Somebody Out There

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Micah 2:1-2

Do you suppose this has all changed by now? Shouldn't we have evolved beyond the snatching of property from families? I guess we all know the answer to that. Last night, somebody out there was plotting to acquire by force a field used by a poor farmer to feed a family. Somewhere a person or corporation plotted to snatch a house from persons with no means to fight back in court. This went on in Micah's time and it hasn't changed today. Where many of us wake up at 3:00 am to fight anxieties and worries, somebody out there wakes up with an idea for taking more property from a neighbor.

We might attempt to elect a government that would try to stop this by its authority, but that does not fix the heart of the problem. Praise God we do know that our Father in Heaven sends out His Holy Spirit to work on those very hearts. You might even say that the cleansing of hearts is His specialty. For that somebody out there who refuses even that love, there is always woe.

There will come a day when the opportunity for repentance is over; a day when those who will be saved belong to the Lord, and those who have refused His salvation for the final time will face His wrath. Woe indeed to those who refuse that free gift purchased by the Son of God with His blood.

Let us pray for somebody out there,
Bucky