A Thought for the Day – 067 – Faith and Valor
Oppression is one of those conditions that are considered a threat to
national freedom. Therefore we look at the leaders for signs of this selfish
toil; will they or will they not be oppressive people. Does this nation suffer
from oppressive people? We only need to look in the home. It is too sad; the
oppressive self-will parent can be challenged; but we cannot ask the aborted
baby. But praise God, these oppressed little ones… these have a Comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-4
Comments and challenges
Each
morning I seek to take the hour of writing and set it aside for a little rest
and then I am reminded; “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of
the hands to sleep – so shall your poverty come on you like a robber, and your
need like an armed man. Proverbs 6:10-11 now some would think that I am worried
about money, that thought would be wrong. Like our nation I would suffer
Spiritual poverty; such poverty like that found in Joel 1:1-20.
The fighting
ships of the U.S. Navy are beautiful to my sight. I enjoy seeing the armament
of surface power and the stealth power of the black submarine. Being a Navy
career person, I understand what is inside those man-of-wars. I am not alone in
this; ask any career minded Marine, Soldier, Air Man or Coast Guards Man, they
know the power of their tanks, planes and vessels.
Here
is the rub; are you a saint? Are you mindful of the Kingdom, the return of the
King, the Reign of the King and the Hope we have in the King. Our submissive
life in the LORD’s army began with that humbled moment in time when we looked
to Jesus Christ as the suffering, resurrected Lamb of God who took upon Himself
our sin.
One day
soon we will look at Him again; why is that? Because our relationship to Jesus
Christ the Son of God is more than a career, we are His committed Bride, Romans
12:1-2. We will be married; not to the suffering Lamb, but to the KING of kings
and the LORD of lords, Revelation 19:16.
“Let
us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has
come, and His wife has made herself ready.” Revelation 19:7 – how does a wife
make herself ready to marry? Not with all the pomp and circumstance of a
worldly wedding, but in knowing and loving the power, integrity, purpose and
the plan of her husband.
Revelation
19:8 challenges each of the saints of God to be arrayed in fine linen, there is
plenty of this linen available, but there is the responsibility for you and me
to put it on, the donning of this linen is the righteous acts we are to do
daily; like that of Galatians 6:1-5 or Philippians 2:1-4. Now is the time to be
practicing righteousness, there will be no time to do so as we are being seated
at the Supper Table. Matthew 25:1-13.
The
day of this Supper is on the horizon, whether it is today, tomorrow or several
years from now does not provide the visual of seeing the ship in the harbor, or
the tank on the hilltop or even the plane in the sky. The visual and the truth
of this is in seeing Jesus Christ the Son of God; patiently waiting for that
day with His Father. Hebrews 12:1-2; those of us who have the testimony of
Jesus; we are called to worship God; it is the spirit of prophesy that calls
the unbelieving to come. Revelation 19:9-10 and Isaiah 55:1-13.
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