I don't buy our braggadocious demands that we just have go to church to worship God....there is something missing in this equation....not when our usual habit is to laugh and talk for a while in the vestibule or foyer or lobby immediately after the service....before rushing off to a picnic or football game. I also don't accept the 1st Amendment passion....for no is telling anyone that they cannot worship God....they're only saying hold off for a while and worship in smaller groups until someone gets a handle on this virus....of which we sneer.
So I woke up early this morning....and did my usual.....turn on Breitbart radio.....and go over the news from a dozen different news sources....checking the President's tweeting. The Breitbart host commented....."anything that hurts China is good for me." He's around 33 years old and may not be among those drafted into a war with China that could see thousands die every week....but at least Tik Tok won't be around.
I went over the President's tweets and read...."FAKE NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"....and then he bragging about cheering people in Texas during a pandemic....and a "RECORD HIGH NASDAQ!"....and a verbal attack on Deborah Birx....and a few more inane tweets followed by an earlier....."FAKE NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" I just quit reading them and felt so down....not only on how America has fallen.....for this has been going on for decades.....but on how the church has fallen under the sway of a false prophet.....and is blinded to what should easily be seen.
I needed exercise....but not for the exercise itself. I went to the gym....mask in hand....put on the headphones.....and listened to ligonier.org's daily audio which was the beginning of a week of R. C. Sproul's teaching on the Holiness of God. If you have never heard this series....you must! I was on a machine....writing down little hashmarks on a notepad after every set so that I don't forget what set I'm on.....because my mind is always elsewhere on whatever sermon or teaching is in that headset. I started to feel refreshed.....renewed is more like it.....and after about twenty-five minutes of this I went out into God's glorious sunshine and walked.....this time with a Charles Spurgeon sermon....titled.....Oh How He Loves. I recommend that you Google this and listen to it. Oh how I pray that you will at least listen to this marvelous sermon....never return to these posts if you will but go to these men of the past....for then you will be fed and discerning.
So I just returned home....thus the....."I needed that!"....from the beginning of this post.
