Hi, this is Pastor Jared Pizarnsky
from Hold Fast Baptist Church in Fresno, California.
I'm walking up this abandoned road in California
and it just got me to thinking about how powerful
and how great God's creation is.
You know, many times we think that as men,
the things that we can build are so great
and we don't need God.
Then you look at this road that just hasn't been maintained
and you look at how God's creation in just a few years
is just retaking anything that man has done.
It also reminds me of God's judgment in Isaiah chapter 32
where the Bible says,
upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briars,
yea, upon the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Talking about the city that is just gonna be overgrown
by God's creation as a judgment.
Because the palaces shall be forsaken,
the multitude of the city shall be left,
the forts and towers shall be for dens forever,
a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks.
Until the spirit be poured out upon us from on high
and the wilderness be a fruitful field
and the fruitful field be counted for a forest,
then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Now this is talking about how God can judge man at any time
and he's way more powerful than anything we could ever build
or construct or make ourselves as mankind.
God can just take it back at any time,
make it a forest, make it thorns, make it briars.
We all should think about this
when it comes to maintaining our Christian life.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter four in verse number 13,
it says, till I come, give attendance to reading,
to exhortation, to doctrine.
You need to maintain your Christian life
so it doesn't look like this road.
And that takes daily study of the Bible,
that takes praying without ceasing,
that takes a daily walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
So as we look at how powerful God's creation is
and how small and weak anything that we could build is,
just think about that.
God bless you, have a good day.
Thank you.