The Devotional - A Look at the Book #813

The Devotional - A Look at the Book #813

by Jesse Abel

A Word from Papa “J”

 

Ever get stuck in the mud? No doubt that if you have a license to drive a vehicle or have grown up on a farm you have. Once you’ve recovered from this gunk; you now have the wisdom to get stuck again. Is it that we have ignored wisdom and followed the foolish way? Ecclesiastes 9:16-18

 

Good Morning

 

In the hamlets, towns and cities all across the Great Land of Liberty there are evidences of a nation that once put God first in all of the activities that bring people to experience the “goose bumps” of living in freedom. Our songs and hymns cause us to well up with a pride and confidence that our nation is or was special.

 

Now this special status is not because of who we are individually, but because we are to be a people united; meaning that no matter how hard one or many might try, we as united people cannot be divided. Who then has the audacity to stick his or her hand into the American Way and seek to take away this freedom of being undivided?

 

Today it has become very easy for the LEAST of any to overtake the VAST of many. Today The United States of America is failing, because WE THE PEOPLE have lost our way to the Throne of God.

 

“How highs the water mamma? Two feet high and risen; son!” Or should it be said this way. “How bad is it old man?” Oh! It is bad, son, it is bad!” and here is just a small example, which really is no example at all… just an observation and my rub on the issue.

 

In one of the local communities of Rhode Island there is a bar room, not a room where lawyers or scribes hang out, but a place where ‘mostly men’ hang out to become inebriated. Some are saying; well what is wrong with that and what do lawyers have to with this? Anyway maybe there is a lawyer or two at this bar too.

 

Surely you are right, no doubt there could be lawyers, doctors and other professionals. But what is so ironic about the bar and the patrons within, is the stone pillar just outside the main entrance. It sort of looks like the tablets of stone that we see Moses carrying as he descends Mount Sinai. Exodus 34:29-35; you can review these Commandments in Deuteronomy 5:1-21.

 

Yes, standing at least four feet high in granite are the Ten Laws of God, these Ten Commandments speak loud and clear about our responsibility to God and Country. I would think that the person going into the bar might feel a certain conviction as he or she passes that stone; but on the way out may find it a comfort to lean on or relieve on.

 

My observation of course and maybe not yours is that we as a nation rise in the morning of life and ignore our Creator, then as the sun sets and we go to our sleep we might just glance at the Bible gathering dust on our nightstand as we close our eyes for the night. And all the while our Creator is calling out, since there are evidences throughout the Land that He has been and still is available to mend and heal.