Meditations

I n the wake of the mass killing of innocent victims at the club in Orlando, Florida; this event should have awaken us to the fact that this act of terror can happen anytime and anywhere.  There was the incident last year at the church in South Carolina.  This too was an act of terror.  We should consider that we are no longer safe from terrorism.   In this awareness, how are we to live our lives?  Are we ready to meet our Lord with open arms?  God forbid any of us should fall victim to this type of crime. None of us knows the date and time we will leave this earth whether by our passing or via our Savior’s coming.  Therefore we are to live in a state of readiness.  Luke12: 39, 40 reads:  But know this that if the Master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.  Verse 40:  Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour yo...

Do you believe God?  or do you believe in God.  There is a difference. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.  Romans 4:3  Abraham believed God when He told him his seed will be as numerous as the stars in the heavens.  God justified Abraham because he believed.  It is God who justifies, who makes us righteous.  Romans 3:27 Do you believe in God?  Are you working for your salvation?  Those who work for their salvation are really working to pay off a debt.  A debt they can never live long enough to repay.  Therefore, their work is hopeless.  Their works are all done in sin.  Sin cannot redeem you from sin.  When you think you are finished working you will be still a sinner.  Isaiah 64:6 says:  "But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;....."  Romans 4:4 states:  "Now to him who works, the ...

Where can I flee from Your presence?” asked David concerning the Lord.  As I was praying a few days ago after I had awoken from sleep.  I thanked the Lord for watching over us during the night.   The Holy Spirit whispered to me, that we were in God’s presence.  In other words, while I was sleeping I was in God’s presence.  WOW!!!  David said, “If I ascend into heaven, You are there;  If I make my bed in hell, …. You are there.”  David said if he lived in the uttermost part of the sea, God would be there.  There is no place in the universe that we can go and be removed from God’s presence.   Even in the darkness God sees us.  His eyes are as a flame of fire.  Darkness and the light are both alike to God.  I knew God was watching over us while we slept.  In my mind, God was in heaven and I was in my bed on the earth.  To know that I am sleeping in God’s presence is profound to me.  This mean...

O Lord, hear!  O Lord, forgive!  O Lord, listen and act!  Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your Name.  Daniel 9: 19  Daniel through his studies saw that God would complete seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem, so Daniel decided to pray. Daniel chapter 9 Today we see the decline of our society in everything that is God’s, and we come to pray.  God knows what we are going to pray.  While the word is on our tongue God knows.  God does not have to wait until we are finished praying to act or to respond.  At the beginning of Daniel’s prayer God sent forth his command. “At the beginning of your supplications, the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved;  therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:”  Gabriel told Daniel Verses 21-23  God answered Daniel’s prayer by showing him His plan – what would take place in...

God appoints the leadership in every country, island, state and jurisdiction in the earth.  Are these leaders Christian conservatives?  Look around the globe and answer the question for yourself.  Whoever is in leadership positions around the world is there because God allowed it.   God places people in leadership according to His Will and His purposes.    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, in his dream in Daniel Chapter 4, was told by the watchers in the dream, “in order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men. ”   Daniel reiterates the same truth in verses 25 and 32.  God is in control in the earth.   In verse 31, the voice was heard from heaven “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken the kingdom has departed from you!  Verse 32:  …… “until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it t...

Psalms 93:1:  The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;  The Lord is clothed, He has girded Himself  with strength.  …… Our Lord God is clothed with majesty.  When I think of majesty, my thoughts take me to one of the portraits of the Queen of England – Queen Elizabeth II.  In the portrait that I am seeing in my mind, the Queen is sitting in her royal robe with a blue band diagonally across her chest and a crown of jewels on her head.  She definitely looks like royalty.   The verse in Psalms 93 tells us, God is clothed with majesty.  He is the majestic One.  His majesty is like no other.  I cannot begin to imagine how majestic God is.  Psalm 29:4 says His voice is full of majesty.  When the Queen of England speaks, her voice sounds dignified and proper with her British accent which adds to the dignity of her tone.  God’s voice is as the sound of many waters.  Isaiah saw the Lord sitting on a thro...

In the Gospel according to Matthew chapter 28, Matthew gave his account of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.   He said, the first day after the Sabbath – the Sabbath after Jesus’ crucifixion -  at the dawning of the day,  Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb where Jesus laid.  Instead they saw an angel, who said to them, “He is not here;  for He is risen as He said.”  “Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”    “And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, …..”  As they were going Jesus met them on the road.  They fell at His feet and worshipped Him. V9. In the Gospel according to Mark chapter 16, Mark adds that the women had brought spices to anoint Jesus’ body.  Mark repeats the same message given by the angel.  “He is risen!”  “He is not here.”  “See the place where they laid him.”  In the Gospel according to Luke chapter 24,...