Neither Dancing nor Weeping, Part 1
May God deliver us from excuses! It seems we always have a “good” reason for why something “bad” happens in our life. I suppose I hate my excuses as much as any other failure of my life. Oh, to be free from them! Emerson once said that, “Excellence is the perfect excuse. Do it well, and it matters not what follows.”
People are masters at giving excuses for ignoring God. Too busy … too young … too old … too tired … too dumb … too intelligent … too rich … too poor … too early … yet they all fall in the same camp … excuses! Alexander Pope said, “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a guarded lie.”
While on earth, the Lord Jesus commented on the pitiful excuses of men in Luke 7:31-35. Men play games. Nothing satisfies them. They are like children who want to play wedding or funeral but find excuses to play neither.
31 "To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.' 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.' 34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners. ' 35 But wisdom is proved right by all her children." Luke 7:31-35
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