God brought our country into existence and He has nourished us with the milk of His love. The milk of God’s blessings has provided for us, protected us and prospered us.
In recent decades the majority of voters has leaned far away from God and reached for that which displeases Him. America is in trouble and everyone knows it.
After decades of voting for leaders that do not live out Bible truth’s that honor God is it any wonder why God is pulling back His blessings.
There’s no point in mentioning the list of failed or broken systems and promises from the government, corporations, schools, families and individuals.
A big mess is in front of us because people, voters and leaders choose to be unaccountable to God.
Now the noise of another political season has begun to rattle the thinking of Americans. Same old rhetoric, choices and ways.
Time out let’s slow down for a moment. Let go of the phone, computer keyboard, TV remote and other routines that ignore God.
Try to focus and remember the simple truth. God is real. He created everything and gave us the Bible to help guide us.
Since creation God has allowed people the choice to seek Him first, the Creator, above all else. Above – all – else. Not with all else.
In expressing the biblical teachings of honoring God first, there are Americans who still sit at the table with a full glass of God’s love, in prayer giving thanks to Jesus the milk of God’s blessing’s .
God is good He allows the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. (Matthew 5:45.) God’s blessings flow down where and when He chooses or His blessings are held back.
By not seeking God first people sow the seeds of sin and reap the harvest of sin. They spill the milk of God’s blessings.
He gave us hope in His Son to escape the judgment of sin and hell. Believe in Jesus or not, the truth of God remains the same.
Father Won’t Let Me Fall
From looking down in sins water so dark, God’s love set me free by grace to believe
He plants Bible truth deep in my heart, let’s me love Him now in eternity
When I’m sitting all alone, sitting down with the walls, just as empty as a stone, Father Won’t Let Me Fall
He is holding every prayer, hearing every time I call, because He loves me He cares, Father Won’t Let Me Fall
Swimming on the surface of hope, waiting to fly in heavens sky,
Swimming on the surface of hope, waiting to fly in heavens sky
He gave us hope in His Son to escape the judgment of sin and hell. Believe in Jesus or not. The truth of God remains the same.
God and heaven are perfect the only perfect way to get in is through the door marked, faith in The Perfect One, Jesus.
Jack M.
June 16, 2014 at 1:25 pmMike,
1 Samuel 8 speaks to this situation in our country and around the world in the words of the Lord.
Verse 7And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them”
The whole chapter speaks to this.
2 Cor 4:4 accentuates this and gives us our application in verse 5-6
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
5-6 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
We are called to shine for Jesus Christ alone in these days and always, for His glory.
Thanks for sharing, my brother in Christ Jesus.
Michael D. Rourke
June 16, 2014 at 4:00 pmYes Jack,
1st Samuel 8:7 speak of ‘the voice of the people’ and 2nd Cor. 4:4 speaks of ‘the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers’ and by grace we do shine God’s light on the people of unbelief. My other concern is for the people who call themselves Christians. Where is their life changing interest in the things of God?
Many call themselves Christians and are self deceived on the broad path of Matthew 7:13 headed for the wide gate “…and there many who go in by it.” They have heard diluted compromising preachers and sermons that fill churches but don’t strongly teach scriptures about sin and repentance. They keep getting their ears tickling in the zone of comfort-ability.
God commands us to repent and obey in Luke 15:7, Acts 17:30, Romans 2:4, 10:16, 15:18, 2nd Cor. 7:9-10,and 1st Cor. 8:9.
Instead of lives with real repentance forsaking the dear sins that set them apart from those who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk “country-club Christians” are not the true bright light or powerful salt to a darkened world they could be. Churches aren’t keeping worldliness out the’re letting it in with worldly entertainment.
Unsuspecting people entering churches like moths to the light show, loud rock music, Pastors or Elders wearing casual clothes or Hawaiian shirts may never receive the nuts and bolts of what it means to carry your cross. They may avoid the suffering for Christ
Many are not true Christians many will hear Jesus say the words of Matt. 7:23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”
Keep a strong and growing faith my friend. Never turn your back on the Lord and vigorously fight sin in the strength and power of the Lord, Eph. 6:10.
Thanks for the birthday gift your comment made my day.
Jack M.
June 17, 2014 at 1:45 amThese days are nothing new, as it began with Genesis 3.
These are indeed times of difficulty, as in 2 Timothy 3. “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.” Sound familiar?
The application is clear at the end of the chapter, in that “16All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
Every book in the Bible points to Jesus Christ, from Genesis to Revelation.
That is why the Holy Spirit convicts us to stay in the Word, as stated in Joshua 1; 8This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” He is the Helper, the Holy Spirit of truth.
Therefore, as an application for us, we are commissioned to point to Jesus always with strength and courage in these difficult times with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,( rhema) (Ephesians 6:17) “the saving truth which has God as its author.” (Strong’s Greek NT 4487), “praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.” (verse 18a).
Finally, the verse you pointed out recently, 2 Cor 13, “14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
Happy Birthday Mike, “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:6) Praise His glorious Name!
Michael D. Rourke
June 18, 2014 at 12:24 pmSaved by God’s grace and mercy shown through His Son Jesus. The mission of salvation in the trinity is shown in Christ and the Father as we read in John 17:22 of the oneness. Verse 22 “And the glory which You gave Me I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one.”
We are blessed beyond abundance with the Holy Spirit working in us. John 15:25 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.”
It only gets better in heaven, saved by faith, in the hope of heaven. Soon very soon.