Ecclesiastes 12:10

  In Luke 13 Jesus encounters a crooked person. Here a woman who “ for eighteen years had …was bent double, and could not straighten up at all”. But this was not who I was referring to.   The crooked person here comes after Jesus heals her. In verse 14 we read: “ But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, "There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day. " This official has such a skewed perceptive that he looks at a miracle as something wrong because it doesn’t fit into his narrow viewpoint of what was right.   I wish I could say there are not still people like this today. Folks that allow their viewpoint to cloud good that is being done. Maybe it’s their political leanings, their fanatic devotion to traditions, or their own self-importance, they condemn good work by finding some feeble reason to bring fault. Rather than celeb...

 In Psalm 53:1 David exclaims, “ The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God," They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.”  Often, we focus on the first part of that verse, the idea of the foolishness that comes from denying God. However, the last part makes a strong point as well. When we eliminated God, we also take away good.  Without God, there is no good. God is the arbitrator of right and wrong. If we remove his overarching judgments, then man determines what good is. And if mankind has proven anything about himself, it's that when left to his own devices he does what he wants and not necessarily what is good. Without a standard, we descend into evil  Consider the time of the Judges when “ everyone did what was right in his own eyes ”. They became as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah! Think of man before the flood when “ every thought of his heart was evil continually ”. Consider our modern world that has d...