Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
The passage is, of course, contending with those “certain men crept in unawares.” The remarks the Word of God pronounces against them are scathing. No doubt, this speaks of individuals who work their way into churches and cause great harm.
I would like to explore a secondary application. Perhaps even worse than those individuals who creep into churches are those attitudes and characteristics that, like them, can creep into us unawares.
- A characteristic of rebellion
- A characteristic of greed
- A characteristic of pride
And the one I wish to focus on
- A characteristic of wandering
Everyone knows that stars have a fixed path. Creationists and evolutionists may disagree on the cause of this path, but, to my knowledge, even the evolutionist agrees that the stars move at a fixed rate and on a fixed path. It’s why the old sailors could guide their ships by them. It’s how astronomers chart and watch them.
Occasionally, a star will get out of its path. Technically I know it’s not a true star, but it is a heavenly object. Some of them are large enough and come close enough to cause concern to those who gaze into the sky. These wandering stars threaten to collide and cause great harm and death.
God has a place for you and me. He also has a course for our lives. When we wander out of place and set for ourselves a course not intended by the Lord, we threaten great harm and loss in the work of the Lord.
Few of those wandering stars hit our planet. Most of them are only empty threats. Things like gravitational forces prevent them from hitting our home. A few make it into the atmosphere, where they burn up. Only small bits of them have ever made it to the earth. They’ve not been anywhere near as damaging as they appear. I think the same is true of those wandering stars of our nature.
Still, it is wise to identify them and ask the Lord to contain and correct them in us.
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