Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
Singapore August 15, 1994
Good Morning!
IF YOU WERE GOD, WHAT IS THE ONE SIN THAT WOULD CAUSE
YOU TO DESTROY MANKIND?
ADULTERY?
MURDER?
THEFT?
In Noah's day when God destroyed the earth with a flood:
"They were eating...drinking...(and) marrying..."
(Luke 17:27)
The focus of their lives was on their family
and social life.
In Lot's day when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, they were:
"Eating...drinking...buying...selling...planting...(and)
building." (Luke 17:28)
The focus of their lives was also on their family, social
life, and on their businesses!
These activities it would seem, are not exactly the kind that
would merit the destruction of mankind!
Except for one small problem: Their emphasis
on family, social life, and business simply excluded God.
They didn't hate God. They just ignored Him.
In fact God was to them:
Irrelevant
On the sidelines
Odd "Man" out
And in the Bible this kind of attitude spells IDOLATRY.
It was precisely because of their idolatry that God destroyed
their generation.
Tell me, is your life centered primarily on your
family, social life or business? Or on God?
If it is not on God, you have a serious problem: IDOLATRY.
And IDOLATERS will not be in God's heaven.
(ICorinthians 6:9)
Have a great week!
Dwight Hill
© Copyright 1996 Dwight Hill. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice.
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