Confusion
Good Morning,
Psalm 11:3 “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
In every area of life, we learn the value of stability and a firm foundation. Buildings have deep foundations, and many support systems are built into the structure to protect from earthquakes.
The home has been under attack via divorce, single parents, rotating parents, and foster care, resulting in insecurity in the hearts of men. Politically, we have seen instability, insecurity, and questions and conflicts that have established confusion in the hearts of citizens.
The attack on gender is absurd; how much more solid and stable can we get than “male and female?” Yet this godless culture has fought against the most basic stable pillar of society.
Laws were one of the stabilizing factors in our nation. As we have continued to stray from the stability of the Bible and to cling to the whims and feelings of man, laws are being maneuvered by who you know and how much money you have.
In every situation, stability and security are under attack.
For nearly three hundred years, the King James Bible was the (only) Bible. Then in the late 1800s, version after version was introduced; today, no clear “Thus saith the Lord” instruction is discernible, causing even more confusion.
We know God is not the author of confusion, but Satan certainly is. The confusion in our world is not just opinions and differences in lifestyle, the confusion lies in spiritual darkness with an eternal purpose.
For generations, music had order and structure, but then in the 50s, rock and roll entered the music world, and was followed by endless versions of chaos and unstable sounds with no order or structure. So-called “modern art” has followed the same path. Pictures of confusion and questions of “What’s that?” are commonly exclaimed.
Churches have followed the popular path in our country and tossed aside clear beliefs to adopt whatever trend might be popular at that moment.
Few church goers have any idea which Bible doctrines they believe, and even fewer still read the Bible. Even the names of the churches prove instability. Once we had Nazarenes, Pentecostals, Methodists, and Baptists – and their names each meant something. You knew what a church believed by the name. Today there is a branch, a twig, a fellowship, and a shepherd of the valley – church names have no meaning, for the most part. The church has joined the world of instability, change, insecurity, and no direction.
Our body temperature should be very close to 98.6. Our heart rate and blood pressure have very close limits to provide good health. How much more complex is the soul of mankind and the basis of society. Primitive lifestyles and uncivilized behavior is only a short step away when we forsake stability and truth.
The one source of truth, stability, and security is the Word of God; may we cling to it, for if we do not, everything will be out of order.
Psalm 82:5 “They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.”
Pastor