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Our place in the midst of earth’s “short time,” whether affluent and peaceful, troubled and at war among ourselves – healthy, wealthy, or poor – can be, and must be if we are to abide faithful, to never accept futility, but to rejoice in the LORD.

Those of us who see the demise of our united -ness in the United States, and those who further see and understand the demise of civil life throughout the Western world must remember that government – all of it on earth and beyond – is upon His shoulders; not ours. (Isaiah 9:6).

Israel’s history is a microcosm of world history: as with the rise and fall of Israel’s greatness will be the rise and fall of Christianized Western Civilization.

Individuals will have risen to God’s heart call to all of us, “Adam, where are you?” (Genesis 3:9) Some will have responded, “Father, I have strayed from Thee.” Many will have failed to be so honest.

God’s salvation offer will necessarily come to an end for all humanity. It will come to an end individually for “It is appointed” that all shall die and after that, the judgment.” (Hebrews 9:27)

We have heard: “What goes around must also come around:” We all know this is true. As the Old Testament shows, this is more than a religious theme, but it is the fundamental fact of human existence, of Israel’s existence, of human existence.

God is love. He wills that none should perish. He is looking for you. (2 Peter 3:9)

Buddy

“It is not imitation that makes sons; it is son-ship that makes imitators.” (Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians – 1519, p. 263)

When we have diffused all hope in our own goodness, been thoroughly disappointed in ourselves, become without any other hope than that we must be God’s workmanship or else, then, we can – through faith in Him – do all the things we thought possible when we first became a Christian.

A man of God must learn to be dead to any hope of independence from God. Many of us have lived sickened by perhaps years of dissonance: believing, but not realizing that faith alone brings that victory.

The Holy Spirit keeps assuring us, keeps drawing us beneath the blood of Jesus for cleansing and refreshing: He waits for us.

The shame, all of which Jesus scorned while on the cross is rooted in our desire for excellence and our failure of it. Jesus graciously and independent of our efforts exchanged for us (my) sin so I might receive, His righteousness.

We cannot achieve righteousness – certainly not in perfection. We cannot achieve; but we can receive.

At the first we received forgiveness. We must also receive the Holy Spirit. Because we cannot “walk” in human nature’s strength, we will sin.
But, “If we walk in the Spirit we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16).

We can be spectators; we had no input. The gift of life is everyman’s gift. We can commit suicide many ways, but we cannot erase the fact that life was to us gifted to us and not of our own doing.

Religion evolved and whole cultures grabbed at the straws of superstition, of ignorance, of feigned self-righteousness, there is no righteousness except it is given by the righteous One. Every one of us is as a spoiled apple: we already sinned.

Why would we not want our sin washed away? Why would we not want to be reborn and made sons of God? Every effort of reform which has come on earth through government has been focused on a future we never see and although promised, never happened.

The greatest reform which brought the greatest civility earth has enjoyed was hand carried, not especially in the name of Christianity; but by men who had become imitators of Christ because they had become sons of God: Luther was right. He was born again. He became a son of God when He heeded that “The just (must) live by faith” (Hebrews 10:38).

Trusting Jesus involves first receiving Him, but He left the visible scene. He is the true Interceder for men, the Holy Spirit. “He will lead you into all truth,” Jesus promised. (John 16:13)

To be led we must follow. To hear is not the same as to heed. We can grieve the Holy Spirit; lie to the Holy Spirit. (Ephesians 4:30 – Acts 5:3)

The Christian life is a relationship that occurs one-on-one with Him. Imitators of Christ are not imposters.

We call it imitation, because we realize that this is nothing of the natural man: it is miracle brought to us by grace.

He did not leave us alone, nor leave us as orphans, He abides in us. Foolish minds distinguish what they call ‘natural’ from the ‘supernatural.’
By Him all things consist and without Him nothing does. (Colossians 1:17)

So, we live our lives through faith, as though we imitate. We do not live by the appearances our minds conjure.

This is the victory that overcame the world, brought civil life into the Western Hemisphere – with it “Christian” values.” It is the victory that must overcome in the face today, of renewed opposition.

“Rise up, oh men of God” your hour has now arrived.

Buddy

Lucifer rebelled against God before anyone on earth did so.

God created, and granted the freedom of beings to also be creators; possibly creators of evil and thus creators of sorrow. All sin brings about sorrow.

Nothing is more disappointing to parents than a child going astray by his own choices. As parents we take a similar risk as God chose to take.
We take responsibility as much as we can and until we can no longer. A point of no return can be reached.

In scripture we read how God watched Adam to see what he would name the creatures. He watches us much more closely than we realize. He misses nothing.

Bertrand Russell was famous in America, known as the father of American atheism. He believed he had an iron-clad argument against the existence of a good God. He argued that a good God could not have created an existence where so much suffering would occur as has occurred on earth.

The truth is that God, like His Son, determined beforehand to endure evil for a season in order to give the opportunity for beings like you and I.

Jesus “Endured the cross for the joy that was set before Him,” (Hebrews 12:2). He desires to “Bring many sons (people) to glory” (Hebrews 2:10).
Glory is that abode Jesus was talking about when he said, “I go to prepare a place, that where I am you may be also.” (John 14:3)

Illegitimate living brings sorrow and death. Legitimate living is like a good marriage where sex is enjoyed in intimacy, with utter loyalty and privacy.

Heaven is where we are all invited; but we must be prepared by God the Savior: He must take away our sin. He only can do this. We cannot do this on our own. He will make us fit for heaven if we will turn to Him in the same sincerity as is found in a loyal marriage.
To know Christ – Messiah, Jesus – is a very special experience and is similar to knowing our spouse.

The life of Jesus is the final revelation from God to man- the triumph of His outreach to the willing.
Jesus is God and Savior, and He is LORD. He says, “If you have seen me, you have seen the father” (John 14:7).

He is longsuffering because He is Love. But, love can be spurned.
So it is with a good marriage spoiled by infidelity. Even then, God is greater in loving than we at our best.

His forgiveness involves His refusal to remember. “He casts away our sin as far as East is from West.” (Psalm 103:12)

Jesus earned for us that which we could never have earned by our own effort. We did not self-create and we cannot make ourselves righteous, holy, pure, and spotless.

We can be washed clean by God: “Wash me, and I will be white as snow,” cried Kind David. (Psalm 51) David sinned against God. So have we.

“My sheep hear my voice, and I lead them to green pastures beside the still waters.”

“Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

For the joy that was set before Him: His joy and mine – the Son of God –endured the cross, and He has tolerated and used all the evil on earth, but He will not continue forever to endure evil. He will come. Then, He will separate the sheep from the goats. (Matthew 25: 31-46)

“Take my heart Lord, take and seal it, seal it to Thy throngs above.”

Buddy