THEY DIDN’T KNOW.

If you don’t want to get upset, don’t think deeply about anything Jesus said.

By the time we are adult enough to be married and have children, much of our life has been so traumatic that we instinctively hide real life from our children instead of teaching them about life head on. I confess I have been there. Young children do need shelter and nurture, of course. But they also need progressive instruction in the real world, and many little pushes into taking personal responsibility step by step. We all need motherly love, but we don't need smotherly love.

By way of comparison, do church leaders nowadays treat their members as children? Paul complained, “By the time you ought to be teachers you instead need someone to teach you again the basic principles of salvation in Christ. Like babies, you need milk because you can’t eat solid food.” Heb 5:12.

It’s a dilemma which is self-replicating. People won’t get serious about learning about God, and church teachers won’t teach deeper truths because they think they will lose their audience. Hence, the members don't grow. What a mess!

Like many have always written, we tend to let what is urgent crowd out the important. We also let busy-ness crowd out getting down to business. Our "rubber never meets the road."

If you don’t want to get upset, don’t think deeply about anything Jesus said. For instance, he taught, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man (Jesus); they bought, they sold, they married, and they did not know until the flood came and destroyed them all”. They did not know. It did not even look like rain!

Noah was preaching righteousness in the days leading up to the great flood. Who listened? Back then no one took that “sideshow” seriously. All they thought about was the next evil thing they could do.

They had heard some crackpot was building the biggest boat the world had ever seen. What a waste of money, they thought. And then, before they knew it, the flood came and every single one of them drowned, except eight people in a boat with the first and last floating zoo.

Remember this: Jesus did not just recite a lesson from history. He prophesied that history will repeat (Luke 17:26-30). Only the next time it will not be a flood that comes, but Jesus himself will return to judge the acts of all humankind. Between now and then there will be a lot happening, if you know what I mean. If you don’t know what I mean, stay tuned in to BlogOnGod.org so you can get "in the know."

So what was your life like today? Did you buy and sell? Did you get married? Did you devise a great plan for tomorrow? After all, "it’s just another day on old planet earth…been here for millions of years, you know". Or do you know?

Do you want to know?