We Do Have a Calling

Watchman On the Wall (Part 1)- June 28th, 2020 .mp3 ...

Usually by Friday I’m pretty well used up. I’ll post one public education outrage, and an hour later there’ll be two new ones that are much worse than the one I’ve already posted. Parents object but nothing happens. Here and there, a “teacher” has to go on paid leave for some abomination or another. And that’s just “Education.”

There is a temptation to lose heart. I mean, the monster devouring our country is just so big and what can we do, we can’t even get a fair election? We are the plebs, the mob our betters laugh at. What can we do?

But God tells us in the Bible, “Despise not the day of small things” (Zech. 4: 9-10). And in I Corinthians 1: 27, “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty…”

Your part and my part may be small; but that doesn’t mean God doesn’t value them. We are here to do His will on earth. We are in America, with a calling, a mission, to save this country. Save it from the wicked. Save it from self-destructive folly.

When they’re all puffed up with pride and ambition, flexing their muscles at us, bragging about their sins… that’s when they’re weakest. Their fall will be a high and hard one, brought about by people and events which they deemed beneath their notice. Brought about by the God whose warnings they rejected.

So we do what we can; and the outcome is decided at a higher level.

‘Will God Heal the Nations?’ (Martin Selbrede)

Will God Heal the Nations? Ep. 204 (guest Martin Selbrede)

Have you got an hour to expand your understanding of God’s word? If you do, Martin Selbrede has a podcast for you.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/audio/will-god-heal-the-nations-ep-204-guest-martin-selbrede

We live in “an injured world,” Martin says, which God can and will heal. But a major obstacle to our healing is our disbelief. Although “God will not despise the day of small things” (Zechariah 4: 9-10)… we do! We want big things! The kind of things that cost trillions of dollars, go on year after year, and never solve the problem.

Martin cites the example of Naaman, a Syrian general afflicted with leprosy (in 2 Kings 5: 1-19), who hears that there’s a prophet in Israel, Elisha, who can heal him. Expecting to pay a high price for it, Naaman loads up his valuables and sets out to see the prophet. But he never gets there. Elisha knows he’s coming and sends out a servant to tell him that if he wants to be healed, he should bathe himself seven times in the River Jordan.

Naaman feels insulted! “He wanted to do something massive,” not simple. Something expensive. He’s about to turn back to Syria when one of his aids suggests that if the prophet had counseled him to do something costly and difficult, he would have surely done it: so why not do something simple? What does he have to lose? So Naaman follows Elisha’s instruction, dips himself in this rather unimpressive stream–and is healed of his leprosy. At no cost.

The Bible gives us God’s instructions for healing deep, festering problems… and we don’t believe them. We don’t follow them. We want massive government programs. Not some simple tithe! Not repentance, not spiritual and moral regeneration!

You’ll find much to chew on in this lesson. (It refers back to Martin’s essay, “The Scope of Healing,” which I posted yesterday.)