Why will they not change? Today, I grasped an answer.
It is in Proverbs 17:4. "An evildoer listens to wicked lips; A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue."
Evil people do not follow watchful, loving men or women who recognize the inevitable consequences and endeavor to provoke change.
Instead, self-destructing humans, bent on being bad, solely pay attention to others voicing agitation, discord, depression, and grief. Like zombies, blundering along, they follow the directives of the discontented driving to desecration and disaster. (Is this selective hearing?)
When do people become selective for evil? Where is the proverbial 'point of no return'?
What does God do with the selectively evil? Two answers are:
- Hebrews 10:26-27 "26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries."
- Romans 1:28-32 "28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them."
Are you listening to God himself, solidly on good ground, gaining His grace, taking His advice, and struggling to imitate Him?
I liked this. It still comes back to the individual making the wrong choices. Then God in his infinite wisdom knows they aren't going to change. God's ways are not our ways and He is able to know things that man can never know or understand.
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