Teresa brought over a portable
room air conditioner; it is doing quite well for the living room and kitchen, so
at least we won’t have to bear the full weight of the hotter temperatures.
For a while Blaze didn’t come
into the living room where it is located.
Carla got to thinking and wondered if it was because he smelled Wanda
(Teresa’s dog that was up here for a few weeks – they didn’t much care for each
other.) However, last night he did come
in and seems okay with it, now.
We have the yard pretty tightly
fenced – however, when Teresa came over the other night she brought Wanda and
put her in the yard – she managed to find her way out. Didn’t think much of it until yesterday
morning when Carla looked out the window and saw Blaze coming up the
driveway.
He came right on up and I opened
the gate for him and then started checking the fence line. Shore’nuff there was a breach in the
fence. It was located where I had put
two sections of fencing together – evidently Wanda had located it and bulled her
way through and Blaze located it on his daily rounds.
Got it patched up okay, it is
surprising how the little guy will be afraid to go through a door way, but will
push his way through a small opening.
Motivation, I guess.
Psalm 94:3-4 Lord, how
long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph?
4 How long shall they
utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast
themselves?
How long, Lord, is the cry of
many Christians at this time. In America
many of us are distressed over the overt attacks on the Word of God and His
people. We feel the oppression, we see
the results of a nation who has turned from God and the result is the rotting
away of our very foundation.
For years I have heard that
Jesus is coming soon, how could He wait any longer? But we have not even begun the persecution
that is rampant in other parts of the world.
Many would be quite comfortable
and thankful for the degree of persecution we are now feeling. However, while it is just beginning here, it
is only the beginning. Satan believes he
now has the upper hand and is going all out to win.
It is bad enough that people
sin, openly, but now they have declared their sins to be righteous behavior and
anyone opposed to their antics are evil.
How quickly they have turned the righteousness of God’s people and their
own evil ways to just the opposite – now their ways are righteous and those that
trust in the Lord are evil.
We do not know how much longer
it will be before Christ comes, but until He does we have the obligation to Him
to stand fast and maintain our relationship with Him and through it help others
find Christ.
Even though society is refuting
the words of God, it doesn’t make it ineffective. People are searching for something beyond
themselves. Even in this heightened
desire to scour the Word of God from all public mention, from both our history
and our future, God’s Word is still potent and powerful. There is a recognition from the masses that
they need something more than they personally have.
They feel their spiritual needs
and are trying to fulfill that need with their debauchery, but many are still
being let by the Holy Spirit to search and find what we have as Christians –
assurance of salvation and the peace of God.
We cannot allow society to shape
our relationship with God – we must stand firm that we will not waiver and that
God is the supreme authority of all He has created and not man.
How long God waits is up to God
and only He knows His time line. We may
wish that He comes NOW, the world has degenerated past the time of Sodom and
Gomorrah - and for the past 50 years I have heard that cry, yet He has not
deemed to come.
The thing is, Christ can come
for anyone of us at any time. We could
succumb to illness, we could be involved in a fatal accident of some kind or the
victim of a violent crime.
Personally I am not overly
concerned about the Second Coming of Christ.
I am more concerned that there are millions of people who die, each year,
without Christ. Dooms day is coming
where all will face Christ at the same time, but until that time comes we need
to proclaim Christ and help others find Him before the die and eternal
death. One person at a time.
Later, Art :-)
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