13/01/2024 - PROFIT NOTHING

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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.  Proverbs 10.2

Wickedness – the lack of fear of God – has many treasures. Many, after graduating, have become more foolish than before. Professionally, they are true blessings to humanity, but they have become brutal and skeptical of God, going so far as to say that He doesn’t exist (Psalm 10:4; 14:1). Because of this thinking, they are heading fast to the judgment seat of the Universe, where they will be condemned.

We must seek divine wisdom. The person who is carried away by unbelief is like us, subject to the same feelings. But they have given in to the enemy, despite being “wise” enough not to be deceived. What happens to them is a successful infernal work to snatch them away from the divine plan and cast them into darkness. However, the Lord’s mercy guarantees the power to bring them back (Romans 11:30-32).

Many people distance themselves from the Truth because of what they have studied in school. This knowledge leads them to think outside the normality granted by God and to think they are superior to others. However, with the help of the Holy Spirit, who will show us in the Scriptures the guidance to awaken them from this deep slumber, we will be able to pull them out of perdition, with much struggle, using the authority of God’s children.

Those who lay their hands on the treasures of ungodliness think differently from others and are asleep, despite having hellish nightmares. We need to reach them with divine love, the humility that God gives us and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to open their eyes. There will be an eternal reward for those who, with Heaven’s help, bring them out of perdition and lead them to Christ. To the Lord be all glory and honor!

The Most High guarantees that justice delivers from death. This seems to contradict human justice, which always focuses on punishing rather than recovering someone. Whoever sins and does not seek forgiveness will receive the deserved penalty (Ecclesiastes 12:13,14; Revelation 20:11-15). Then, divine justice will not punish the transgressor, but the hellish agent who led the person into error. We will be so rewarded that we will rejoice for eternity over the one life we have saved (John 4:36; 1 Corinthians 3:8).

God does not take pleasure in penalizing those who offend Him, as the courts of the world do. He wants everyone to repent of their evil deeds and live (Acts 17:30; 1 Timothy 2:3,4). The Lord acts to save, not to cast people into the lake of eternal fire. As a true Father, He never rejoices in someone’s suffering, even if they hated Him during their life (Ezekiel 33:11). The Lord’s delight is to recover what has been lost!

Can you see the contrast between God and the devil? The Lord is compassionate and with a good character, so He doesn’t want anyone to go astray. The devil, on the other hand, is the author of evil, a liar and the father of all sins (John 8:44). The evil one desperately strives to deceive people (John 10:10), so that even those enlightened by science fail to see how good the Creator is. Turn to good now!

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares