Sin And Evil Destroying America

Our nation was once a God-fearing nation. Americans believe in honesty, justice, and freedom of speech for all. We realized that an order for America to succeed, we all needed to stand together.

Today’s world it seems as if we no longer have the desire to work with one another, no matter what happens. There are those who only believe in looking out for themselves, and letting everyone else do the same is this the way we want to lives our lives, and serve our country? I would hope that you would rather become the best person you can be, and stand up against sin and evil.

In my heart, I know that there are still a lot of good people out there who continue to work hard for our country. When changes are needed, they still stand hall and see that they come about. There are also those who don’t care one way or the other.

Evil is out there in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Don’t give into it. If you do, the newer, committing a sin. Think of it this way. Sin is the devils way of controlling your mind, your body, and the most of all your soul. To keep this from happening to you, turn to the one who always have your back – and that’s God. In the Bible, it tells us that all things are possible with God. I know this is true, because if I didn’t have him in my life, I would totally be lost.

Our country is slowly losing its ability to do what is needed to protect people and defend our country. Some feel that if something doesn’t concern, then then why get involved. News Alert! Everything that goes on in America affect us, and everyone needs to get involved. Sin and evil are gradually destroying our country along with its people.

Let’s start at the very top. Our leaders and top government officials have not been living up to their promises. What they stated in their campaign promises, and swore who live app was just a lie. Don’t they realize if you break their word by lying it is a sin. There’s no other way to put it. They promised to make good decisions that would keep our country safe but instead they’re decisions have only hurt America and its people. Our leader should realize that it only takes one wrong decision, and our country fails. Saying one thing, and doing another is nothing but a lie. No matter which way you look at it, lying is a sin, and with it comes a lot of evil. America wouldn’t be going through everything that it is going through if our leaders had stood tall and did what was right for America. Take, for instance, a pipeline that was shut down, causing a lot of Americans to be out of work and our economy to decline. There are all kinds of trouble are our borders, causing chaos and destruction. Now there’s a war going on between Russia, the United States and Ukraine. Oh, let’s not leave our China. There are too many problems and not a lot of know-how to fix them.

As Americans, we always have wanted to see our country succeed. As Americans, we have only two choices. We continue to live in sin and evil in our lives or we do the right thing, and bring God back to America and serve him. We have lived long enough to know that sin and evil destroys everything and everyone it touches. I’ve kept God out of our life and our decisions for too long.

It’s time to hold on to a strong faith, hope, and love and believe in Him. I don’t worry about failing and with Him in our country in our country we don’t have to worry about failing. Other countries will come back and be our allies. God is the only one that can bring all countries back to the place they need to be. Fear will be the thing of the past. Peace will be our future, and God will be our Lord and Savior again.

I know my little pulse is a little late, but one I felt the need to write.

Stand up and fight for America, and see that it doesn’t fall into sin and evil.

4 Signs Of The End Times

When we read the headlines, it’s not hard to see our world is on a downward slide. Political tensions are rising, natural disasters, and diseases are Escalating. More and more professed believers seem to falling away from the faith in God. It has caused many people to wonder if these events are part of biblical prophecy.

I can tell you with certainty that we are closer to the Rapture and the Tribulation than ever before. Even as the world hurtles toward earth’s Last Days, we can alway find hope in God’s Word.

The Sign Of Deceit:

We can see many people being deceived today. Galatians tells us that “we reap what we sow. The one who sows to his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

The Sign Of Nation Against Nation:

We can see nations rising against nations. Matthew 24: 7-8 says “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there will be famines (food in short supply), and pestilence (disease ), and earthquake, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

The Sign of Devastation:

Along with the deception and disputes the Last Days, there will be Devastation. We live in a day when we can scarcely turn on the television without seeing someone trying to raise money to feed the hungry. Even though God has blessed us with a fruitful abundant planet, millions of people in the world has food insecurity and scarcity.

Since Covid, there has been a global awareness of our vulnerability to novel diseases but it isn’t the only our outbreak in our world today. It’s everywhere.

