You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.
We look
over the land, especially where we live. We look for life of God, but nothing
is seen but sin leading to sickness and to more disease.
No, our beginnings are in God no matter your
age or position in life today. A verse I love to keep before my eyes is Psalm
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. I like
what the Tony Evans Bible Commentary speaks on this: David waits on God to act
in His integrity. He petitions God to guard him. (As he continues he wants the benefits to be for others not just
himself) David did not go in his integrity, he sought God’s integrity to be
done in his life!
If no one
has seen that which goes on at capitol hill in this new year of 2023, in the
voting and drama, one finds those seen as the hard headed or just plain weak.
They falter, cannot make a decision, and therefore critical care is required
for each of them. Only Jesus can save!
Being
spiritual is so critical, as to the word of God to give us right thinking and
speaking and prayer in relationship to Him. THAT prayer to Him, communicating our
commitment to Him, to know Him and to hear Him speak to our hearts is so vital. We can see
Him, engage Him and when we continue speaking what He spoke while He walked in
Nazareth to Jerusalem, we are aware we are not alone ever! Spiritual death can
occur to those who want free stuff, and think they are entitled to that free
thing as to government checks or other things!
Certainly
we are to be givers to the poor and aid the needy. ( Matthew 19:21, Luke 14:13,
Galatians 2:10) God wants us to be responsible people. That is: be responsible
to feed your children, clothe your children and give them God’s word because
charity ends and personal responsibility begins when you the rugged individual
should get a job. Provide for you and yours, get on your feet and move out of
your house to make a difference for many! Spiritual danger will appear in the
long haul when one seeks free things. Even though many feel some amount of shame for their extended hand, they also
can develop an attitude of entitlement called the welfare mentality. They
become offended when they get nothing from someone. So too, true Christianity
is not give your heart to the Lord and be saved. No that true Christianity is “Repent
and believe in the gospel found in Mark 1:15! Christianity is not lazy. It is
outgoing, esteeming others where manifested itself, you and I will see the blessings of God.
What about
the guy you met who never pays his taxes or how about that person you met some
years ago who admitted they smoked pot. They spoke of their knack to be
outdoors at 3 a.m. to smell that of illegal drugs smoked to give the fresh air a scent of sin in the gorge. Have you voiced
an ethnic slur or know someone who has? Just saw a lady who lives in the next state
across the river from us who has taken paint to voice her heart on her house over
Christmas holiday. Yes, it was a slur! She used dark paint to paint a dark slur
against someone. How about the people
who dumped their trash and yes, with some of their own mail on that dirt road
outside of Dog Mountain? The officials found them indeed. I read it in our
paper. Yes, those elected, are they like those who elected them?
What is
remembered on days gone by? My mother went without sugar for several years
because of the World War 2. They had a victory garden to raise food and freeze
some when they could. One man was loyal to one wife. They secured children in
their family, had a good job, and made sure all was good on every need
required. When the Cuban Missile Crises occurred, a nation prayed for God and
He answered.
But when one would share to a group of those
born in 2001 there might appear a blur to the mainstay of today! Today, if you
spoke of those days, like of the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma, California greed for
money in the 1930 and 1940’s or the Depression started by the stock market
falling to nothing, Christian values
have to light to what they were about 75 years ago, then yes, America may be
beyond America's own ability to achieve those early years in God!
Are we so
different than those born in the last decade? Is there a Dust bowl somewhere,
or how about that greed to get people to work for cents and not greenbacks?
What about that stock market and what people look for today to see the market
fall like October 1929. And in truth, the dust bowl was already in affect when the stock market fell in 1929! People were
already leaving Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas for green pastures anywhere to be
found.
No
pornography was found seen or talked about where a family lived and breathed.
Yes, decency and civility was within a home, the heart of a family and
integrity ruled the heart. Every family
member that went out from the home was he or she who represented truth and
honesty. There was no violence nor shouts against others. And whatever was
heard was stopped immediately by those to enforce the law of this nation.
Is anyone
aware of God’s standards today seen in Matthew 19:17 Why do you call Me good?
No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep
the commandments.”
Jesus spoke
“If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Test day it
was for this man Jesus spoke to that moment. To test him on the way of
salvation: Jesus was good for He is, was and will always be God! The
commandments should convict man of his sinful nature before God. No man cannot
inherit God or heaven when he chooses to doing his way through life.
Honor is
given those who honor truth and integrity.
The love of God is known. It is experienced and freedom is lived through
the Lord of glory. It was that true freedom that was once seen in people who
kept God at the center of their focus. They kept Him in their hearts, kept Him
on their mind and focused on that peace that had come to them daily in Him and
through Him to others.
People back
in those days, regarded God
as the way of life. They were deliberate to know Him. They were deliberate to
act as He did when He walked in Nazareth giving truth, whether they chose Him
for life or not. What will be said of us? Will we always choose life, truth of
God and not live a lie in our lives?
I like what
this gentleman wrote once: he said that politics is dirty and it always
involves more movement for temporal power. Down and dirty would mean a hundred
years ago to get down and clean the garden space, clean the toilet or even
clean your bedroom or vehicle.
Today, to
me dirty is turning on your television and hearing the people who give the news
have embraced those who give their parties involving men dressed as women. It
is those who choose to side with illicit. It is men and women in decay, a
distasteful walk in life by the truth they desire to influence by immoral acts.
Want to be
honored, but one should not want to malign others while they themselves roll in
the dirt, and stink as rotted flesh! Jesus spoke to the Pharisees and Sadducees
and mentioned them being adders. In this respect if you will, Jesus spoke their
new born babes would eat their way out of the bodies who gave them life. Have
you time with a scorpion and irritate him till he curled his tail at you, or do
they cause you to run in another direction? What about those who speak of
change to the bodies but God gave you one? Will their sound be like that
of horror and smell like the sulfur of hell? How about the stench of
the “dump ground” where your trash is taken? Is that our political system now?
Does the sounds of the political mouth sound like more like him who laughs in
derision and has attitude?
Proverbs
26:18-19 NKJV 18 Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 Is
the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, “I was only joking!”
When I was
about nine, I remember playing ball with my sister and some friends who lived
in our neighborhood. It was a time of rolling in the dirt. We played baseball
indeed, stealing second base, and that was awhile ago, and today it has the
very meaning of the immoral and the influence of being that way. Sports has changed to put men who chose being
a woman to turn to woman sports. Or how about that electric thing? Have you
seen how the semi including truck and trailer required more time to be charged
and when used it only went half way to get its load? Thinking of when we lived
in Wyoming for it was many decades now, and you could not rely on an electric anything
to get you through a blizzard. Have you seen those electric cars stalled on I-5
or I-84 for how many hours and their charge went to zero. Vehicles were stopped for many reasons but two were too many accidents in the ice and snow and the other was there was a death or two on that roadway due to bad weather. So wait in their electric car indeed but it was too cold: 28
degrees with a 50 mile an hour wind blowing to add to the pot of stupid! We had wood burning in our fireplace for warmth while snow piled up to over five feet outside.
As Solomon
says, "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is
overthrown by the mouth of the wicked" (Proverbs 11:11).
Will we
wait for God? Will we wait to hear Him? David did when he wrote such a thing as
this. He was believing and you should when we ask for God’s integrity in our
lives for it is His righteousness that will rule us indeed and bring God of peace into that place we desire Him to be. Amen.
New teaching at: Voice of Prayer
Personhood of Holy Spirit
