Posted on 04/04/2021 5:41:49 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble" (Proverbs 4:19).
In my generation, the average kid grew up in a relatively naive environment. Many of them lived in a dry county [no liquor supplier on every corner]. Many of them could only get two channels on their TV’s because they lived in a very rural community. So, there was only a limited amount of corruption that came from that source. Many were downright country boys and worked hard from morning to night. Often, they would get up at 3:00 in the morning and milk cattle and do chores, and after a long day they went to bed at night and slept well.
In that rural environment, it was easier to find oneself meditating on the things of God, even at an early age. One young man, when he was 8 years old; started to get convicted about his sin and, he says: “The funny thing is that I knew exactly what my problem was. I mean, exactly. You know, my problem was that I had stolen, and did as a habit, steal my mother's baking pecans. In the big old Chester freezer that was out in mom's laundry room outside across the carport, I would sneak out there and by the handful steal her frozen baking pecans that she had painstakingly hand shelled. This was a no-no! And I knew it was a big no-no, and I knew that I was going to hell because of that thing. And so, by the time the Lord started sticking his finger in my chest from about 8 1/2 years old till 10 years old when I finally conceded the point; I knew exactly what was wrong. It was sin. And you know what? At 8-9 years old I was smarter in that respect than the average college professor is, because they don't know what's wrong.”
We educate and philosophize ourselves out of what we know to be the truth. Now, here are some folks had done wickedly and they knew it, but it says: “Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness” (Isaiah 59:9).
That's something, isn't it? You have this bunch of evolutionists, for example, and they don't have any proofs at all but they're sure it has to be true. All these creationists keep coming up with these things that point to creation. With creation, you have to deal with design, you have to deal with order; and yet all these evolutionists are still “waiting for light, but they get obscurity.” They are looking for brightness, but they walk in darkness. Verse 10 goes on to say: ““We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.” That’s a pretty good description, is it not?
“They know not at what they stumble,” well, they stumble over the word of God, they stumble over the stone of stumbling; the rock of offense, the Lord Jesus Christ. and they die not even knowing it.
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Happy Easter
And thank you for these pings.
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“Grope for the wall like the blind” I have in the past but with Gods grace I look for his counsel in my decisions and realize his path is the path to peace and accomplishment. Happy Easter Pilgrim!
Amen!
How true. They’re falling down and can not figure out what is causing it.
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