A Look at the Book #432

A Look at the Book #432


by Jesse Abel

Daily Devotional – A Look at the Book #432

A Thought for today by Papa “J”

Encumbered means to be pinned down, like a wrestler who is down for the count of three. The arms and legs may look as though there is activity, strength or a possible escape; yet all this movement simply wears out the one trapped. We are a nation that stands on the threshold of repentance or replacement. Luke 13:1-5

MORE THOUGHTS

I knew my dad as a warrior and not a father and it is very hard for me to formulate good words about him. As a family man he was a drunk, he was abusive and he was not faithful to his wife of sixty years. This is not a good report about a man, but none the less; he was a man; a warrior who stood tall in the Second World War. And with all these traits of unworthiness, it can truly be said that my brothers and I; loved him. As a family we suffered bondages that kept us in the dark and not all of us have escaped. Were it not for God’s love and grace, I would have perished! As a nation! One day in the future it is a good possibility that our grand children and great grand children will say as this small family has said. We loved our father! Yet our fathers were drunk with greed and abusive with selfish ambitions. Their traits in life were aimed at dishonoring God and they were unfaithful to our nation in their prosperous years. Now we suffer the bondages of loss of freedom, loss of liberty and loss of justice. We have not escaped because we did not seek God when He could have been found. Isaiah 55:6. The ONLY reason this nation finds it necessary to FUND Planned Parenthood is because the fathers of this nation have lost their worthiness to be called DAD! FATHERS you must change or there will not be enough “change” in your pocket to buy your child a piece of bread for the coming day!

The Epistle of James

James 1:19 – Did you know that the only breed of dog identified in the Bible is the Greyhound? Proverbs 30:31; we have a greyhound and yes! She is the fastest thing on four legs that we’ve ever owned. There is another quality about her that is seldom brought to light about these dogs. She like other greyhounds is swift to hear and slow to speak. Notice Proverbs 30: 32-33, maybe as parents we should have the perceptive qualities of a greyhound, rather than their physical ones? We run our mouth with hot air and spoil the milk, producing children of wrath. Ephesians 6:4

James 1:20 – Ever stop to think, we seem to run our mouth as if we know it all. We command and promise and we promise and command. We must sound like the drone of construction equipment in the neighborhood all the day long. Those annoyed cannot get away from the noise, so they learn to endure it by ignoring it. This does not produce righteous faithful works living. This is not the endurance that receives God’s blessing and reward.

So the qualities needed to endure the trials of life are available to all who will look to nature and man for solutions? Absolutely NOT! The quality of life that most of us look for but fail to find can only be found in the Word of the Living God, who will use what He has created to prove that He alone fulfills Life. You need only to read Psalm 19:1-14 to know that it is far better to be swift to hear and slow to speak. This is the only way to understand our errors and secret faults. Of course if you say that you have no errors or faults, you might have an excuse because you are deaf and dumb, but don’t count on it since I know some very smart, but classified as deaf and dumb relatives.