JUSTIFICATION

Whom He justified, them He also glorified.

Romans 8:30

Here a precious truth for you, believer.   You may be poor, suffering, unknown, but for your encouragement take a review of your 'calling' and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result.  AS SURELY AS YOU ARE GOD'S CHILD TODAY, so surely shall all your trials soon be at an end.   Wait just a little while longer and your weary head shall wear the crown of glory and your hand of labour grasp the palm branch of victory.   Rejoice soon you will be where there is neither sorrow, or crying or pain.   The everlasting song on your lips as the portals of heaven open for you. 

Words of encouragement from C.H. Spurgeon (paraphrased) but hard to understand if you stand in disbelief and despair unable to understand this life is the trial.   This is hell on earth for many.

Exodus 20 - 3 - 4

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Squeals of protests from many, even christians.   "I don't do that"    Yes you do, anything that takes the place of God in your heart is an idol.   Imagine standing in a field with absolutely nothing.   No family, possessions, no home, no food and no hope, that is the scenario for many in the Middle East and soon arriving on your doorstep.  Punishment is coming on disobedient nations that have carefully placed GOD in a box, closed the lid considering God doesn't see their heart, their desires and their sin.

Psalm 94 - 7
Yet they say the Lord does not see

It's time to kneel and pray RACHEM (Mercy) Adonai (Lord) and beg forgiveness for a country that placates the Word of God and stands silent in the face of creeping corruption.

When you touch 'little children' with sick policies and destroy their innocence then God raises His Mighty Hand.   If Britain were a christian country, WHICH IT ISNT, the people would rise against the policy of any party in government other than the Christian Party and where are their representatives, non existent in my neck of the woods.  

A recent publication by a respected christian organisation suggested you ask the doorstep canvasser various questions and if they agree to defend your views should they get your vote, then you can hold them to their promise if elected.   REALLY, what world does the author inhabit?

Every politician that has held office in recent years both in Britain and the U.K.  has been a 'blinding example' of quite the reverse.   They may sincerely agree and vote on your preference (but know your enemy) they will be out voted by those who are determined to pollute both the baby bath and the kids paddling pool.   Open your mouth and speak His Truth and persecution inevitably follows.  They arrest christian public speakers in Manchester - just one example of subjugation.    You lose friends and relations but that price is more than worth paying with your sights fixed on eternity.  This life passes all too quickly, eternity is forever.     

Corruption is alive and well at every level of society.   The horse has bolted and its an unholy free for all - the end result - read the bible - it does suggest incineration.   Read the historical bible, see how God dealt with a disobedient nation, raising up their enemy and finally when the people got down on their knees crying 'Rachem, Rachem, Rachem' (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy) He dealt with their enemy and restored peace to the land.

Any child of God who doesn't realise where this is going and who has been absorbed into the Church of Appeasement needs to get back on track.   We need a Job mentality.   God allowed Satan to torment Job and all but crush him.   Be prepared to suffer.    It's not about denomination, it's all about preachers who twist teaching and put their slant on the written word in an attempt to fill empty pews.

The Lord your creator God is everywhere and should be first and foremost in any area of your life,  invisible but as necessary as air.   Satan inhabits many beautiful old church buildings, the foundations of which are rotten and crumbling.  While children starve in the third world punters follow every commentary and photograph of celebrity weddings that are said to cost millions.   That's how truly sick this society is.   

The shining remnant of God are called to love the sinner, but hate the sin and they must swim against the current tide of permissiveness regardless of humiliation, persecution and even death knowing the last breath in this world will lead them home.   They must carry their cross to the threshold of eternity knowing they have earned the right to pass through and they leave the rest in His Hands.   We won't remember the pain inflicted by others - we will be a new creation.   

A.W. Tozer gets straight to the point in his book Attributes of God.

If there is anything necessary to your eternal happiness but God, you're not the kind of Christian that you ought to be.

In his book 'God tells the man who cares' Tozer writes "Loyalty to God, faithfulness to Truth and preservation of good conscience are jewels more precious than gold of Ophir or diamonds from the mine.   For these jewels men have suffered loss of property, imprisonment and even death; for them, even in recent times, behind various curtains, followers of Christ have paid the last full measure of devotion and quietly died, unknown to and unsung by the great world, but known to God and dear to his Father's heart.   

SHALOM