A Thought for the Day – 008 – Troubling the water
I
have never liked saying that I have a favorite verse or Book of the Holy Bible,
yet and I suppose if I were to pick verses or Books from the Holy Bible the
verses would be from Philippians or James; there you have it so please, don’t
ask me again, no doubt my mind will change since God the Holy Spirit will see
to it. For now notice James 1:17 – Every good and perfect gift; that is: Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father
of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Comments and challenges
Of his own life the
apostle James states the following: “Of His own will He brought us forth by the
word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures”, James
1:18. James the half-brother of Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God gives us
wonderful insight and access to God the Father. Even though James does not
identify God the Holy Spirit throughout his epistle he is cognizant of the
gifts of the Spirit and the sanctifying power of abiding in Christ through
trials and testing.
While I was working
for a housing authority in one of our local towns here in Connecticut there was
a young woman in her mid-thirties who was on total disability. The current
state laws of the time were to place her on our list for elderly and disabled
housing. During her qualifying appointment I learned that her disability was
that she was mentally challenged and was determined by a physician to be
non-threatening while on medication.
A state ruling, to
save lots of money, in recent years had granted such persons full disability,
compensation, housing and other gifts. This action closed most mental
institutions and returned these folks to family and community. The burden of
caring for these men and women shifted from those expensive institutions to the
families of those individuals and to local townships or communities. These entities
were not then and still today are not professionally equipped to handle these
growing disturbances in the United States of America.
Three months into
her living at our local elderly housing unit her stay was aborted and I gave
her back to her parents. She became a life threat to those elderly people who
had placed their final years in the hands of public housing designed for them
and for those who are handicapped with physical health issues and not mental or
other dysfunctional issues that plague our current system.
There is no need to give
details or to condemn states for seeking to save money. However, it is my
intent to say that school shootings, outbursts of public anger and the demonic
activity we see in today’s news is not a new beginning of things that we do not
understand. If we did not understand that extreme evil exists in some people,
then why did we have institutions to assist these people to live twenty to
twenty five years ago in the controlled environment of institutionalization?
Also, today the
power of the church is crippled by the secular power existing in our state and
federal governments. Some states have gone so far as to ban local secular high
schools from using church grounds and property as graduation platforms! What? And
the federal government makes legal the killing of babies while upholding other
non-essential laws like making it a crime to kill a dog! Again! What? What is
wrong Citizens… have we fallen off the cliff like so many demented hogs? Understand:
this whole matter is that our society is fallen and some cannot be sent home
until they meet with Jesus; please read Mark 5:1-20 there is healing for us as
a nation but it is a healing that comes from God and not from man-made laws
that have no power.
Our country is
rapidly finding ways of making it illegal for churches to preach in the NAME OF
JESUS CHRIST OF NAZERETH. (yes my liberal friend; that is if you care… the
truth)! But let me warn those who believe otherwise just as the apostle Peter
warned the criminal activist of his day. Acts 4:10 – 12 “Let it be known to you
all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man
speaks before you today”. There is NO salvation in any other (religions or
persons), for there is NO other name given among men by which we must be saved”.
NOW THIS IS GOOD NEWS, GOOD LIGHT AND GOOD GIFTS from the Father above.
“Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above and coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”. James 1:17 KJV
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