Unction

Pity the person who does not recognize God's perfect plan for the universe...all history revolves around His plan, His unction, anointing, investiture of people and places to do His will. Unbelievers cannot understand, Commandments are given to believers, those who will obey, those of the world think they know best, only believers seek to do His will.

Life is serious, hellfire is a serious thought, the downfall of man is pride, the beginning of every sin. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (John 15:16) We, believers, know that we were chosen before the very foundation of the world for our time in history.

Handel completed his Messiah in 1741, just 24 days after he started writing the oratorio. During this time, he saw no one, refused to eat. The first time presented in 1742, the entire audience rose as one in ovation. Showing God's unction on just one man, the composer of the world's greatest score.

Today, the world is torn between two religious philosophies, found in the Koran and God's Holy Word. Firstly, Muslims do not believe that man was made in the image of God. Secondly, in the Koran, there is no original sin. In the Bible, the plan of salvation begins in the garden with original sin, Islam has no salvation history. Thirdly, Allah named the animals. Islam does not recognize the divinity of Christ, the incarnation, the ascension, although Mary, mother of Christ, is one of the most admired women in the Koran, along with Mohammad's daughter. Mohammad is anti-Christ because he did not believe in the divinity of Christ...coming on the scene late, around 570 AD.

Studying Islam, you find that they do believe in charity, caring for orphans (Mohammad was an orphan). No abortion in Islam, and Muslims do believe in a healthy lifestyle, no drinking of alcohol, no smoking of tobacco, strict diet, leaving off pork and other harmful foods, they like most thinking Christians, consider it a joke that junk food is served in hospitals. Intelligent people know that it takes nutrition for healing.

During the golden time of Islam, much was contributed to mankind, particularly in areas of mathematics and optics. As an eye doctor, I find it unusual that both Jews and Muslims are attracted to the professions of optometry and ophthalmology. When Bashar al-Assad's father died, and he was to assume the throne as president of Syria, he was a ophthalmology resident at a London hospital.

Today, 85% of Muslims are Sunnis, the conflict between the Sunnis and Shi'ahs in the 40 Muslim countries has kept them so busy with their interracial clashes (Muslims do not mind killing one another), that there has not been a wider conflict against Israel and the Western world. They are winning the world simply by numbers, large families and moving across borders.

For many in the world, it is the Jesus of history, Christ of faith, and these same people do not know if Mohammad was manufactured by the Muslims, or Mohammad, the first leader of Muslims.

The Judeo-Christian faith system knows that God gave a very direct plan, a strict economy of faith. If the Sabbaths of faith had been kept, such as leaving land fallow the seventh year, for the entire year, the insect problem, fertilization problem, and many other social problems would be solved. The Law in Leviticus instructs us about the forgiving of debts (Leviticus 23-25), giving as the supreme act of worship.

The worship of giving: tithes, offerings, the predominate teaching of the Old Testament, the tithe is the Lord's whether you give it or not. Giving should always be sacrificial, as David said, would one give to God something which cost him nothing? Think of the famine, a widow picking up sticks to cook one final meal for she and her son before death. Elijah told her to prepare him a meal first, and she did. (Mark 12) This showed her sacrificial faith, just as the poor widow, as Jesus watched, threw in all she had. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving, and you cannot out give God.

The greatest unction of your life is giving in spite of everything, knowing that God is more than able to provide for everything. How many Christians have asked God to bless their appliances, their vehicles, their crops, their gardens, all the things which He controls in order that they might show their commitment to him to through their gifts? This is the reason that the unemployed, those on social security, those who are disabled, know without one doubt that their greatest unction is in the provisions of God's economy.

George Muller, evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England, where he cared for 10,000 orphans, depended entirely on God's unction through the giving of others. Often, there would be no food at the orphanage, in prayer, they would wait for the food to arrive. Each year, I give an honorarium in memory of Reverend James. A. Evans, a Free Will Baptist preacher for 75 years. He told me, that as superintendent of the Free Will Baptist orphanage, he cared for 80 children on a budget of $10,000 a year. I well remember my own mother going from house to house in the community collecting canned goods, clothing, even hog and cow feeds for that orphanage and its farm.

God has taught all of us, certainly this blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran to walk by faith, not sight. He just requires us to trust Him, and He will do the rest. (Proverbs 3:6)