One does not have to live in luxury to experience life as being good....but a good income....and a safe community.....helps. Saturday mornings on the soccer field can be wonderful blessings....or planting flowers and landscaping our homes....particularly as Spring comes with luciously warm breezes.....dogwoods....and lilac bushes everywhere.....but.....there's always a 'but'.....but we Christians do not have the luxury....of ignoring the other half of the world....and today we do not have the luxury of living in our own country without lamenting what is happening....and seeking God's mercy....but instead we fight this....thinking that if we only restore a Republican Congress that that will somehow stem the tide of total corruption. Folks....not only is this not where the answer is....but it works directly against that which we need to be doing.
So who am I to be saying something like this? I'm nobody. Would it make any difference to you if I were a somebody. I don't think so. Whether it's Franklin Graham or the guy running a snake through your basement drains....if they put something before you that is significant....go to Scripture.....the collar does not guarantee anything....nor the exalted position at a seminary....nor the multi-million dollar television network. If you are a Christian....you will recognize if there is a problem or not.Well what about Donald Trump you might ask....a genuine biblical false prophet according to me? We missed Donald Trump....because we took our eyes off of Jesus....our only hope.....and we trusted in not only a man....but as unbecoming and untrustworthy of a man that one can find. We were sheep that forgot what the shepherd's voice sounded like....as a false shepherd entered our sheepfold to recruit us....not by the gate....but the down escalator.
Folks....surely we all know how John went on and on in his epistles on how we believers are to love one another. We have differences on many things.....Trump is surely one....and now masks and vaccinations are dividing churches....(all Trump related in my mind).....but we have to work very hard not to lose this love for one another even as we pass through this difficult period of political confusion.
A winnowing is coming...I do believe.....where the redeemed will not only all know the voice of our Good Shepherd....but recognize each other more easily. The best thing that I know of....today....to be able to easily identify that voice once again....is to regularly listen to sermons from men of the past....and men who sound like men of the past. A steady diet of Charles Spurgeon.....or J. C. Ryle will groom even the untamed mane. What does God's Word say about this.....well....Jeremiah tells us....."Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it'."
