Only One Cure For National and Personal Woes: "Kiss The Son"

"Why do the nations rage,...plot.., [and] set themselves...against the LORD and against His Anointed...[Jesus]?"  (From Psalm 2)

Mao Tse-tung once said something to the affect, "We will bend heaven's will and make it our own."  He's dead---------- so is communism.  Nations have been raging and people have been plotting since the Garden.  Kings, "set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together," but where has it gotten them?  Rome, often referred to as the world's greatest empire, lasted only a thousand years.  Hitler tried to duplicate it, but, alas, only made it 12 years. 

But man won't stop empire building, whether it is nations, businesses, or churches.  Take stock: America is one of the shortest lived "empires" in world history; last year revealed global business as, "like the chaff which the wind drives away;" and as for church empires? ---just look around.

Psalm 2 reveals how amusing, though heartbreaking I'm sure, is man's grand schemes and plotting to the Blessed Trinity.  "He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision."  The word for, "derision," implies that Father, God will keep them in a state of stammering confusion, wandering about, helpless and hopeless.  He simply will not allow mankind to prosper without Him.  Indeed, mankind cannot.  Remember yesterday's text---- It is only the one, "who walks-- stands-- sits," and, "meditates day and night," in the Words of God, "whose leaf...shall not wither"---------------- "God is not mocked."

Today is another opportunity to choose what and whom will dominate our walking, standing, and sitting meditation.  If it is anyone or anything other than the Lord Jesus Christ, Word of God, and His Words, there is no future but, "the ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away."  Please make no mistake about it--- this is true of both men and nations!  But, if a person or nation digs deep and lays a foundation in Jesus Christ and His Words------------- their, "leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper."  If men and nations will, "Be instructed,.. serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling," if they will but, "Kiss the Son, [Jesus]," they will in no way, "perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.  They will be indeed, "blessed...(individuals and nations) who put their trust in Him."

Father, in Jesus' Name, I want to be, "a green olive tree in [Your] house; I trust in [Your] mercy...forever and ever."  Amen.
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When Peter Torjesen, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

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Hebrews 12:2