I had planned on posting my devotion this morning as I normally do, but the Scripture I read went so well with something that I learned today. So I decided to combine my day with my random thoughts…let’s see how it works out:

We are often the reason that we are bound.

2 Timothy 3. “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people” (Verses 1-5). These verses feels as though they were ripped from news headline rather than from the Bible. This morning I had a interesting conversation with a friend, she was telling me about a news item she had watched the night before. Two teenage girls, robbed the home of an elderly couple who where the legal guardians of their grandchildren. The family was not home at the time (thankfully). After taking all of the family’s valuables. The girls then proceed to, for no reason at all set the house on fire. The family came home to find their home in a heap of ashes. When asked why they did it, one of the girl replied, she thought it would be funny. FUNNY?!!! What?! My mind can’t even begin to conceive, how she came to believe that making a family homeless would be funny. Where’s the punchline? How did we (society) make it here? Oh wait I forgot: The world’s motto, “If it feels good, do it”.  We put ourselves here. We did it by taking God out of schools, taking prayer out of school. We did it when we decided anything and everything had a rightful place in the world, except the One who created it. We have been making the decision on our own for a while now, and I have to say,  we aren’t doing so well. How about we give God back His rightful place? You don’t to have to believe me, but take a look at the world now, then look back at society prior to our disregard for all things God. Then honestly say, we are better off. Just a thought.

“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time” (Romans 8:22).

So what am I thankful for today? That I know the One who has the solution.