An older man hadn’t
been to the doctor in years. For a long
time it was simply because he felt perfectly fine. But then, gradually, his confidence in his
own well-being began to be replaced by a dread of what he might hear. All the more reason not to go for a checkup,
he reasoned. But is that really
reasonable?
It’s not that he doesn’t trust doctors, he just doesn’t want
to hear what they might say. But when
good advice is available, a person that won’t listen to it is considered
foolish. Proverbs 12:15 tells us “The
way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.”
The same applies to our spiritual condition. Many people I meet on the street don’t doubt
the Bible’s teaching about God, sin and judgement. They just don’t want to hear it. They have long decided that they are
perfectly fine spiritually, and have tuned out the truths of the Bible. A similar proverb describes their state, with
a warning: “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to
death.” (Pr. 16:25)
No news is good news, they think, until it’s too late.
The Bible, old as it is, actually contains “news”, because
it’s truths need to be grasped anew by every generation and in every season of
life. It has the Gospel – the good news
of salvation in Jesus – but it also has the bad news that we are in a desperate
situation because of our sin and that we need to be saved. Ignoring the bad news won’t make it go
away. What ignoring it will do, however,
is keep us from the good news. Life
might seem good and okay without it, “but in the end it leads to death.”
Thanks for the conversation, Mike. I hope you will turn to the Bible, for it
contains both the bad news of our sin and the good news of Jesus that leads to
life! Our conversation can be seen HERE
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