“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord.

‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9).

The above passages of Holy Writ are straightforward and easy to understand. Yet how many take these words of wisdom and comfort to heart in the age of 5G technology that is in lockstep with digitalization? As for people who regard themselves as followers of Christ, is there a sizeable number that have encountered these verses? How about preachers who pay serious regard to these words that could lift a good crowd out of the prevailing doom and gloom?

Excessive preoccupation with worldliness is the root cause of cynicism and indifference when it comes to belief in the infinite power of the Sovereign Lord. It is heavily discounted, largely because the myriad of reference points are all stored in secular knowledge that possesses a lexicon classification according to specific fields. No need to rush down to the nearest library as it was the fashion decades ago. There are search engines that enable this process to be not far from warp speed!

Of course, it is easy to get hold of material relating to the Living Word in likewise manner, but how many folks do bother? There is captivation that stems from many wonders that the realm of man-made technology has to offer. This is enough impetus to drive large populations away from the truth the Gospel has to offer – right to the point of dismissing recorded instances of God’s Power as nothing more than fables!

1 Corinthians 1:20 clearly states the parlous state many are in today.

“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the dispute of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”

HE sure has made more than a mockery of the wisdom that comes from the flesh. What happens when technology becomes more of a foe than a friend? The same can be said about earthly setups, frameworks and institutions – they are prone to failure at some point in the future. If anything worse, it could be one’s worst nightmare! We are certainly seeing this unfold in a pitiless drumbeat as the fallout of an almost year-long pandemic rears its ugly head.

The miracles that our Lord Jesus performed when He walked Planet Earth are definitely not impossible, but because of the hardening of numerous hearts – there is wanton disbelief! This aspect of the Fallen Nature is highly destructive as it is the unmistakable sowing of seeds that spell hopelessness. It is this state that drives people to do what they otherwise would not have done.

Anyone can get out of this snare by simply believing in the efficacy and potency of the Living Word, especially the Gospel. The miracles that are mentioned in the Scriptures bear testament to the undeniable truth concerning the limitless Power of God through Jesus Christ His Son. So, at the end of the day, who are you going to put your trust in for the peace which money cannot buy? The Creator or that which He created?

Wise up and do not be short-changed where your eternal destiny is concerned!

For His Kingdom and Glory

Edwin

Contactable at edwinuk13@gmail.com

All of us get discouraged from time to time. It doesn’t matter how mature we are as believers or how long we have been a Christian. I don’t think I need to rehash all of the excruciating details we have had to endure this past year. We all know what they are and have been.

One of the greatest examples we have in the Bible of someone who was discouraged is Jeremiah the “Weeping” prophet. Jeremiah experienced many of the same things we are experiencing today in America. He watched as his beloved country and city went down the tubes.

In Lamentations 3, of which Jeremiah is the author, he spends the first 20 verses remembering all of his afflictions. He even blames them all on God Himself. Ever have days like that when you felt like God Himself was against you? I do. I believe we all do.

But there came a turning point in Jeremiah’s perspective. It came in verse 21 when he stopped reminding himself of all his troubles and reminded himself of the faithfulness of God!

He said, “This I recall to my mind [I remembered]; therefore I have hope!”

Jeremiah went from saying “My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord” (v.18) to “The Lord is my portion; therefore will I hope in Him” (v.24).

He went on to say that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord (v. 26).

Remember when the Children of Israel left Egypt? They were headed straight for Mt. Sinai when God had them turn and go down to the Red Sea to a dead end? In their minds they must have thought that God was leading them to the slaughter! Certainly the Egyptian army will catch up with them and destroy them all! In Exodus 14:13, Moses told the people, “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will shew to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever!”

Don’t focus on the evil and the evil people in the world. God will deal with them very soon. He wants us to be still, quietly wait for Him, and we will see the salvation of the Lord very soon!

And after He says, “Come up hither!” like the children of Israel by the Red Sea, as for the devil and all his cohorts, we shall see them no more forever!

Feel like all hope is gone today? Remind yourself of the faithfulness of God, and you will find your hope renewed.

God Bless,

Until we all meet in the clouds with Jesus!

Mike Damron

mdamron@damronwalls.com