A Thought for the Day – 078 – For better or for
worse!
Comments and challenges
Have
you taken a walk lately through the neighborhood? You can tell a lot just by
observing the properties you pass by. One has a beautiful yard. Plants and
trees all seem to be in the right place and the landscape serves to make the
whole yard pleasant. Like a neighborly place to be or enjoy.
But a
step or two further the block reveals a stark difference. The stone wall of
this yard is broken down. Overgrowth of the yard reveals thorns from unkempt
bushes. Nettles from the trees are all over the place and the grass needed
cutting three weeks ago.
These
two homes and landscapes seem like different worlds, yet it is of the same
family, only a generation or two has slipped by. Your watchful eye of this
change has also become blurred in observation and you find yourself saying; “What
is going on here”? Perhaps I’ve been asleep or slumbering over my own personal
goals. No it is much deeper than that!
A
little sleep and a little slumbering in our way of life and we begin to reap
the results of poverty from a silent but powerful prowler. If this were just
one of our neighbors, we might be able to isolate the evil from the good, but
it is not a neighbor; it is me and you. The point is this, once we had a
landscape of the home of the brave and the land of the free.
Today
this same neighborhood portrays a vineyard of men and women devoid of
understanding and even today the LORD God gives us revelation after revelation
of adult men and women crying over the loss of their homes by storms and
tornados. We see children holding on to parents legs with tears of hopelessness
caused by fires that have blown through the neighborhood and taken away our
comforts.
I see
these as small warnings from God that as a nation we have turned our back on
Him and we have purposed in our hearts remove the beautiful landscape of children
and family, for the landscape of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yes it is time for you,
Mr. Humanist to say… balderdash! Not I,
but Proverbs 24:30-34 answers you loud and clearly.
Also let
me not forget to add Matthew 10:5-15, in that day the LORD Jesus sent His
disciple into the neighborhood, He encouraged them to preach to the
neighborhood that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Then after much
encouragement He said that there are those who will not hear and that those who
do not receive the message.
He
told them to depart from those places since in the Day of Judgment that Sodom
and Gomorrah will be able to tolerate their pending judgment more that future
generations. Why? Simply because we (the future generations) know the truth and
we have suppressed it and kept it from being heard by our children, thus our
judgment will be more severe. Romans 1:18-32 is a portion of scripture being
worn out in churches worth their SALT all across this land.
There
is time to repent America, but even so… if repentance comes to this land, do
not expect the landscape to resemble the way it was, who knows it could be
better or it could be worse; but know this… for the better or for the worse;
this land is still OUR LAND.
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