I’ve been thinking about how each of us was destined to be born at this very time in history. My parents were part of the so-called “Greatest Generation.” They went through WW I, The Great Depression, and WW II, to name a few. Those experiences matured them into a special kind of toughness that looked at situations and pressed on anyway. I wrote about those days in Hard Times in the Heartland. And now it’s our turn. Just as Esther…
The Bible speaks of the sons of Issachar who understood the times and knew what Israel should do (I Chronicles 12:32). They were in the company of King David. Jeremiah 33:3 says, ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ As we look at the state of our nation, we might do well, in order to be like the sons of Issachar, to call on the…
Colossians 3:1 If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. When we receive Christ, we have been delivered from mortal death. We have a new life dedicated to God. We have a new purpose, a new agenda. We are to seek the things above, not the temporal things of earth. That word “seeking” means “to seek by thinking, meditating, reasoning.” Our mind is to…