Power Steering

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

The will of God will not lead us where the grace of God will not keep us, where the power of God will not protect us. It is this writers experience that believers, certainly unbelievers, have no idea about the power of God. They cannot conceive that the "CARETAKER" of planets can have a direct relationship with them, that God has the very hairs on your head numbered (Luke 12:7)

No one must tell this writer that he is an old man, I feel every day of my age (84). Generation X, about to retire, and certainly the Millennial Generation (18-34) know nothing about vehicles before power steering, running boards, the time when there were no heaters or radios in cars. My first new Chevrolet, 1952, did not have a heater or radio (this new car cost $2000, money I had made selling bibles door to door during the summer. The price of the car was over and above the money it cost me to go to school that year at UNC-Chapel Hill. I understand now that it costs $25,000 a school year for a NC resident and $50,000 a year for an out of state resident. When I was a student at UNC-CH and U.T. for eight years becoming a Doctor, there was no such thing as grants or financial aid of any type. I was on my own.) My first car, 1941 Plymouth, used, cost $85. It did not have power steering, nor did any cars, trucks, tractors at that time. Just imagine driving a long distance truck, or plowing in a field all day with a tractor without power steering. Yet, these hard working, God-fearing, tax paying ancestors of ours, consider themselves very blessed because those working hard before them were mostly working with horses and mules... the farmers, laborers of a hundred years ago, not that long, knew the bloody sweat of toil-hard work.

This writers ancestors, even this writer, born on a dirt road without power, phone, or water lines, like my ancestors before me, knew without any doubt that our hands and feet were involved on Earth but our hearts were in Heaven. Our citizenship was in Heaven, we were just passing through (Philippians 3:20). But we were ambassadors here, chosen by God to make a good impression on others. "But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;" (1 Peter 2:9) We were not to act like unbelievers, we were not taught to talk, dress, behave like unbelievers. We knew from where our power came. 

"You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." (1 John 4:4)

As a field grade Army Officer, I was on a need to know basis. God has ALL of us on a need to know basis, he even keeps silent about many things. Unbelievers, if jumping off the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building, just before hitting the bottom, would say, "So far so good." Where are those in congress, those on campuses, those in communities, who have the intelligence to see how fast we are falling. Microscopic disease organisms were not created along with the invention of van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, they were already there. Far flung planets in space were not created with Galileo's telescope, they were already there. The power of God is revealed to us as he chooses. My ancestors never could have believed that children would be walking around talking into a small phone in their hand or taking photographs with the same instrument. BUT, just as there was violence in the world with people, from their creation, the first two children Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel. A virus, like violence, has always been here, cannot be kept in a box. Just the power of a virus, just the atrocities of violence are now experienced. God is talking about his power but men are not listening. Think of the power of the fifty mile wide volcano in Yellowstone National Park, ready to erupt, ashes that could block out growing seasons for years. Or as in past history, the ash from the volcanoes in Iceland, blocking out growing seasons and starving Europe. 

In recent history, we talk about bubbles, the Y2K panic, the dotcom-stock market recession, the housing disaster and now the next great bubble attempt to eliminate the Christian Church. Iraq, where thousands of Muslims have killed one another, now an attempt is being made to kill the Christians there. Two Catholic Diocese along with their bishops have disappeared in the past year. We are experiencing a time unlike any in history and yet the state-secular-frothing media pretends not to notice. Even Christian leaders, around the world, so good at pretention are too busy with their modernistic-Madison Avenue theology to pay any attention to the mocking of the church, the bride of our Blessed Lord. 

When Jesus walked the Earth, 1/3 of the Roman population were slaves. We have more slavery and abortion today than at any time in history... the killing and treachery to God's greatest creation, humankind. Just think, man, created in the image of God, possessing the power to communicate directly with God. Just think, man, redeemed by the power of God, to have a relationship with him because of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. With all the accomplishments of mankind, there is nothing within the belief system of Man to compare with the power of prayer.

For Christmas one year, a small girl got a miniature village in which there were schools, churches, houses, libraries, hospitals, she said, "This is a Christian town." Have you ever considered what a Heathen Town would be like, a town that has never experienced the power of God. No schools, hospitals, libraries, churches, homes for orphans or old people. There are two things the Atheist, the heathen, cannot understand or put in their town... the vastness of the Universe and the innateness of Man although conceived in sin, to know right from wrong and allow good to overcome evil. The power of God can power steer Man to a relationship with God.