Today’s Thought “Time, In A Bottle…” G. Ward

Psalm 24

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who live in it. ² For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. ³ Who may ascend onto the hill of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place?

 

Persuading the unchurched onto spiritual order (solely) from God’s Word should be precedent unto every believer’s desire. Moreover, that order presented must undeniably portray Holy God as the Only Sufficient One and all others (considerably) less than (cf. Ro.10:14).

Unfortunately, our era is witness to a cultural pervasion of an unscripted allowance of having the Creator on terms of man - practiced by the church and unchurched (e.g., worship styles, including musical genre entirely secular, lack of expositional preaching with numerous contrasts so worldly, even comedic, promises extended unto every listener that assures there’s imminent blessings with your name on it, absolutely precluding mention of sin and God’s judgment – including HELL as unnecessary for such a discourse, etc.).

May we all more understand as Job would upon saying, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21), and whereas Job would be exposed to significant challenges in grief, he’d never let go of knowing that he was merely passing through God’s world.