Daily Devotional - 1484 - Some peoples children

Daily Devotional – 1484 –Some peoples children

Psalm 119:49-56 – Remember the word to Your servant, Upon which You have caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life. The proud have me in great derision, yet I do not turn aside from Your law. I remembered Your judgments of old, O Lord, And have comforted myself. Indignation has taken hold of me because of the wicked, who forsake Your law. Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, And I keep Your law. This has become mine, because I kept Your precepts.

Comments and Challenges

Politicians and prophets have a something in common in that both speak to the people of a land regarding the future. The politician promises a future of a land of opportunity and prosperity, while the prophet warns that the future is not in the hands of the politician to give. I do not have an answer to provide a future for anyone, so that said; I am not the son of a politician nor am I the son of a prophet so then; what shall we do with the future?

As a nation we could react to the future by seeking more and more socialistic promises until the government consumes the nation like a starved child from some third world country. Or we could find a religion that promises disciplined or regimented restraints to control us. I see both of these avenues of the pursuit of life as a devilish bondage, not liberty. Yet the majority say; “Well as long as children are on our soil we should not let them starve and while I can do something about it; they will not starve.” An admirable statement yes, yes it is; but it is not praise worthy.

The statement is nothing more that cow manure covered in a thin silver coating. In other words the statements regarding the infusion of another nation’s children into our country are mixed with politics and religion and the prophet Isaiah says this better than I do. Notice: Isaiah 1:21-23 –How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

You may say that Isaiah does defend the fatherless and have a cause for the widow, but he is not referring to those of a foreign country, he is referring to the people of his land and today we cannot take care of our own, so how can we expect to be blest of God by taking in children who will one day take our land from us. That is the bottom line; this invasion of children if left unchecked will within a few short years take over the United States of America.

We must then be as the psalmist: “Lord we have hope in Your Word, therefore remember Your Words of old that we may repent and regain hope in You. Your Word has given me hope in the past, even while the proud seeks to keep me in great mocking confusion. Your judgments of old are remembered by me O LORD so help me to walk in Your law of love and mercy. Righteous anger has OVERCOME me because of the wicked because they have knowingly forsaken Your law, and yet I will sing of Your righteousness all day long, I love being with You and I remember your Name in the night season and I seek to keep Your precepts”.

Our nation is two hundred thirty eight years of age; we are still a nation because God has allowed us to be one. Yet if we do not repent from the wickedness of our idolatrous and humanistic sins we will not see two hundred and fifty.