More on Choices

2Corinthians 6:14 - Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

What a day yesterday was. How things "collided" as if confirmation was absolutely necessary. How intertwined the scenarios were. 

First came the idea for yesterday's blog about a certain person not wanting to bring up terrorism as part of the 9/11 disaster. What???

I had also watched a National Geographic interview with former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani regarding 9/11. After a few minutes the emotions poured out of me as he described seeing people leaping to their deaths to avoid the consequences of yet another indescribable death within the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. How could this not be a terrorist plot?

I paused the program and wept and questioned God how there could possibly be a form of evil so capable of doing this. That a man would choose to believe that his own death to kill others, in a terrorist attack such as 9/11, a glorious afterlife would be received. This is beyond my comprehension. This is not an act of love. This is not an act that our God would defend but an act that another god chooses. Oh, Jesus offered His life for us. He did this out of sacrificial love to save us. The men who chose to do the unthinkable on 9/11 did it out of hatred, intent to kill and maybe even selfishness in their belief of the outcome for themselves.

That was not a god of goodness but the hand of satan. An enemy greater than any man on earth because he has the power to speak into ears of anyone willing to listen. He has power to twist truth into even more twisted lies. He has the power to deceive by luring us to believe the world has everything to offer us. It's these subtle deceptions that will bring us down. Another subtle deception that we must be tolerant of evil. 

And then finally, a friend sent an article which I read after I wrote my blog. It was about a group of religious leaders, some highly known, who have formed a group to support a plan to bring Christians and Muslims together. She called me shortly after she sent it. As we talked she made the statement that sums everything up...a series of quotes from the Source, the Bible...I paraphrase...we are to be separated from the world, in it but not of it. The road we must follow is a narrow one. Let me add Revelation 18:4 - Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues."

The whole idea of linking evil with good is like oil and water. The two cannot mix. They did not mix back in Genesis with the births of Ishmael and Isaac. (Another blog...)

In the right hands of a faithful, loving God we are strong and wise. From where did the wisdom and strength of the people of God come when they fought against all odds to win a battle with their enemies? When God whittled down Gideon's army to 300 and then sent him into victorious battle against thousands stronger than he? When David as a young boy slew Goliath, a giant enemy of the land, with one shot of his slingshot? These people knew from where their strength came, knew His hand and wisdom would prevail. When they veered off His track they were defeated. Let us not veer of this track today.

We live in a twisted world. We all fall short of perfection. But the difference is which voice we listen to. Where our wisdom and discernment is...and comes from. Which belief system holds true and which does not. I'm thankful I know what truth is, have been given some amount of discernment, even though there are times I miss the mark. But how is it our spiritual leaders who should know right from wrong are being duped? Who am I to see things they do not? How? Am I missing something? 

Our God came to bring life. He has taught us it is a narrow way, we are not to walk to the left or right...and it is not okay to tolerate those whose beliefs are not of love and peace, according to His Word. Romans 12:9 reminds us of this: Hate that which is evil; cling to that which is good. 

There is only one Almighty God, the name ABOVE all names. As true Christians we cannot allow ourselves to be duped into believing there is another belief system or god to be embraced. Acts 4:12 states: Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. God will not allow tolerance of evil.

Isaiah 43:10-11 - "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, "and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the LORD, and besides Me there is no savior."