- Robert Murray McCheyne
Socrates said, “Wisdom begins with wonder.” When will it occur to the human being, believers know this, the others do not matter, that we ALL stand before God completely naked. Naked are those homosexuals who have come out of the closet including President Obama. Naked are the politicians and their empty promises. Naked are the preachers who just hand out fig leaves. Precious is the thought that the blood of Jesus Christ covers those who believe on Him and His righteousness by grace, through faith is what God sees as He looks at those chosen to spend eternity with He and His son.
Each time I was in the Afghanistan and Pakistan regions, saw a camel train coming through Khyber Pass, the goat herders, the standing Buddhas at Banyan, in the mountainside, the British writer Rudyard Kipling’s words, there so many years ago, came to me, “Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right”. Do we actually think we are settling anything when grown men, far away from the action, like playing video games, from drones dropped bombs, drop bombs on people who do not understand anything about warfare. Ten years later, why are we there...considering the time, treasure, talent of our own forces to say nothing of the pitiful conditions left.
You are not supposed to photograph when you are at the immigration border of two countries. I had a very small camera hidden in my hand, photographed barefoot children on ice, parents carrying all of their belongings on sacks in their backs. These are the people we are bombing.
Your writer is a totally blind, 100% disabled, medical officer veteran of the Korean conflict. There was a time when warfare was objective, had compassion. The 126,000 buried, wrapped only in a flag, in many overseas cemeteries...those frozen bodies stacked like cord wood in Korea all believed in the integrity of America.
The earliest Christian missionaries to Africa landed on the Gold Coast (West Coast of Africa, Sierra Leone, etc.). Malaria fever was so epidemic, most lived a few days...often carried directly from the ship to the cemetery. Today, after years of scientific discovery, “wealth of nations”, three thousand still die of Malaria every day. Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood were not the first eugenicist (people who believe in limiting populations). Sanger called people of color, “weeds”. John D. Rockefeller and John Foster Dulles traveled the world pointing out how the poor and disenfranchised should be exterminated. Instead of spending their money to eradicate mosquitoes, give the 80% of the world's population who never have fresh water a better life, such billionaires as Bill Gates – Warren Buffet and others, through the sterility of GMO corn (corn the most used grain), through sterility genetic factors in corn, and other methods are trying to limit population growth.
Another blind human being, remarkable woman, writer of 3,000 hymns, Fanny Crosby wrote, “Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore; Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.”, Fanny Crosby, Rescue The Perishing.
Be careful that your heart does not become drowsy, dreary in the daily challenge of living in this depraved world. The simplicity of Christianity, God seeking, God finding. In the Garden of Eden, The first lie, “You will not surely die” (And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. Gen 3:4). Most relatives and people I know do not think they will ever die. The mortality rate is still 100%. You will need more than fig leaves for covering. Turn everything over to Jesus Christ...problems, sicknesses, disability, even blindness. Legalism in the Old Testament reduced God down to our size. Jesus, by grace through faith (faith is fact, not feeling) is the imputation of God in us, His armor (Eph 6) not fig leaves for our protection as we face life.
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