“There seems to be no good news in the news, just judgment absent of grace of faith and love.”
My last line from yesterday leads us to the option to look for the good mews.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Also 19 “to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
I include verse 19 for one and only one purpose; to point out there is a limit to the amount of time left to us to preach the good news. We live in the church age and it will end someday and then it will be too late to take advantage of that free offer of grace and mercy to a lost and troubled world of sinners.
Some of us are decades into this new life in Christ. The longer we live here the more comfortable and secure we find ourselves. Once we feel secure we are free to focus on the will of God and serve Him as is fit for us according to the gifts and talents that are uniquely our own.
The further we are from that moment of rebirth the harder it is to remember what life was like without God. Our focus turns from what we did for ourselves to what God is doing for us and through us.
How can we relate to the lost if we have forgotten how it felt to live without God?
We have the Word of God to remind us of how man acts without God or if they worship false gods. If we look at the history of mankind we might see that the nature of fallen man has not changed. The world has changed and there have been unbelievable improvements in the quality of life. We do not have to look back 4,000 years to see how much easier life is now.
“Volume of knowledge is doubling every 12 hours, the doubling rate used to be 25 years in 1945. Speed with which technology is progressing is the driver which are upending our careers, transforming lives and disrupting economies.” Source Linkedin
This statement is a world view and implies that vast gains in global knowledge does not improve our lives if it truly disrupts economies. There is a better way to measure personal security.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.