Blessed Mornings: Daily Devotions to Start Your Day Right

FRIDAY, 1 MARCH 2024

TEXT: Luke 17:20-30

20. The Coming of the Kingdom Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. His answer was, “The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen.

21. No one will say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’; because the Kingdom of God is within you.”

22. Then he said to the disciples, “The time will come when you will wish you could see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

23. There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, over there!’ or, ‘Look, over here!’ But don’t go out looking for it.

24. As the lightning flashes across the sky and lights it up from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

25. But first he must suffer much and be rejected by the people of this day.

26. As it was in the time of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.

27. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.

28. It will be as it was in the time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and buying.

29. On the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and killed them all.

30. That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

(Good News Translation Holy Bible)

TOPIC: JUST AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH

Jesus compares the days before His return to the times of Noah when people went about their daily activities completely unaware of God's impending judgement. The Lord observed the magnitude of man's departure from righteousness and did something about it.

Just as in the days of Noah, human beings are behaving even more recklessly today as homo-sexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism and all manner of sexual perversions are celebrated with impunity.

Most shocking is the fact that June of every year is now celebrated as the International Day of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people!

Proverbs 11:2 says, "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom". Pride is abominable, no matter how beautiful the world wants to paint it.

The world is sliding into disgrace and destruction. Therefore, we need to repent so as to escape God's impending judgement.

QUESTION: Can you think of any sin in Noah's day that has not been quadrupled today?

PRAYER: Dear Lord, please raise many Noahs of our time so as to save us from imminent destruction, in Jesus name. Amen.