Me? Everyone? Really???

I know what this note inside Addison’s and Brooklyn’s new cameras means, but it really sounds like they don’t ever want us to come back to Target!🤣 

Sometimes we all can put unreasonable limitations on people if we aren’t careful. 

One big example of this revolves around the question “Can people who reject God still do good things?”

To me, the answer is an obvious yes on one level (after all, born again Christians can still do bad things unfortunately), but the good things any of us do apart from God can only reach so far. 

Zophar seems to be especially guilty of assuming that those who reject God can’t do anything good. In Job‬ ‭20‬:‭10‬-‭15‬ , Zophar says this about sinful people: “His children shall seek to please the poor, And his hands shall restore their goods. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, Which shall lie down with him in the dust. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; But keep it still within his mouth: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.”

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It’s not that everything an unsaved person does is bad (just like everything a Christian does is not automatically good). But there are a couple things we need to remember: 

We can’t be good enough to get to heaven. We need God. 

And we can’t be good enough to impact eternity without God. 

Even as Christians, we need God living through us. In Romans 7:18, Paul puts it this way: “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”

Let’s let God live through us today. That’s when we can truly do something good. 

Today’s Bible reading is Job 20