Today’s Reading: 1 Kings 3; 2 Chronicles 1; Psalm 78; 2 Thessalonians 2
Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
10 ...They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Observation: Mockers and skeptics are in abundance today. They refuse to believe the truth of the Gospel. They freely mock the miracles that believers claim. Today's airwaves are filled with deriding voices taking great pleasure in mocking Christ, Christians, and Christianity. But their unwillingness to accept the Gospel is not an unwillingness to have faith or to believe in the miraculous. These unbelievers eagerly and happily accept any theory or claim that comes along which they see as undercutting traditional faith. The Darwinian Evolutionary theory and Gorian Global Warming theory are examples of pseudo-science readily accepted by faith among the unbelievers. Socialist and marxist economic and political philosophy are gobbled up like candy among many. And the verses above tell us that God will actually allow Satan to produce miracle-like experiences that will be a "powerful delusion" drawing these skeptics to a greater faith the lies they have already believed.
Application: Keep speaking truth and believing in our supernatural God. Even the unbelievers believe in things that cannot be fully proved. But the proof of good and God is in the character of the followers. The mockers have a nasty and calloused character that evidences to me the flaw of their belief system. I choose to follow a loving and sacrificing God who calls on be to be the same.
Prayer: Lord, make me in your image. I want to believe and declare your amazing mighty miraculous works.
This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
1 comment:
You have spoken with wisdom and knowledge. I personally like the part in 2 Thessalonians 2:2 that speaks about those who claim that the Lord has already come. It clearly states that in verse 3 that that day will not come "until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness or sin (the anti-Christ) is revealed.
C.M.
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