I have had this thought on my mind for some time: which is more important, negative, or positive? As I was comparing this thought to our modern society, and it seems we live in a society that likes to hear the positive, but not the negative!
As I picked up students this morning, one of them was telling me that he sat through a lecture about protons, and electrons. Dan started to explain protons, and they have a positive charge, and electrons have a negative charge. If we as humans don't have a plus and minus in our system we die, it's essential to human life.
Pat and I had a friend, who did all the right things. He loved The Lord, ate the proper food, exercised, as a person he was concerned about his spiritual, and general health. One night he wasn't feeling well, and got up about 1:00 am. He told his wife that something didn't feel right. When she asked what was the matter, his response was "I can't hear you", and he fell down, and those were his last words. Knowing that he took care of himself, his wife requested an autopsy. When the results came back they couldn't find anything that caused his death. I told my cousin, who is a doctor, what had happened, and that they couldn't find anything in the autopsy. He said it was likely that something in his electrical system shorted-out. Positive, and negative, are they essential to life?
Pat and I were talking about an article she forwarded to one of our blog readers and it pointed out our spiritual life is also plus, and minus. We aren't always so pleased when we have to deal with negative. If it isn't all positive some of us even believe it can't be of God! I'm led to share some Scripture that was Paul's last charge to Timothy.
"I charge you therefore before God, and The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His Kingdom; Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound Doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they hear to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the Truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things endure afflictions, do the work of an Evangelist, make full proof of your Ministry. II Timothy 4: 1-5 (KJV).
I'm going to become a weather forecaster for just a while to make it easier to understand. We have a sunny day coming the 13th of January. The temperature will be in the mid to high eighties, it will be a beautiful day to go to the lake and get a early start on that summer tan. "My that sounds great! Honey, let's take the kids and have a day at the beach!" But the truth is on Sunday in Watertown it's going to be -16 degrees below zero. So the dad liked the eighty degree forecast better, and told the family they were going to the beach, and they did. Mondays news "A local family found frozen to death on shores of Lake Kampeska!"
The weather forecast is a fable, but if it's received as the truth the same results. In our spiritual life we have to compare what we are being taught, with the Word of God. Adultery is a terrible sin, and has consequences here on Earth, but God will forgive us if we ask. Spiritual adultery has eternal consequences, and we are responsible for what we believe. We have to believe the Word of God, whether positive, or negative because it takes both to be complete.. Spiritual living isn't psychology101; it's our eternal destiny!
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