What if?

As I watched the news tonight my heart goes out to the poor people of Haiti. Not only have thousands of loved ones been lost in the powerful earthquake but thousands of homes were left in heaps.

I also noticed how desperate some were for food and water. How we take so lightly good water and food here in this country. What would happen here in our cities if such a thing occurred? We got a peek of what would happen with Katrina. But what if it was wide spread?

We are hopefully coming out of a recession that some thought at first would be a depression like the one we had around 1930. The difference today is that the majority of Americans today live in cities. Those old films of food lines and such were city people. The country folk also had it rough but nothing like those who within one week were out of food.

God says in His Word that in the last days there will be earthquakes, famine, disease, etc. He also says there will be scoffers. I believe we are living in the last days and need to be prepared for such things. God did not give us a spirit of fear (For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7), BUT He did give us a “sound mind” and hopefully we will use it.

Keeping a few months supply of food and water is sound advice. Getting out of dept and saving some money has always been sound advice. Giving and helping the poor today may just come in handy in the future (Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:38)

Blessings,
alight

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

I read in the news this morning that “Twenty rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel from Gaza this past week, Prime Minister Netanyahu told the cabinet ministers.” For those of you who do not keep up with Israel news, Israel and the Palestinians are not in a war. The Palestinians would just like to start one with the hopes that the surrounding Arab countries will come to their rescue.

Psalms 122:6 says, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May those who love you be secure.” When I read this verse I think back to the year 2000 and I was in Israel up early in the morning getting my running in for the day. The only people I seen on the streets were military people with their AK47s hanging from their shoulders. I was stopped by one of them and he told me to not stray far from my hotel, that there was unrest in the air.

Later that day our group was to visit the Temple Mound area. We were denied access because some Palestinians were throwing rocks at non-Muslims. Ex-Israeli PM Ariel Sharon was going to the site that day and some Muslims were stirring up the crowd to riot because of it. The present day Israeli/Palestinian conflict began. I didn’t care anything about seeing a couple of mosques anyway so I was glad to go somewhere else.

The next thing that I think of when I read news “more rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel” is when I was on a mission trip. The guy I was rooming with made a statement that I will never forget. He said when we pray for the peace of Jerusalem we are actually praying for the return of Jesus. For truly there will be no peace until Jesus comes back to rule and reign.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, pray for the soon return of our Lord!

Blessings,

Dwight