Friday, December
9, 2016
The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. Psalm 146:8a(NLT)
And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people
time to be saved. This is what our
beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him— speaking of these things in all
of his letters. Some of his comments are
hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his
letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of
Scripture. And this will result in their
destruction. You already know these
things, dear friends. So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the
errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. Rather, you must grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:15-18(NLT)
I have watched perhaps a
half-dozen movies over the years where a blind person receives his or her sight
back; it’s always portrayed as a high moment of joy and immediate celebration.
But what if that moment when
your eyes were opened you beheld something quite different than expected? What if your new sight included being tied up
on the railroad track on a trestle bridge, 400 feet in the air, with no way to
move left or right, and a train is less than a hundred yards away, barreling
towards you at full speed?
This is the condition Peter
describes. Paul’s writings in the hands
of uninformed and unstable people had become twisted caricatures of Scripture’s
intention, and this crooked path is the highway to destruction…Hell.
Peter cautions each of us to
be on guard that we might not be carried along to that destination. We need to guard our own hearts,
understanding that God is patient towards those who are distorting His genuine
message, providing time for them to have their eyes opened.
I have watched the change of
posture and attitude of the LGBTQ movement over the years, from trembling,
tentative stepping gingerly out of the closet for fear of reprisal, to
full-blown reprisal against anyone who would question their sexual aberration. The mutation of this movement, going from wanting
nothing to do with Christianity, has insidiously crept, cell-by-cancerous cell all
the way to this current day desire to possess the pulpit, legal same-sex
partnerships (I refuse to call it “marriage”), and now borders on the “new
normative” – it is more than culturally legal,
it has become culturally acceptable,
even fashionable.
In fact, culture has been so
captivated, to speak a word even remotely suggestive that you do not support
homosexuality borders on hate-speech. Can it be far off before you will spend time
in jail for even thinking
there might be something wrong with other than heterosexuality?
This devotional time is not
a forum for an in-depth recounting of how twisted our culture is regarding
sexuality (there may not be enough paper and ink, or megabytes to even begin
that tome). I must simply name sexual
aberration for what it is: sin.
And that is certainly not
limited to the LGBTQ community; heterosexuals have enough on our own record to
fill several libraries!
The whole point here is a
call for prayer that blinded eyes may be opened. Like John Newton, author of Amazing Grace,
who had his eyes opened to the obscenity of human trafficking, and gave up his
slave ship, there are many chains of sin that can be broken when spiritual
blindness receives the touch of Jesus.
For You Today
We
call for payer and patience; after all, think about where you would be today if
God were not patient with you?
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