Corollaries for the Unyielding

The life that refuses to acknowledge the authority, character, and will of God shall experience and exhibit four major consequences:

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The Tapestry of God's Will

The complexity of will is as such that no aspect, variable, or condition of it can be analyzed or interpreted separately from the whole. To do anything less, disregards a fellow human being as simple, whose reasons and rights are limited to the critique of others. How much more respectfully, then, should we handle God's?

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A Long Time Coming

The changes we have seen in our culture over the past several years are not a new phenomenon. Whether it be the general attitude of people towards the existence of God, the shunning and isolation of Bible-preaching and Bible-believing Christians as "odd" or "outside" of the Christian norm, or the sheer shock of secularists when a believer dares to speak their mind without compromise -- this has all been done before.

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Selfishness Disguised...Mercy Redefined

A transition has taken place within this country that long ago, in the time and region of Solomon, the sides for which were adequately articulated. Some would say that these were composed as such: the true mother, an imposter, and the child as the dividing line, with wisdom to be the saving grace. Wisdom certainly has its permanent place in this event, and I would never consider anything less for it. The message goes so much deeper, though. It is not merely about two women disputing over who is the mother of the baby. This is a story depicting the differing characters of selfishness and love. Love begs for mercy even at great cost while selfishness desires the sword rather than accept responsibility.

The only differences in our day: no one is fighting over the parental position, and we call the sword mercy.

The Scent of the Living Water

7 “For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.
8 “Though its roots grow old in the ground
And its stump dies in the dry soil,
9 At the scent of water it will flourish
And put forth sprigs like a plant (Job 14:7-9, NASB).

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