Thursday 14 Aug 2014

August 14: Matthew 24:36-44

Key Verse: Matthew 24:37
But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Devotion:
When we look around us at the state of the world and the people we could be forgiven for thinking that Christ is going to return tomorrow; the evil that is embedded in society nowadays must be getting close to the days of Noah when God sent the flood to wipe away all the evil. The truth is that we do not know that much about how bad things were in those days because there were not that many people writing about it back then. Yes we have snippets of information in our Bibles but we do not have the media coverage that we do now.

When something bad happens we either hear about it non-stop through TV, radio and the Internet, or someone covers it up and squashes the stories. But still we get to hear about things happening through one way or another and it is not just the people next door that hear it because the media we have now is global and the stories spread round the world within minutes. I can remember listening to the news and watching live stories over the Internet and on TV when the Twin Towers were struck by aeroplanes hijacked by terrorists. So is the world as corrupt or can people get worse?

That in itself is such a sad question to have to ask… can people get worse. It is how we are being brought up and what we are expecting from others. As a child I was brought up in a country where fighting was the norm, where people would get killed every day by bombs, landmines and shooting. We got used to the stories as they were told and to some extent our hearts were dumbed down into accepting that this was normal in some way. Having your bags checked as you enter into a shop to make sure you were not the terrorist was quite normal; sad but normal.

We do not have to accept life like this as being normal. We have our Bibles which tell us what should be normal according to what God expects from us. Let us stand proud of the crowd and continue to put forward God’s Word as the truth and what we aim for instead of accepting the garbage that other people come out with as being normal in some way. If we were able to spend some quiet time with God and then listen to a recording of our lives, we may well stop many things that we now accept as normal. Spend more time with God to know what is going on in your life and stand with God.

Points to Ponder:
What sort of life do you lead?

Is God proud to walk with you?