Relationships, On the Brink of Disaster

I have always taught that there would be at least three things that would characterize the last days. 

1. Deception, and it would come from within the church as much as it comes from the world.

2. Lawlessness, no regard for God's laws, and no regard for the laws in the land, we become laws unto ourselves.

3. Relationship failure, people will fail at their marriages, friendships, and have a general dislike for people. Here is one verse that supports two of the three listed above from Matthew 24.

12And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold

There is a direct connection to okaying God's law and to the love we show others. When society dismantles the moral law that God has told us to obey, we lose what we think we are gaining. When alternative designs for the family go beyond the one man and one woman design, we will enter a state of lawlessness that strays from God's original intent for relationships. Once we do that there is a ripple affect that continues to affect every area of society.  Relationships in general just won't work anymore. Look at the divorce rate today, more marriages are ending than are beginning. More couples are living together longer and more frequently because they are afraid of long term relationships.  Instead of love being a concept for life, it's a concept of "until something better comes along."  I have noticed in my own family how the stress of a lawless society has affected my children. There are more opportunities to experience life at a younger and younger age, and it is designed to create a maladjustment in the maturation process of development. If we expose children to violence and sexual content what will that produce in our children? It basically desensitizes them anything harmful. For example, let's take the f-word, when I was growing up it was the mother of all swear words, but today it is used in everyday conversation without notice.

What has made that transition?  Hollywood! Movies have made the f-word a common household word that no longer has any shame in using it. The architect of culture, Satan, has orchestrated this word into our culture a  word of praise to his name. He decided that if God gets hallelujah, he is going to have the f-word. It is his way of inserting himself into everyday language without being noticed. Anything that degrades, robs, or destroys, including words do not belong to God, but to the Devil.  He is the ultimate narcissist and he will do anything to keep us trapped in our sinfulness, and as long as he can do that, he feels he is being worshipped.  (which is what he wanted from the beginning)

Satan also knows that relationships are the building block of any society, and if he can interrupt how we relate to one another, then like the f-word, he is infiltrating himself into our lives. Evil isn't just found in murder, rape and stealing, it can also be found in the way we treat each other.  Divorce is an evil practice, it doesn't glorify God, nor does it bring honor to children, grandparents or society as a whole. People who are divorced aren't evil, that is not what I am saying, I am saying that relationships that start at an altar in love, and end in a court dividing up the family is not a god like practice.  Like the f-word we have accepted divorce as a normal experience that gives you an opportunity to try it again, and again, and again. Not sure that was the design of the creator. People are worried about their investiments these days, watching how the market is doing, but the more important market they should be watching and investing in, is the market of relationships. How much do we invest in keeping those from going bankrupt?

Keeping it honest and truthful...K