Thought for June 14, 2024

  •  1777: Continental Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as our flag
  • 1847: Bunsen Burner invented
  • 1922: Warren G Harding is first President to use radio for a speech
  • 1940: Auschwitz opens
  • 1942: Anne Frank begins her diary
  • 1946: Nat King Cole records the "Christmas Song"
  • 1954: President Eisenhower signs order adding "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance
  • 2020: India reports 12,000 Covid cases per day
  • Born: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alois Alzheimer, Burl Ives, Pierre Salinger, Che Guevara, John MacArthur, Donald Trump, Pat Summit, Eric Heiden, Steffi Graf
  • Died: Benedict Arnold, Pierre L'Enfant, Mary Cassatt, Alan Jay Lerner, Henry Mancini, Ruth Graham
Thought:
Still in Psalm 118 this morning. Reading one verse, 118:8. If you count all the verses in the Bible this is the center verse. The one in the middle. And perhaps it contains the truth that all the Bible hinges upon--"It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man." There used to be an old game show called "Who Do you Trust?" Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon hosted the show in the afternoon from 1957-1963. I got to watch it some after school. The Bible asks that question as well. It began in the garden with Adam and Eve--do you trust God or are you trusting your own truth as influenced by Satan? It continues today.

Think about all the hot issues that face our country today--creation, abortion, gender, same sex-marriage, Israel. Psalm 118:8 asks--do I take refuge in the word of God and His truth or do I create my own truth or trust the "truth" created by man? This was obviously a big problem then and it continues to be a big problem now. Scripture says, trust in the Lord and do not lean on your own understanding. Think about what you would do if you were trying to get people to trust in man rather in the word of God.
  • How do you feel about that? I might ask people to trust their feelings. Does this make you feel good or bad? If it feels good, do it. If it feels right, do it.
  • Does it really mean that? C.S. Lewis warned us 60 years ago that Satan's strategy would be to redefine words so that they did not mean what God intended. So "love" means  something different than agape. We love our teams and love God the same way--if it looks like they are winning, we love them, if not, we lose interest. Or I love someone when I mean I lust after someone. Marriage really is limited to a man and woman for life. Life doesn't begin at conception. Let me help you undestand what Jesus really meant, someone may say. 
  • The government can provide everything you need. You can trust it. You don't need to trust God for your provision because the federal or state government is taking care of you. 
Maybe I would do well to remind myself daily it is better to take refuge in the Lord and His word and Word than to trust in man. 

Blessings
Larry

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