The following was first posted on July 2, 2022:
The news is almost unbearable. I'm referring to the news everywhere....on a daily basis....but more specifically this evening the wanton violence on our police officers in Kentucky. God help us. God have mercy upon us. When Billy Graham and other faithful preachers were giving lamentations like this.....decades ago....we were not nearly as violent as we are today. Idols....every bit as destructive and demonic as anything Canaan or Phoenicia could come up with....litter our lives. Celebrities parade before us with their idolatrous wares....their platinum lives....and ivory teeth....with a gold cross along their low-cut neckline or open shirt....hawking their latest book telling us how much Jesus means to them....and sports heroes give all the glory to God....for putting a basketball through a hoop or some such nonsense....possibly even on the Lord's Day....with the Christians showing more passion than they did hours earlier in their worship service.
The churches pride themselves for keeping their doors open during a pandemic....unaware that Satan also wants those doors open....for he is author of the gospel in most of the pulpits today. He wants this pablum to continue to be served up. Malachi gave us these words given him...."Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain!"
I would ask you to....for only a few moments....put all of the legislative stuff out of your mind.....all the elections and nominations....and all of the anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage. This so that you can more clearly see that we live in this society as a fish lives in water....and if you do.....if you just glance at one current danger after another....from world war to natural disasters to AI to famines and plagues and false prophets and a new world order....in a world gone mad....you might see that we cannot turn this around....nor can we stop.
This storm is not going to die down. We are going through it. The "Captain of the LORD's host"....is the same...."Captain of our salvation!" Here is your....'trust in God'....not before the storm that you do not even think is coming....but during the storm....the winds of which are already shredding flags and pennants. The Psalmist says to those who know Him...."and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me"....but to preachers who play with His words as a clever politician...."What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?" (Psalm 50: 15, 16)
