Dear Ones,
Hope you have a wonderful day. We are preparing for Taylor’s family and I have Finnish pasty ready to pop into the oven. So thankful it is working out for us to see them and fellowship with them. Later I have Women’s Bible study at church.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Wouldn’t we say that there is an urgency today facing the church that we give ourselves more fully to the Lord, as it seems in the darkness of our culture so many are leaving the church? Who would have ever thought when we were young, how things would change with so many people ending up ignoring God? For many, it is as if God has disappeared and they don’t even care. Father Donald Haggerty’s book, The Hour of Testing, is an eye opener of what is happening in our culture, with faith fading and people be coming godless. We are to have our eyes wide open, but it seems there is a blindness to what is going on behind the scenes. Some believe there are many paths, but Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father, except through me.” (John 14:6) So many are spending time and attention dabbling in all sorts of things where God has no place.

It may seem like many of the signs of darkness we see today point to Jesus’ second coming. As we watch the news, we see so much chaos, godlessness, and everybody doing whatever they want without regard for what is right. There is a collapse of morality even amongst Christians who know what the Bible says on things that they now practice. We don’t know the timeline of Jesus coming but we are to be ready, prepared and waiting. There may be persecution also of holiness within the church, and doctrinal truths may be questioned and even done away with.

Let none of us let our love for the Lord grow cold, for we need power to stand even when it means going against the flow in our culture. We are to stand for what is right and true. Sometimes that means we have to stand apart in the minority and suffer for His sake. This is not a time to fold, but to stand strong and point others to the Him who is the Light of the World.

Challenge for today: Ask the Lord to give you holy boldness to speak up when the Holy Spirit prompts you, even when you are in the minority.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy