"The word of our God stands forever" - Isaiah 40:8

I know I am not the only one who wonders where our world is headed...so much unrest, so much anger, no little value to others.  We have no peace, I believe, because we have rejected the Word of God.  He created all things with so much thought - read Genesis 1 to see how every detail was done so carefully and in such order.  He gave us His precious word to help us live. Eve began the ball rolling toward unrest (sin) when she chose to follow her feelings instead of the facts of what God had actually said.  Isaiah 26:3 (picture in our bathroom) tells us how to find peace and that is by keeping our minds set on the Lord God.

Our President, during the funeral of one of the Dallas police offers, suggested that "...we need to forge consensus, fight cynicism and find the will to make change".  With all due respect to him, I believe unless we go back to obeying God's word - which is as relevant today as it was when it was written on paper - we will never find policies that work.

Romans 2:8-11 tells us that those who "reject the truth" will find wrath, anger, trouble and distress.  I believe that's what we are seeing today.  Somewhere along the way, people decided they didn't have to follow the rules...they made their own...and we are reaping the consequences.  That passage says there will "...honor and peace for everyone who does good".

Condoleezza Rice prayed at a recent memorial service: "Dear heavenly Father...we know there are no easy answers, but the answers will come through You."

Will you be praying with me that those in authority will seek God and His word as they try to make sense of a world filled with hatred and violence?  2 Chronicles 7:14 says if we will, "He will heal our land".  Are you studying God's word?  Even if you never have, go to a Christian book store and find an inductive Bible study...join a BSF or Precept Bible study in your area...volunteer to teach children's Sunday School...that's how I learned much of the Bible!
May we not be one of the ones who God sees "rejecting the truth".

For further study: Deu. 11:18-21, 2 Sam. 22:31, Isaiah 55:10-11, Jer. 1:16, Matthew 24:35, John 1:1-5, John 15:1-8, 2 Tim. 3:16, Hebrews 4:12, James 1:22.

May you be blessed in your understanding of God's word.

Love,
Holly