Did You Just See What Happened?

Posted byLuther DavisPosted inSigns of the Times

Several years ago there was a news story broke in which the President of the United States had an affair with an intern that was not his wife. People across the nation was shocked at the accusation and became more so when the President denied having an affair with the young lady. In a television interview the President blatantly lied to the American public about the affair, yet later findings showed that not only was there an affair but the details of what happened shocked many to their core.

Upon hearing the news, I commented that “imagine a politician lying to the public, or a sitting President having an affair while in office, who would have ever thunk that would happen.” The cynicism in my voice was just an undercurrent of the hardness of my heart from years of wickedness running unchecked in our society.

This hardness of heart is what today’s sign is talking about. It also marks the end of the “must needs be” signs as tools God uses to prepare this world for the End Times.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Matthew 24:9-13

A quick search for either Apathy or Moral Dissonance will give you a multitude of sites and videos with each trying desperately to explain why these traits are becoming more common in our day and age. God didn’t leave in doubt as to the reason for this growing Apathy.

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Revelation 2:4, 5

We spend our lives filling our souls with News about crimes, lies, violence and all sorts of other sins that wounds us to our very core. The pain we felt becomes a wound that festers filling our lives with remorse. To protect ourselves we try and shield ourselves from this pain, causing a slowly hardening of our hearts to others and the things of God.

After years of repeating this process we have become as hard hearted today as the day before we got saved. So how do we go from this hard hearted, thoughtless person and return to the tender heart of flesh we had when first saved? God again answers this question when He said:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Philippians 4:8

This week let us each try to limit the amount of bad news we take in this week, using the time filling our souls with the Living Word of God. As was bantered about in the early advent of the computer age, Garbage In is Garbage Out.

Father,

Over the years I’ve recoiled away from You and Your Word, focusing all my time

and efforts on the bad News surrounding me. This has caused me to move away

from You, manifesting a life that doesn’t differ from those around me. Lord, as

the song above states, give me Your eyes, arms and even heart so that I may show

the world the glory of Your Son, through the care and compassion that only You

can give.

Amen

Published by Luther Davis

I'm a 50+ year old country boy raised in southeast Georgia. My dad said "rich people go to school, poor people go to work," I became an electrician in the U.S. Navy. After retiring, I spent 16 years as a construction electrician in North Carolina and Virginia. Across the many sites I worked I had the privilege of defending God and His Word from the mainstream to the exotic, the uneducated to the scholar and back again. With no formal education but a love of God's Word, I self educated myself with each new concept I encountered. As a seeker of truth, I researched each topic using writings from the earliest church fathers to current biblical scholars across denominational lines. I was raised in a evangelical fundamental denomination with a rigid and inflexible view of biblical interpretation. The more I learned I abandoned some of the ideas of my youth. Today I'm back in "God's country" married, working as a security guard. Yet the love I have for God's Word has created a wise man out of a country bumpkin. My only claim to notoriety came I was placed on the "do not call" list of an evangelical cult. Seems they didn't like a nobody using their bible to show them God's truth uncovering their own deceptions and lies.

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