NO SCAR?

Prayer to my Lord (2009)

"For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ,

not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake."

Philippians 1:29

October 1:

"Be strong and of good courage! ... with us is the Lord our God to help us fight our battles!" 2 Chronicles 32:7-8.

My Lord, this sounds like today:

"And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to thme by His messengers.... because He had compassion on His people.... But they mocked the messengers of God." 2 Chron. 36:15-17

October 15. Ezra 7:13-21. King Artazerxes issues a decree -- a righteous decree inspired by the Holy Spirit -- to send Ezra and other faithful Jews back to their land to restore the temple. A reminder that American democracy works when people know and follow the Truth, are honest, care about each other. It does not work when people turn away from God and crave wealth, power, and glory for themselves.

Oct. 29. My wonderful Lord, Just as I prepare to write an article warning your people about the strange "new" cosmology that would blot your name out of creation, you show me O. Chambers reading on "The Earth Also is Yours." (p. 714). Thank You, my mighty sovereign, omniscient and wonderful Lord!

O Lord God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Lord?
Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, You still them....
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all its fullness, You have founded them.
The north and the south, You have created them." Psalm 89:11, 12

"Those who deal with the great secrets of the universe imply that our planet is such a tiny spot in the tremendous universe that it is a piece of stupid conceit on our part to think that God watches over us. And to make our planet the center where God performed the marvelous drama of His own history of the Incarnation and Atonement is absurd, they say.

"But watch a simple-minded person, one who is right with God and is not terrified by the reasonings of men, as he looks at the stars and exclaims, 'when I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man, that You are mindful of him?” It is said not in despair, but in adoring wonder.

"Look at the world either through a telescope or a microscope and you will be dwarfed into terror by the infinitely great or the infinitely little. Naturalists tell us that there are no two blades of grass alike, and close inspection of a bee’s wing under a microscope reveals how marvelously it is made. What do I read in the Bible? I read that the God of heaven counts the hairs of our heads." Jesus says so.

I read that the mighty God watches the sparrows so intimately that not one of them falls on the ground without His notice. I read that the God who holds the seas in the hollow of His hand and guides the stars in their courses, clothes the grass of the field. Through the love of God in Christ Jesus we are brought into a wonderful intimacy with the infinitely great and the infinitely little."

"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross..." Hebrews 12:1-2