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Who is really mad?




Is it the people who have depression and can only see the black side of things or is it those of us who are filling our lives with trivia?  While they see the true horror of what is happening in our world most of us are collecting gadgets that we feel we must have.  We are frittering our lives away in meaningless activity, all to keep us blinkered from the atrocities of the day. We block our ears and our hearts to the truth about life and fill our days with doing something, anything, to stop us having to face up to the truth.  What is this truth, it is the fact that the world is full of wickedness ranging from the devastation and horror of war which we think in the West we can turn o0ur backs on, to the horror of the killing of unborn babies which is largely condoned in our society, but nevertheless is murder. All this is done by a world that rejects its Creator, denies His existence.  But God is not mocked, whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap.  There will be a day when all we have done or condoned will have to be accounted for before God.  Take this to heart and you will be worried, and so you should.  However if we come to Jesus for forgiveness we will find it.  He promises to forgive anyone who comes to Him now.  One day it will be too late.

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