"If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Psalm 11:3, Amplified Bible)
What if there is a powerlessness in the world that the hype-preachers don't want to face? What if Marty McFly's philosophy, "You know, George, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything," a philosophy which is still bantered about today, and nothing but "blowing smoke?" No matter how much "mind" one "put[s]...to it," there are certain things which neither man nor woman can do, "Super Girl," notwithstanding. There is this increasing pride in humanity that "with us all things are possible."
I don't think it chance that my Psalms reading today took me to Psalm 11:3. America in the early 1960s began the state sponsored rejection of Jesus Christ, His Words, His Church, His Kingdom Reign. America has been crumbling ever since. "What can an honest person do when everything crumbles?" (CEV) I have shared on our text before, but in light of the steady decline of the American Nation, it bears repeating. Elliot tells us, "The order of the Hebrew words seems to support this rending, 'While morality has been overthrown, the righteous what has he done?' A suggested emendation, involving but a slight change in the Hebrew letters, would produce, however, a far better sense: 'If the foundations be destroyed, what will become of the tower, or superstructure?'" The Cambridge Bible says, "....the form of the question in the original seems to be intended to exclude the possibility of an encouraging answer. But the verse should probably be rendered, 'For the foundations are being overthrown; what has the righteous wrought (worked)?'"-- viz., "put together, created." Another source says, "the righteous ('a collective', Church?) had done and could do nothing to prevent it."
The Church in America is still praying, worshipping, interceding, declaring, waving flags, preaching, attempting to prop up its sagging financial resources by manipulating the "sowing-reaping" principle (a new "indulgences"?), and still the nation descends further and further into anarchy. Recent presidential elections, as well as the coming one, are revealing a culture which has rejected Jesus Christ and His Words and has embraced charismatic, humanist, Christ-rejecting people who are leading the USA into the "fall" stage, as in "The Rise and Fall of...." This is not give-up-itis. I encourage you to meditate on, "What has the righteous wrought?" I am doing at least some of what I can, praying, writing, attempting to proclaim Jesus Christ, Savior, Lord/King, Ruler and Sustainer of the Universe, the only, "Word of God."
I continue to pray, and my prayers are more and more of the, "Thy Kingdom come. They will be done," order, and mostly, "in the spirit," by, through and in the Holy Spirit, that's right, "in other tongues." I have not other "answers"------------------ and neither do you-------- nor anyone else. May you walk today in the mighty Baptism in the Holy Spirit!
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray that you can be my and the Church's, "What has the righteous wrought?"
What if there is a powerlessness in the world that the hype-preachers don't want to face? What if Marty McFly's philosophy, "You know, George, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything," a philosophy which is still bantered about today, and nothing but "blowing smoke?" No matter how much "mind" one "put[s]...to it," there are certain things which neither man nor woman can do, "Super Girl," notwithstanding. There is this increasing pride in humanity that "with us all things are possible."
I don't think it chance that my Psalms reading today took me to Psalm 11:3. America in the early 1960s began the state sponsored rejection of Jesus Christ, His Words, His Church, His Kingdom Reign. America has been crumbling ever since. "What can an honest person do when everything crumbles?" (CEV) I have shared on our text before, but in light of the steady decline of the American Nation, it bears repeating. Elliot tells us, "The order of the Hebrew words seems to support this rending, 'While morality has been overthrown, the righteous what has he done?' A suggested emendation, involving but a slight change in the Hebrew letters, would produce, however, a far better sense: 'If the foundations be destroyed, what will become of the tower, or superstructure?'" The Cambridge Bible says, "....the form of the question in the original seems to be intended to exclude the possibility of an encouraging answer. But the verse should probably be rendered, 'For the foundations are being overthrown; what has the righteous wrought (worked)?'"-- viz., "put together, created." Another source says, "the righteous ('a collective', Church?) had done and could do nothing to prevent it."
The Church in America is still praying, worshipping, interceding, declaring, waving flags, preaching, attempting to prop up its sagging financial resources by manipulating the "sowing-reaping" principle (a new "indulgences"?), and still the nation descends further and further into anarchy. Recent presidential elections, as well as the coming one, are revealing a culture which has rejected Jesus Christ and His Words and has embraced charismatic, humanist, Christ-rejecting people who are leading the USA into the "fall" stage, as in "The Rise and Fall of...." This is not give-up-itis. I encourage you to meditate on, "What has the righteous wrought?" I am doing at least some of what I can, praying, writing, attempting to proclaim Jesus Christ, Savior, Lord/King, Ruler and Sustainer of the Universe, the only, "Word of God."
I continue to pray, and my prayers are more and more of the, "Thy Kingdom come. They will be done," order, and mostly, "in the spirit," by, through and in the Holy Spirit, that's right, "in other tongues." I have not other "answers"------------------ and neither do you-------- nor anyone else. May you walk today in the mighty Baptism in the Holy Spirit!
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray that you can be my and the Church's, "What has the righteous wrought?"
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "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.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
