The Devotional - 851 - (Revisited) Thursday's Blog
Thoughts from Papa “J”
Just a small warning for those of us who may be
traveling and staying in hotels or motels during the nation’s birthday
celebration. Also there will be no devotional on the Fourth; in the meantime
have a blest weekend… see you Monday if the LORD tarries.
Good Morning
As much as I have tried to stay away
from the current events surrounding our world these days (and I have tried!) I
always seem to be reminded of the failures of social out-workings of government
groups, corporate communities and other entities that seek to cover the human
problem of sin without the wisdom God offers from His Holy Word. 1 Peter 4:8
and Proverbs 10:12
Hopefully you notice the vain
conversations that take place in various sources of the media, or as some would
say the information highway. While driving Wednesday I was listening to a New
England public radio station. There were a number of topics, all secular and
all offering solutions to life without offering HOPE. To boot, the radio station
was striving for donations and membership.
One such subject was “tipping the hotel
staff”. If you do not tip and you stay frequently at the same hotel or motel
you can expect to be subject to the depravity of the staff, from the clerk
behind the desk all the way to the cleaning person who fluffs up your pillow
and turns down the covers for your next evenings rest. These all have pass keys
to get into your private life, while you are away for the day.
I do not want to go into those immoral actions,
but use your imagination (or not; since the devil hangs out in your imagination).
But whatever you can think of is done by the people who are to be servers of
peace, safety and welfare. The person providing these stories and information
was a successful person in the hotel business.
He had a solution: His solution was for
you the customer to protect yourself by paying off the staff by properly
tipping his employees. You would think that at the very least he might fire
them! Bah Humbug! This kind of protection has been around a long time and
paying off does not always pay off since people who thought they paid still
ended up with cement shoes, or deadly diseases.
If one could listen to all of the
conversations that go on daily, the roar of vane communication falling from the
lips of so called informed people would be loud. Loud enough that a deaf person
from birth could hear, and that deaf person would no doubt say. “Gee! I am so
glad to be deaf since what I am hearing is shear or absolute nonsense.
I believe that Solomon in the book of
Ecclesiastes covers this subject of secular humanism very well and true the
world around us has operated this way throughout the course of time and it will
not change. However, could it be that the Church of Jesus Christ is up to bat
and that as a team we are down by one run at the bottom of the ninth inning
with two outs, two strikes and a rookie at the plate?
Notice Revelation 2 and 3: Revelation
2:2; 2:9; 2:13; 2:19; 3:1; 3:8 and 3:15. God knows our works and He states in
every section of these two chapters that there is something we can do better.
All of which is centered within the neighborhoods of where we live in the world
around us today. Secular solutions are prominent today and could this be
because many churches are ashamed to give answers of HOPE. Romans 1:16-17 and
Romans 5:5
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