The United States Declaration of Independence promises citizens “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Many people today have been pursuing these promises, especially the pursuit of happiness. But they have been looking in the wrong places.
Everybody’s different! Did you ever pause at the grocery store or on the street corner to observe people—the way they look, the way they act?
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” (Romans 1:22).
A morally confused age is producing a lot of people who do not know their own worth in relation to their pets and other living things. Are you one of them?
You’ve heard and may have asked this careless question many times, “Well, whadda ya know?” And the likewise careless reply is often, “Not much!” Or, some silly, foolish reply is added to furnish the idle sport of the moment.
“Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him.” (This was spoken to Jesus in John 3:2).
In this concluding article on the marriage vows, we want to emphasize the commitment part of these lifelong vows, A vow is a solemn promise, a commitment that binds us as partners to be faithful to our marriage in every detail. “When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore shouldest God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?” (Ecclesiastes 5:4-6).
Esau was a profane man and a fornicator (Hebrews 12:16). He’s been dead for eons now, but fornication and profanity are alive yet today, and as with Esau, they are most often found in the same character. Indecent people like indecent talk.