their choices away from God, and promoting their destruction. Of course, the resulting deposit of the NATURAL SIN NATURE into the human DNA is a huge contributing factor. Our culture is clearly full of everything Psalm 1:1 warns against—walking in the “counsel of the wicked” (THINKING anti-God ideologies), standing “in the way of sinners” (DOING and practicing the sins related to those ideologies), then following through with sitting “in the seat of mockers”—(an established LIFESTYLE of sin that ridicules righteousness and scorns repentance). For many, the whole idea of SIN is just a big joke.
Paul lays these cards on the table: “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).