Sunday, October 19, 2008
"Miracle Nation"
First From Julie's Keyboard:
Isn't
life on this earth just too short to afford many moments letting the
world and its troubles put crinkles in our day to day living? Who will
agree with me now? Sure! Our Country faces serious issues. Many
things need to be decided and action must be taken. There are things
that simply must have our attention, but we must go on and realize how
blessed indeed we really are.
In our day to day walk as a Christian we will be ridiculed and labeled as "old fashioned." We will be deemd as "narrow minded" and maybe termed as "holier than thou."
It's certainly likely that we will be unappreciated and regarded in many circles as unaware simpletons. Yet, in light of any criticism or form of persecution we may face, the instruction for us remains the same. "Love them anyway." "Praise Him anyway."
People need answers. We who know the Master must be certain to supply them when called upon. Telling someone that "He, Jesus" is the answer is only a beginning. We must carry this ministry forth in demonstration of the Spirit and power. This is no form of religion or religious activity. This is life and death matters.
We must show forth His life each day, hour and moment of our lives. Every breath must be taken from the life that has been deposited within us because of our relationship with Him.
He died for the most evil man we can even think of, but that evil man must accept Him and let His grace and mercy change His life forever. If Jesus loves the most active sinner known to mankind, why can't we? We must if His nature truly abides within us. When we walk close to Him and daily come to know more and more just what we have with Him, it makes this seeming impossible task become so much more a reality.
Let's face it. There's just some folks much more difficult for us to love than others. Difficult, but not impossible. It's only possible by His love shed abroad in our hearts.
We were all sinners once, until He cleansed us. Though we may be no more sinners, we still sin sometimes. Thanks be to God that He has made a propitiation for our sin through Jesus. We can simply run to Him. He's faithful and always there. His love just doesn't leave us alone. We in turn must reach out with this same love to others. This love is so great that it cannot be understood. It's a matter of the heart.
May we love our way throughout our lives. May we look within for the life He's so graciously blessed us with and share with those in our path each day. I leave you with a scripture taken from the book of Micah.
Micah 6:8 "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
If we all set out to do these three things, what changes do you think we would see? ...."but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."
Have a super blessed week,
Just love em anyway,
Julie
In our day to day walk as a Christian we will be ridiculed and labeled as "old fashioned." We will be deemd as "narrow minded" and maybe termed as "holier than thou."
It's certainly likely that we will be unappreciated and regarded in many circles as unaware simpletons. Yet, in light of any criticism or form of persecution we may face, the instruction for us remains the same. "Love them anyway." "Praise Him anyway."
People need answers. We who know the Master must be certain to supply them when called upon. Telling someone that "He, Jesus" is the answer is only a beginning. We must carry this ministry forth in demonstration of the Spirit and power. This is no form of religion or religious activity. This is life and death matters.
We must show forth His life each day, hour and moment of our lives. Every breath must be taken from the life that has been deposited within us because of our relationship with Him.
He died for the most evil man we can even think of, but that evil man must accept Him and let His grace and mercy change His life forever. If Jesus loves the most active sinner known to mankind, why can't we? We must if His nature truly abides within us. When we walk close to Him and daily come to know more and more just what we have with Him, it makes this seeming impossible task become so much more a reality.
Let's face it. There's just some folks much more difficult for us to love than others. Difficult, but not impossible. It's only possible by His love shed abroad in our hearts.
We were all sinners once, until He cleansed us. Though we may be no more sinners, we still sin sometimes. Thanks be to God that He has made a propitiation for our sin through Jesus. We can simply run to Him. He's faithful and always there. His love just doesn't leave us alone. We in turn must reach out with this same love to others. This love is so great that it cannot be understood. It's a matter of the heart.
May we love our way throughout our lives. May we look within for the life He's so graciously blessed us with and share with those in our path each day. I leave you with a scripture taken from the book of Micah.
Micah 6:8 "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
If we all set out to do these three things, what changes do you think we would see? ...."but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."
Have a super blessed week,
Just love em anyway,
Julie
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"Miracle Nation"
WOW! What a mess we are in! Our financial institutions are in deep trouble, my 401-K, well, about all that is left is the letters 401-K.
Then
there is the war on terror, seems there are a lot of folks out there
bent on bringing harm to our homeland, and then there is the billions of
dollars it’s costing us the fight the war that’s going on around the
world. Our national debt is more dollars than I learned to count in my
High School days here in Sardis.
I think one reason our politicians can’t agree on what do is because none of know what to do. What are we to do? Well, first just let me quote some statistics.
Voltaire’s stated: “it took twelve men to establish Christianity, I will show the world that it will take but one man to destroy it.” One hundred years later, the Geneva Bible society used his former residence, the very room in which he made the statement, to store Bibles for distribution throughout Europe.
The U. S. Constitution is the foundation stone of this republic. Written in 1787 and ratified in 1789, it is considered by many to be the greatest governmental document ever written. (pause here moment and think about that) It has provided more freedom and prosperity for more people than any similar constitution in the history of mankind. (pause again and think about that, how blessed we are as Americans)
James Russell Lowell was asked by the French historian Francios Guizot, “How long will the American republic endure?”
He replied, “As long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue to dominant.”
It was a miracle that Columbus found this part of the world. It was a miracle that the early colonists survived and built a nation during those first 156 years.
It was a miracle that they
rebelled against the motherland, and even greater miracle that they won
the Revolutionary War against overwhelming odds.
It
was a miracle they survived the Confederacy period, and still another
miracle that they founded upon this continent a new nation dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal, equal under God, and
equal before the law.
God would establish one nation that would do more to fulfill His basic objective for this age, to “preach the gospel to the ends of the earth,” than any other nation history. (here is a good place to pause and think again) By guaranteeing religious freedom to all, this nation has enabled more people to go to the uttermost parts of the world than all the other western nations put together.
Perhaps that is the main purpose for the existence of this miracle nation.
At the conclusion of the constitutional Convention, George Washington declared, “We have raised a standard to which the good and wise can repair; the event is in the hands of God.”
We are in a mess, but we have been in a mess before, O’ did I mention we as Americans are not perfect? We make mistakes, sometimes big one’s. But we have this thing call a Constitution and something in the heart of our people called faith.
Some would like it to be
different, but our national motto is In God We Trust, we even put it on
our money. Yes, even on our money, it’s our money that’s in trouble also
now, I wonder if we may have forgot what is written on that money?
Well, to cut to the chase here, yes, we are in a mess, but we are a miracle nation. If we continue to hold to those ideas that our founders laid for us and wrap our hearts around that faith that gave birth to those ideas I wouldn’t be surprised if another miracle is awaiting this wonderful homeland of ours. President George Washington once held that this event is in the hands of God, I summit to you it still is!
God bless each of you,
David
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