Surveillance
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Does it seem to you that more and more people seem to be trying to get away with criminal behavior lately?
What gives? Do they think they will not get caught?
Up in Canada, where some of the beef we eat comes from, people are shooting cattle and butchering them in the field to steal prime cuts of beef.
Come on! Where does one get these ideas?
So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. - Matthew 13:49-50
Jesus tells us these wrongdoers will have hell to pay, literally.
When we get away with doing the wrong things, we may think we have put one over on the establishment, that we have beat the system, but I like to think our activities are under surveillance.
We are being monitored, and the day will come when the knock at the door is for us.
This is what I believed when I was young, when I first heard these words from the pulpit and understood them to be a warning that God will punish those who screw up, if they failed to change their ways before they die. Ah, but they have to really mean it.
Do you get the feeling that we have kind of forgotten those two points?
I am sure you can find far more fiendish examples, but I thought butchering cattle in the field was about as off the wall as I could imagine, falling short of murdering each other, that is.
It shows how desperate for money some people are and I get that. Addiction may be the cause, and if that is the case, the people need help.
Because it isn't evil against other human beings, we may find it punishable and forgivable, but in God's eyes, all our folly falls into that same realm. It is all forgivable, as hard as that might be to believe.
But He and His angels are watching and waiting for us to take it upon ourselves to change, to give up the folly and be who we have the potential to be.
Most of us may see that others seem to get away with these things without punishment and we may be tempted to delay our own acts of repentance. Not a good idea, right?
If we can set ourselves right today, we will still see others get temporary benefits from their acts of evil and foolishness or injustice, but I, for one, don't need to concern myself with them.
If I do, I risk falling into the trap they are in, and I might not get out in time.
No, I think I will be the odd ball and avoid the foolishness. And I pray I can stay the course.
It would be easier if I have company. Care to join me?
More to come...