My New Year's Wish

1 In your day of trouble, may the Lord be with you! May the God of Jacob keep you from all harm. 

2 May he send you aid from his sanctuary in Zion. 

3 May he remember with pleasure the gifts you have given him, your sacrifices and burnt offerings. 

4 May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans. 

5 May there be shouts of joy when we hear the news of your victory, flags flying with praise to God for all that he has done for you. May he answer all your prayers! 

I pray all God's Best for you in the New Year.

Kathi

About the Shooting

If you haven't heard about the shooting in Aurora, Colorado, you haven't had a TV or radio on for the last two days.  Obama has even made it his version of 9/11 by cutting short a vacation, saying the federal government will help catch the criminal (he was already in custody) and ordering flags at half-mast.  What??!!  We didn't have flags at half- mast for any number of other atrocities. 

That's all beside the point.  One of the next questions that will go around - as it always does - Where is God when bad things happen?

The answer:  Right where we put Him. 

In America during the last generation, this country has done everything in its power to throw God out.  No prayer in school, remove all Christian symbols from public buildings and areas, take the ten commandments out of the courthouses, no Christmas songs or saying "Merry Christmas" during the winter holidays.  If certain people have their way, we won't have "In God we trust" on our money anymore.  With fifty years of increasing godlessness in our nation, with at least two generations of children grown up without standards, why would you expect to find God anywhere in the situation?  And if you think this country will miraculously improve under the current circumstances, guess again.

Please forgive me.  I needed to vent a little spleen about such willful ignorance.

Thanks for visiting with me,

Kathi

If God Is King...

Americans aren't much for kings.  The last one we had was ridiculed in cartoon and song.  Can't say I blame us, King George.

Even when they threw out their physical king, our founding fathers accepted that there was a Divine Authority to Whom they owed allegiance.  Our Constitution was based on Judeo-Christian laws, bowing to the wisdom of God in establishing an orderly society.

It saddens me that our nation has once again overthrown their King, ridiculing Him in cartoon and song.  We no longer have freedom of religion.  We have activists leading us toward freedom from religion. 

I wish to note here that God does not need our permission to exist.  He doesn't need our permission to act according to His own principles.  It is not His job to give us everything we demand of Him.  He is not required to be politically correct.

Remember kings?  What would happen to someone who came up to the king and demanded anything of him?  What would happen to someone who broke one of the king's laws right in front of his face and then stuck out his tongue at the king and gave him a raspberry? 

So if God does what He does to discipline us, to regain our attention, to remind us He exists, we get angry at Him.  Or better yet, we call it something ungodly like "global warming".

You might review those verses that say there will be signs in the heavens, men's hearts failing them for fear, or the sun will be given power to scorch the earth.  It also says that no one will repent even in the face of earthquakes and other disasters. 

Lack of repentance is one of the signs of the end times. It's worth thinking about.