“Now the donkeys of
Kish, Saul’s father were lost. So Kish
said to his son Saul, “Take now with you one of the servants, and arise, go
search for the donkeys” (1 Sam. 9:3).
Hey Gang: Each time I
come across this verse I wonder if it was put there for a specific reason? Just wondering! When we still had horses at the Village we
had an old donkey we called Scrap iron. That animal played a very important
role. We used him to teach patience to the young horses. Scrap iron’s motto was “I shall not be moved”
which tended to teach the youngsters patience.
The theme of yesterday morning’s message was “We want a king
just like everyone else. God said “they
asked, “I will give it to them!” How
many of you know one should be very careful about how you pray! I have
developed a theory, over the years, pertaining to the founding of
ministries. People pray - God answers –
God then provides a way for the ministry to grow - man says, “I will take over
now” - ministry loses its effectiveness and dies.
God answered the people’s cry for a king and, from that day
on, Israel became just like the rest of the nations that also had kings. Is there a parallel in what is happening in
the good old USA? Did we say human life
is no longer as important to us as it is to God? Did we say say it is okay for
women, I do not refer to them as mothers, not only to kill the miracle that is
within them for the sake of convenience but for others to cut them up and sell
the body parts to the highest bidder?
How about the Supreme Court’s decision that man really knows
best when it comes to marriage and boy and girl relationships? I believe I could fill several pages with
man’s disastrous decisions that said to God – ‘not your way Lord but mine.’ God said owe no man nothing – how does nineteen
trillion dollars in debt fit into that no – no? God said, those
who demand that Israel give away covenant land will pay a dear price for
their failure to heed His warning.
Jesus said, “Careful,
the world is going to be filled with false prophets, false teachers, false
shepherds, even the very elect will be led astray. They will say there is more than one road to
the Father, that Jesus is not the only “Way,
Truth and Life” and it is happening! False preachers will say we must have
open minds and honor and accept all into our fellowship and to our pulpits,
including those whom God declared are an abomination to the Lord, and we are
seeing this in increasing numbers.
There are those who
say to believe is enough and then it
does not matter if one sins, and many have accepted this blasphemous teaching. Yet, we wonder why our nation has lost its
power and strength. God said, “Give them a king but warn them he will take
and he will take and he will take.”
Maybe! Soon we will elect a president. I remember during the ‘Cold War’ a group of
world leaders would, on a yearly basis, determine where we were in relationship
to the ending of the world, as we know it.
They termed their finding and set the time of the “Dooms Day Cock”. When Russia tried to develop a missile launch
site in Cuba, the clock reached thirty seconds. Neil Cavuto, recently said that the clock
was now set at three minutes. Well, man
may have his kings, but God controls the clock!
Bottom line: “You, O
Lord, are our Father, Our Redeemer from of old is Your name” (Isa.
63:16b). We, As children of God we have
assurance that “God is our heavenly
Father. He loves us with a father’s
heart”. The Bible tells us, “Your Father knows what you need before
you ask Him” (Matt. 6:8). Can you
say “Amen to that?
Blessings,
Gramps
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