A Devotional Look at the Book #541

A Devotional Look at the Book #541

by Jesse Abel

A Thought for today by Papa “J”

The coins in your pocket: The Answer is 118 reeds on the edge of the U.S. Dime. Now that was not so hard was it? Especially when someone else does the leg work! Sort of like learning about God; huh! 2 Timothy 2:15

A DAY IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE

Once on a destroyer we visited one of the islands in the Caribbean; I believe it was Jamaica but I could be wrong. What was unique and still hangs out in my memory is that we needed to anchor out in the harbor. The main reason was for safety and that the only available pier was said to be owned by an elderly woman who charged each sailor who walked on her pier (coming or going) twenty-five cents. Now it was not until the end of our stay when the local police came to the pier and arrested the woman. Apparently she did not own the pier since it was the property of the town. Here is the point! Integrity… there was a day in these United States when men in political authority exhibited integrity. These men did not extract income from “We the People” by deception and fraud. Have we become this island of deception? Would it be safer if we could just anchor off shore and watch the United States crumble and become a police state? We have thrown every natural or human effort at the problems of our collapsing infrastructure, yet to no avail. Is it time yet? I said… Is it Time Yet? Oh Yes! It is time that as a nation we must humble ourselves in the sight of the LORD, and then He will lift us up! James 4:7-10 and 2 Chronicles 7:14. Worldliness has caused our national failure; when will we learn this? The truth is that we do have the resources to turn this nation around, it is called PRAYER a resource that all of us have but; but more than many of us do not know how to use.

2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 – The apostle is well known to the Corinthian believers and does not need letters of commendation or references from others; nor does he need any approval from them. This would be like holding a conference by some well respected evangelist or bible teacher and saying to them. Oh; by the way went you come for the conference; bring letters of recommendation with you and we will also give you letters of the same when you leave.

No! We should not have to do this since the epistle of truth ought to be anchored in our hearts. We ought to have this testimony of truth available and visible at all times in order that this truth might be read by everyone who has a need or desire to know. How might we do this? Romans 13:11-14 we ought to be Christ like. The church at Corinth did have trouble with this; if you have taken the time to count the number of sins within the church at Corinth you would find over sixty four of them; simply put, this is not a picture of Christ.

So I believe that there is a real need for the contemporary churches of today to have a make over. Worship and preaching in most churches today is nothing more than an emotional roller coaster with no brakes. For folks with spiritual heart problems the Spirit of the Living God is not able to get through. Our spiritual needs are many these days simply because we do not see epistles of truth in the hearts of our church leaders. Thus it is not the new age epistles of contemporary movements. God is not doing something new! God is the same today as He was yesterday and you can be sure that He will be the same epistle tomorrow! Hebrews 13:8 and John 8:58.