A Thought for the Day - 006

by Jesse Abel

A Thought for the Day – 006

 

Proverbs 25:1-5 – King Hezekiah’s men were men of integrity; who understood the fear of the LORD. As a nation we should be praying for our government leaders. That they may find the hidden wisdom of God and begin to remove the dross (I like the word CRUD) from our national and state governments as the thrones of the nation and state need a conversion to Righteousness.

 

Comments and challenges

 

A couple of years ago this opportunity came and went. What I said and did was of no effect. I went to the grocery and as I pulled into the lot to park I went by a young woman holding a baby of less than a year old, the woman I thought was placing groceries into her trunk. After parking I headed for the store and the lady called out to me. “Yes”, I said; “can I help you?” She replied! “Will you buy these groceries for $30.00 cash?” “Hmmm, I studied her face and it told me she was a crack cocaine user.

“I'm sorry ma'am but I do not have $30.00 dollars cash on me. Besides it would bother my conscious to do what you ask.” My brain was spinning for more to say and I knew she was desperate, but I settled on saying nothing else. “I need gasoline more than I need groceries and I have plenty more groceries.” All did not add up and finally I said, “Ma'am, I cannot help you and moved on into the store. By the time I got into the store she had packed the groceries back in her trunk and was leaving the lot.

 

Some would say, you did what I would have done, or say; whatever you did, you did so forget it and move on. Yet there is this reoccurring thought. Ezekiel 18:4. Events like these do not happen when we are ready to handle the moment. I am sure that the apostle Paul had similar thoughts in mind when he explained to similar thoughts to Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:1-5 which for me parallels the Ezekiel passage.

 

Crack cocaine is the now the least of our worries, but drugs are still within the top ten on the HIT parade of National debauchery. How is this for a paradox? It is a crime to kill a dog, but it is not a crime to kill an infant in the womb or partially out of the womb. It is a hate crime to punch out a man who grabs another man’s private parts; but it is legal for the two of them to get married after the spat.

 

It is a crime to use drugs to get high on, but it is legal to induce death with the same type of needle by assisted suicide. It is legal to say Mohammad in schools while it is illegal to say Jesus in the same building. “O America you are failing, O America you are failing, O America you are failing”. Why are you failing America, because you have turned your backside to God.

 

“O America, America, the one who kills its children and sanctifies immorality; Jesus says; “How often I wanted to gather your offspring together, even as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing. See NOW! Your house is left to you desolate.”