Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Change”
Our Bible verse for today: “Lord, Your word is forever; it is firmly fixed in heaven.” Psalm 119:89 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “The Bible provides us with eternal truth that never changes.”
One thing a study of history teaches us is that the world is an ever-changing place. Nations rise and nations fall; leaders and celebrities are celebrated for a short time, and then they die and are gone; cultural trends and societal norms change; and technology – my goodness it seems to change almost daily.
Everything about life and the world we live in is in a constant state of change. Nothing stays the same – ever. That includes our concepts of right and wrong. Things that used to be taboo in generations past, are now commonly accepted as being normal. Also, we are now frequently told that there really is no objective standard of truth. More and more the truth of any situation is in the eye of the beholder, and so what is true for you may not be true for me. Therefore keep your opinions to yourself.
The problem with that kind of thinking of course, is that it leads to chaos. It leads to everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. It also opens the door for all sorts of aberrations of behavior. When there is no unchanging standard of truth upon which everything else is measured, progressive thinking runs amuck and there’s almost no end to the social carnage.
Back in the 70’s there was a cult movie entitled “Soylent Green”. It was about a futuristic world where most of the people on the planet substituted on a food source known as “Soylent Green”, which was distributed to the masses of people by the One World Government. The other curiosity about this futuristic society was that at a certain age all citizens were required to turn themselves in to a government euthanasia clinic. You see, in an effort at population control, the government found it necessary to limit the allowable life span to 70 years old. At that point, for the good of the rest of society, you were to turn yourself in and your life would be humanely ended. At the end of the movie we discovered that Soylent Green, the food source for the masses, was being made out of the bodies of those who had obediently turned themselves in to the euthanasia centers for the good of society. It was a gross and disgusting movie but it sort of makes my point. Left to ourselves, with no objective standard of truth to govern us, there is no end to the twisted thinking we are capable of and the immoral aberrations society will embrace.
To have a “Biblical world view” means that we accept the Bible as God’s acceptable standard for all human conduct. It applies to all people, in all places, at all times. And it never changes. As “people of the Book” we evaluate all the rest of life, and everything in the world around us, through the lens of what the Bible teaches. We consider everyone and everything based upon how it compares to what God says in the Bible.
In the Bible not only does God reveal to us the truth He wants us to have about Himself, eternity, the spiritual realm, etc, but He also provides us the guidance we need in order to be protected from ourselves. As the movie Soylent Green so effectively illustrated, left to ourselves, our thinking and our conduct will degenerate to an ugly and unimaginable degree.
The Bible provides us with truth that never changes. All we need to do is read it, obey it, and then use it as the lens through which we see and evaluate all the rest of life.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 