by Jesse Abel
Thoughts from Papa “J”
Each day is a gift - that's why today is called the Present! These few words are from our Church Choir Director and I thought that since I was blessed by this, that you might be too! Lamentations 3:22-23
Good Morning
Have you ever felt like a small sugar ant? You are marching home and you are not alone; each carrying a bit of sugar from that gum drop somewhere further up the crack in the cement walkway! Life is good; but suddenly fear sweeps over you as you notice something swoop up uncle Andy and auntie Alma Ant. It won’t be long and you’ll be next! You try to break ranks and run for it; poppa Alfred Ant yells. “Get back in line Arty, stand firm boy and be an Ant”. Isaiah 40:21-24 Okay – grasshopper!
Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your God. Isaiah 40:1 – I do not know if this nation, that is the United States of America, in case you fail to understand of whom I am referring to has yet to receive double for all of its sins, but I do know that history tells the story of nations who sin against the laws, statutes, commands, precepts and words of the God of Creation. Psalm 19:1-14.
Yet, God still calls this nation to repentance and comfort; He still works daily with us to show that we cannot win this struggle or war against Him. Why is that? It is because our iniquity is already pardoned; don’t we as a nation “get it”? No, no we do not and because of this and until we do; we will abide as a nation in trouble for our SIN against God. John 3:16-18 and John 3:36.
Now, I am not a prophet, nor have I any personal instruction from God; like you, I only have His written Word of which I am fully confident in and with the voice and authority of the words I see in the Holy Bible before me, I say from my home in this land of wilderness. “It is time for this United States of America to make straight paths to the LORD GOD. Isaiah 40:3-5.
Can we as nation not see that all of our flesh (the peoples, young and old) is nothing more than grass? Oh yes we are lovely: babies are so beautiful, children so adorable, young people are so vibrant, adults are so productive and the elderly are so full of wisdom to glean from. All of which blows away with time; time shortened or extended by our prevailing evils. Ecclesiastes 3:1-22. But please notice the words in Isaiah 40:8. Our beauty fades, but the Word of our God stands forever.
I AM CRUSHED! Having the desire to sound like someone whom I am not, I want so desperately to say. “NATION, BEHOLD YOUR GOD” He shall come with a STRONG HAND. He shall rule and His reward will be with HIM. Yes we mourn and cry out to God for comfort when the corruption of a heart that is so troubled, that murder and carnage is the only thought to pursue until it is carried out.
Responsibility for this action! Who is responsible; it is not God, yet we blame Him, this blame leads us to cry for the government leadership to fix us. Whoops! Why do we ask for repair from some entity that is as broken as we are?
The responsibility of this evil in the land is YOU AND ME who as a nation has destroyed our nation with our own hands by giving in to the laws, statutes, commands, precepts and words of MAN, we are to blame and unless we repent from this way and return to GOD, we shall perish. Isaiah 40:9-17. If God permits, there will be more tomorrow; that is the remainder of Isaiah 40.
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