A Look at the Book #408

A Look at the Book #408


by Jesse Abel

Daily Devotional – A Look at the Book #408

A Though for today by Papa “J”

Is your automobile thirsty this morning? Does the cost of fuel stagger those futile attempts of you mind to understand? Return to the LORD! Isaiah 55:1-13 and John 10:7-18 (Abundant Life, Is available!)

MORE THOUGHTS

It was nearing 2 A.M. our depth was four hundred feet and our speed was 15 knots. It was time pump the sanitary tanks. The Officer of the Deck ordered the Diving Officer to reduce the ships speed to six knots and proceed to 125 feet. As the ship slowed to 6 knots and leveled off at 125 feet I noticed that the ship was very sluggish and kept sinking. I found it impossible to maintain the depth. Two errors were reported that morning, One: any time there is a depth change the weight of the ship will require an order to pump the variable ballast tanks to sea or to flood the tanks with more sea water. This evolution adjusts the weight of the ship to help maintain depth. The second error was the that the Chief of the Watch who controls the valves and pumps to intake or extract sea water from these tanks was busy teaching one of his men on some qualification point and was paying no attention to the orders of the diving officer or his duty station. Also, his elbow was leaning against the flood valve and he totally filled the forward ballast tank. At fifteen knots the extra weight was masked by the speed. Here is the point: As a people we are weighted down with sin and not paying attention to our duty stations of life! God consciousness is given over to selfishness. Husbands and wives have lost their way as ONE. Children have no parental authority and our national heritage no longer speaks American English. Shall I go on? I am beginning to run out of writing room. There is little blessing while God is cursing! Leviticus 26:1-46.

Lamentations 3

Lamentations 3:1 – Hey! Your reading this as I write so there must be some interest going on in your mind. If not; then why do you read? Why not just go back to bed and forget it, then you won’t have to labor over these things. Let me say this! If you are reading then you are a person who has seen, like Jeremiah the affliction of God’s wrath on our national ungodly ways.

Lamentations 3:2 – Like most of us He has caused us to walk in the ungodly conditions of this nation to get our attention. While He works personally in our life, He also works nationally. In other words not all of our darkness is individually patented as personal. Much of it is not being able to fully separate our self from the conditions of our nation. It is true with national light too, which in these days is rather dim.

Lamentations 3:3 – Like Jeremiah, we tend to take the justice and judgment of God over the nation as a personal matter. Thus we are no different that sinning Israel. Just think of it this way! When I am personally critical over national matters, I am reminded by God that I am part of the problem (a sinner). So throughout the day or time and time again, rather than repenting we become like backbiting Israel. God has only one option. To remove the blessing!