Not So Fast, My Friends...
(…was the name of Wednesday Night’s Bible Study Lesson.)
Hello everyone,
…I suppose the title could also apply for a number of things, aside from being a catch phrase for ESPN’s Lee Corso.
It could refer to the knuckleheads (heh, heh) who think they have me beat because I’m dead last in the Pigskin Prognosticators game at the Standard…but I have a little something for them this weekend (though I’m still mad at MIA for staying in the locker room after halftime…)
Or it could refer to this particular scripture:
On Wednesday night, though, the statement was meant to address the young ones, and how it seems that in the world we live in, the folks that do dirt seem to get away the cleanest.
*dramatic pause*
Not so fast, my friends.
Psalm 37 shows us that those who do dirt won’t prosper in the long run, and as Christians, that’s what we’re focused on anyway, right? Not short-term success, but rather staying consistent in what God wants us to do so that we may find the peace and understanding that comes from a relationship with Him.
Well, here’s the lesson:
-----------------
One of your peers last Wednesday asked a question that was very interesting, and it is a question that we often ask ourselves from time to time in the Christian experience…
“Why do people that do bad things get away with so much?”
It’s true that, in today’s society, it appears that drug dealers, pimps, the sexually promiscuous and the profane get away with everything from lies, murder, sex, and do so while at times acquiring large sums of wealth.
In Bible times, the prophet Jeremiah asked God a similar question in the 12th chapter of the same book, asking in verse one:
Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
David, the author of Psalms, did something that we also do in the Christian experience from time to time, and that’s to envy those who do get away with gaining the pleasures of the world (read Psalm 73 in its entirety).
We do the same, whether it’s a result of seeing the glamorous lifestyle of celebrity, or feeling as if we can get away from such activities as premarital sex.
While we want these things, the Bible tells us they won’t last, and in the pursuit of such worldly treasures, we will be separated from God.
Add’l chapters/verses:
I Kings 3
II Chronicles 1
Mark 4
James 5
-----------------
Enjoy your weekend!
The Good Doctor
Hello everyone,
…I suppose the title could also apply for a number of things, aside from being a catch phrase for ESPN’s Lee Corso.
It could refer to the knuckleheads (heh, heh) who think they have me beat because I’m dead last in the Pigskin Prognosticators game at the Standard…but I have a little something for them this weekend (though I’m still mad at MIA for staying in the locker room after halftime…)
Or it could refer to this particular scripture:
On Wednesday night, though, the statement was meant to address the young ones, and how it seems that in the world we live in, the folks that do dirt seem to get away the cleanest.
*dramatic pause*
Not so fast, my friends.
Psalm 37 shows us that those who do dirt won’t prosper in the long run, and as Christians, that’s what we’re focused on anyway, right? Not short-term success, but rather staying consistent in what God wants us to do so that we may find the peace and understanding that comes from a relationship with Him.
Well, here’s the lesson:
-----------------
One of your peers last Wednesday asked a question that was very interesting, and it is a question that we often ask ourselves from time to time in the Christian experience…
“Why do people that do bad things get away with so much?”
It’s true that, in today’s society, it appears that drug dealers, pimps, the sexually promiscuous and the profane get away with everything from lies, murder, sex, and do so while at times acquiring large sums of wealth.
In Bible times, the prophet Jeremiah asked God a similar question in the 12th chapter of the same book, asking in verse one:
Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
David, the author of Psalms, did something that we also do in the Christian experience from time to time, and that’s to envy those who do get away with gaining the pleasures of the world (read Psalm 73 in its entirety).
We do the same, whether it’s a result of seeing the glamorous lifestyle of celebrity, or feeling as if we can get away from such activities as premarital sex.
While we want these things, the Bible tells us they won’t last, and in the pursuit of such worldly treasures, we will be separated from God.
Add’l chapters/verses:
I Kings 3
II Chronicles 1
Mark 4
James 5
-----------------
Enjoy your weekend!
The Good Doctor
posted by The Good Doctor at 12:03 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home