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What Can You Do?

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What can you do about the increasing evil that is penetrating every corner of our world? To be realistic and blunt, not much. The fall of this world was a foregone certainty before the Lord spoke the first word to create it all (Isaiah 46:9-10). None of what is transpiring is surprising to God. Every bit is part of His mysterious but sovereign plan (Ephesians 1:11-12). I don’t get it.

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This isn’t in any way how I would write this grand story. Then again, I am so obviously not God. My “perfect plan” would fall apart within seconds. No, that’s too long; it would immediately fail because I am not omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, or omnibenevolent. It’s not all bad news though. While we can’t stem the tide of evil flooding our world, there is something we can do.

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Everybody’s Preaching

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I listen to a lot of sermons, and some people tell me they couldn’t listen to that much preaching. The truth is, you are being preached to all the time. No matter what you listen to or what you watch, you are being preached to. The airwaves are full of voices pushing their ideas and influencing the way you think. Everybody’s preaching, so it comes down to what kind of preaching is flooding your mind.

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What is the character of those you are allowing to preach into your life? We have to evaluate who’s preaching to us on the websites we visit, movies we watch, music we listen to, and news we consume. This includes the social media “influencers” you might follow. As a side note, you will find the only influencers worth listening to in God’s word. Jesus alone has the words of life (John 6:67-68).

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Study His Word

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Something that continues to bother me is how Christians can consider the Bible to be dry and boring. I suppose I can understand why unbelievers might think parts of it are a bit dull, but for someone who knows Jesus as Lord? I don’t get it. While I would not go so far as to question whether someone who doesn’t delight in the Word of God truly knows Him at all, it does make me wonder.

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How can you claim to love Jesus and not be drawn to the book that is all about Him? How can you not hang on every word of the One who is more important than anyone and everything else? It makes no sense to me. If you love the Lord, nothing should excite you more than to study His Word.

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Read the Book

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I’ve written nearly a million words (true story!) since this blog began back in 2010. Today, as I sat down to write the next instalment, it occurred to me that for all that writing, the only value I can add to anyone is pointing to what is written in the Word of God. No matter how clever the phrase or profound the thought, it is utterly meaningless because all truth is found in the Word of God (John 17:17).

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There is no wisdom apart from knowing Christ (Job 28:28; Colossians 2:3). Nothing I write will ever save your soul. Only the power of God’s Word can do that (Romans 1:16). So, as much as I genuinely appreciate you reading my work, if it’s a choice between reading this and spending some time in God’s Word, then I implore you to put this down and pick up your Bible.

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Live Slowly

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While doing some reading, I stumbled across this from J. I. Packer: “Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God.” It’s been some time since a statement hit me so hard. A myriad of health issues in my family have sent my life spinning like a top on steroids for the past year. Add keeping a small business afloat and the usual responsibilities of life, and there’s been little margin in my world for quite some time.

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I’m sure you can relate; we all go through these seasons. In the middle of these times, it’s easy to get lost as the competing urgency of so many things obscures your priorities. Life is speeding by and it’s all you can do to just hold on. We need to remember how important it is to slow down and seek God.

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