Reflecting On Our World!

This blog today is not meant to point out the bad in everyone in our society, it just is a generalization of where we are heading. Today while I was working out on my Tony Little Gazelle, I was watching the E-channel. Of course it was all about our favorite TV personalities. Well I wasn't disappointed by the life style of the rich and famous. They were talking about the year 2006 and how all the celebrities had decided to have babies. Now I'm not saying that all had babies, but there was a number of them who got pregnant. It seems like they didn't want to be out done by their friends. The worst part about all of this is that some of them were not married before they got pregnant. This sure doesn't give a very good example for our young people follow today.

Some of our young people look at these celebrities as their heroes. They want to mimic them and copy what their hero is doing. There is very little morality in Hollywood. This really doesn't surprise me though because Jesus has told us that these things would happen. I won't just pick on movie stars though because I see the same thing with our high paid athletes. They fight with each other during the games and they are suppose to be professionals. It seems like when these people come into all of this money that they forget what God has given them as a talent and turn into self made people. It is not just the high profile people who do these things, it is our society as a whole.

My point is that we are warned that the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil. I'm not saying that money in itself is bad but the love of money has caused many sorrows for a lot of people.
1Timothy;6:9-10
(But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.)
It just seems like some people can handle large amounts of wealth and others just squander it away on material things that don't last. They push God aside for the luxuries of this world. The next thing you know, they are in trouble with the law or their family and friends.

I look at what they spend their money on and I just shake my head. It is so easy to think that we can buy happiness and we can't. There are a lot of people who do just fine with their wealth, but all we hear about are the ones who stumble. Maybe that is all we want to hear about, I don't know. They will divorce their mate for someone else in a drop of the hat. It usually isn't for any other reason but they are tired of the one their with.
Matthew;19:3-6
(The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?" And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.)
It is just sad what our society is turning into. We used to value the family but know people just cast it aside for their selfish ambitions. It is all about "me" in our present day world. Whatever pleases "me" is what I'll do.

God tells us that in the last days this is what we will witness.
2Timothy;3:1-4
(But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,)

It's so obvious that we are in the last days. As I was writing this I recognize all of what has been written concerning the end times. I am not trying to say that the world is going to end today, though it could end today. What I am trying to accomplish is to let people know that everyday could be their last day on earth. Jesus could come at any moment in time and we need to be ready. Our eternal life depends on whether we have accepted Jesus as our Savior. If we are to get to Heaven there is no other way.
John;14:6
(Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.)
John;10:9
(I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.)
Jesus tells us in both of these verses that if you want to get to Heaven, He is the only way. His point is that He is the sole means of approach to the Father for salvation. Right now the gate is still open for all to enter in through Him, but the time is coming when the gate will be closed. While we still have life in our bodies we can ask for forgiveness, but when we breath our last breadth, there is no second chance to be saved. Accept Jesus today while you still can. He wants you to come to Him for forgiveness. He died for us because He loved us so much.

God Bless you!