Today I read Deuteronomy 29 where the Israelites promise God that they will obey His commandments and that they will not forsake Him for strange gods. God reminds them of all He has done for them during their sojourn in the wilderness. How their children's clothes did not wear out, how their shoes did not wear out and how they ate manna for forty years, never going hungry. The Lord took care of them the entire time they were wandering in the wilderness.
The Lord promises destruction on them like Sodom and Gomorrah if they do not adhere to the covenant. This may seem a little harsh at first, but when you consider what all the Lord has done for them, I can't really blame God for demanding obedience from His people. He demands the same from us today. The scriptures teach us that when we obey God He will bless us, but when we don't obey Him, we have no promise of blessings. Now, God does not promise us cursings or destruction for each infraction, but the scriptures have made it very clear that those who live on the American continent will serve Him or be destroyed.
We all have our choices to make in this life. But the most important one by far is whether we will serve God or not. That choice above all others will have the greatest impact on our lives throughout the eternities. When we make the choice to serve God, all other choices seem to fall into place. When we left Him guide us and give us direction, we will never go wrong. Make the choice to serve God and never look back. That's my advice. Until tomorrow.
(Howdy, Fred. Saw these quotes on the web. Enjoy.)
ReplyDeleteDANGEROUS RADICALS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT !
by Dave MacPherson
[quotes are from Vital Quotations by Emerson West]
ROBERT E. LEE: "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." (p. 21)
DANIEL WEBSTER: "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper." (p. 21)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: "I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year." (p. 22)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this book." (p. 22)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." (p. 22)
HORACE GREELEY: "It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people." (p. 23)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by himself to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to man. I adhere to the principles of the first age; and consider all subsequent innovations as corruptions of this religion, having no foundation in what came from him." (p. 45)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would by now have become Christian." (p. 47)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see." (p.49)
WOODROW WILSON: "The sum of the whole matter is this----that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can only be saved by becoming permeated with the spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit." (p. 143)
PATRICK HENRY: "There is a just God who presides over the destiny of nations." (p. 145)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." (p. 225)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus." (p. 237)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it." (p. 283)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped." (p. 301)
CALVIN COOLIDGE: "The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions." (p. 305)
GEORGE WASHINGTON: "The perpetuity of this nation depends upon the religious education of the young." (p. 306)
Prior to our increasingly "Hell-Bound and Happy" era, America's greatest leaders were part of the (gulp) Religious Right! Today we have forgotten God's threat (to abort America) in Psa. 50:22----"Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver."