Just a Thought…
I try to stay away from the “woes” in the Bible, for I recognize we all live in a glass house. All too soon the solid rock you think you will never fall from, you stumble from. Pride goes before a fall and all that…
However, this morning I heard the following scripture:
Woe (judgment is coming) to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
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Woe (judgment is coming) to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever and shrewd in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 (AMP)
Since I try to avoid the woes, it got my attention. I confess for the first time in a long time I listened to the news. What I heard caused me to cry out for the people that were talking. For they were not sharing the news, they were shaping public opinion – with their own. I felt the same way when I listened to the portion of the hearings on January 6th. Questions were not posed as much as opinions that were being placed on public record.
As I stated, I try to stay away from things that interpret the motives of people – I have found through much experience it can get you in much trouble. Yet, I consider myself a fairly informed citizen who can decipher when truth is not being conveyed as much as it is being created.
I have no heaven or hell to put anyone in, nor do I want to. My intention is not debase anyone. I do know that one day there will a day of reckoning where everyone will have to give an account for that which was done in their body – not the city, state, or nation as a whole. With that in mind, I am also astute enough to know that I would do well not to align myself with thinking that has no basis in the word of God – instead I will stick with the “old, old story” – it has served others well throughout the ages, I know I can trust it to do the same for me