7 WOES
Matthew 23:8 But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.
You call me:
- Master but do not obey me
- Light but do not walk with me
- Wise but do not listen or learn from me
- Rich but do not ask of me for help
- Eternal but do not live like you believe it
- Gracious but do not trust in my generosity
- Noble but do not serve me as my slave
- God but do not fear offending me
If I call you condemned, do not blame me!
Woe is you as you plunge down the flaming pit because of your preoccupation with everything and anything that was self-gratifying. The sum total of all your love and ambitions now and in the future is only your well-being and materialism. All that matters to you is you. Your egotism is so prevalent that you barely comprehend the purpose of those around you but to satisy your needs and wants. You are oblivious to all else.
There is a total vacuum of spirituality within you mainly because your unconfessed sin keeps getting in the way. You can only wall off righteousness for so long until it bursts its walls and destroys itself and all within its path. Now the challenge you face is to put up a face of righteousness around you so that no one will be able to penetrate your façade of holy living.
This impenitence arouses God’s anger at your audacity and deception. He will try His best to have you take a good hard look at who you really are on the inside that place in you that no one is welcome but you.
It’s been over 2,000 years of this nonsense with no change in your perverseness. The sad thing is that there is never another second chance. You may have used them all up and you have no options left. This delusiveness of living is denial of sin, Satan and hell will open up within you.
Go back over this article and see if you can’t pick out the 7 woes and then whip them to submission for the glory of the King of Kings, your Commander in Chief or else!
PRESS ON!
Rick Mathes 