Shade Tree Wisdom 5/8/12

          Sunny and tranquil this morning, but the promise is for some rain showers later on. Seems quiet, yet the news is forever filled with accidents and theft and murder, so there is much going on that shows man is still a sinner.

          The Bible says it bluntly, “The Fool has said in his heart there is no God.”, and then it goes on to explain what follows after this. “They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, There is none that does good.” Psalm 14,1.

          I thought of that when I read an advice columnist giving her OK to same sex marriage with “We know so much more than when the bible was written.”

          And here is our Vice President is quoted as saying, “I have no trouble with same sex marriage.”

          And I ask, “What has happened?”

          One letter writer suggests that erosion of good character started when we adopted political correctness as our national standard. What started with such good intentions of not doing any harm, ends up by giving us simply the lowest standard in all aspects of life. Language becomes boorish and lacking in pleasantness. And morality is what pleases me.

          And that is why, I believe, the book of Ecclesiastes was written. It shows the meaningless of a life that is lived without God, “under the sun” is what the writer writes. “A striving after the wind”, useless and pointless. With no goal and no joy in it at all.

          Here are some nuggets:
          “Don’t be too quick to tell God what you think He wants to hear, God is in charge, not you”. 5,2
          “God made men and women true and upright; we’re the ones who made a mess of things’.7,29.
          “The last and final word is this, ‘fear God, do what He tells you’. And that’s it.” 12,13.

          Ah, it is high time we went to our knees to pray for the welfare of this land, and every soul in the world for whom Christ died. Let us then be up and doing.

GPD 5/8/12