Tonight we head President Bush speaking to the American people concerning Hurricane Katrina, letting us know he felt compassion for those suffering from death of loved ones, destruction of homes and everything one processed. But now is the time to build, yes, we will look into the total reason for the inaction of government. We need to make sure this is not going to happen again. We know we are in an area where nature can totally devastate an area, but we have got to have better building codes. We can’t let what happened, happen again. He accepted blame as our President for our slowness to respond. I was pleased at the amount of times he referred to God and how he appreciated the Churches of the area. To see people rally around helping regardless of race, color, or creed was truly the American Spirit. We are a nation founded upon Christian principle, not a dictator government, but a government by the people for the people. I feel like we are beginning to see the woes coming upon us as a nation and we need make sure our trust is in the Lord and experience the blessedness of the Lord. We are saved by grace and grace is not without the knowledge of sin. So lets look at Ephesians 1: 7 which gives us a better reason we need the conviction of sin for it says, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;” Salvation is never in the reach of man, rather it is given by God, for He came down to this earth as a man. We can’t earn our salvation, by how much money we give to the Church, or the world, it’s based upon the fact God sacrificed His son, we need to sacrifice our bodies like Romans 12: 1-2 says, 1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”. Where is your faith, in man, or God? Everyone has faith in something, or someone, you can tell it by where they spend their money, or who do they worship? What do they read for instruction in this game of life? Who do they reverence and bow down to? We are living in a world that seems to enjoy doing what ever they want, please do not tell me what to do and I’ll not tell you either! God sent His son that all can be redeemed by the Blood of the Lord. He paid the price for our sins and gave us freedom to live this life with blessings upon blessing. Knowing that our sins are forgiven, when we cry out, with the attitude, we are just hurting the Lord. Lord forgive me, were saying, we are sorry, that is assuring to us knowing we are forgiven. This is like taking a bar of soap and washing up each time we get dirty. This is what is called (sanctification) in the Blood of the Lamb. We used to sing the song, “What can take away our sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus! What can make us whole again, nothing but the Blood of Jesus. Oh! precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow, No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.” We don’t sing this any more, for it is offensive to many and I feel we need to get back to the old time religion, where we understand the power of forgiveness by the Lord. When we abide with the Lord, we are married and He is coming for who? His bride, the Church, His body! This is one of the greatest blessing the Lord has given to us, He’s accepted us, which is a blessing. So were seeing the blessing of being spiritual, chosen, predestinated, adopted, and accepted as we abide in the Lord. |