by Jesse Abel
The Devotional
Papa “J” and his thoughts?
Wickedness reacts as if there is nothing else, so the wicked dig in and claim a permanent dwelling. The Righteous one across the street is willing to live in a tent, knowing full well that God has provided an everlasting or eternal kingdom for the upright. Proverbs 14:10
The year was 1981 and I was on a helicopter on the first leg of a journey home. I had just been plucked off of the submarine that I was stationed on. The pilots understood why I was going home so they did their very best to take my mind off the thoughts of my daughter of four years of age who had just been diagnosed with leukemia. (She would eventually go to be with the LORD at the age of 5 years and six months). The seats the pilots swiveled so they both turned to me and began talking. This was just after positioning their air ship on course to hit the upper middle section of a glacier. Of course, my seat would not turn and soon the mass of ice was all I could see out the front windows. About the time I should have reacted to a potential crash, the helicopter began rising and up and over the glacier we went. To their surprise I knew about the currents of air that rise upward at the face of cliffs such as the shear wall of ice in front of the helicopter. Distraction, this is the point so don't miss it! Satan! Do you believe that Satan exists and that he is alive – but deadly destructive? If you believe that Satan is a myth or a lie, or has never been a threat to you, then you are distracted from the truth and you are near the wall of a destructive power that will cause you to crash and burn. However, there is a very strong current of the grace of God, that will enable you to rise up to Jesus Christ. He alone will save you as He alone is the true resurrection and the life. Romans 1:16-17 John 11:25-27. Now you know and now you've no excuse, if you crash and burn it will be of your own choice.
CERTAIN PSALMS OF INTEREST
Psalm 37:1 We seem to worry about everything that trots across our brain, this also is a distraction. Then if we are wise and seek to stop the habit of worry, we end up worrying about nothing to worry over. There are at least two thoughts about how we worry. One: We worry about how evil things will endanger us, an Two: We worry with envy when we see that the evil is actually doing well and prospering.
Say! What is prospering evil anyway? Abortion, same sex marriage, poor economics in the public arenas of government. Gun control (a citizen is one who owns a gun, a slave is one who does not). Socialized health care. These are just some of the areas where Satan hangs his shingle of control. Also, moving evil closer to home. No husband or father figure in the home. A home that does not gather as a family in the evening for a supper meal and devotional time with God. This is evil.
Now that I've given you something to worry about, aren't you just tickled, warm and fuzzy and happy? Of course not. But look at Psalm 37:2 God's view of evil, the workers of iniquity and all who practice these things mentioned above are viewed as temporary. When this grass gets to high, God Himself will mow it down, be of good cheer as He has said, “I have overcome the world” we do not need to be scattered like sheep who have no master! John 16:32-33
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