Why Sit We Here Until We Die?

Oh we might not see a donkey’s head selling for a year’s wages – but we are selling our families and our children to the devil for a job, or so we can “do our own thing” and not be bothered with caring for the kids. We are selling our soul to devil for a dollar so we can have what we want now, forgetting that eternity is only one heartbeat away.

We might not see anyone scooping up dove droppings and pedaling them on the street corner for a fist full of cash – put we see the drug dealers pedaling drugs that are worst than dove droppings – and our children and even some of us, have handed over everything that we hold dear for just one more fix, one more pill or one more moment of euphoria that the drugs can give.

And what about the cannibalism? Do we see that happening in America today? What about the young lady who walks in to an abortion mill to kill her own baby? What about the parent who neglects their child while they are having a good time? What about the “latchkey kids” who often wind up kidnapped or raped? What about those who will abuse their own children and molest them? Maybe you don’t look at it these things as being as bad as cannibalism, but I do and I believe that God does too! Are we not allowing our children to be devoured by the devil? Are we not giving them over to be destroyed, body and soul, to a world of sin, and a devil whose only goal is to kill, steal and destroy?

Paul wrote these words to the church of the Galatians when he said in Galatians 5:14-15, "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."

Where is the love that parents should have for their children? Where is the love that children once had for their parents? Where is the love that people should have for one another? It’s missing today, and sometimes it’s missing, even in the church! Without that love in operation in our families and in our churches, we will soon be devouring one another and biting at one another. Has there been some biting going on in your home? Have you been taking cheap shots at one another? Have you been cutting one another to pieces with your words? A soul is devoured one word at a time! A marriage is destroyed one word at a time! A child’s life is forever changed by a single word! We see people being devoured everyday and we don’t even pay it much attention anymore!

Folks, we have a real famine in our land today – a famine for the Word of God and the Love of God! It’s a famine of our own creation and the only way to end it is to begin to feed upon the truth of the gospel!

If all of these things are happening in the church, where does that leave those who without Christ? It’s bad enough in the church, but its absolutely terrible in the world that knows not God!

Now we can sit here all day and talk about the famine. We can bemoan our spiritual hunger, we can wail over the terrible conditions of our world, we can cry over our lost loved ones who are dying from spiritual malnutrition, we can complain about our lot in life, we can keep doing our own thing, and go ruthlessly ahead, ignoring every warning sign in our life, or we can do something about it and make a change for the better!