Here Is Wisdom

"And He was also saying to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it turns out. And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be a hot day,’ and it turns out that way. You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time? And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?" (Luke 12:54-57)

Here is wisdom: Jesus says to "analyze this present time" by "what is right."

Jesus tells His followers to "analyze" the times Spiritually.

Here's scripture's analysis of the spirit of "the last days:"

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these." (II Timothy 3:1-5)

It's a detailed description of "this present time."

It's a detailed description of the man Americans have chosen as their ruler in "this present time."

The man himself doesn't really matter: it's not at all about him (though he would violently disagree). Politicians themselves are transient players. The soon-to-be-ruler's real importance is that he so completely embodies the spirit of this time.

And his ultimate importance, that Christians choose to be led by that spirit.

Vox "Evangelical" Populi

I've talked a great deal lately about this scripture: that's because it's been on my heart daily. When God does that, it's usually because He wants me to pay particular attention to the passage, and deeply meditate on it. And when I do so, He shows me more of His wisdom in it.

"And He was also saying to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it turns out. And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be a hot day,’ and it turns out that way. You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time? And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?" (Luke 12:54-7)

He clearly tells "the crowds" to not "analyze this present time" by appearances, but by "what is right." He's even more explicit in John 7:24: "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

Jesus also says this is God's command: "My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me" (John 7:16).

God commands that we judge the same way He Himself judges. And He judges men the same way He judges the times.

Choosing a ruler for His people, God instructed Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him;...for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart" (I Samuel 16:7).

Our time, America 2016, is another example of "the people" willfully choosing unrighteousness. My earlier post "Vox Populi" gives a starter-list of Biblical instances.

That "the world" chooses unrighteousness is a given. But what does it say that 80% of "evangelicals" choose unrighteousness because they can't recognize it when they see it, and can't hear Jesus' command to judge by "what is right" ?

Could it mean that the majority of American "evangelicals" are blind and deaf to God's word ?

God is faithful: He promises to forgive all who will repent; and He heals the blind and the deaf who will ask Him.

Praise His mercy !!