Micah 5:12-15 The Lord said, “I will cut off your witchcraft; your carved images and sacred pillars will be destroyed. You shall no longer worship the work of your hands; I will pluck your wooden images from your midst and destroy your cities. I will execute vengeance with anger and fury on the nations that have not heeded.”
Today as we often ponder events in our society you ask yourself "Is the Lord is speaking to us or are we being deceived." Recently as I was surfing the television channels, I came upon a show where this man finds strangers in the audience and then crosses over to where the dead are and relays information back to the living person. After three minutes of this I was ready to move on to another channel. There are times when the excitement of the unknown will draw us towards all the things spoken of in Micah 5:12-15.
Blair Witch Project, Jason X and so many other movies today fill our time with demons, witchcraft, demons from other worlds, and the supernatural. If you watch some of these over a period of time, we all become desensitized to what the Lord says is wrong.
Each day I struggle with being drawn into some deceptions. On April 22nd we had Earth Day. While reading articles on what Earth Day meant, I discovered it was much more that just planting a tree or cleaning the banks of a river. The people involved in the projects believe that we are to give an offering to “Mother Earth”. This deity of sun, moon, water and earth are to be given the respect of a god. Yet, like Paul looking at all the Greek statues, told them about the statue to the “Unknown God”. As for me, I sometime feel helpless to speak so boldly about the “Unknown God” these Earth people miss.Do you have any ideas to tell them about the Creator of the Universe who designed this earth for each of us?
The bottom line is that we should draw closer to the Lord in our daily walk. Look more at Him rather than what the world is accepting as normal behavior. Based upon the scripture do not become involved in those things that pull us away from the Lord.
You will find that God’s word will never be mocked or should never be ignored. Each day we need to turn our eyes from things on earth and turn to looking at Him. The end result will be the fulfillment of Micah 5.