The Devotional - A Look at the Book #831

by Jesse Abel

 

A Word from Papa “J”

 

Well now! What shall we do next? All of those television ads that we crave to see are gone and sometime today people will go and gather those signs from the front of their yard. Elated or deflated there is a work ahead. Ecclesiastes 10:2 (Reminds me of a nation of peoples to far apart on the issues of freedom and liberty).

 

Good Morning

 

It is possible that you did not click on the verse above so here it is: “A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart is at his left” I know that we as a nation do not need to be told that we do not see eye to eye on freedom and liberty. I am as guilty as anyone who seeks to move us to the middle of the road where both the right and the left have common ground to work side by side.

 

The quote of the day may have come to me yesterday from my mom. While on a drive from her home in Plymouth, MA to my home in Brooklyn, CT, I said; “mom did you vote”? Her answer was what I expected but only in part. This is the part I expected. “No” and this is what I did not expect. “I do not like what both men represent” and I said, “What do you mean by that”? She said, “I have the absentee ballot sitting on my dresser, filled out and ready to mail, but what these men have to offer us is not what we need”. “What do we need?” I said. “I don’t know what we need” was her reply.

 

I was silent for my mind had raced to Romans 13:1-7 – Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves”. You can read the rest of this section of scripture on your own.

 

Our conversation on voting ended since she could not explain to me why both men running for president fell short of her likes and dislikes and because I felt that the answer I could give would have caused her to be upset, but now after the fact, she may not have been upset at all, just reminded that she knew the answer like all of us do, but are to foolish or self-righteous to admit it. Our nation needs to return to God and NO MAN, except the ONE (God and man) Jesus Christ; He can provide and restore our national needs – 1 Timothy 2:1-6.