During a personal study, I discovered that in the entire history of mankind, there's only three occasions where God did an open display of His mighty power and fierce anger toward sin, than at any other point. And the amazing thing is that these incidents all took place before the law was given. Below are the incidents: The first one took place during the time of Noah where God outrightly expressed His anger toward man. In His anger He said, “ I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them. ” (Genesis 6:7 NCV). I believe you knew about the great flood that followed. The second one was during the days of Abraham. The People of Sodom and Gomorrah provoked God's anger by their horrible lifestyle of homosexuality. Despite being aware of their filthy lifestyle, it appears as though God wasn't too convinced that He had to come ...
The journey through life is quite adventurous. Like the rising of the sun, and the going down of the same, so can life be rightfully described. But the difference between the rising and setting of the sun cannot be all static, or characterized by inactivity. Man's daily activities are not independent of decision making at any point. It can therefore, be inferred that our activities are driven by our choices. But irrespective of the choices we make, it is important to note that we have only one life to live, and that the decisions we take are sure to affect this single life either positively or negatively. Another thing worth taking note of, is that the end of one's life is not necessarily tied to or determined by his beginning. The beginning usually looks promising at first, but then, the decisions and choices made as one advances in life, determines his end. A typical illustration of how things could turn out in one's life, can be seen below; Michael could have be...