Favour of the LORD.

Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. ~ 2 Samuel 5:2

It occurs to me, since I’ve been born again, that when a people stop seeking God and listening to Him, He stops speaking to them…leaving them to His adversary. Welcome to the modern-day Pottersville; a lawless swamp of sin, greed, corruption, and vice because Harry Bailey was never born. Character is tested when you’re up against it. ~ Dick Vermeil

Well, my friends, you and I are up against it! A brother from the church I attend sent me this video from some guy named Jack entitled, America Just Surrendered, And There’s No Silver Lining. I simply responded, “The consequence we pay for not showing up,” to which he more simply responded, “True.” So, imagine that day that will come for each and every last one of us, when we will stand face to face with Him and the truth that, unlike Pottersville’s Harry Bailey who never was, you were here…and did nothing! Shame for all eternity. Try that on for size…

But the God who loves us even more than our own parents does not want that future for His children, so, as that day draws nigh He is providing us ALL with the Law of the Lid on this very day! In the very same week, He led me to raise the lid on my own feeling of worthiness to find the truth of Proverbs 18:22 and the love of my life…in the very same week He provided us with the polar juxtaposition of today’s Man in the Pulpit with yesteryear’s Man in the Arena:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

…and the true modern-day Cinderella story of Philadelphia Eagle Vince Papale (Invincible), who literally ripped up his “You’ll never amount to anything” lid to achieve a miraculous gridiron glory, to spark his team’s march to the Super Bowl. ALL of this in just one week. He loves US that much. The question remains, what are we WE prepared to DO about it?

It’s still the same old story, a fight for love and glory, a case of do or die…