The following post id from January:
Believe me I'm counting the hours until Barack Obama is officially no longer the President of the United States. I believe that it is 64 hours as I write. Someone once asked Martin Luther what he would do if he knew for certain that Jesus Christ would return the very next day. His answer was..."I would plant a tree." And so should we be planting and cultivating until that blessed day occurs. Who governs us is part of that orchard but it is the owner of the orchard that we seek to honor. Well, Donald Trump is being planted in that Oval Office and we should have hope that he sprouts good fruit but we have forgotten the owner of the orchard, forgotten His commands to us, and are looking more towards the fruit of this new tree than the return of the owner by whom the entire orchard exists. The following post was written days after the death of Antonin Scalia almost a year ago:
What Is Our Trust Centered On
The plan was to put a conservative in the White House and then add two or more originalists to the Supreme Court and take back America. It was a good plan as far as plans go. It's putting our trust in those our own plans where we depart from God's will.
Saturday we lost one of America's greatest jurists of all time. We had plans but those plans have suddenly been abridged. We are reeling once again but nine Antonin Scalias could not pull us out of this pit if God did not will it. Should God desire to have mercy upon us for His purposes there is no force on earth that could stop those mercies from being extended, and all the power of hell could not destroy us if God does not permit it.
Do you the reader recall the Biblical text from Exodus 17 where when Moses raised his arms with the staff that parted the sea in his hands that the Israelites prevailed on the fields of Rephidim, and when he lowered them the Amalekites prevailed in the battle? It was also at Rephidim where Moses at first feared for his life and then rebuked the Israelites for not trusting God to provide water! Surely you remember God limiting Gideon to just three hundred men to rout the Midianites. Have not these messages set in? Have we forgotten the word to Zerubbabel...."Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts."? We have departed from God with disastrous results, planned our own rescue, and then found out how brittle man's plans can be.
The tectonics are shifting friends, the magma chamber has been breached! Trust now in God and in Him alone for as even Nahum in his taunting oracles to Nineveh wrote..."The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows them that trust in Him."
Believe me I'm counting the hours until Barack Obama is officially no longer the President of the United States. I believe that it is 64 hours as I write. Someone once asked Martin Luther what he would do if he knew for certain that Jesus Christ would return the very next day. His answer was..."I would plant a tree." And so should we be planting and cultivating until that blessed day occurs. Who governs us is part of that orchard but it is the owner of the orchard that we seek to honor. Well, Donald Trump is being planted in that Oval Office and we should have hope that he sprouts good fruit but we have forgotten the owner of the orchard, forgotten His commands to us, and are looking more towards the fruit of this new tree than the return of the owner by whom the entire orchard exists. The following post was written days after the death of Antonin Scalia almost a year ago:
What Is Our Trust Centered On
The plan was to put a conservative in the White House and then add two or more originalists to the Supreme Court and take back America. It was a good plan as far as plans go. It's putting our trust in those our own plans where we depart from God's will.
Saturday we lost one of America's greatest jurists of all time. We had plans but those plans have suddenly been abridged. We are reeling once again but nine Antonin Scalias could not pull us out of this pit if God did not will it. Should God desire to have mercy upon us for His purposes there is no force on earth that could stop those mercies from being extended, and all the power of hell could not destroy us if God does not permit it.
Do you the reader recall the Biblical text from Exodus 17 where when Moses raised his arms with the staff that parted the sea in his hands that the Israelites prevailed on the fields of Rephidim, and when he lowered them the Amalekites prevailed in the battle? It was also at Rephidim where Moses at first feared for his life and then rebuked the Israelites for not trusting God to provide water! Surely you remember God limiting Gideon to just three hundred men to rout the Midianites. Have not these messages set in? Have we forgotten the word to Zerubbabel...."Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts."? We have departed from God with disastrous results, planned our own rescue, and then found out how brittle man's plans can be.
The tectonics are shifting friends, the magma chamber has been breached! Trust now in God and in Him alone for as even Nahum in his taunting oracles to Nineveh wrote..."The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows them that trust in Him."
