Talking about Lyme disease on talk radio overnite, the host asked the guest "why did mother nature create ticks? They serve no purpose," yadayadayada....Excuse me? mother nature? The fallacy of human invention. The trite ramblings of intellectual cretins. Educated to imbecility in the most prestigious echelons of higher learning. Take God out of the equation. Take His Word and relegate it to obscurity and you birth the ramblings of miscreants.
Truth be mankind, represented by Adam and Eve, preferred a lie rather than the truth of God. Eat fruit of the tree and die. Obey and live. The words of the serpent, dragon, devil, satan "You shall be as God, knowing good and evil" became the path chosen by the human race, and thus the Scripture proclaims, " the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him (God) who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption.
This is a perishing creation. It will be burned up, wiped clean, when the Lord Jesus returns in flamming fire. ( 2 Peter 3:10-13; 2Thess 1:7-9; Rev 6:12-17; 20:7-10) Then regenerated anew. A new heaven and new earth where righteousness dwells. You must have the righteousness of God to abide there. It is His nature. He is Holy, Holy, Holy. We are unrighteous, contaminated by sin. And all our righteous acts are filthy and worthless before God. For without Jesus Christ, as He said, "you can do nothing." Nothing of any worth, or value in the sight of a Holy God. That is why Christ came.
The Word who was in the beginning with God, and was God, the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us...(John 1) who being in very nature God, came in the likeness of mankind, humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death...(Phil 2:5-11) For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. (John 5:16-18)
And when I saw Him, (The Son of God) I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. (Rev 1:17-18; Is.44:6 notice God will not give His glory to another)
The religious leaders knew what Jesus was saying.... Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” Then they took up stones to throw at Him. Why? The high priest answered and said to Him, “I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His blasphemy! (Matt. 26: 62-65)
Now back to those ticks. They are bloodsucking, vile, disgusting, repugnant creatures full of disease that they spread to others. Gee, sort of sounds like the human condition in the sight of a Holy and Righteous God. Both physically and spiritually.
Our nation is following that Romans road not to salvation but damnation, Worshipping, working and serving the creation rather than the creator, with mother nature being nothing different from that which the ancient pagans worshipped including Asherah, the Queen of Heaven, which included Anat, Isis, Innana, Astarte, the Greek goddess Artimis or Roman goddess Diana.
It seems we are a nation quickly spiraling down, sinking deeper into a cesspool of spiritual corruption so that we might throw off the God of The Christians and Jews to pursue every vile and wicked perversion imaginable.
And worse yet, much of the Church is compromising and accepting a watering down of the Gospel message so that it might not offend or speak the truth about our sinful condition.
Has God given us over to a reprobate mind? You be the judge......"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:29-32)
These are troubling times, but God is weeding out the wheat from the tares. He is still calling His people from darkness to light from death to life. Why? Because He has a people He calls His own, a people He loves and cherishes and wants to come to Him. The only Way is through his only begotten Son, so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. Eternal life. A citizenship in Heaven and a place where His people will hear the words of their Lord, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord."
Take heart. Stand firm on your faith. Remember these words of the Apostle Paul. "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." (Romans 8:18)
"Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Cor 4:17-18)
