Shade Tree Wisdom 11/6/12

          I trust you have exercised your right and high privilege of voting. If not yet, do so, it is your duty and, as I said, high privilege.

          I don’t know who will win. Only God knows that, and we know He is still there, ever tending to the affairs even when we mess things up. Still, “whatever God ordains is good”. But regardless of the final outcome, you and I live here as God’s children, baptized and called His sons and daughters, so we have the way of life before us. A Life that brings honor and glory to our God in the way we behave in this life. St.Peter said,
          “Keep your conduct among the gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, that may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence and ignorance of foolish people.” 1 Peter 2, 12.14.

          Let your life be a shining example of what God calls good, moral, and right. I quote from a sermon the late Peter Marshall preached in the mid-40’s.
              “No nation has ever made progress in a downward direction.
               No people ever become great by lowering standards.
               No people ever became good by adopting looser morality.
               It is not progress when the moral tone is lower than it was.
               It is not progress when purity is not as sweet.
               It is not progress when womanhood has lost its fragrance.
               Whatever else it is, it is not progress.”

          So election day today, when it is good for you and me to
              “Lift up mine eyes into the hills, from whence cometh My help.
               My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121, 1.2.

          May God bless your day.

GPD 11/6/12