We are still very early into the new year, and we can only guess what it will bring, but – as we can see in the Decency Minute Radio Programs shared below – some things never change.
There will always be news that encourages us and news that disheartens, but – as we’re reminded in the last Decency Minute – even the hard times are there for our good.
C.S. Lewis says, in Mere Christianity: “[God] warned people to ‘count the cost’ before becoming Christians. ‘Make no mistake,’ He says, ‘if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for… I will never rest, nor let you rest, until you are literally perfect – until my father can say without reservation that He is well pleased with you, as He said He was well pleased with me. This I can do and will do. But I will not do anything less…”
This is a fact of life: improvement comes through hardship. Even where we see good news below, it is just the result of the hard times that came before. Keep this in mind as you read through the segments below, and Lewis has some encouragement for us at the end.
It Feels Good to Report Good News
Last week, Trump’s electoral victory was certified in the House of Representatives by none other than Kamala Harris, whose duty it was as the Vice President. At almost the exact same time, radical leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation from the nation’s leadership. That same week, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a policy change affecting the site’s censorship practices, namely that invariably leftist, third-party, so-called fact-checking organizations would no longer be contracted to separate fact from fiction on Facebook. Then, the single most listened to man in the world, the infamously skeptical Joe Rogan, featured an Evangelical apologist on his podcast, exposing millions of viewers and listeners to the gospel and providing excellent answers and perspectives for those who share Rogan’s skepticism.
These things all have very little to do with each other, but it sure does feel good to report some good news!
Thank you, Lord!
Tech mogul Bryan Johnson claimed in an interview with Bari Weiss that God didn’t create us, but “that we will create God in our own image … in the form of superintelligence.”
When asked if he thinks he will one day die, Johnson said no. He spends 2 million dollars a year in his quest for immortality, not only through A.I., but by taking blood from his 17-year-old son and replacing his own blood with that of his son’s.
Humans have been trying to suppress the truth of God ever since Satan whispered to Eve: “You will not surely die … you will be like God.”
One day Bryan Johnson will face the one, true immortal God – and the only way to avoid the curse of sin and death and receive eternal life, is not through human blood, but only through the blood of Christ.
Have you ever been in the furnace of affliction and found yourself thinking “This is a blast furnace; it’ll be the end of me?” Perhaps you entered the affliction with praise, but after some time and increased heat your praise gave way to complaint and bitterness.
Such was the route taken by a friend of that great Scotch preacher, George MacDonald. Finally, his friend cried out, “Oh, I would to God I had never been made!”
The Scottish minister replied, “You are not made yet; you are only being made, and you are quarreling with God’s processes.”
Dear listener, remember, our God is good, loves you, and knows what is best for you. All the finest ingredients for a cake may be mixed in the bowl, but it isn’t a cake until it’s been through the heat.
Trust God’s processes and know that His grace is sufficient for you.
C.S. Lewis picks up right where George McDonald left off, and even cites McDonald (who was one of his favorite authors): “And yet – this is the other and equally important side of it – this Helper who will, in the long run, be satisfied with nothing less than absolute perfection, will also be delighted with the first feeble, stumbling effort you make tomorrow to do the simplest duty. As a great Christian writer (McDonald) pointed out, every father is pleased at the baby’s first attempt to walk: no father would be satisfied with anything less than a firm, free, manly walk in a grown-up son. In the same way, he said, ‘God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.’”
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