LEVITY, LEVITY, ALL IS LEVITY.

Originally Posted: Friday, January 8, 2010 at 11:59pm

Had a thought the other day, centered around this idea. The world and the people in it, who are in exact opposition to our Lord and anything He represents, belittle and make light of a serious and drastic God, our God.

Our God is good. So good! There is no evil in Him. What a wondrous thing! Any evil that we experience is not because of Him. That brings a smile to my face. :) <- See? That means the God we serve and have hopefully grown to love, is not an evil God; but one who loves unconditionally, never changing, wanting to bless us completely so that we can experience the fullness in Him. If we are not? It is our faults. There is something in us, or about us, or an action, ...maybe a habitual sin that separates us from His blessing and His face shining upon our lives.

Our God is a God of simplicity and reason, and of a sound mind. He has set an order in the world to revolve around logic, mostly... (Sometimes things and situations don't make sense to us and we just have to accept that they will never make sense to us, those are separate occasions,) but I am talking about our everyday living that God has ordained. When something works it is because we have deduced in our minds that it will work, and God preordained it to. When something doesn't work it should be pretty apparent. The closer you are to Him by the power of His spirit, the easier it should be to discern the logistics of what steps to take. The fact that we can use our heads to determine the will of God through logic, is a logical thing in of itself.

I love this. I can look back on times when things were clearly not working out, around every corner was more and more trouble, clearly this was not the path for me, because it has now ended. I can see where God intervened and where I was so misguided and mislead because of my own selfishness to follow my will and not God's. If I had paid attention to the clear signs of disarray and confusion and hurt, I could've made a quick escape. Instead, I forced and pushed, and everything broke. Oh, how I wait for the day when nothing will ever break again! I hate when things break. Good thing we have a God to put everything together again.

Because the world is in opposition to God, as Romans says it is at war with Him; as we were before we surrendered our lives to Him. The world has dulled down, nullified, suppressed, desensitized, perverted, belittled and pushed back the God Most High and His ordinances. So much so that even church is affected by the world's oppression in their war against God. There are so many small things that I'm sure each one of us does or thinks. We may think, "Oh it's not that bad." Well... it is. It is that bad, because even recognizing a little bad means that there is evil in the world. Evil that God did not intend to be in our existence in walking with Him.

The world makes light of God. Everyday I hear it. It breaks my heart. Oh the lightness of serious matters, the levity behind the Lord's standards! My heart breaks even more knowing that I am involved in it some way or another; sometimes willingly, sometimes inevitably because of my sin nature, and it will not stop until I see His face.

I think about marriage, how the enemy has such a gripping hold on it that people are too afraid to make a commitment such as this that they never go into one at all; or they do and they just break that covenant, or worse, even go into a marriage thinking it's not permanent. God hates divorce. It says so in His word. If it breaks my heart, I can't imagine how it breaks His.

Even something as "simple" as saying, "Oh my God." Taking the Lord's name in vain. Are you really trying to bring God into the situation at hand, or is it just flowing out of your mouth without thinking? The reason to say, "Oh my God" would be to bring our most holy and powerful God into the situation. All else is just degrading His most pure, righteous, and reverent name into a common curse word. That is not ok.

Whatever it may be, a covenant between God and another human, or using His name as a curse word, God set up rules that we often break and man takes those rules, with the help of satan, and tears down everything He set up. This is a sad truth I know, but my point is to not leave you feeling hopeless.

I love God for his kindness. And His kindness is included in His character of grace. So really, I love God for his grace. He let's us get away with things we should never get away with. We should always aspire to be like Him completely, lacking nothing. Struggling is inevitable, good luck being perfect.

The key is to try harder to be more like Him each time you fall and fail Jesus, so that we may be complete in Him. That is the difference between the dead and the living, when one makes light of God's established ordinances, the dead cares not at all, and the living repent, acknowledging their unworthiness and then hunger for righteousness.

Which is why I say; Let us use our logical God given minds to recognize His ways, by the power of the spirit and the reading of the word, and stop making light of Him and what He has established, along with the rest of the dead world.

Amen.