Evening Meditation 2-28-18

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Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother’s children;
Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. Psalm 69:6-9

Have you ever borne reproach for God? How did it affect you?

Faithful Fridays 2-23-18

This is how I feel today about our nation. Nothing…no legislation…no amount of psychotherapy or cultural reconditioning… no medical advance or  government sponsored sensitivity training…no amount of money or  government directed community building will avail any amount of substantive change until we turn to God.

I know there are those who disagree with my assessment, those who think we can and even must do it without God. In the end He will be acknowledged as the root of all wisdom, righteousness and peace (“Unless I’m wrong….which you know…I’m not”, to borrow a phrase from Monk). Only by going to God can the center of our nation’s breakdown be addressed.