SCRIP-BITS

Oh Friends, the day’s dawned bright and sunny, and the summer is proceeding beautifully with lots of sunshine and cool breezes, but we’re missing one essential ingredient, one heavenly blessing; rain. It’s sure nice to have sunny days, but when no rain accompanies them, it creates problems we can ill afford. The land hurts for nourishment, so crops don’t grow like they should; the grass gets dry and brown, a lightning rod for brushfires, and we spend numerous gallons of water trying to keep our precious little lawns green, which depletes the water supply, until the powers that be put out a no-watering edict. I guess we ought to seriously pray for rain, because it’s not only my area that’s suffering drought-like conditions, many other parts of the world are also starving for some heavenly showers. We might need to do like Elijah did, when he prayed for rain and said to his servant Ahab: ‘Get thee up, eat and drink: for there is a sound of the abundance of rain.’ (1Kin.18:41)  Yes Friends, we can certainly conjure up in our minds the sound of abundant rain; see it, believe it and talk it into existence. That brings us to our Bit, a mournful cry to our heavenly Father for divine help: ‘Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.’ And do we ever need God’s intervention my people, at this crucial juncture in our society. The wicked are in the ascendant position, and they are just using their power to enrich themselves, with an eye to destroying our beautiful civilization instead of building it. They take morbid pleasure in oppressing the righteous, inflicting harsh, unjust punishment on those who don’t toe their evil line. Having sold their souls to Beelzebub, they now have to pay the price for their earthly power and glory. And make no mistake Friends, Beelzebub extracts a very high price for exalting you with earthly possessions and power. Just like his subordinates, he’s a harsh and cruel taskmaster. If ever there was a time we badly need to cry out to God, I believe it’s now, when the whole world is going downhill very quickly. Bruh David puts it very nicely in Psalm 17, ‘A prayer for protection against oppressors.’ ‘I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. Show thy marvellous LOVING-kindness, O thou that savest (delivers) by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.’ (Ps.17:6-7) Oh my brethren, that’s the kind of cry to our God that each of us needs to make, so that this evil, cruel, violent, greedy, oppressive world will begin turning around, start turning back to worshipping and serving the Most High God Jehovah. Without that happening, sooner rather than later, we have as much chance as a snowball in hell to survive the iniquity and destructive appetites of the wicked. Because of their evil influence ‘sufferation’ is rampant, of epidemic proportions around the world. As the author of Psalm 94 so eloquently declares: ‘O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself (shine forth). Lift up thyself (rise up), thou judge of the earth: render a reward to (repay) the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?’ (Ps.94:1-3) Now that’s a very good question Friends, an answer to which all of us are dying to know. The wicked have held sway over God’s beautiful creation for much too long. What we need right now is for God to move against them without further delay. As Micah proclaimed: ‘Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off (destroyed).’ (Mic.5:9) Oh my brethren, let’s hope and pray that God in His high heaven, seeing the iniquity and injustice that’s taking place in His world will be thoroughly incensed and do something to help us soon, for He is the only one who can. And when He does, He will not forget the humble, the righteous, the afflicted, of that we can be sure, for Bruh David gives us that assurance. ‘When he maketh inquisition for blood (avenges blood), he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.’ (Ps.9:12) Unfortunately, we don’t know God’s plans, so we just have to soldier on in faith and do what we can, which means sincerely LOVING our God, truly LIVING our Faith, and generously SPREADING His Word. In Jesus’ Name, I pray that all His people will do exactly that. Amen. Much LOVE!…Oh Lord…how long shall the wicked prosper…till I’m ready to destroy them…