Friday, August 30, 2013

"Dehumanizing" - 04/30/13 - 2 Samuel 19:31-21:22, Psalm 7, 1 Chronicles 20:4-8

"The woman told Joab, “Sounds good. His head will be tossed to you from the wall.”  The woman presented her strategy to the whole city and they did it: They cut off the head of Sheba son of Bicri and tossed it down to Joab."  (2 Samuel 20:21,22)


Life and people are so far removed from the Garden of Eden - God's original plan before sin was chosen.

There is so much tolerance today – of what seems "normal", therefore, we become numb to the hugeness of sin,  the destruction.  How it becomes nothing to "cut off someone’s head".  How much we have dehumanized people with the act of abortions, how we treat the elderly, homeless, those who are different. 
 
Each one of us are made in His image.  His treasure.  His desire. 
 
Each one of us.
 
The standards so many live by are not His, but their own, and often double standards at that.  Constantly changing as they judge, condemn, and even kill, because someone is not living as they deem they "should" be. 
His pure Love is not what most persons are looking through - it is self-love.

These people are given much power and I wonder why?  How did they arrive at the station of where they are at? 

So many of these destroyers are self-righteous, deciding who is a treasure,  who has a worth, even who is worthy of forgiveness, with no regard to God and His ways.  No fear for His punishment.  

My heart breaks for what breaks His.  How far away so many people have went from Him.

And He tells me my heart has to watch that I do not dehumanize the dehumanizers -  becoming like them

 The state of so many people today, are cutting off their own heads and tossing them before satan.  

Committing suicide to side with the side of sin.

Dehumanizing because "they" believe they are god.






 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"Why would you want to mess with God’s legacy like that?” (2 Samuel 20:19)



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