No Cry for Help
The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them. They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
Job 36:13–14
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No Cry for Help
There is an old provincial story which warns of those who are unwilling to confront the dangers and evils which are all around. If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out immediately, but if you place it in tepid water and slowly turn the heart up it will not notice and be boiled alive. The point being that when evil and danger are loud and flagrant, we will react, but when it is silent and innocuous, we ignore it, only to eventually be overcome by it. Looking at our society today it is easy to see this happening. The cultural norms which once where grounded in Christian morals were slowly over time eroded away by the evils of this world. Had the devil attempted to normalize the ungodly behavior all at once there would have been a push back. So, he did it incrementally. Under the guise of “choice” life became devalued, so that now 60 million children have been murdered in the name of “choice”. Under the banner of amicability “no fault” divorce was introduced, and today half of all marriages in our country end in divorce. In the name of “equality” marriage and gender have been redefined, so that children and adults alike have been deceived into thinking God somehow made a mistake when He made them. And all the while the water around us begins to churn. God urges us to cry out to Him, not to remain in our sins but to repent. “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles” (Psalm 34:6). We are to cry out to the Lord for ourselves, for our neighbors, for our world. We are to not remain silent and “cherish the anger”, but “repent therefore, and turn back, that [our] sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for [us], Jesus” (Acts 3:19-20). Christ answered our cries to the point of death on a cross so that we might not have to remain in our inequities. Our salvation is secured so that we may tell others of the wonderous things God has done.
Job 36:13–14
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No Cry for Help
There is an old provincial story which warns of those who are unwilling to confront the dangers and evils which are all around. If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out immediately, but if you place it in tepid water and slowly turn the heart up it will not notice and be boiled alive. The point being that when evil and danger are loud and flagrant, we will react, but when it is silent and innocuous, we ignore it, only to eventually be overcome by it. Looking at our society today it is easy to see this happening. The cultural norms which once where grounded in Christian morals were slowly over time eroded away by the evils of this world. Had the devil attempted to normalize the ungodly behavior all at once there would have been a push back. So, he did it incrementally. Under the guise of “choice” life became devalued, so that now 60 million children have been murdered in the name of “choice”. Under the banner of amicability “no fault” divorce was introduced, and today half of all marriages in our country end in divorce. In the name of “equality” marriage and gender have been redefined, so that children and adults alike have been deceived into thinking God somehow made a mistake when He made them. And all the while the water around us begins to churn. God urges us to cry out to Him, not to remain in our sins but to repent. “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles” (Psalm 34:6). We are to cry out to the Lord for ourselves, for our neighbors, for our world. We are to not remain silent and “cherish the anger”, but “repent therefore, and turn back, that [our] sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for [us], Jesus” (Acts 3:19-20). Christ answered our cries to the point of death on a cross so that we might not have to remain in our inequities. Our salvation is secured so that we may tell others of the wonderous things God has done.
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