heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

The Overwhelming Importance of Christians Understanding How Badly We Need Heaven’s Help in This Evil and Ungodly World!

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Today’s Scrip-Bit 20 September 2026 Matthew 5:7 & 9.

Matthew 5:7 & 9. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy … Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

One more Sunday friends, which means one more trip to God’s house to celebrate His day with our fellow saints! There’s nothing better than when the saints get together and begin to sing and worship and praise and give thanks to our most wonderful God; He of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! So, let’s get right to our song of worship for today, a very appropriate song for today’s tough and uncertain times. It’s a song composed by Ron Miller in 1970 titled ‘Heaven Help Us All,’ and first performed by Stevie Wonder in an earthy, gospel infused manner.

And yuh better believe in these days of much woe and oppression, we certainly need heaven’s help to keep us going strong. Therefore, let’s offer up our sweet sacrifices of praise in a soulful, heartfelt, mid-tempo, version of the song as performed by Ray Charles and Gldys Knight. Singing: ‘Heaven help the child who never had a home Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone And Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall Lord, won’t you help us all? Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl Heaven help us all.

(Chorus: Heaven help us all, Heaven help us all, help us all Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call) Oh, yeah Heaven help the boy who won’t reach twenty-one And Heaven help the man who gave that child a gun And Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall Lord, won’t you help us all? (Chorus: Heaven help us all…when we call) Gladys’ – monologue: ‘I want everybody within the sound of my voice this evening to fall down on their knees and say a prayer; asking for His guidance, His grace, His mercy.

You might want to say: Lord, Lord, Lord, have mercy! Now I lay me down before I go to sleep In a troubled world, I pray the Lord, the Lord to keep. Keep hatred from the mighty and the mighty from the small Heaven help us all, Heaven help us all, help us all Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call. We need You Jesus so won’t you hear us when we call. We can’t do without You, so please hear us when we call. Heaven help us all, Heaven help us all, help us all Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call. Heaven help us all…’

Ah friends that was wonderful, but it’s such a sad heartbreaking song, and although it was written some fifty-six years ago, it’s still ever pertinent to today’s confused, warlike, angry and oppressive world. Just listen to the opening sentiments about a child who never had a home, and a girl who walks the street alone, and unfortunately, there are still way too many of those who fall into those categories in this wealthy and highly informed society.

No other generation has ever been as rich and well educated, with unimagined levels of technology and education, yet the majority of the world’s population still lives in terrible poverty, while a small percentage holds most of the world’s wealth and live like kings, or even better than kings. It’s been said that one percent of the population owns 99 percent of the wealth, while the other 99 percent of the population, only own one percent of the wealth. And in these very inequitable times, it’s not hard to believe those figures.

Then the next cry from the song is one that’s being heard all around the world: ‘ Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall.’ And yuh better believe that bombs are falling all over our world, for there’s more warfare today than peace. Bombs are falling in places like Russia, the Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Gaza, Sudan and places too numerous to mention. In some of these places the bombs have been falling for so long that there’s no time nor place for roses to grow.

And the racial hatred is still going on; in fact, it’s getting more blatant every day. The minorities are being sadly oppressed, often kicked and made to crawl, while the majority looks the other way. And yuh know what, a lot of this ‘sufferation’ is going on right under the noses of Christ’s church. In some cases, the church is also a part of the oppression, instead of being a part of the solution as it was meant to be. Tell me nuh, whatever happened to Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount eh? ‘Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.’ (Matt. 5:7 & 9)

What’s happening in our world? Are there so many more powerful and wealthy, unmerciful warmongers than wealthy, merciful, peace LOVERS? I don’t know nuh. But I do know that Christ’s church is supposed to help the poor, sick and suffering, and the church as a whole is wealthy enough to do much more than we’re currently doing. However, that old problem of division and disunity will never allow Christ’s church to function the way it’s supposed to function. And Satan and his evil cronies are just laughing all the way to the top, because Christ’s people cannot get together and do what they ought to do.

And what about LOVING our enemies eh? Jesus was very explicit about it: ‘But I say unto you, LOVE your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully (spitefully) use you: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.’ (Matt. 5:44-45)

And what about forgiveness eh? We pray it every day: ‘Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.’ (Matt. 6:12) But Jesus added a most important footnote to that prayer. ‘For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses.’ (Matt. 6:14-15) That’s very clear my people! But sadly, if you look around our world today, you won’t see a whole lot of forgiveness and LOVING of enemies going on. No sir!

You’ll possibly see and hear more of this: ‘Heaven help the boy who won’t reach twenty-one And Heaven help the man who gave that child a gun.’ Yes friends, that’s happening right in our own backyard! It seems that there are adults who are giving guns to minors to do their dirty work for them, and minors who are ever so glad to do it for a small sum of money. What does that say about the children we’re raising today eh?

I don’t know all the answers nuh, but I know this one: until and unless Christ’s church gets together, throwing aside all the petty differences and the religious sentiments that separate us into denominations, cliques, etc. etc. the awful situation in our world will never improve, for Christ is depending on His church to turn things around. Much LOVE!

