Have you sat down to separate rotten fruit from good fruit? Have you spent time sorting good product to be boxed and shipped while throwing bad product into a trash heap? Have you considered it will be similar at the end of time?
We sort good from bad all the time. It may be part of our jobs to sort things, but we also sort good from bad in our daily lives. Sometimes, we interpret our preferences to be good and someone else’s preferences to be bad.
Mistakenly counting preferences as good or bad is what causes a lot of dissension in the world today. It becomes an ‘us versus them’ mentality, quickly followed by the ‘I’m better than you’ mentality. When that occurs, we are wrong.
Ultimately, there is only one who can define good and bad, and that is God. Jesus tells us that at His return there will be a sorting of good and bad based on His definition. All the definitions we hear, and we may spout ourselves will be useless unless they coincide with God’s definition. At that point, we will all be in awe beyond comprehension and will have no foundation on which to stand and argue. To prepare for that day, we need to ensure we are on the same page as God and abide by his definition.
I pray we all earnestly seek to understand God’s definition of good. I pray we pursue the goodness of God. I pray each one of us will ask the Holy Spirit to guide us into understanding and to following Jesus in all that we do. Be in sync with God. Know his definition of good. God will do the ultimate sorting. Follow Jesus in all things.
Matthew 13:47-48 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad.”
Marty Pressey 