PREOCCUPIED WITH DISTRACTIONS    

The last few weeks leading up to the royal wedding yesterday saw the whole world literally enamored and preoccupied it. In olden times when marriages were strategic alliances between kingdoms, with one kingdom giving up a bride to another, it was an international event. In modern day era, though monarchy is irrelevant, the bankruptcy of man’s soul made the wedding more than relevant. Here was a nation footing most of the $46million dollar bill to marry her prince and across the sea was another nation patting her back and spending endless hours on media discussing how incredible this marriage was for a variety of reasons. Both signify the epitome of man’s emptiness within. Jesus’ words about the end times comes to mind,

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:38,39)

Man has been created with a need to serve God and be preoccupied with Him. When man refuses to acknowledge that need and bow down before him, emptiness results. This emptiness is then filled with several things, which provides a temporary distraction for man before the overwhelming emptiness returns. And so man needs to find distractions with which he can preoccupy himself- much like a painkiller that numbs the pain, but never treats the source of the pain. Look around, and we see these distractions in the multiple products of Hollywood, the sport leagues, political drama, the daily grind of work and the multiple pleasures that are common to man.

Jesus warns us that at the end times man will be so preoccupied with the many irrelevant distractions of this world, that he would have lost all sensitivity to God. What follows is a soul that is dead to God and a second coming, which is described in Jesus’ own words akin to a ‘thief in the night’. The increase in wickedness will make the love of God for many go cold. What a loss for man when the second coming takes him by surprise, and he will be left ruing his lethargy to the many opportunities God gave him to turn to the truth. (Please see short video below)

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