“Rio 2016 – the biggest
sporting event on the planet”. That’s the strap line if you have a look at the Olympic
Games website. It’s quite a claim, however the set up is impressive.
Over a 17-day period 306
medal events will take place in 32 different venues spread across the 4 regions
of the city of Rio De Janeiro.
10,500 athletes from 206
different countries will participate in 42 different sports with 136 women’s
events, 161 men’s events and 9 mixed.
The Rio Olympics have to be
right – the stakes are too high. Much will be done to ensure that everything
goes smoothly.
The death of Jesus was to rid
the universe of evil in every form. Jesus’ death was a full and final payment
for evil to demonstrate that God is still holy and that we humans can be
forgiven and be right before God. Are you still with me?
Evil is in the world in a general
sense but evil is also in the heart of the individual. You might agree with the
former comment and disagree with the latter! The Bible says ‘the heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it,’ Jeremiah 17:8. Please keep
reading! You may be thinking – is it actually possible or realistic to rid the
world of evil? This world has grappled with the problem of evil since the
earliest days of planet earth.
Evil did not evolve! The
question is where did it come from and why is it so normal? The bible explains!
The reason why evil exists and has such a devastating effect on the world is
given in Romans chapter five verse twelve - ‘by one
man sin entered into the world and death by sin so death has passed upon all
men’. The first human being, Adam, was well warned! God had told him the
rules and consequences of disobedience. ‘For
in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die,’ Genesis 2:17. And so
that's what happened.
Evil is so normal we use a
variety of words to describe it. Sin, imperfection, failure or shortcomings.
Evil exists in every department of life. It affects the environment, the
financial world, relationships, health, education, politics indeed everything.
Preparation has been made to
avoid the effect of evil at the Olympics. Athletes will take drug tests,
volunteers will undertake security checks, police will be on standby to control
the crowds, and paramedics will be ready to cope with illness, tragedy or any
intentional campaign to infect the local population. In fact much will be going
on behind the scenes to prevent disaster and tragedy because it's the only way
to cope with the evil that is so normal in society. It has ever been so; this
is not a modern phenomenon!
God’s plan of salvation was
triggered when Christ died for our sins. The effect of what Christ has done can
only be felt personally at the moment. Individuals can benefit from the
blessing of forgiveness and be saved when they repent (turn from) their sin and
‘believe the gospel’, Mark 1:15.
In the future (after the Lord
Jesus returns to Earth as promised) God will deal with evil on a wider scale.
God has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, Acts
17:31 but for now he is holding back his judgment and offering salvation to
anyone who calls upon his name, Romans 10:13.
In the Rio Olympics there
will be a lot going on behind the scenes to ensure people’s safety and the success
of the event. So God is working behind the scenes to bring eternal blessing
into your life.
Will you entrust the
salvation of your soul to Him?
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