Good day, I’m Duane Matz
and this is Today’s Living Word.
The headline read, “The
city of Memphis has released footage from the night Tyre Nichols was confronted
by police ……a night that left Nichols dead and eventually led to five Memphis
police officers charged with murder.
I saw the beginning of
the video and had to turn it off, it was so brutal, I couldn’t look at it. I
pray for the Nichols family, the city of Memphis, and out nation.
Oh the depravity of man!
The things we are capable of doing to our fellow man ought to chill each one of
us to the bone! Jer 17:9 reminds us: "The heart is deceitful above all
things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
The desperate wickedness
of man seems to be increasingly on display in our world today, and it’s
certainly not limited to these incidents of police brutality, or the body cam
footage of the brutal beating of Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their home in
California.
What about the war in the
Ukraine? Somalia? Yemen? Ethiopia, and who knows where else. And what about the
war against the unborn that continues to take place even after the overturning
of Roe V Wade?
Do we really want to see
the body cam footage of these violent events?
Christians aren’t exempt
from this kind of desperate wickedness either. Our history is dotted with
periods of almost unheard of cruelty against our fellow men done in the name of
Jesus.
I have no answers to this
dilemma, only to make you aware of the struggle, that you may be personally
prepared for it whenever it comes your way. Jesus promises to give us a new
heart when we come to Him in faith, but the battle for that heart rages on,
with the devil ever fighting for shelf space.
The biblical advice for
you and I is don’t give place to the devil (Eph 4:27) and resist all his
attempts to provoke you to acts of desperate wickedness with your actions or
your tongue! (James 4:7)
If there be any shelf
space to be meted out in your heart, give it to Jesus.
I’m Duane Matz and that’s
Today’s Living Word
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