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ARE YOU AS CLOSE TO GOD AS YOU WANT TO BE?

(posted today Tuesday Jan 30th)

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When the Master of Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott, lay dying, he called for his son-in-law and biographer, Lockhart, and said to him, "Lockhart, my dear sir, be a' good man. Be virtuous, be religious, be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here."

 Romans 6:10-11

For in that he died, he died unto sin once,

but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,

but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

James 4:17

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Tocqueville, a French political thinker who lived over a hundred years ago, visited America, and upon his return home he wrote: “I sought for the greatness of America in her harbors and rivers and fertile fields, and her mines and commerce.  It was not there.  Not until I went into the churches and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the greatness of her power.

America is great because she is good; and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

And therein lies part of the problem in today's America.  Ask many Americans today what is good or bad, right or wrong and you will receive convoluted answers.  For they will give you not what the Bible teaches us is right and wrong, but what they have decided on their own is right and what is wrong. 

A moral man used to be held in esteem.  Too often today he thought naïve and may face ridicule.  Take what will make you rich or happy and the devil take the hindmost has become cry of the land.

It used to be considered praise to be called good, but somewhere along the line goodness got a bad reputation.  To be called a goody two shoes because you won’t do something considered wrong or immoral has become belittling and an insult.  

Moral absolutes seem to have gone the way of the horse and buggy. 

       And, oh, that there were more in this old world like Frances Havergal, the song writer, who lived and moved in the Word of God.  His Word was her constant companion.  Indeed, on the last day of her life on earth, she asked a friend to read to her the 42nd chapter of Isaiah. 

When the friend read the sixth verse - “I, the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee,” Miss Havergal stopped her and whispered, “Called—held—kept.  I can go home on that!”

And she took her last breath and did go to her heavenly home on that. 

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