Clouds Without Water – Promising Much, Producing Nothing

  The scripture text is Galatians chapter 6, verse 3 which says, “For if anyone thinks that he is something, while being nothing, he is deceiving himself.” Being nothing simply means that without Jesus you are empty. We see at the very beginning with Adam and Eve that they were deceived and they believed something that was not true in order to gain some personal advantage. And so, they thought that they would be something, but without God, there was nothing but death.
  We see Sampson in Judges the 16th chapter, verses 4 through 21, that he thought that he was something. He thought that he could take care of the situation at hand and that he was big enough and strong enough to do the job. But we find in verse 20, after he had given the secret of his strength that he was not supposed to give to anyone, Delilah had his hair cut because his long hair was the secret to his strength. And then he was no longer strong at that time. When Delilah woke him up the scripture says that “he did not know that the Lord had left him.” He thought he was something, but he was nothing. And verse 21 tells of the blinding, binding, grinding effects of his sin.
  Jesus spoke to the Laodicean church in Revelation chapter 3 verse 17 and said, “For you claim, ‘I am rich and getting richer- I don’t need a thing.’ Yet you are clueless that you’re miserable, poor, blind, barren, and naked!” John the 12th chapter, verses 35-50 speaks of what he is telling these people. They thought they were following the light, when, in reality, they were following the darkness.
  In Matthew chapter 7, verses 21 through 28, there were some people who thought that they were something. They said, “Why we prophesied, we cast out devils, we’ve done many wonderful works.” And yet Jesus said, “Depart from me you lawless ones, I never knew you.”
  “For if anyone thinks that he is something while being nothing, he is deceiving himself.”
Galatians 6:3