Don't you just hate it when someone had
told you something and they turned out to be right...and then comes
the dreaded “I told you so”?
Yeah, been there done that.
We have a beautiful (although sickly
and dying) earth, flowers, trees, all sorts of animals from the small
and cute to the huge and ferocious and frightening. We have the
ability to see it with our eyes, to smell the roses, and to
love....
......or not.
Hellen Keller was deaf and blind, and
yet God touched her heart causing her to love and praise Him. How
much more indebted to God are we who see and hear, and yet many still
say “But I have no proof that there is such a being as a “God”.
Will He hold those people accountable? Will He say “I told you
so”?... because He has told us, you know. None can use the excuse of "I didn't know...He didn't tell me."
When Jesus spoke of Lazarus and the
rich man He said the rich man begged Jesus to send Lazarus to his
brothers so they would believe. Jesus said that they had Moses and
the prophets (the Old Testament writings) to tell them about Him and
that even if one were to come back from the dead they wouldn't
believe him (Luke ch 16) How true. Many want to believe that this is
just a parable, a story, that has no truth to it. A parable like a
fable, Aesop's Fables, to have a moral lesson to teach children to be
obedient out of fear. I believe this is a true story and not a parable and that the people
Jesus was talking to knew the man Lazarus and the rich man from
their life experience. Jesus doesn't name people in His parables, yet here He gave a name and a situation that the hearers knew about.
He was telling them the truth, telling them a deeper something about people that they actually knew.
The Bible tells us that many will shake
their fists at God, blaming Him for their troubles....and they do. I see them saying “If there were a God, why doesn't He make it obvious
that He exists? It's His fault I don't believe...if He indeed does
exist at all”, and then they claim that they do not hate God, they
simply do not believe in Him. Can you think of a more terrible thing
to do to a person than say to Him: “You don't exist for me, I don't
believe you”. There isn't a more hateful thing you can do to your
enemies than banish them by saying “You are dead, you are nothing
to me”.
When these hate-filled, pride-filled
unbelievers die and see that they were wrong, will He say “I told
you so”?
He won't have to because they will get
what they always wanted: Eternity without God. That is what hell is.
It is the exact opposite of blessing. They will be cursed forever,
and forever will curse God blaming Him for their inability to be
blessed by Him. Forever cursed and forever cursing, gnashing their
teeth in their utter hatred of God and His blessing also hating those who have
believed and trusted Jesus. They will have no more earth, no flowers or trees or beauty. All they will have is themselves and their own hatred, and their self-centered life, forever, a solitary confinement with the only person they truly love, themselves ...and those who agree with them. They will be eternally without blessings because they rejected the source of the blessings.
Psalm 2
(KJV)
Why
do the heathen rage,
and
the people imagine a vain thing?
The
kings of the earth set themselves,
and
the rulers take counsel together,
against
the LORD,
and
against his anointed,
saying,
Let
us break their bands asunder,
and
cast away their cords from us.
He
that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
the
Lord shall have them in derision.
Then
shall he speak unto them in his wrath,
and
vex them in his sore displeasure.
Yet
have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I
will declare the decree:
the
LORD hath said unto me,
Thou
art
my
Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask
of me, and I shall give thee
the
heathen
for thine
inheritance,
and
the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession.
Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron;
thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Be
wise now therefore,
O
ye kings: be instructed,
ye
judges of the earth.
Serve
the LORD with fear,
and
rejoice with trembling.
Kiss
the Son, lest he be angry,
and
ye perish from
the
way,
when
his wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed
are
all they that put their trust in him.
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