Solomon tells
us that insanity resides in the heart of men. And what is that
insanity? It's falling in love with the world's attitude toward the
things of this world. Anyone who buys into that viewpoint is insane.
The best example of that insanity is the prodigal son. He wholeheartedly embraced the world's view. He wanted what was coming to him, and he wanted it now. He desired the best that money could buy, the friendship and acceptance of worldly men and women, and the good life of the moral freedom to do as one pleased for the sake of pleasure. All that the world embraced, he pursued. He was insane. He wasted his life on temporal, short-term, and thus, worthless, pursuits. He developed friends that would desert him when he was no longer of any value to their pursuit of emptiness. His friendships were based not on mutual trust, but on selfishness. And his loose living, his doing as he pleased, left him alone, empty, miserable, and bitter. Insane. It is not coincidence that the story says that the turn around came when he "came to his senses." When it suddenly dawned on him that this life was insane, he recognized what he had lost by walking away from the relationship he had had with his father. Sanity returned, repentance occurred, and the father-son relationship was restored.
How insane is your life? What are you pursuing as a means of fulfillment? What is it that you think will make life what it should be? If you are embracing the world's attitude, you will find things that have no value, friends that will betray you when you no longer can meet their selfish desires, and a freedom to do as you please which will make your life incredibly unpleasant. Come to your senses. Reject the insanity and pursue the relationship with the Father. God is never reluctant to embrace with open arms the one coming back to the refuge of His unchanging love.
The best example of that insanity is the prodigal son. He wholeheartedly embraced the world's view. He wanted what was coming to him, and he wanted it now. He desired the best that money could buy, the friendship and acceptance of worldly men and women, and the good life of the moral freedom to do as one pleased for the sake of pleasure. All that the world embraced, he pursued. He was insane. He wasted his life on temporal, short-term, and thus, worthless, pursuits. He developed friends that would desert him when he was no longer of any value to their pursuit of emptiness. His friendships were based not on mutual trust, but on selfishness. And his loose living, his doing as he pleased, left him alone, empty, miserable, and bitter. Insane. It is not coincidence that the story says that the turn around came when he "came to his senses." When it suddenly dawned on him that this life was insane, he recognized what he had lost by walking away from the relationship he had had with his father. Sanity returned, repentance occurred, and the father-son relationship was restored.
How insane is your life? What are you pursuing as a means of fulfillment? What is it that you think will make life what it should be? If you are embracing the world's attitude, you will find things that have no value, friends that will betray you when you no longer can meet their selfish desires, and a freedom to do as you please which will make your life incredibly unpleasant. Come to your senses. Reject the insanity and pursue the relationship with the Father. God is never reluctant to embrace with open arms the one coming back to the refuge of His unchanging love.
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