If the Cross is not foundational to what you’re selling, I ain’t buying!
“and through that Cross every member of the human race can be reinstated in God’s favor and enter into a conscious inheritance of the atonement.” ~ Oswald Chambers, The Reorganizing of Humanity
It hurts worse than any pain I’ve ever experienced to watch people you love walk away from the One who came into this world to save them. Good people, loving people, intelligent people, embracing the world and all it has to offer, missing Him again, lunging head-first towards the more tangible lure of man’s own self-enlightenment…even as the world we knew is crumbling all around us. Same as it ever was…
From the weeping prophet…
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me saith the LORD. ~ Jeremiah 9:1-3
We flail away year after year in stubborn fleshy fields of failure, up against the powerful strongholds of spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12). Why? Oswald answers: The things that are obscure to the natural man become clear to the mind that sets itself on the things above.
We may consume all the libraries of the world and what will we have to show but a puffed-up future dust pile? An entire lifetime of learning how to escape an illusion, while building the walls of our eternal prison. He warned us, Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth (Col. 3:2). Did we listen? No, which is why the Devil’s not afraid of a dust-covered Bible. Ruckman’s commentary on Proverbs 27:7 The verse is comparing a man who has all he wants in this life, having no use for the words of God (Psa. 119:103), and a man hungering and thirsting for the words of God so much that he’ll even take them when they are bitter (Matt. 5:6). It seems clear to me that we are nowhere near hungry or thirsty enough…yet.
What made the difference between the bloodbath disaster of the French Revolution, and a rag-tag band of colonial farmers defeating the mightiest army on earth at the time, during the American Revolution? God. I put up a Psalm (heart) and Proverb (wisdom) a Day because it helps us to feel what God feels, and know what God thinks, and I recently listened to a man who claims to have read all the books on all the religions who could not name the four Gospel writers! How in the world can we expect mercy from a God we have so little knowledge of, and have so clearly turned away from? A wonderful Catholic patriot I know sent out a mass email last week demanding the arrests we’ve all been waiting for. I get it, we are all feeling it. BUT, from God’s perspective, do we deserve justice??? If we don’t know His Word, then we can’t hope to know God. But, if we know the 2 Chronicles 19 story of King Jehoshaphat, then we are more able to understand what it takes to obtain God’s mercy and blessings. The same is true of the Judges 7 story of Gideon’s 300, the Joshua 6 walls of Jericho, and the book of Esther, for such a time as this. …oh, I could go on. Pride goeth before destruction (Proverbs 16:18). God’s Word, not mine.
They say people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. No one on this earth is smart, clever, convincing, or charming enough to separate me from the fact that NO ONE has or ever will care more for and about me than the One who gave Himself for me (Gal. 2:20). Choose wisely and consciously my friend. YOUR inheritance is at stake!
NOTE: This morning’s Tune-up is dedicated to my dear friend and brother Richard Orlandi who is facing a very serious health challenge, in fact, the greatest battle of his life. But he is the greatest fighter I know, and with God, and our prayers, ALL things are possible! Amen?
Standupnsing 
What God feels according to Eze 9 & 22 is utter outrage and disdain for the prophets, priests, princes and people who have created high places where children are slaughtered and there are no intercessors. Weâre called to stand in the gap and against the crooked politicians and religious scammers. Abraham and Moses interceded on behalf of the remnant. If there are 330,000 interceding in America (.1% of 10,000 in Sodom) He will spare us from His fury. Eze 22:31. Whereâs todayâs Elijah who will line up the 450 prophets of Baal and execute them? 1 Ki 18:40
Praying for Richard. But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed. Isa 53:5
Thanks,
Woody Kaye
Thank you, Brother Chip. There are millions of men and women who are “lunging” towards the kingdom of darkness, lured by the false promise of “happiness.” This translates into some kind of carnal pleasure, some activity which defies the laws of God, the laws of Judeo-Christian society, and the responsibility of men and women. They have been overwhelmed in the senses by the media, by the internet, by the advertising industry and they run headlong to the cliff over which they will fall to their doom. The true Christian now has to separate himself from the herd, from the weak-minded fools who have abandoned the eternal for the ephemeral.
To be saved today we have to be able to stand alone, and God loves those who do. One man and God make a majority, and those who stand with God are rewarded with the company of God-fearing comrades-in-Christ.
History shows, time and time again, that “the Few” who fight for the truth always prevail.
God bless all,
Sir Eric M