An Onion is a Rose
A guest post by Robby C. Eversole.
The preacher reached into a paper sack and pulled out an onion. He held it up for all to see and said: “This is a rose.”
In an age when being cool is hot and being bad is good and being really great is wicked, this is a rose.
When you have to be a low life to lead the high life, and children choose to take their lives, this is a rose.
When a so-called Christian nation refuses to pray, when heaven can only be had on earth, when hell is only a joke, this is a rose.
To a generation that thinks that fornication is love and drunken stupor is a good time, this is a rose.
When the right to kill an unwanted baby is called the right to choose, and when what God calls an abomination we call gay, this is a rose.
In a place where a liquor referendum is a restraint referendum, and more sin means more prosperity, this is a rose.
When fathers no longer try to be dads, and mothers refuse to be moms, and families are defined as homeless, this is a rose.
When shepherds scatter the sheep, when the blind see the light but walk in darkness, when the stained can be washed but the individual returns to the mire, when the thirsty refuse to drink from the fountain, this is a rose.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isa. 5:20).
Dear Lord, help us to know the difference between your truth and the lies that Satan tells us every day.
“Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed: let us tear their fetters apart and cast their cords from us, He that sits in the heavens shall laugh” (Psa. 2:1-3; see also Acts 4:23-31).
Robby C. Eversole preaches for the Pennville Church of Christ in Summerville, Georgia. He is the father of a regular “guest poster” on Centered on Christ - Robby Eversole, Jr. I appreciate his stand for God’s word and his efforts in proclaiming the gospel!
When men think they are women and women think they are men, and then get operations to change their body and take pills to change their hormones, and all of it paid by government medical facilities then anything can be anything, but a lie is a lie, and fools are fools, and God is not mocked:
Proverbs 1:24-33
(24) Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
(25) But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
(26) I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
(27) When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
(28) Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
(29) For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
(30) They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
(31) Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
(32) For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
(33) But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
This is great and I hate to think it, but it is true what you have said!