The Devotional - A Look at the Book #770

by Jesse Abel

A Word from Papa “J”

Some days I feel that it is time for a change, but I do not want to come across like some political figures who believe that change is a departure from TRUTH, INTEGRITY and HONOR. So to keep abreast of current events, I read daily from Proverbs things like – Proverbs 8:1-4

Good Morning

Just a reminder; as I mentioned a few days earlier my scheduling of things is somewhat out of balance, but all should return to normal after this Thursday. Also if you are wondering, my mom is recovering from her fall, but will need some rehab time. Thanks for your prayers.

Millions of people in the United States are gripped with loneliness and hunger; the heart reveals these conditions on the face and in the eyes of many people today. No doubt if one could assign a clinical cause for loneliness or hunger we could say that we are in the midst of an epidemic.

Of course; hunger and loneliness are not clinical, but the results of being one or the other promote illnesses; physical, spiritual and mental. Because of this link many folks are misinformed or mistreated for clinical ailments while the root of the problem is never addressed. When this happens the person develops physical, spiritual and mental events that become chronic, or reoccurring.

So what is the purpose of me taking a look at these two faults that are very real and very present here in this fine country? If you read or watch the news and do not know that for every ten people, two of them are hungry. Or if you like to watch commercials, have you not noticed that four out of five are for prescription drugs related to depression, a major cause for loneliness? Then you most likely do not live in the United States.

It is not then that we are not aware of these two major failures of the American Way is it? But we do like our “mute” buttons; don’t we? We mute the television, our husbands, our wives and our children. I call this – “knowingly ignorance” in other words, I know this is going on around me and in many cases, right in my own home or neighborhood; but I am just going to wait it out until it goes away.

The people of this United States of America have become complacent and in this storm of complacency the run off is like that of a flash flood. So many possessions are washed away; our economy, our freedom, our land of milk and honey, our fathers and our mothers leaving our children to stand alone.

“I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding: and there it was, all overgrown with thorns; its surface was covered with nettles; its stone wall was broken down. When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest; So your poverty will come like a prowler, and your want like an armed man”. Proverbs 24:30-34.