Should I Apologize?

Should I apologize for my continual negative outlook on life, as someone on Facebook once told me?

It is hard for me to feel gooey or ignore the truth about the world. When drugs, alcohol and gambling have destroyed families, when children are being murdered by the millions by their own mothers, while more than half the babies that are born are out of wedlock, teen suicides are on the rise, domestic violence has increased dramatically in the last few years, 70% of marriages end in divorce while remarriage is causing devastating anger in the children of these circumstances.

Then there are the beheadings of believers in the middle-east, our president is facilitating the increase in Islamic activity in our country, for more persecution of believers here.

Most people who claim to be “Christian” are living as worldly as they ever did before they became Christians, demonstrating that they were never changed into a new creation, they have no victory over anything and no interest in the things of the Lord, while they exhibit hostility toward those who would attempt to help them grow or become born again.

Pride reigns in nearly everyone, narcissism has grown exponentially in the past five years, unchecked, unchallenged and even promoted.

Yes, I can be more positive, focusing on the “love” of God, if I want to be artificial. Making happiness my goal, enjoying my life my way, would certainly make me feel better, until I am faced with the next wickedness coming down the pike. I could feign happiness, pretending that the world is a fun, cheerful easy going and exciting place to be, in a sort of “Pollyanna” fashion.

This “Pollyanna” outlook is fine for those who don’t care about anyone or anything else. Those who have the love of Christ cannot ignore the truth of this world, nor can they remain silent while millions of people head down the wide road to hell. Our silence would prove our selfishness.

The happy-go-lucky mentality of this world is destroying people, giving them a false sense of safety when they are moving toward hell, without concern for their eternity. Payday is coming, many who thought they were headed toward heaven will hear those frightening words from our Lord, “I NEVER KNEW YOU, DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACITICE LAWLESSNESS.”

Matthew 7:21-23
“21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

Don’t think for one minute that you can do more good deeds to keep out of hell. We have a sinful nature, nothing we could do would ever keep us out of hell.

Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

If you want to be saved from hell, it is very simple, admit that you are sinful and in need of a Savior, Christ will see your heart desires to be changed by Him into a new creation, then His shed blood for our sins will cover our sinfulness and He will begin to cleanse us from our unrighteousness. He will send the Holy Spirit to live in us to be our righteousness for us. Without repentance (changing our mind) about our sin, we cannot ever see heaven.

John 3:16-17 ““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

Romans 5:8 “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 10:8-10 “8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”

Isaiah 55:6-7 ““Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”