I am prepping a dear friend of mine, vehicle, for a long drive to visit her mother several states away from where she reside. So, I went and had her tires rotated, rebalanced, with proper air pressure. Then I went and swept it out before running it through the washer. All seems to be good and she should have a safe trip.
On the way back, I was thinking how today is "Good Friday" (the remembrance of it at least) and it made me realize that if I was not such a pitiful human being, sinful in nature, and on the fast track to hell, My Lord would never have had to sacrifice Himself. I know technically this falls back to Adam (Eve), but in my own life I have done horrific and terrible things in general and unto others. Our God would have never had to propitiated on our behalf if we we never chose to allow our natural selves to be in control. Even as a believer I get mad at stupid things, I get angry at dumber things, and in many cases form a wrongful opinion of the situation at hand.
The Bible and Preachers make it clear, if this Earth only had one human being for all of the Earth's and humanities existence, God still would have died for that persons sin.
In my remembrance of what Christ did for me, makes me understand, I am the reason He had to do what happened 2,000 years ago. I have never been so thankful for anything in my entire life. Thank You Lord for choosing to save a wretch like me!!
The truth is we cannot help but sin for all have sinned, done the act, and come short of the glory of God.
And we are born with a choice so we are born not knowing God so we will do wrong before we do right and repent of our sins and follow God.
So Jesus had to come to save us and no one can escape not sinning before they follow God.
Since we are born with a choice we are born not knowing God so we will do wrong before we do right, so it is not our fault for why we sinned for we cannot help it for we are on our own with the flesh before we follow God.
It is not our fault why we first sinned, but there is no excuse for when we know right from wrong correctly then we are accountable for not doing wrong but doing right.
For creation testifies there is a God and of His attributes so the world is without excuse, for the invisible things of Him are seen in creation that He is wise, powerful, and loves people for He provided food, and the means to make clothing, and shelter, and testifies of the 2 greatest laws love God, and love people, and love is the fulfilling of the law.
But some people did not want to believe that but attributed nature to God and worshipped the creature more than the Creator, and believed things came about a different way which evolution is an example.
And as far as doing terrible things all sin can be forgiven although it can bother a person for doing those bad things, but we have to forgive ourselves, and we are a new creature in Christ so we are not that person anymore.
Also before we come to God we are going by the world, which the world is motivated by selfishness, arrogance, and self exaltation, so we went along with the game and became the same for that is the way the world operates.
Which people are more selfish and arrogant because of technology so people are not on the same level anymore for technology caused money and material things to flow like a raging river, and people can reach our farther to make money and reach more people to make money, which the Bible says the last generation shall devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men, and caused worldliness, and fleshy pleasures to explode so people pursued those things and it kicked up the selfishness and arrogance of people to a level never before seen in history.
As long as people do not have anything to cling unto to exalt themselves people will get along great, but technology changed that.
Which Jesus said since iniquity shall abound at this time the love of many shall wax cold.
Which before technology people were basically on the same level so people looked at each other that people are decent, and good, and basically care about each other with a few exemptions but it was not enough to deter them from thinking people were basically good.
But after technology came out for a while and caused people to be more selfish and arrogant and pursued all the things technology brought out the attitude became people basically care about their selves with little regard for anybody else but themselves, so you do not care about me then I do not care about you.
And the love of many waxed cold, and now instead of looking at people as basically good and decent we started looking at people as being dogs and not caring.
So when we were in the world playing the game the world plays our attitude was more selfish, and arrogant, and disappointed in people than it was years ago when dealing with people, and being selfish and not caring about them for we believe they do not care about us.
Which parents and children never fought like they do now, and husbands and wives did not fight like they do now.
Which many of us have acted terrible towards other people, and been selfish, and arrogant, when we were in the world, where if we lived before technology it would be highly likely we would of not been that way.
That although people say they have done terrible things which is wrong to be a comfort to them that before they came to Jesus being in the world they were only playing the game that the world plays which the world is more selfish, arrogant, and self exalting than years ago, so they would go according to that behavior that the world displays now.
So don't be too hard on yourself in the age of technology for if you lived before technology the chances are very high you would of not been like that at all.
But the world today causes many to act in a way they would of not acted before technology.
Which look at the attitude from the 1950's until now and that is only a short while ago compared to the history of mankind.
When we were in the world we were playing the game the world plays for we were part of it, and since the world is more selfish and arrogant, which caused people to not like each other as much, we played the game and became selfish and arrogant and did not like people that much.
So the sin we do in this technology age on average would be worse than the sin they did before technology.
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