Pull Up Your Big Boy Pants

All around us we see discouraging things happening. We see taxes and prices on the increase. There are more crimes and threats of war with larger escalations. We find in our government more ineptness and a complete lack of regard for the rights and liberties of us, the American citizen. The Federal government wants to dominate ever larger parts of our lives, our homes, our businesses, and health care. Each law they pass somehow diminishes or completely curtails or removes a freedom in our lives. The “Green” ideas stimulate only their greed and whet their appetite for a more far reaching cancerous taxing, “life-eating” of our rights and liberty.

These people are supposed to be accountable to the constituents of their districts, but ever too often they entrench themselves into the DC Beltway crowd and think all too often of how to enrich themselves and their cronies. Too often they take for granted those people who elected them and spend the voter’s hard-earned money frivolously. These politicians force us common people to tighten our belts, then we must decide what we can do without just to exist. We must budget ourselves, while the politicians try to find something else to tax. Do we continue to buy the food, pay utilities, purchase fuel, or buy our needed medications?

Anyone who has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ will understand that there will come a much harder time; a time of persecution and times of trials. But it is the joy and peace obtained by a personal knowledge in the saving grace of Jesus Christ that carries us through these hard times. Pray daily and fervently that there will be another great awakening where others might find the light of Christ in these times of darkness. Pray that they might understand their need for a Savior. Pray that the Word of God might enter the hearts of the politicians, the professors and teachers, each and every sinner, and yes even wayward pastors who have allowed the evils of the world to enter their churches. Pray for the lost wherever and whoever they might be. See them through the eyes of Jesus. Love the sinner, but do not be drawn by their sins. God says the sins are an abomination to Him. He sent His Son to die on the cross to redeem us and give us the gift of salvation. It is free and life changing when you understand and accept it.

Once saved, the Words of God found in the Bible can give comfort and peace. It can give power and healing. It is a refuge and strong tower. It is a book of answers if it’s read with an open mind and heart. It is God’s love letter to us.