Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

I find myself tired of this present world. I cannot stand to hear the news of the day. If it isn’t horrible, violent, and dreadful; it is stupid, sad, and desperate. So I turn to something else to escape from this present danger. I find myself entertained for a moment in a movie or a show that is encouraging, fanciful, even cheerful, but I find myself in yet but another trap for which I must escape.

When I searched for appropriate scriptures to relate my condition, I checked the surrounding scriptures to make sure I was appropriating the correct scripture and not using His Word to serve my own means. Thankfully He led me to the right passages. I found comfort in discovering the Word of God to speak truth into my present condition. This is the passage that relates.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Luke 21 is the chapter in which His disciples asked Him about the signs of the end times. This in part is towards the end of that description. To be caught unawares has a significant meaning to me. It speaks to me that I was caught up in self and failed to do that which the Lord has asked. Once again I say, it is not the work we do but the condition of the heart that matters.

Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

1 Samuel 15:3 & 9 & 23 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Israel swore an oath to obey the word of the Lord and then failed to keep the oath. The consequences for breaking that oath was far reaching. History took a new path and the lineage of the kingdom took a new path. One could argue that all that could have been was destroyed.

I cannot help but look to the choices made without God. To seek the Lord and to be shown the path is to walk in the blessings that God has for those who love and obey Him. Men make oaths and break them because they do not follow God. The lesson is the same, the oath has been broken and the consequences are far reaching.

God has set certain principles in place which exist for both those who believe and those who do not. The principles exist irrespective of your awareness of them. Learned men would do well to understand that. Even secular wisdom has witnessed the fallout from these principles.

Jeremiah 31:8 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble:

Straight paths offer an opportunity to see ahead.