The Intolerant City

Focus: Matthew 10:15 KJV: 15. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Read: Matthew 11:20-24

God hates waste. He spends so much in the form of investment in people with a view to using them as His messengers for the salvation of many lost souls. Aside the fact that it is rude to refuse to heed the call of the Most-High, it is absolutely wasteful to allow all investment for the sakes of salvation to be for nothing. Many are nations, people, communities and individuals who have treated God’s salvation investment like trash. Consider God giving up His greatest treasure, Christ for us; pouring Himself into many disciples for our sakes and making them to forego pleasure just to draw us out of darkness. All the scripts that have been written all for our salvation also, and then we turn our backs on all that? In God’s diary those who do that will have great regrets in the end.

There were a people in Sodom and Gomorrha. They preferred to live as they willed, against God’s ways. Every effort to get them to change proved abortive. When eventually God could not find ten righteous people there, He left their midst and they were released to destruction by fire and brimstone. The Amorites were a sinful people before God. For His longsuffering nature, God gave them a long rope to repent. He left them to occupy the land of Canaan for another four hundred years until their sins were full, before He removed His covering from them. Resultantly, they were rooted out of the land flowing with milk and honey.

The mind of the devil is always to steal, kill, and destroy. God takes His time before deciding when enough is enough. When He finds that anyone or people refuse to allow His investment on salvation yield result, He gets tired of such person or people, and leaves them to the one they choose. Since they are intolerable of God, they are left with the merciless one. He fulfils his enterprise on them and in the end, when everyone would give account unto the Lord, they are banished with him for their wicked choices. His place is the lake of fire. The Lord is still investing today with a bid to drawing a last hour crowd out of perdition unto salvation and safety. Do not take all that you have heard about salvation for granted. Yield today so that you may end well.

Prayer:

Father, I thank you for your mercy that endures. It is only by it that I am still standing. From now, let the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight. Never let me put your investment for my salvation to waste at any point in time. Keep me safe and strong in you so that I may never be released to be preyed upon by the enemy. Let my end and that of my people never be like that of Sodom and Gomorrha, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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