Today our world is in a mess. Everyone knows that. The economy, values of the people, morality, everything seems turned upside down. People used to value family and friends and their reputation more than anything. Honesty and integrity, a good name and the Bible, those things were worth more than what you have in your pocket book. Now it seems that those values mean nothing. We are chasing after the almighty dollar instead of God Almighty.
In the Bible, speaking of the people of Israel in Judges 17:6 – “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” In this generation, most of the population is doing the same thing. Values are all relative. What is good for me might not be good for you, etc.
2 Timothy 3: 1-5
(1) But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: (2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (3) unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, (4) traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (5) having a form of godliness but denying its power.
I have been thinking a lot about the story of Moses, and the Israelites while they were in Egypt. They were in incredible bondage, and pressed into hard labor for their task masters, the Egyptians. We all know the story of Moses. Pharaoh refused to let God’s people go, and Egypt went through a series of plagues. However, when the plagues were coming on the Egyptians, the land of Goshen (where the Israelites lived) was protected. When the whole country of Egypt was in darkness, the Land of Goshen had light.
Right now, I feel like we are in the land of Egypt, but as the church, living in the Land of Goshen. Where the world has darkness, we can have light. Where they are afflicted, we can be protected, if we walk in the light of God’s word. Where there is lack and insufficiency we can have abundance. Where they have depression and oppression, we can have freedom and joy. We are in this world, but not “of” this world. Our home and our heritage is in Heaven.
Psalms 1
(1) Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
(2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
(3) He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
(4) The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
(5) Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
(6) For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
