Keep looking up
It is important not to get too far away from God
The more that we see what is happening in our days here on this earth, we are reminded of the words that Jesus said in Matthew 24:37-38. People were living it up as would say. Whatever feels good, do it.
But the problem was that they were getting farther away from God all the time.
Let’s take a look at the beginning in Genesis Chapter 1. We see that God has created the heaven and earth. All that God had to do was to say, let there be . . . , and whatever needed to come into being on each day for six days obeyed His command.
In Genesis 1: 27, we see that God created man. There needed to be male and female in order to fill the earth with people. Why do we think that we can short-circuit that plan and end up with the right result?
Adam and Eve couldn’t even follow one rule that God gave them and got kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Are we any better today in obeying God’s rules?
When we get to Noah’s generation, man had become so evil that God couldn’t stand it any longer and he sent a flood. This is the Noah that Jesus refers to in Matt 24. He said, as it was so shall it be. Do our days resemble Noah’s day? If we say yes, then it means we are closing in on our last days before the coming of Jesus in His return for His church.
Man has tried to reach Heaven in his own way. In Gen 11, he comes up with a harebrained idea to reach heaven by building a tower. They had no comprehension of how far that would be or how long that would take.
John 10:1 tells us that anyone who tries to get in other than by the door is a thief and a robber. Prov. 16:25 says that there is a way that seems right unto a man, but the way leads to death (by the way, Jesus is the door).
Maybe this would be a good time to suggest that people ought to get their Bible or New Testament out and read Matt 24. I feel confident that we will see similarities to our time today.
A few years ago when there was a debate going on about an issue of the day, a politician was called on the phone by one of his constituents. The MP was asked to check the Bible and see what God had to say about the issue. The reply was that he was too busy and didn’t have time to read the Bible.
If I was a betting person, I would say that even if he was that busy, the day will come when he would have to take time to die.
He didn’t realize that if he was too busy to check and see what God has to say that the day will come that God would be too busy for him.
Climate change ought not to frighten us but rather make us realize how closely connected to Matt 24 it really is. Keep looking up because one day if we are ready to meet God, we will be going up.