The Coronavirus continues to influence our nation and guidelines continue to be revisited in an effort to slow this virus down. To say this is all a wearisome (tiresome, frustrating, dreary, trying) environment would be a great understatement. As a pastor I am left to ponder what will be the long term outcome in relations to church ministry. Some of our sister churches will begin this week opening their services to attendees and their pastors are concerned about how many will attend. I assure you that pastors are praying for the Lord to give them patience, and understanding, during this time of health concerns. We all want our sheep to be healthy and safe.
Dealing with the health issues is wearisome but having to also deal with so much unrest in our nation is another very tiresome situation. I am sure you would join me in praying for our society to have civility (respect, politeness, consideration) between one another. Civility is a big challenge for man because our sinful nature is fundamentally selfish (egotistic, self-seeking, self-centered). When law is ignored man by nature will seek his own way with total disregard for others. If there are no laws, and each man goes his own way, the end result will be anarchy and destruction. “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Prov. 16:18. “There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Prov. 16:25.
This weekend America is celebrating 244 years as a Republic which is the opposite of a ‘Monarchy’. Our Republic is identified as a state, a nation, of democracy which means; ‘equality’, ‘fairness’, ‘classlessness’ for all. It also means that we are a nation governed by a representative form of government, not anarchy. For any society to succeed there must be governing laws that must be observed, for the well-being of the society as a whole. We all should remember the words of our forefathers when they declared that we are “One Nation Under God”.
A verse in the Bible that described the coming days of judgment for the nation of Israel is found at the close of the book of Judges. It represents a time when Israel wanted to have an earthly king to rule over them rather that to recognize Jehovah God’s laws and ways. “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Our Republic, our democracy, is all at risk if there is not a spiritual awakening to the only true, and living, Lord God Jehovah. The enemy that will destroy us lies within each of us. If America falls it will fall from within!
SEE YOU SOON- BRO. ED