We are also seeing an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, major snowstorms, flooding, and earthquakes shake the world about once a month while from 1900 – 1969, there were roughly six major earthquakes every 10 years. All of these devastating trends are signs the point to the imminent return of Christ.

The Sign of Deliverance into Tribulation

In the Last Days, there will be an explosion of antagonism toward God’s people. People will want nothing to do with God, they will want to cast all belief away from them. Matthew 24:9 says, “Then they will deliver you up the tribulation and kill you, you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. We are already seeing evidence of this today. Headlines carry stories about Christian business owners who are expected to set aside their beliefs in support of secular progressive ideals. Or the education system is teaching racism, and hate and that’s in okay for children to become cats, or change their gender at will. Everywhere we look, Belief in God is under attack.

As the tribulation approaches, many will pay a high price for living their faith in our world. But the alternative is much worse.

Here are a few more Scriptures to read:

  • Matthew 24:4
  • 2 Timothy 3: 1–3
  • Romans 1: 1-32
  • Isaiah 5 :20

3 Things The Psalms Teach About Emotional Health

The Psalms are a treasure-trove of spiritual delight. In fact, many memorable worship songs are drawn form this part of the Bible,

Reliance on the psalms occurs in more traditional, or liturgical, churches. Congregations may pray from Psalm 95, or Psalm 100 as part of their regular rhythm of prayer. Today some churches pray the entire book of Psalms monthly or daily. The beauty of the Psalms is that it teaches about a full range of human emotions.

From rejoicing to sadness, from frustration to deep anger, the Psalms give voice to deep emotions of human life. But this makes for some hard verses to read. Who doesn’t cringe at the thought of heads being dashed against stones, or hiding in a cave in fear of your own son? Yet even these difficult verses are instructive- we find that the Psalms depict just what it means to communicate our raw, sometimes ugly emotions to the Lord.

In this way, reading through the Psalms or better yet praying the Psalms) has a lot to teach us about our emotional health. I used to think the book of Psalms was all about a bunch of poetry. But, thanks to my Pastor who taught me these scriptures help to uncover how to be faithful when are filled with our negative or ugly emotions.

There are three main lessons the Psalms teach about emotional health.

It’s Okay To Struggle

You can’t get too far into the Psalms without noticing that they are rarely written and places of ease and comfort. In fact, the very second Psalm tells us about nations that conspire and people that plot in vain.

Many of the Psalms Articulate the personal struggle of David. The struggle could be because of the presence of an enemy, the schemes of the wicked, or general sorrow over personal sin. Whatever the reason, the Psalms give voice to how we fee, when things are not right in our lives.

Look at this example from Psalm 77:

I cried aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me. In the day of my trouble, I seek the Lord. In the night, my hand is stretched out without wearing. My soul refuses to be comforted. I’ll think of God and I moan, I meditate in my spirit faints

Psalm 77:1-3

While we may not know exactly what the situation is at hand, these verses voice to someone who is struggling in their life. Further on David articulate questions, That arise from such struggling. Questions like: Well, the Lord’s spurn forever, and never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love ceased forever? Has he forgotten to be gracious?

Who has not, from time to time, asked such questions? Who have not been thrust into an uphill battle and found your faith stretched and their patients wearing thin?

It’s a mistake you believe that faithfulness to God means we always have pleasant and easy lives. Worse yet is the belief that only the weak in faith go through times of struggle, The song present to us, In the vibrant fashion, the biblical truth, that even the strongest in faith struggle at times. Struggling against some hardship, an enemy, or even against our own human. Failing, doesn’t indicate a weakness in faith, struggling as part of life, and of faith.

It’s Okay To Feel

Did you ever have a Bible that included a list of where to turn on feeling a certain way? whether one felt angry or sad, confused, or frustrated, the list pointed to an appropriate verse for divine comfort. Most of the scripture suggested in these words are either a reminder of God’s promises, or a call to perseverance. While this is valuable, in some regards, It could lead us to the assumption that the faithful response to the negative emotions is push past them.

