Entertainment, fame, money, and pleasure

In America we have people throwing cash registers because their burgers weren't made right. In America we have people suing others because they were irresponsible for their own behavior or did not look out for their own children. In America criminals have rights and victims do not. In America if you work hard the government takes away your money to give it to those who don't want to work. In America lifestyle, status, money and possessions are more valuable than an unborn child. In America you can find a church on every corner, but God is nowhere to be found in them. We complain about everything and are thankful for nothing. We expect everything to be given to us and refuse to give anything to others. In America we have no moral code and blame the consequences for our sins on the prejudice of others.
While all this is going on human beings are being trafficked for the pleasures of men, children are being raped and murdered, young boys are being forced into becoming child soldiers, nations are starving, continents are being ravished by disease and America does nothing. And that is just in it's churches.
America has had its fun and soon the bill for it will come. What will we do when we can't pay it?

Interesting

"For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart." Ecc 5:20

While reading through the book of Ecclesiastes I found it quite depressing and negative. But in the midst found some very timely verses, one being the one above. The thought that I could not even think about what had, is, or will be happening in my life because God has filled my heart with so much gladness that is all I can think about. That is an incredible thought!

Just In Time - His Time

There are those times in your life when everything seems out of control and going the wrong way. In the midst of those times it is easy to forget that He is not only right there with you, but He also still has everything under control. That has happened to me the last few days. I knew He was in control but by outward environment was so crazy. Yet in the midst of it He sends me to the place He knows I need to go and speaks through people there the words I need to here. I love having a heavenly Father who loves me so much that he orchestrates everything for my best and to draw me to Him.

The So Great and The So Small

About a week ago I was in West Virginia looking for apartments. We drove through the mountains and were reminded how big our God really is. Semi's looked like toy cars next to these huge formations. The trees were gigantic making us feel like we had been shrunk down. All we could keep saying was wow. There just wasn't any other word. Then a song came on with these words, "Everything You hold in Your hand, yet you make time for me I can't understand." It seemed to put to words what we were feeling. I love it when pictures and songs come together to make something stick in your mind. It was something I will never forget. Thank you Father for the reminder of who You are and how much You love us.

My Spirit is Stirring

Just spent that last couple of hours reading George Muller of Bristol. My spirit is burning. I am going to share a little.

"Blessed are they who have thus learned to use the Key which gives free access, not only to the King's Treasurers, but to the King Himself!"

"And what revolutions in our own lives as believers might take place, if we should first put every notion of truth and custom of life to this one test of scripture authority, and then with the courage of conviction dare to do according to that word - counting no cost, but studying to show ourselves approved of God!"

"Experience confirmed them in the conviction that a life of trust forbids laying up treasures against unforeseen needs, since with God no emergency is unforeseen and no want unprovided for; and He may be as implicitly trusted for extraordinary needs as for our common daily bread."

"Unbelief makes God a liar and, worse still, a perjurer, for it accounts Him as not only false to His Word, but to His oath."