Genesis 1:27 KJV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Deuteronomy 32:15-25 KJV
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Isaiah 40:28-31 KJV
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
When I was in the 8th grade we had a substitute teacher one day in our English class. Instead of the lesson that day he took it upon himself to have a debate of sorts. His topic? Evolution. He was for it. I was against it. I proudly and confidently told him that evolution was hogwash. I couldn't open a science book from 1611 and have it give me the same version of how the earth began as I could my King James Bible. I couldn't even take a science book from ten years prior and have it give the same account as a current textbook. But I could, under no uncertain terms, open my Bible each and every time and know without a shadow of a doubt that God's account of creation was infallible and unchanging. It wouldn't matter if I opened my Bible 100 years from now, Genesis chapter 1 would say the same thing: In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. He quickly forfeited the discussion and we went back to our English lesson. I think it surprised him that a 14 year old girl could be so adamant about her beliefs, but I was, and have always remained so. But it hasn't always been easy.
Genesis also tells us that we are created in His image, meaning that we are made to be personal, rational, and moral beings. This however is not always so. Our lives are full of impersonal, irrational, immoral situations and people. There have been many times in my life when I've strayed from my beliefs, not in disbelief, but in rebellion. Rebellion is a slippery slope. I got myself into some situations that I never should've been in. It was my Savior who kept me from harm. I look back and am so thankful that I was saved at an early age because I realize that had I not been, my rebellion would have led to an eternity in hell. Deuteronomy 32 warns us what happens when we forsake the God that made us, when we lightly esteem the Rock of our Salvation, we provoke His jealousy and we kindle His anger and the results are terrifying and disastrous. If they were a forward generation, children without faith then, then what are we now? It is happening all around us, every single day. Legal abortion, gay marriage, recreational drug use, underage drinking, premarital sex, pornography, a new religion worshiping a new false god every day. Where have our morals gone? Where has our faith gone?
My life is not perfect. I am not pointing out another's sin as worse than my own. But what I am saying is that in a generation of people who do not have Christ as their Rock, their solid foundation, we have a generation of people who turn everywhere but to God to cope with the illness, the suffering, the misery and doubt, the trials and tribulations that this life is overrun with. In my darkest hour, when I lost Lachlan, I never once uttered to God that I hated Him. I was afraid to. I didn't hate Him but I didn't turn to Him when I needed Him the most either. Even with that solid foundation of Salvation in my life I faltered. So without it, I wouldn't merely have stumbled, I'd have all out rolled right down that slippery slope of rebellion straight into the fiery pits of hell.
Why don't we turn to Him when we need Him most? Is is shame, weakness, humiliation? He is the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and Omega, The Creator, He knows all and sees all. Satan sees our shame. God sees His Son if we've been washed in the precious blood of Salvation. Isaiah tells us that He never gets weary of us, there is no end to His understanding and that He will renew our strength and we will run and not be weary, we shall walk and not be faint. He is the Rock of All the Ages and we must stand upon what never changes.
WHAT NEVER CHANGES
I've seen things along the way,
I've seen trouble in my short days.
But Through it all, I had no fear.
See, I had a Friend who was always near.
If the sun were to fall,
If the oceans were to dry.
If the mountains were to crumble,
I wouldn't bat an eye.
For I stand upon the Rock, He’s the Rock of all the Ages.
No matter what may come,
The storm around me rages,
I stand upon what never changes.
Sometimes the way seems bleak,
But we're just human, and we are so weak.
Take it from me, If the road gets rough
He'll be there to pick you up.
And if the sun were to fall,
If the oceans were to dry.
If the mountains were to crumble,
I wouldn't bat an eye.
For I stand upon the Rock, He’s the Rock of all the Ages.
No matter what may come,
The storm around me rages,
I stand upon what never changes.
And if the sun were to fall,
If the oceans were to dry.
If the mountains were to crumble,
I wouldn't bat an eye.
And if the sun were to fall,
If the oceans were to dry.
If the mountains were to crumble,
I wouldn't bat an eye.
For I stand upon the Rock, He’s the Rock of all the Ages.
No matter what may come,
The storm around me rages,
I stand upon what never changes
I stand upon what never changes
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