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Annette S. Yeboah writes: The world is beautiful but deadly

TRUE, GOD made everything beautiful in itself and in its time, but He is left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, so that we cannot predict Him. It is unfortunate that most Christians have decided that there is nothing better to do than go ahead and have fun and good time and get the most we can out of life by engaging in the activities of darkness which only please the devil.

God’s plan for the world was to make it beautiful and sweet for mankind to have a peaceful place to leave without worry, pain, sorrow, agony and anguish. But the sin of mankind has made and turned the beautiful world into a deadly and ugly one.

Though it is beautiful and the things in it are all nice, the earth has remained deadly for the children of God who depend on the world to live.

The earth was created for the children of God and God instructed His children to keep and dominate it but the tables have turned and shifted into the hands of the sons of darkness.

In the first book of the bible, Genesis, its first chapter, from verse one to 26, it is recorded that God created the things that he thinks mankind would need or depend on to survive before He created man in verse 27.

God bless them and said to them to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue it using all its vast resources in the service of God and man. The dominion was also over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.

Everything that was created God saw it very pleasant because He approved it.

But mankind whom God handed everything to could not be a good caretaker and cheaply handed it over to the devil that had vowed but failed to overthrow God in heaven through deception and lies. 

Since man handed the peaceful and harmonious world to the devil to rule, the world has suffered violence as the once beautiful and holy world now abounds in sin, causing it to be deadly.

All we have eyes on is the fashionable god of darkness. We think he can give us what we want, and that Christians don’t have to bother believing a truth they can’t see. They are stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the message that shines with Christ Jesus who gives us the best picture of God we will ever get.

One of Paul’s epistles to Christians in Romans chapter eight verse 22, he says, “All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it’s not only around us; it’s within us. The spirit of God is arousing within us and we are also feeling the birth pangs” (Amplified Bible).

It implies that the world is in serious agony needing someone [Jesus Christ] to rescue it. The cry of the children of God in prayer to God for a saviour was heard by God but the wickedness of man caused him to refuse to accept and recognize Him as our own as recorded in the book of John, chapter one verse 10.

In an era where God has put in every corner of the world His appointed ones who bear His message of warning to resist sin and darkness but no one wants to buy their ticket, we are something everyone stands around and stares at like an accident in the street.

It is time for Christians to know that we are not part of this world. Therefore we cannot associate ourselves with the kind of music, dance, movies, fashion and social lives that some are practising. We should rather remain in the faith and belief that the world is not as beautiful as it seems but ugly and deadly for us Christians.

We should be like the believers whose case is recorded in Hebrews chapter 11:13 that “these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” We need to hold on to the faith otherwise we would miss the heavenly bliss that we hope for in eternity.

If Apostle Paul and the others saw it and fought the good fight to overcome the world to win the race, we too can make it in Jesus’ name.

But we should not be conformed to this world as it has nothing better to offer us but rather be transformed by renewing your mind, that you may prove what is good, acceptable and the perfect will of God.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world for if any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,” says I John 2:15. This verse is admonishing us, Christians, to be wise concerning our crave for the things of the world, particularly the pleasures and the subtleties such as knowledge that deceives and can lead us to destruction. These pleasures and subtleties look good but in terms of our spirituality, they are deadly and poisonous to our spiritual uplift.


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