The world is so opposed to God. He gives us over to judgment, then--we effectively reject reality, and He allows that up to a point. Which is judgment, moreover.
To be allowed to have what we want, when what we want actively destroys us...is judgment. Mercy is entwined in that, in the sense that the grief that's wrought, the suffering experienced, and the devastation observed--all these are a stark warning to us to turn from that course of self- and otherly-destruction and toward what would aid.
We are so far at this point, though, that our world has become a parody: people in some fringe groups at this point are actively cutting off healthy body parts because they identify with being disabled. We are actively maiming ourselves and literally sterilizing ourselves and committing genocide on ourselves--wholesale slaughter--and calling these things freedom.
We have enslaved ourselves to active insanity, putting ourselves gladly in further bondage to our carnal desires and depravities, subjecting ourselves to complete mayhem and the will of many who undertake utter atrocities without compunction...yet calling all this a liberation from the shackles of religion.
Having rejected God, we have rejected truth--as He put it, we actively suppress the truth in unrighteousness. An active force of will is at work, in this rejection of truth, in other words.
And so, having rejected God, rejecting truth we reject reality. And there is a spectrum there, in terms of the decline into greater and greater depths of delusion: rejecting what is real, we choose what is not, which is delusion.
So, we reject life, having rejected the author and sustainer of life. We reject freedom, having rejected the one who defines the boundaries of our existence and abilities. We reject love, having rejected the One from whom all love has originated and who defines what constitutes loving-kindness and love on the whole, per His very essential nature.
Having rejected God, we have rejected all which is good.
And yet...there's increased clambering for self-congratulatory participation in the world's evils and decline. Rather than seeking a return to reality, for many who have seen a breach in what constituted the whole of their prior perceptions of the nature of all...there's instead a doubling-down in attempt to oust Him all the more, from even those parallel spheres of subculture.
Having been rejected from the mainstream, still there is a rejection of reality in favor of perpetuation of a parallel form of that which had ousted. Without any insight that this is the case.
If you have found yourself at odds in the world, disillusioned and bereft for having come to see that things were not as they seemed--don't stop short of seeking the ultimate truth, the absolute. Otherwise, you will remain in that same system of thought and belief and broken idealization which wreaks only havoc on all touched.
If you ever only circle without ever arriving at the absolute nature of existence, and of your purpose--having been created by God to worship and obey Him and enjoy His fellowship...
...if you never are reconciled to reality, you will only ever be controlled opposition. Opposing truth, by flatly denying it, yourself.
If you dig your heels in and decide you are content with having made yourself an enemy of God (refusing to seek His will foremost, and refusing to submit to Him rather than your ideas of Him...means that you essentially are defiant of His authority, which authority cannot be denied because it's essential to Him...such that you have set yourself against God)...if you want to remain an enemy of all which is good, then everything you touch will be tainted by that reality. Everything wrought will be unto disease and further destruction in the world, further eradication of freedom and human dignity.
If you, too, will refuse to submit to what is true, you are a part of the reason the world has descended into increasing horrors these days, and that there are people being abused by authorities. For having refused to deal rightly with truth, we choose to wreak havoc on our societies and one another.
None of us is completely innocent. Every one of us has defied Him. None have sought Him and obeyed Him (foremost requirement being to love Him with all we are--which can only be so if we know Him, and yet who truly embraces His Word, the Bible?). We are all guilty.
Jesus intervened, though, that some would be delivered from that bloodguilt (for the wages of sin is death). He perfectly fulfilled all righteousness and sacrificed Himself as a perfect, holy, unblemished substitute to pay our penalty and satisfy His own (which is to say, God's own) wrath due against such wretchedness as we have and do commit.
Yet we blithely continue on, thumbing our noses at God.
He will not be mocked. Rather, again--we are allowed to make mockery of ourselves in attempting to mock Him by refusing to give His due worship and obedience, loving devotion moreover. We break ourselves and one another.
And the Scriptures say that even as we're allowed to go further and further into decline--an absolute parody of ourselves, of our calling and God-given dignity...
...even as we decline and the world is marred by our feats of treason too, even the very earth rising up against us...
...still, we would just rather hide ourselves in the earth itself, behind greater depths of blindness and idiocy...than to repent. Such is our depravity and hatred of God.
All the while, as we slaughter innocents by the thousands, we congratulate ourselves on our loving natures and how kind we are to cherish life as we do. We are blind and fools, all the more--rejoicing in that which is the very evidence of our own abject destruction.
This is the same, at all levels: those who slaughter one by one the child in the womb are just as full of conceit as those who do so by the millions, calling it all charity and "for the greater good."
There are only two camps. Only two factions. Truth and lies. Near truths are still lies. Truth divides from that which is not of it. By nature, must.
Resentment of that speaks volumes. Rejoicing in the removal of truth speaks volumes. Self-congratulatory self-aggrandizement as a purported arbiter of truth, though being complacent by refusing to heed or espouse truth...speaks volumes. Those who are not wholeheartedly given to submitting to Him, in a real sense, are opposed to Him.
There are only two kingdoms: the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. Only two. And agents of the kingdom of darkness are well known to present themselves as messengers/angels of light--the very leader of that camp is known to do so.
That which is unreconciled to loving God stands against Him, is all. Jesus Christ is God the Son, God incarnate. And He has overcome the world and He will return to reign. Rest assured.
What camp will you be in, when He does? I can assure you, that will matter absolutely. Whatever lies you may be feasting on now, as platitudes to afford false comforts in these trying times...unless you are centrally finding peace in the knowledge of who God is and what He has done and what His will is...you will not fare well, on that day when it comes.
He commands all men (and women) to repent.
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