“To each his own” seems to be a term synonymous with today’s society. It comes from the Latin, suum cuique pulchrum est, which means, “to each his own is beautiful.” There is another saying: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Many feel that what the individual does and believes is OK, but what does God have to say about it? God destroyed the world with a flood because the Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and the Lord destroyed the tower of Babel because the Lord knew the heart of man. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?”
The heart is mentioned 726 times throughout the Bible. The heart is the totality of ourselves, the center of our thoughts, the seat of our emotions. It is the origin in which our will is derived and is the “heart of our problem.” It is not that we have a violence problem or a drug problem or a sexual problem; it is that we have a heart problem. Warren Wiersbe said, “The heart of every problem is a problem of the heart.”
What is down in the well comes up with the bucket; our mouth reveals what is in our heart. We can see this in our president and in the homosexual and lesbian agenda. We can even see this failing condition in the majority of the churches today that do not preach the true Word of God. They preach what the people want to hear, what will fill their pockets rather than edify the people. We see a church that is apathetic rather than empathetic. We see a church that is far away from what the New Testament church was. We see a church that is quick to point out the sins of others – primarily to cover up its own sins.
People ask me if the church will recover, and my response is that I am not sure it will on this side of heaven. People and pastors call for revival, but our hearts won’t allow it. We can call for revival all we want, but unless we humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways, revival will not come. Perhaps the Lord has given us over to our own devices (see Romans 1:20-28).
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