A Look at the Book #262

The Devotional


What does Papa “J” Say?

Who are the worthless? Who is the wicked? Surely it is not you or me! Our mouths are not perverse, we never wink the eye or signal with our feet and we never point with our fingers. Well if you do none of these things, then you are either a statue or you are under one feeding the daisies. Proverbs 6:12-15

Is silence golden or is it eerie? Silence is only golden when the abuse of silence has ended. Silence is eerie when death is imminent. Our nation for the moment is safe, because there is a lot of abusive noise about the way we are and the way we are not. So we do not have a golden moment in time, but as a nation we are fast approaching the eerie one. Is it right for this nation to be liberal, conservative or somewhere in between? Is it innocent for a human being to kill babies from the womb, but okay to call it a crime when dogs die at the hand of a human. Is it right for a man to marry another man or a woman to marry another woman? Is it right to let this filth into our nation and then say it is okay and make them citizens with all the rights, liberties and privileges afforded to the average citizen? These are not political issues, these are moral issues and no human government can correct morality. Why is that so hard for us to understand? Maybe it is because we have repositioned our national standards of morality to fit the lower characteristics of a debased nation. Like the one that God talks about in Romans 1:18-32.

The Gospel of John

John 14:12-14 What do you and I believe today in our churches. Some of us desire to see miracles of spectacular events, some of us just want to say that we love God and shout praise after praise at someone whom we do not even know. Others have such a fear of God that they put hats and veils on the their bodies to cover themselves. Some of us desire an emotional experience, when the pastor raises his or her hands the congregation does likewise to feel the power of the LORD.

Well all of this is not nonsense in the context of the Word of God, but most of it is nonsense in our churches today simply because many of the people who attend church have no clue as to why they are doing what they do. Contemporary theology falls off of people as soon as they depart the doors of church and return to their everyday world. If falls away because there is no personal relationship with Jesus.

It is not the works of the church or the pastor that answers our needs. A building and another human being can do nothing for our spiritual, material or physical life. The building provides a place where the pastor can point you and me to Christ. Want to see a real miracle? Want to know God and praise Him? Want Him to answer your prayer? He will do all this and much more. The Greek text of John 14:14 literally says. ASK ME, anything in my personal name and I will do it. This means that you must know Jesus Christ personally. Do you?