09/09/17 PLEASE READ AND HEED

09/09/17 PLEASE READ AND HEED

(We don't have much time. Be God's instrument of love and peace. Let the church be the church in these perilous times.)

We personally cannot do anything about

the monster storms devastating the globe,

the torrential floods sweeping away lives and property,

the raging fires scorching the earth,

the insatiable drive for power of a madman in N. Korea,

the blood lust of leaders in Iran and Saudi Arabia,

the mounting numbers of victims to disease, pestilence and starvation,

the diabolical darkness of Islam, Liberalism, Statism, and all other Christ and Bible rejecting philosophies.

Someone says, "WE CAN PRAY."

Yes we can. We can ask God to do something, but WE CANNOT PERSONALLY STOP OR CHANGE THE TSUNAMI OF SUFFERING IN THIS WORLD.

HOWEVER, we can personally stop the destruction of sin in our own lives, the damning aloofness of selfishness, the death dealing arrogance of judging and shunning other people and their children because of self imposed "justifiable spiritual homicide."

We can turn from sin.

NO, we cannot turn from sin without God calling us to turn, and we cannot turn without God enabling us to turn, but
YES, we can turn, because it is the will and the work of God that makes it possible for us to personally turn.
We can stop doing that which is displeasing to God.
We can start doing that which is pleasing in His sight.
We can start loving the unlovable.
We can start denying self and start following Jesus in perfect and redemptive self sacrificing love.

I cannot help what world wide catastrophes may do to my world, but I can stop
the TSUNAMI that results in me living in the flesh,
the PLAGUE of self assertion,
the Famine of God's truth in my own life,
the FLAMES of anger, jealousy, bitterness.

Please,
if you are not fully and humbly following the way of God, the word of God, the will of God,
if you are not heeding the counsel of godly leaders,
if you are not hearing the cries of those who are lost,
if you are not giving your life to reach the unlovely, the unlovable in your world,
if you are not lovingly and humbly taking light to those in darkness around you,
if you are not denying your self in order to be God's ambassador,

PLEASE, let God arise, and let the enemy be scattered.

Please repent.
Please let God remove the scales from your eyes and the chains from your heart.

We don't have much time, don't spend it in personal grudges, self righteous aloofness, judgmental Phariseeism. relational maelstroms.

Your own eternal life depends on you doing the right thing.
Your family depends on you doing the right thing.
Your enemies depend on you doing the right thing.