Imagine you are feeling angry. Acknowledging your anger, you turn to the previously mentioned list in the back of your Bible, searching for an appropriate scripture. undoubtably, this suggestion will be along the lines of Ephesians 4:26: “ in your anger, do not sin, don’t let the sun go down on your anger.” Or perhaps it could point to James 1:20: “ For

your anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” A passage from the Psalms likely, would not be mentioned.

The point is, such lists of what you read when you are angry rarely give voice to the anger you’re feeling.

Too often they point to the verses that speak to how anger is contrary to live a life of faith. This can leave us with the impression that the faithful response to anger is to not feel angry. We come away with the impression that it is wrong do you feel angry, or whatever emotion we are feeling. Then we attempt to move past the emotion, or deny it all together.

All this does it produce feelings of guilt and shame, for the fact is, we do feel angry

Anger is a human emotion like all the rest, and it is common to all people. Our anger, may, in fact, be an appropriate response to whatever situation we are facing.Even Jesus, got angry, and sad, and frustrated. Emotions are never wrong. They may be misdirected at times, and we may wrongly act on such emotions, but the feeling itself is not wrong in and of itself.

When we deny our emotions, we allow them to fester with, and us. We may even trick or so into believing that we have dealt with the matter at hand, but all we have done is turn a blind eye to the deep matters of our heart and soul.

The Psalms give us a license to hold our feelings before the Lord. We are given the freedom to feel, and to feel deeply and passionately.

It’s Okay To Scream

The farms often Genevois to the deep inner emotions that we feel. The sadness, frustration, and anger that we so often experience in our lives are articulated and gritty detail. In this way, the Psalms do not just give us a license to feel the emotion, the songs allow us to voice our emotions.

Psalms point us to the ability to bring our hearts to the Lord.

When we are filled with negative emotions, and let’s be honest, we all have these types of emotion from time to time, we are encouraged to expressed those feelings to the Lord. God is so much bigger than earth He is enough.

So, instead of reading, Ephesians or James, when you feel angry, what would it be like to read Psalm 13?

Instead of denying your anger, what would it look like to express it?

Psalm 13 does just this? it begins “ O’ Lord, will you forget me forever! How long would you hide your face from me? How long must I bear pain in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all day long? In this Psalm , David pours his heart out before God. He gives voice to the deep emotion that he feels. Nothing is withheld. The songs show us that we are free to scream, or yell, shout, or weep.

I have learned that the Psalms can be a healing experience. When we get our voice to our deep emotions, not hiding from them, or pretending that they don’t exist, we invite Jesus into the deep inner places of our lives. We open the door to His healing presence.

The Only Certain Hope On Earth

The World has an idea of hope that sees it as an optimistic expectation that something good may happen in this life or, for the life to come.

People cannot help but hope; it is a part of our DNA as humans. We hope for good health, a good marriage, good weather, or an enjoyable holiday. Many even hope for a better life after the life they have lived on earth, which explains why so many claim that loved ones (including animals) are smiling down upon them after their death. Much of the hope that is found in the world lacks promise and certainty, which is like building a house on sand.

For true believers in God hope is very different from worldly Hope. Their hope is a Spirit-given virtue enabling them to joyfully espect what God has promised through Jesus. It is therefore, thoroughly Trinitarian.

Height Of Our Hope

The believers hope looks to God because He is “the God of hope” (Romans 15:13). Because the resurrection of Jesus, Peter says that our “faith and hope are in God” (1 Peter 1:21). The degree to which we find God desirable and excellent will be same to which hope plays a role of our lives. Our view of God will affect the hope we possess.

A small got begets a small hope; but knowing God and Christ Jesus (John 17:3), which is eternal life, is ground for possessing a hope that bursts forth in our souls on a daily basis. The psalmist describes for the blessed person as the one (whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psalm 146:5).

