Malachi 3:14-15

Malachi 3:14-15

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁴ “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? ¹⁵ But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.”

Almost every day I hear about how they don’t need God or don’t need anyone’s blessing for things to turn out right. It’s even more common to hear someone talking negatively about the church and how they compare the sins that have been committed by the members to those who do good in the secular world as if to say the one is better than the other. Both the sinner in the church and the Godless outside of the church are the same- they both have to repent and get on God’s path for them.

Some say that they don’t believe in God because there are wicked people who prosper financially or socially. They don’t realize that we all have the power to make decisions and God will not control you and make you follow Him or love Him if you choose to follow the world system and compromise what you know is right for something that will get you what you want when you want it. We favor those who are wealthy and have a lot of exposure by fame, yet we don’t look at their heart and who they follow.

These things cannot be reasons to denounce God, because you are not to follow man as an example to live your lives. If you want to get it right, if you want to be sure you are doing what is expected of you, you have to choose God. He will not intervene in your life if you don’t allow Him to and you cannot receive salvation through any other means than through Jesus.