…a church divided…can never win a war…

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Today’s Scrip-Bit 24 July 2022 1 Thessalonians 5:6.

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1 Thessalonians 5:6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober (self-controlled).

Come on friends, it’s time to gather for another Sunday session of praise, worship and thanksgiving! Glory be! Sometimes I just can’t wait for Sunday to come around so we can get together to celebrate the Lord’s Day in high fashion, or low style, (smile) which ever one is more appropriate to our circumstances.

Yes, there is just something unique and wonderful about a bunch of people from different creeds, cultures and races gathering in one place to enjoy fellowship with each other in the holy presence of our great God Jehovah. And while we give Him thanks and praise, He blesses us, gives us the strength and confidence to go out and face the world like what we truly are – children of God!

Now, the song to open today’s proceedings is a fairly new one, written in 1970 by Ron Miller and first performed by Stevie Wonder. We’re talking about that soulful number, ‘Heaven Help Us All’, which was very appropriate back then and sadly, is still relevant to our times today. So, let’s get soulful and sincere as we offer up our sacrifices of praise in sweet harmony, in a mid-tempo version, a la Ray Charles and Gladys Knight.

Singing: ‘Heaven help the boy who never had a home Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone And Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall Lord, won’t you help us all? Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl Heaven help us all. (Chorus: Heaven help us all, Heaven help us all, help us all. Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call)

Oh, yeah Heaven help the boy who won’t reach twenty-one And Heaven help the man who gave that child a gun And Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall Lord, won’t you help us all? (Chorus: Heaven help us all…when we call) Gladys – monologue: “I want everybody within the sound of my voice this evening to fall down on their knees and say a prayer; asking for His guidance, His grace, His mercy. You might want to say: Lord, Lord, Lord, have mercy!”

Now I lay me down before I go to sleep In a troubled world, I pray the Lord, the Lord to keep. Keep hatred from the mighty and the mighty from the small, Heaven help us all, Heaven help us all, help us all. Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call. We need You Jesus so won’t you hear us when we call. We can’t do without You, so please hear us when we call. Heaven help us all, Heaven help us all, help us all, Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call… Heaven help us all…’

And my faithful friends, do we ever need a lot of help from heaven in these very evil and calamitous times! Without help from heaven we certainly won’t make it through the dismal and disastrous days that our world is currently undergoing. What with the unprecedented amount of strife and warfare all over the globe, the immense poverty and starvation of billions of people, the poor economic outlook, made even worse by worldwide sickness and disease…

And that’s just some of the manmade stuff. When you add the natural disasters like serious drought and famine, floods, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes that seem to be more prevalent than before, possibly because of climate change, it’s easy to see why we need heavenly help…and quickly too.

However friends, I don’t believe we will get that heavenly help as quickly as we need it unless we quickly turn back to the God of our forefathers and give up the idols and foolishness that the world sees as valuable. Remember Jesus words, His memorable advice from the Sermon on the Mount? ‘But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.’ (Matt. 6:33)

Yes my bredrin, the only way to get heaven’s help is by sincerely seeking God and His righteousness. We can’t go worshipping the things of the world and doing the ungodly things the world wants us to do, and expect godly help. But that’s exactly what we’re doing. We’re only paying lip-service to God. It reminds me of what the Lord spoke through the prophet Isaiah re Israel’s blindness. ‘Wherefore the Lord said, For as much as this people draw me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear (reverence) toward me is taught by the precept of men.’ (Is. 29:13)

Ah mih people, it’s the same thing we’re doing now that Israel did back then; simply honouring God with our mouth and lips but not our hearts. And our reverence is being ‘taught by the precept of men,’ meaning, as the scholars tell us, it’s ‘merely an intellectual accommodation. For true worship must begin with a proper reverence for God and His Word.’

And if we don’t do that, if we don’t wake up to the realities of life asap…then crapaud smoke we pipe. The Lord’s not going to put up with our dalliance with the devil for ever. He might be long-suffering and all that, but at some stage He’s going to say enough is enough, like He did with Israel when they became unfaithful and with so many other proud and foolish nations, who in their prosperity, turned away from Him unwisely believing that their prosperity was their own doing.

That’s totally wrong my people. It’s the Lord’s goodness and mercy that causes a nation to prosper. And the psalmist tells us in no uncertain terms. ‘Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; Except the Lord keep (guards) the city, the watchman waketh but (stays awake) in vain.’ (Ps. 127:1) And I believe these words from Bruh Paul to the Thessalonians when he talks about Jesus coming as a thief in the night might just be a good wake up call for us.

Listen closely please. ‘But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober (self-controlled). For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and LOVE; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.’ (1 Thess. 5:4-9)

Oh my fellow saints, if we are the children of light, then we must behave as such; wake up and seriously and sincerely hold on to the trappings of our faith, and do our best to encourage others to do the same. We already have all we need to do the job, and if heaven sees that we’re serious, heaven will certainly help us. But we need to take the first step to help ourselves. Much LOVE!

…heaven won’t help us…until we start helping ourselves…that’s for sure…

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