My friend, Rev. Tom Doty (twdoty02@yahoo.com), recently wrote in one of his daily devotionals,
“While our society wants to get rid of God’s Word it continues to appear. God’s Word is quoted in books, movies, speeches, and is even twisted by Satan and his demons. It’s like Jesus said, ‘Everything else may fall apart, but my word is solid and everlasting.’ If your world is falling apart, maybe you need to get something solid in life. The only sure cure for a falling apart life is the truth of God’s Word. Everything in your life may be going to pot, but you can be assured that God’s Word, if followed, can and will make your life complete.”
Pastor Doty points to something clearly understood by our Founding Fathers that is more and more being ignored today—The efficacy of the Bible. Modern thought suggests that if the Bible works at all, it only works for those who believe it. The Patriots who originally forged this Nation knew better. This is not to say each of them trusted Jesus as personal Savior and Lord. In fact, many of their writings suggest otherwise. Even so, they did realize the living principles contained in the Bible are just as certain and irrefutable as the laws of physics.
One may deny that water seeks its own level, but the laws of nature’s God make it happen because it is necessary to maintain order. Likewise, one may deny the Ten Commandments and the God who wrote them, but they are still necessary to maintain order. The Word of God applies to Saint and sinner alike, not because one believes or disbelieves, but because the Creator of Heaven and Earth is the Authority behind it.
Jim
Amos 8:11-12 (KJV)
ReplyDelete11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Has America come to this point? People are searching for spiritual things in our land but they are not searching for God. We have turned from God’s Holy Word. We do not want to hear what God has to say. Pastors fail to teach the pure word of God. People fail to read the word of God. There is a famine in the land for the word of God.
We are seeking some truth but not the real Truth. We want to talk about God but not experience God. We want a form of religion without the relationship of obeying the Living God. How has this famine of God’s word come? It is because God’s people have failed to remember the Truth of God. America is seeking, but we are not seeking God.
Even in Judah there was a remnant that searched for God. God was willing to help them and forgive them. There is a remnant in America today that is willing to obey God. It only takes a few who are willing to obey God and that few can turn the tide of famine. God is calling each of us to return to Him with our whole heart. God is ready to bless America again. But America must be ready to return to God. We must put aside the gods of political correctness, the gods of tolerance, and return to the God who saves us.
Today is the day to begin our quest to overcome the famine of God’s Word. It begins with us. God’s Word is the Truth of Jesus and today we can accept that Word and change our land.
Tom Doty
Excellent point!!!
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