Reclaiming Truth

In accordance with yesterday’s post by the editor, today’s post continues with an urgent clarion call to the Christian to not waste their time, their opportunity, their life. Our next series of posts will have this theme: The Christian’s stewardship of time. May we be reminded with the Psalmist: “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you.” (Psalm 39.4-5) (more…)

Satan called a worldwide convention.  In his opening address to his evil demons, he said,  “We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the Truth.  We can’t even keep them from conservative values.  But we can do something else.  We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding experience in Christ.  If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.  So let them go to church, let them have their conservative life-styles, but steal their time, so they can’t gain that experience in Jesus Christ.  This is what I want you to do.  Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection through their day!”  They asked,  “How shall we do this?”  He answered,  “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow.  Convince the wives to go to work and the husbands to work 6 or 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their life-styles.  Keep them from spending time with their children.  As their family fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work.  Over stimulate their minds so they cannot hear that still small voice (THE SPIRIT).  Entice them to play the radio (OR IPOD) whenever they drive, to keep the TV, the DVD player and their CD’s going constantly in their homes.  See to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays music constantly.  This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.  Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers.  Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.  Invade their driving moments with bill boards.  Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogs and every kind of newsletter, promotional offer, free products, services and false hopes.  Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.  Have them return from their vacations exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week (OR SCHOOL YEAR).  Don’t let them go out in nature.  Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.  When they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion.  Let them be involved in soul winning, but crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ.  Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for the good of the cause.”  It was quite a convention in the end.  The evil ones went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there.’

Time doesn’t forgive sin.

- Jeff Noblit