Bible Reading: Psalm 53 Revelation 9: 11-21
“Every one of them is gone back: they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one” – Psalm 53:3 (KJV).
Sometimes people misinterpret progress to mean every kind of advancement in life. Yes, they could be right from human point of view seeing the changes either in terms of position, finances or material possessions. Things appear different when they are weighed in the light of life’s purpose and in the light of eternity.
Every step away from God cannot be described as progress but retrogression. Any wealth acquired in an ungodly way cannot be rated as financial progress because it has sorrow attached to it. People kill and trample upon others to ascend to a higher position in their work places or in the political arena and they are perceived by others to have made progress, such is only a backward integration.
We live in such a time that people kill their fellow human beings, even relations, to claim their land or as rituals for money, and such people are perceived by the society to have made it in life. But in the light of eternity, such step is only retrogression. No one can be said to have truly made progress who is not moving towards God. People keep taking steps in life that take them further away from God.
Wickedness and ungodliness have become the bane of our society because most people do not want to have anything to do with God. They want to chart their course outside God, infact, God is not in their plan. Only a fool lives as if there is no God; living one’s life apart from God is retrogression, every advance towards God is a significant progress in life. A move towards God is a move towards light, a move away from God is a move in the dark. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” – 1 John 1:5 (KJV).
PRAYER: I pray that you take steps towards light so you can truly advance in life, in Jesus name.
Rev. Vincent Diolu