Raking up Muck will Mess with Your Mind

If you have friends or family caught up in fake news, believing everything they are reading is true it is not possible to convince them they are being deceived.

This is happening in both conservative and liberal circles. This is the great deception of the end times that God speaks about as being so deceptive that "even the elect will be fooled", the elect being Christians.

I promise you there is nothing to be gained by listening continually to the muck that is out there as though knowledge is power. Just the opposite is true in this case, that is knowledge about evil things does not enhance your walk with Christ, it devalues it.

Raking up muck on the internet that we would not otherwise see waltzing past us in our daily life is of no value at all, but is in fact ruining the minds of many people who want to feel in control of their lives merely by knowing the muck.

I am invested in knowing what God wants me to know that brings solutions, not in useless information that serves only to dirty up the minds and remove the peace of the believer.

Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things."

When we bring filthy and useless talk about what is going on in the world to other believers we are not edifying them with the word of God and encouragement.

The best way we can encourage the believer is to remind them of God's promises, His will and the strength we derive from Him through prayer. We must not allow the "muck-rakers" to speak long and tedious dissertations on the filth in the world.

I am interested in what is going on in the Middle East especially and what is changing in our world as it relates to prophesy, but I have no interest in the details of what wicked people are doing.

Ephesians 5:11-12 "…11 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. '

God said this and I believe Him. This does not mean that we don't speak of what we see personally or affects us personally but to drudge up what is not walking in front of us, even believing news stories that might not even be true will destroy our peace in Christ.

Proverbs 3:5-6

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths."

When we leave all the muck of the world to Christ, dealing with what walks in front of us we will be empowered to handle things properly as the Holy Spirit directs.

May we be discerning in choosing to hear the things God wants us to hear and leaving all the rest alone. Hallelujah!!!!

Warnings are not Negative, they can Bring Healing

One might be wondering why the posts of born-again believers seem so "negative" all the time. The warnings, the rebukes, the continual begging for repentance, it's because the world is so wicked, the church is so messed up and the culture as a whole thinks bad things are good.

Folks, it's the times we are living in that motivate many of us to warn and plead with those who do not know Christ and those who say they do but live wickedly.

If we were standing in two feet of sewage because there was a flood and our houses were filling up with it we would not say silly things like "let's not talk about negative things, look at that green grass over there a mile away."

Instead, we would probably get the shovel and recruit others to get theirs to get busy draining that filth from the house. We would warn others passing by; "don't come in here you will get filthy and even die from a sickness."

The positive messages would come after the filth is removed and the people are safe.

Luke 3:6-8 "…6 And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’” 7 Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.…"

Why do I speak of narcissism so much? Here's the answer, it's all around us all the time. Yes, there are good times too that we enjoy, but they cannot mask the smell of the evil that is all around us.

Have you ever smelled cat urine on a carpet, reached for the room freshener only to find out that now you smell the freshener and the filth all mixed together to make a worse smell. The freshener didn't take away the odor it merely mixed with it to make the foul smell more prominent.

Spending most of our time on happy things merely pretends to ignore the evil we see around us. We can bury our heads in the sand and refuse to see what is there, or we can see it, call it what it is and pray to receive the boldness to warn others who are walking into the sewer thinking it's a sandbox in which to play.

This culture cannot come out of the sewer until they admit how filthy they are without Christ.

There you have it, those who can see things for what they are do not become weaker, they become stronger as they deal with it Biblically. If you love your family and friends you will tell the truth to help them come out of the sewer and into the arms of Jesus Christ.

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