When a preacher wants to stir the church into action he tends to paint a picture of a world worse than it actually is. When a political leader wants to drum up support he paints the opposition as the enemy. When a doctor wants you to do what he or she wants you to do they run out the worst case scenario about your condition. What do these have in common? They are like the boy who cried wolf. Or like Lot in Sodom. One day something catastrophic will happen, and no one will take them seriously.
"So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking." Gen.19:14
After the bottom falls out, some will begin to believe. But if you do what they tell you to do and nothing changes you begin to wonder if it is as bad as they say. There are things worse than dying. Living in fear is worse. The fear of illness is sometimes worse than being sick.
We need God to help our pastors to rightly divide the word of truth. We need our doctors to be wise about what we really need. We need politicians to be wise about what is truly important. Lest, when the wolf really comes, no one believes the cry of the boy.
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