Thomas Aquinas a Italian priest said:

Wherefore the good which we ought to hope for from God properly and chiefly is the infinite good, which is proportionate to the power of our divine helper, since it belongs to an infinite power to lead anyone to an infinite good. Such a good is eternal life, high consists in the enjoyment of God Himself. For we should hope from Him nothing less than Himself, since His goodness, whereby He imparts good things to His creature, is no less than His essence. Therefore the proper and principle object of hope is eternal happiness.

Thomas Aquinas

In short, Aquinas is saying that our joy is connected to our hope, which is connected to our Savior, which is connected to our God. A believers hope exists only when we hope in God and Father of our Lord Christ Jesus ( 1 Peter 1:13). The height of our hope is God Himself.

Certain As God’s Promises

Certain conditions characterize biblical Hope: it must be good, it must be in the future, it involves some degree of difficulty. For example, patient suffering, and it must be founded on God’s promises. Those who persevere, “by faith, shall attain what we hope for; the sight of our Savior (Titus 2:13).

This hope of the blessed vision of Christ Jesus is based not only upon the fact that we know He will return, but also on the knowledge that God dwells in us. This explains Paul’s language in Romans 15:13, “May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”

Faith, Hope, And Love

Faith in God through Christ Jesus by the Spirit gives rise to the believers hope. Faith and hope bear an intimate relation to one another ( Romans 4:18-21; 5:2; 15;13; Galatians 5:5; Ephesians 1:18-19; Colossians 1:23; Timothy 4:10; Hebrews 11:1; 1 Peter 1:21). Faith is the foundation of Hope, so that hope without faith is no hope at all. We believe God in order to hope at all in what we believe. But Faith also returns to hope to give it courage to persevere. If faith apprehends God’s promises, hope expects what He promises. In times of trouble, despair, and suffering, faith and hope feed on God and His promises.

The difference between faith and hope is not easy to discern. Simply put, faith believes, but hope waits patiently, yet there is an aspect whereby faith also requires patience. God is the object of hope, as it specifically focuses on His goodness to us in Christ Jesus. Faith not only looks to God but also trembles at His threatenings (when appropriate). Hope remains free of such fear. Faith and love can relate to present and future object, but Hope looks to the future alone.

Also, faith and hope bear an intimate relation to love. If hope relates to your faith in the terms of our expectations, hope relates to love in terms of our desire, so the more we desire, the good, the more we will love it. Equally hope requires desire. The more we desire, what is promised, the more we hope for it. Since faith is focused on Christ, Jesus, hope will always be present where there is true faith. And since faith focuses on Christ, Jesus, love will always accompany faith and hope because God and Christ are the object of faith and hope – how can we not love the one we believe has saved us, and promised us so much for the future? Faith and hope, and love gives expression to our Christian life ( 1 Corinthians 13:13; Colossians 1:4).

Hope That Purifies

The life of hope yields many benefits to the true believer, such as the expectation of eternal life ( Titus 1:2; 3;7), salvation Thessalonians 5:8)., heaven (Colossians 1:5), the resurrection (Acts 23:6), the gospel (Colossians 1:23), God’s calling (Ephesians 1:18; 4:4), and our inheritance (Ephesians 1:18). But there is also a duty bound up with hope namely, purification of our souls. “ Everyone who thus hope in Him purifies himself as he is pure” ( 1 John 3:3).

This command follows one of the greatest promises of Christian hope: “ Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2). Those who have the hope of being made like Christ in body and soul must also have the present desire to be pure. While in sanctification, that accent is often on what God does, here in 1 John the accent is on what we do. If they embrace a hope of seeing Christ face to face, are to purify themselves.

In other words hope has a moral effect. The pursuit of purity arise out of our possession of hope.

This hope is unlike the world’s. The world’s hope is often vague, uncertain, a wish that is thrust up at the stars. But Christian hope is solid, certain, future, and cleansing. It lasts as long as the eternal God lives, and stands as tall as He stands. He is our hope, for apart from Him, no such thing exists (Ephesians 2:13).