Be not deceived

Father, why do human beings learn nothing from history?  Deceit: the evil one's trump card. satan has lulled the world into thinking the Roman Empire is dead. Kaput! Done!  Nope. The beast is awake now.

 I am thinking this morning of our brother who finally stepped away from the humiliating Candidate's Charade. ....such an humble man who has saved the lives of countless people with his Holy Spirit-guided surgeon's scalpel. Even The Braggart quipped: "His web site should be renamed: 'Ben Carson dot CALM' ". Ben reminds me of my Ted who wouldn't have made a good president either.  Neither could get mad enough. Ted ignored the rattle of the snakes that were inevitably slithering around. Even after they bit him, he slapped on a band aid and kept on moving forward, refusing to spend his emotional energy on already-defeated foes.

After one of several surgeries during the last twenty years of his life my Ted was sitting in the sun on our patio. Oldest grandson was weed eating about six feet from his grandpa. When Luke shut off the weed eater he heard the rattle of the snake that was coiled under his grandpa's chair. He yelled, I heard the yell, grabbed a shovel from the garage and threw it to Ted who stumbled to his feet and pushed the hissing snake to the retaining wall.  In the snake's frantic effort to escape it tried to climb up the wall.  Big mistake. Ted cut off his head with the shovel; however the snake didn't seem to know it.  He kept writhing and twitching,  his severed mouth snapping open and shut....for a couple of hours.  "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. " Genesis 3:15.

Thank you, dear Father for the many resources available to us, helping us stay rational in an irrational world.  ...and most of all,  thank you for your Word that draws us to your timeless promises that give us courage and wisdom in the midst of insanity.  Dear Lord, our nation so deserves your judgment. We have stood by as million of babies are being murdered. Your Holy Purpose in marriage is mocked and discarded as obsolete.  We have become conditioned to accept illicit sex.  We do not take up our Cross as our leaders are going to bed with those who claim to be peace-loving.  "Let no one deceive you with empty words for because of such things, God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient; therefore do not be partners with them. ...and do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them."

I am in the winter of my life. I do not know if it will be a short or a long winter and it matters less and less. You lead me every day to  bring love and encouragement to those you send. Thank you for the precious ones that are discovering YOU and are telling others that there is no other WAY, no other TRUTH, and no other LIFE except in YOU, our Lord Jesus Christ. Your TRUTH still marches on!

MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.
His TRUTH  is marching on.

I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel.
"As ye deal with my contenders, so with you my grace shall deal!"
Let the Hero, born of woman crush the serpent with His heel
Since God is marching on!

He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.
Oh, be swift, my soul to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on!

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free!
While God is marching on!

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty; He is Succor to the brave.
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on!

GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH!
GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH!
GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH!
OUR GOD IS MARCHING ON!

Love, Jo