The Devotional – A Look at the Book #636

by Jesse Abel

The Devotional – A Look at the Book #636

Papa “J” May Say

Some of the most professional people I’ve met are volunteers, they ask for nothing; but give much! Therefore these folks do not need much; yet a Thank You would be nice!

Thoughts about Life

I thought we should take a break from this trip this morning since I am preparing to leave the house soon. We have a development in one of our towns that is catching a lot of light. It seems that a local police department is being discredited by some cultural activists that the police department has singled these folks out and harass them; however if you watch this unfold as the media tells it, I simply wonder who is doing the harassing? The group of people who in many cases do not speak good English, who travel in unregistered vehicles and do not have a driver’s license feel that they are targeted or singled out wrongly by the officers. Even the political officials are being attacked for their comments. I wonder… if I said I was going home to have a hamburger for supper; would some Texan send me 500 hamburgers in sort of an in your face reaction to prove that I was harassing him for my impromptu remark. What are we doing with all of this nonsense? As Americans, we are in a life or death battle for freedom, not with our soldiers who are made to fight wars against what we term as terrorism; or evil; but there is another more fierce war that cost the American more than his or her tax dollars, but our very homeland.

Ecclesiastes 10

Verses 5-7 – Dead flies in the perfume, folly in mans heart instead of sound wisdom, foolish gestures on every street corner and a government that is failing too man the post. Words spoken these days are in hast and without proper content, therefore there is no healing message in the land or community. These errors surface in the messages of the rulers, but it is by far the fault of the citizen, since we the citizen have become like the sluggard or the slothful found in Proverbs 6:9; 12:24; 12:27; 13:4; 19:24; 24:30 and 26:16.

If you have been to the Capital city you will see much history, all of which is laced in the Living Word of God. Verses of scripture on the buildings and statues, Statesmen of the past with testimonies of faith in God and valor above and beyond the calls of duty and honor, but today this dignity takes a back seat, our national heritage is viewed as ERROR while the real ERROR proceeds from the mouth of current leadership. Yes there is nothing new under the sun, but this does not mean that the sun should go down on this nation and when the sun comes up on the morrow that the moral of the story should be any different than the promises of our forefathers.

If we do not return to the grassroots of this nation, you can count on seeing the rich sitting in lowly places while the servants ride horses on the streets outside Churchill Downs. Like horses belong in places where horses belong; simply meaning that… servants have a place of belonging too!