Faithful and True

Lately I have been allowing myself to be troubled and confused about alot of things, to the point that it has left me questioning and wondering if I am even doing the right thing. I was thinking today that as long as I can remember and as far back as I can remember I have felt God's presence in my life. As a child, I felt Him there comforting me, holding me, walking with me on my way to church. I was remembering how He is Faithful and True.

Then I started looking at our world. It used to be that you could trust our Law Enforcement and Church leaders, but now it seems they are the first to fall into sexual immorality or theft, dishonesty. I remember hearing the saying if you can't trust the law or the preachers who can you trust? The answer to that question is GOD. He is the only one who is Faithful and True.

We read the paper... a mother puts her 6 lb, 4 oz. baby boy in a sheet, then in a trash bag and throws him into a dumpster, another teenage couple go to a motel, have a baby and bury his body behind the motel. Then we have the man in Idaho who beheaded his wife, the DA who fought against pedophiles and was recently caught in a sting trying to have sex with a thirteen year old boy, when the officers went to serve the warrant he killed himself. Then the Judge who made arrangements on the internet to go to a different state to meet a little girl and her mother, so he could have sex with the eight year old. The Priests in the church who have been charged with molesting young boys, the Preacher in Dallas who was caught drugging female parishoners to have sex with them. Our children are engaging in sex at extremely young ages, they are patterning themselves after the latest rappers, rock n roll stars or gangsters, killing each other in the streets, selling drugs, getting high. Our homes are being burglarized, our vehicles broken into, our identities stolen, our bank accounts drained. We are never satisfied, it doesn't matter what kind of car we have, what kind of home we live in, we want more. We are running to the plastic surgeons to get an extreme makeover, we pay our sports heroes millions to play ball, and our teachers pennies. We have a homosexual man who killed his lover and made a pot of stew out of his body, recently a man killed his girlfriend, then put her body in a trash bag in the closet, people are screaming at each other at the top of their lungs, lesbian lovers fighting every week and calling the PD because one kicked out the other and they have no place to go. Young men and women living on the streets, having used so much METH, they stand in front of you and can't tell you their names, they pull on a strand of hair and pick at their face, staring off in the distance, breaking into a smile once in awhile, but mostly you see nothing behind the eyes, an emptiness, no feeling, nothing. Corporate scandels, tsunamis, earthquakes, the signs of the times. We are out of control.

As I pondered all of these things, the answer was so clear. We are unfaithful and untrue. We do things we know are wrong, we listen to things we shouldn't listen to, we watch demented sinful programs in movies and on televisions, we don't hate the things God hates and love the things God loves. We have put out the light or dimmed it. Maybe we don't actually have these things happening in our family, but we are our brother's keeper, we are His light in the earth. I recently heard a preacher say, you can't tell the American Christian from the world and it's true, we have compromised. Then I heard another preacher at three am the other morning, he said our preachers aren't opening the Word of God, they are coming out with the latest sayings, the latest technology and there is nothing wrong with using technology, but the Word should be first and foremost. We need to be preaching the Word. I have been to some of those churches. His sermon wasn't popular, but it was true nonetheless.

I guess I am sounding offbeat or something, I see alot working for the Police Department, but it hit me today that the answer is .....We are unfaithful, He never is.

I remember as far back as when I was a child and He was there, I felt His Presence and today I still feel it. I want to be faithful and true. I want to be more like Him.

A song came to my mind, that goes like this, ....Lord let us be a Generation that seeks,....seeks your face O God of Jacob, give us clean hands, gives us pure hearts, let us not lift our souls to another, Lord let us be a generation that seeks, ....seeks your face O God of Jacob.