Have We Mocked the One upon Whom Our Life Depends?

© 2020 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” (Galatians 6:7-8)

Does this mean that no one mocks God today?  Of course not!  Christ’s apostles made it clear that,

“…  there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts..” (Jude vs.18)

Mocking God is the characteristic of those who have rejected Him.  However, no one who mocks God can, thereby, make that mockery stick or threaten His sovereignty.  Mockers mock to their own peril!  God shall ultimately set things right.  But that state of “rightness” shall be the undoing of all who do not repent from evil.

How do people mock God?  They refuse to obey His commands.  They deem those commands archaic and irrelevant.  Let’s examine some of them.

God commands us to abstain from fornication and adultery.  Yet, today, very few reach adulthood having avoided this grave sin.  This often leads to propagation of vicious diseases and violation of another command.

God commands us not to murder.  Yet, each year, in the U.S. alone, over 1.5 million babies are murdered in the womb.  The failure to avoid fornication increases “undesired pregnancies.”  The frequently selected solution to these “undesired pregnancies” is abortion, which is murder.  This often leads to violation of yet another of God’s commands.

God commands us not to lie or bear false witness.  Yet, those who, even reluctantly, submit to the abortion process, are motivated to lie to themselves by convincing themselves that abortion is simply removal of a “fetus” and not really murder.  Call it what you will; a developing human individual is put to death.

There is only one who can forgive these or any of the other sins you or I commit.  That forgiveness came at a great price.  God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, died, was buried, and rose again, in order to pay the penalty for sin on behalf of all who come to trust and obey Him as Lord and Savior.

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

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