Shade Tree Wisdom 9/30/11

          The final day of this month, and what is left yet to be done.  Well, one never reaches the end for the time to honor and glorify God by the things that we do and say in our daily life.

          What makes this often hard is the attitude of the God-haters.  Their speech and action toward anything that looks or honors Christianity is hard to understand, until we read the Bible.

          The Bible tells us that a rejection of God actually leads to a more hate-filled attitude toward him.  St. Paul said it clearly, “Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind. . .to become haters of God”.  Romans l, 28-30.  That is the sad result when people turn away from God whose handiwork is so clearly seen, “so that they are without excuse”.

          So how to respond to this?  St. Paul again supplies correction in his letter to Timothy.  ”A servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach patiently, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them, repentance, so that they may know the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil.  Having been taken captive by him to do his will”. 2 Timothy 2, 24-26.

          Thus ends the month, with the Word of God ringing in our ears.  We pray He gives us the wisdom and the strength to do it to His glory.

GPD 9/30/11