Saturday, September 24th

Saturday, September 24th

Jeremiah 48:26-31
26 "Make her drunk, for she has defied the LORD. Let Moab wallow in her vomit; let her be an object of ridicule. 27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her? 28 Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks, you who live in Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the mouth of a cave. 29 "We have heard of Moab's pride - her overweening pride and conceit, her pride and arrogance and the haughtiness of her heart. 30 I know her insolence but it is futile," declares the LORD, "and her boasts accomplish nothing. 31 Therefore I wail over Moab, for all Moab I cry out, I moan for the men of Kir Hareseth.

Wallow (verb):

1. To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, vomit, or mud.


2. To luxuriate; revel.


3. To move with difficulty in a clumsy or rolling manner; flounder.

Haughtiness (noun):

1. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.

Futile (adj.):

1. Having no useful result.


2. Trifling and frivolous; idle.

Proverbs 23:6-8
6 Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies; 7 for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.

Proverbs 25:16-17
16 If you find honey, eat just enough - too much of it, and you will vomit. 17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house - too much of you, and he will hate you.

Proverbs 26:11
11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

2 Peter 2:21-22
21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22 Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."

Romans 1:18-23
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature -have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Excuse (verb):

1. To explain (a fault or an offense) in the hope of being forgiven or understood.

Romans 2:1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

I have so many thoughts today. You know how we can all make excuses about this or that. I couldn’t give a dollar to a beggar because I could’ve held up traffic (one I actually used last night), I couldn’t go to church because I am mad at someone, or I couldn’t call someone and take 2 minutes out of my oh so busy day because I am so busy at work. An excuse is just self-justification to make myself feel better for hurting someone else. In a perfect world, we would take responsibility for our sins. The good old USA isn’t a society to do that. It is so much easier to blame someone else for our shortcomings. Right now I am wallowing in my sin. I am wallowing in my vomit. I feel my thinking is becoming futile. Normally with time, my anger subsides. For whatever reason, it did, but it is resurfacing with even more strength than a category 5 hurricane. How long will my anger dwell in the past? Why do I have such a strong hang-up over this issue in my heart? Why won’t my friends let their yes be yes and no be no? Right now, my thoughts truly have no useful result for me. They are without a doubt futile. I included the scripture from Romans 2 simply because I do not know if I am passing judgment on these people. I don’t know.

Condemn (verb):

1. Express strong disapproval of.


2. Declare or judge unfit.


3. Compel or force into a particular state or activity.


4. Demonstrate the guilt (of someone).


5. Pronounce a sentence (on somebody).

Looking at the definition of condemn, I would say that I have, in a way, condemned by expressing a strong disapproval of their actions. But, if I don’t disapprove, who are they going to change? How are they going to repent? If they don’t understand how it hurts others, then they would just continue to walk on everyone in their path, not understanding that what they are doing is walking themselves to a place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. On top of that, they could also take others down with them by their ignorance. Am I making an excuse for my anger here by justifying my actions? In a sense, Yes. But is it a righteous anger now? I honestly don’t know. It could be. I want to be resolved. I guess time will tell in what happens. Johnny Out.