OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR FRIDAY 4 APRIL 2014 "WHY THE WORLD RAGES" BY PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE
Memoriy Verse: Luke 21:17
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
Read: Luke 6:22-23
22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Message
The Psalmist in Psalm 69:8 wrote:
“I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.”
Why this sorry situation? He gives the reason in Psalm 69:9:
“For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.”
This is equally the lamentation of those who would live a righteous life in this world. The world is becoming more ungodly than ever before. Wickedness is becoming the accepted norm of our society. Worldliness is the order of the day in present day Christianity. Ruminating on this reality, one cannot but ask the following questions: If this continues, is there any hope for godly living? For how long would the wicked continue to hold sway in our society? The answers to these questions are: this ugly situation will not continue perpetually, there is hope for those who are on the Lord’s side, and a doomsday of judgement awaits the ungodly.
When you decide to live a godly life, there is bound to be persecution from the ungodly.
