It's beautiful here today.
What a week it was, last. Our friends had a wedding, and since they are from out-of-town, we helped with many various tasks including the rehearsal dinner.
So much fun! Everyday was filled with joy and expectation, moving the bridal pair's belongings into the new apartment, celebrating, shopping, and ultimately the lovely, sweet, Christ-centered wedding.
It was July 4, too, but we hardly noticed.
Somehow, as this old land passed another Independence Day, I felt little elation regarding the holiday, and it wasn't for distractions.
As you know, my two oldest sons serve our country in the Army, and we are as conservative and patriotic as anyone. Yet I feel a sorrow, and a different expectancy this July.
What has happened to America? Land of the Free! Home of the Brave!
We have all turned to bondage and cowardice.
Our free speech is threatened. We are afraid to speak our minds, fearing firstly being labelled bigot or homophobe, but also fearing the specter of legal ramifications now possible with the new Supreme Court ruling.
Can I say that homosexuality is sin? Can I say that the world benefits from biological marriage, male/female, and suffers from any aberration?
Perversion. Abomination. Anathema.
Well, I'll say it, and I hope you do too.
We have seen a separation of the sheep from the goats over this single issue, and I think it truly is a brightening light for eternal implications.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the Creator, the One in charge. He makes the rules, He makes it all.
To go against Him is to rebel, and that is entirely human.
Those of us who cling to His salvation plan are entirely justified in our fears of rebellion against Him. We are concerned about obedience, pleasing Him, and living as light in this sin-sick world.
He chose us, we decided to follow Him, at all costs. Life, reputation, friendships, relationships.
There is this insidious confusion about what it really means to be a Christian in these last days.
I think that we have seen the true demarcation line after this latest political change.
Either you are IN or you are OUT.
Either you believe that God's Word is truth, or you don't.
Either you repent, or you live in your sinful human nature.
Choices.
We have seen people lose their heads for Christ in the past year. Their choice cost them their earthly lives.
The ruling powers that be are dead-set against Christ-followers. They are completely in the hands of the Imposter, Lucifer.
Now is the time to choose. Choose carefully.
God is patient. He is not willing that ANY should perish! He has provided a way to salvation----ONE way, Christ alone.
Let the sheep separate from the goats, and let it be suddenly clear who will follow the narrow path, through the straight gate, and into the courts of LOVE.
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
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