Hindsight.
It’s twenty-twenty, so we’re told. If we could see our past before it happens, we could make better decisions and live a better life.
How many people, in 1929, would have sold their stock holdings if they knew the Market was about to crash?
Early 2008 would have been a great opportunity to cash in on the real estate market. Later that year, it all fell apart.
September 1, 2001. How many workers in the World Trade Center would have called in sick that day, if they had hindsight in their back pockets?
What warnings are we not heeding, simply because we don’t know the signs?
Luke 17:27 paints our warning pretty clearly:
“They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”
Hindsight. 20/20. We read this verse and think, “I would have gotten on the ark. Duh! Didn’t they see?”
What are we not seeing today? What spiritual clues are slipping by us? Eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage… what does that translate to today?
Read the verse in this paraphrase:
They were going out to the best restaurants on a regular basis, and they were throwing lavish parties, and they were planning out their lives all the way up to retirement without regard for their spiritual welfare. They did all these things even as the warning signs were raised, and the rapture of the saints occurred and they were left behind.
Ouch! That’s not us. That can’t be us. Um, can it?
Our fatal mistake is to not heed the warnings of the Word. Our redemption is to turn to Christ as our salvation and stay totally focused on him.
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