NOT A VIRTUE!
Memorise:
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Proverbs 26:11
Read: Proverbs 15:20-21, (KJV)
Bible in one year: Ephesians 1:1-4:16, Psalms 18:20-28
MESSAGE
Foolishness
is not a virtue; rather it is a vice that costs its victim eternity in
hell fire. The Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). In other words, lack of the fear of God
is the beginning of foolishness. So, when someone decides to live
without the fear of God, he does whatever he pleases without
consideration for the Word of God, he feels he is free to do whatever he
likes with his life, he behaves as if he owns his life, but in actual
sense, his life is borrowed and the Owner may ask for it anytime. Our
Lord Jesus told a parable of a prosperous farmer who did not reckon with
God in all his dealings. Considering the wealth he had possessed he
said:
"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?"
Luke 12:19-20
Some
people who claim to be children of God behave foolishly sometimes. Our
memory verse for today says: "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly." Some brethren who had been modest and holy are
now regretting their past pure Christian life! Those vanities they
forsook in the past are now back in full force. This scripture is now
fulfilled in their lives. Jesus said when a demon is cast out of a man,
he goes away but after sometime he comes back to check whether that life
is still empty. If he finds the life empty he goes back to take seven
more powerful demons to take possession of the life (Luke 11:24-26). It
is foolishness to go back to your old lifestyle after you have been
cleansed from your former sins and impurities. The Bible says:
"For
if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the
beginning."
2nd Peter 2:20
In
the past, you could identify a child of God from afar off (with the few
exceptions of those who were pretenders). Many things that are now
being celebrated were abominations in those days. It is unfortunate that
a wholesale return to those vanities is now in vogue. Some Christian
scholars were brought to me in my office by their leaders many years ago
and I saw assorted wild paintings – red, green, silver, brown, pink etc
on their faces and lips. I could not help but tell them that was the
first time I would see Bible scholars in such a wild exhibition of
vanities. Their leader then promised that he would do something about it
and that when Lazarus came out from the dead he was gradually striped
of the grave clothes he had on. Theologians know how to explain things
away. Beloved, going back from your first love is not a virtue; it is
rather a vice. Repent today, tomorrow may be too late. (22 July 2016
Open Heavens)
Action Point
Check your life and see if there is any foolish act of sin, unrighteousness or backsliding. Repent.
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