John 3:18-21
There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him (God). But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God's one and only Son.
And the judgement is based on this fact: God's light came into the world, but people LOVED THE DARKNESS more than the light, for their actions were evil.
All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.
But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.
These verses are truth that either draws people or drives them away from God.
Isn't it funny how sin can twist a person's brain into believing that they are actually in control of their own life. That they have the ability to decide what is right and wrong. Problem with this is that they get to decide the standard by which right and wrong are measured.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of folks would get all riled up by what I am writing and what I believe. Might even say I was filled with hatred and wanted to see those outside the church get their comeuppance when God comes back.
Some don't want to believe in the God of the Scripture because their view and understanding of God is skewered by their sin nature. To them, He is an angry old coot who has it out for "bad little boys and girls". Or they swing way over to a God who would never send people to hell.
There in the John passage is a defining statement that pretty much sums up a life bound in addiction. But people LOVED THE DARKNESS more than the light. They loved the darkness to a degree that what was once promised to bring pleasure and relief from the stress of this world has now turned and become the master over the individual who has given in to it.
So what does a person get who rejects the truth of God to embrace the cold darkness?
#1- They are ushered into a false sense of reality. The "Feeling" the "High" becomes the place of a false peace.
#2 - The euphoria will soon be replaced with the screaming thought of "more...I need more.....I've got to have some more." Especially when the high wears off and the false reality is replaced with the truth of how life really is.
#3 - Without giving any thought to what they are doing, they begin to worship...that's right I said worship....at the altar of self. They have given themselves freely to a god of darkness who will use them until they are used up. In the process of being used, families will be destroyed....children abandoned...marriages shattered.....finances blown away like dust in a wind storm....for what? For a feeling. Nothing more than a feeling. But we will dance to that dark tune until we can't dance anymore.
Hear me on this....
The darkness promises you everything and delivers on nothing. Instead, it will take and take and take from you until all that is left is your very soul and body. In the end, it will take that too.
Sounds like a wonderful opportunity doesn't it?
I leave you with this.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son to die for us sinners, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life with Him.
That is a promise you can take to the bank.
God on you...
mbb
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