Dear Friends,
Do you ever wonder, “What on earth is wrong with the world?
The news seems to be nothing but murders and frauds and lies and
hatred!” Today’s attached devotional will help you answer that question.
God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Genesis 8:21 (ESV)

  21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse[a] the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

“The great French entomologist Fabre, after tracing the advance of human knowledge asks: ‘To what an ideal height will this process and evolution lead mankind? To no very magnificent height, it is to be feared. We are afflicted with an indelible taint, a sort of original sin. We are made after a pattern and can do nothing to change ourselves. We are marked with the mark of the beast, the taint of the belly, the inexhaustible source of bestiality.’” [Clarence Edward Macartney, The Greatest Texts of the Bible, (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1992), p. 147-148]