Look Up Not Around

My husband made a very good point in our time together over coffee this morning. That point was that Christ commanded, "when you see these things, look up." This was not a suggestion it was a command.

Matthew 24:32-34 "32 Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So also, when you see all these things, you know that He is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.…"

Christ never said look around and find as much dirt and evil as you can and talk about it. He instructed us to look up with great joy and expectation.

We have no need to seek out the conspiracies to find dirt to be able to know the world is evil, it presents itself in our face often. All we have to do is live our lives and see from daily living that there is evil all around us. The details only bring a sense of helplessness that there is nothing we can do to stop it, and there is not!

Knowing the evil exists and is growing should be enough to cause us to warn others with Scripture, not with the details of the evil, but with God's words of warning, they are enough.

When we look around more than we point one another to Christ we are filling our beings with filthy water rather than the pure water of Christ's Words.

Ezekiel 36:25-27
"25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances."

2 Corinthians 6:17
"Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,"

Ephesians 5:11
"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them."

God tells us to expose evil when it comes our way this does not mean that we should go looking for filth to view and show to others.

2 John 1:9-11
"Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works."

1 Timothy 6:3-5
"If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain."

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