Pages of My Heart Ministry- Poetic Ponderings: Feb 27, 2007

Psalm 11:1-3 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? 2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

For the first time since the building of this nation the very foundations that she was built on are under concerted attack. The Constitution, built on the foundation of the Bible is under attack as it never has been before. The Federal Courts all over this land have been staffed with activist judges who have no love for the justice and liberty that is found in the documents. As we enter into the last days of the world as we know it, we are, as Christians, confounded as to what to do. More and more we are not allowed to use the name of Jesus in public places. Children are not permitted to carry a bible nor pray in pubic schools in many places any more. The Ten Commandments are forced out of government buildings. The documents and the laws based on the are the foundation of this Nation. It's laws were constructed from the Constitution which in turn was based on the Bible and biblical principle. That is our foundation as a nation.

Psalm 11:3 says: " If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Well, the prophet Daniel was in a similar situation one time. In Daniel 6:7-10 we find this account where all the rulers lower than the king in the kingdom of Persia set Daniel up so that he would be forced to turn to someone other than God for his petitions or face death. Notice how similar this is to how things are shaping up today.

7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. 10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Daniel was now forbidden under the penalty of death to turn to any other than the government for his needs (Boy ain't this what the liberals are shooting for). Daniel's God is legislated out. With the stroke of a pen what was always legal is now illegal with the gravest of penalties.

What did Daniel do?
He picketed!
No he didn't.
He demonstrated and made loud noises of protest!
Nope; didn't do that either.

What Daniel did is what we should be able to say that we do! He kept on doing what he was already doing. Look at the last clause of verse 10 "as he did aforetime." What was he doing aforetime. Praying and giving thanks to God as he had always done.

You see that is the trouble. People got real upset when prayer was taken out of schools. You say "Well they ought to have". Amen I agree with that but let me ask you a question. WERE YOU OR ARE YOU PRAYING WITH YOUR KIDS AT HOME? Now Daniel didn't have any children but if he had he would have been praying with them and teaching them in the ways of the Lord. He wouldn't have changed one thing he was doing. If everyone in this nation who claimed to be a Christian was doing what Daniel was doing this nation would not be in the mess it is in today. Our foundation would be sure and solid because it would still be on the Solid Rock and not on the shifting sands of Satan's foundation of "Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law" (Law of Thelema).
Folks got upset and picketed and marched and hollered when they ordered the 10 Commandments out of Judge Moore's courtroom. I wonder how many of those protesting had dust on the Bible at home which contained those commandments as well as the stories which illustrated those laws. You ask: "Well Hillbilly didn't you get upset?" Yes I did and I prayed and read God's commandments just as I always have.

You say: "Well next they will come for our Bibles". That may be true but if they do many folks will have to hunt for them because they haven't seen their Bibles in ages. Me; well if they do I have much of it stored in my heart. They can't ever take away my knowledge of Jesus and what He did for me. They can't ever take away my testimony and witness as to what He can do for every man, woman, boy or girl in this world. They can never take Jn. 3:16 from me nor Romans 12:1-2. Eph. 2:8-10 is deeply embedded as is Psalm 23. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" will be on my lips as also will be "Going Home".
The lesson is simply this. Live as God would have you to live and you will never have to worry about the evil and wicked world. They may string their bows and nock their arrows to shoot at us but if we have put on the shield of faith which will quench all the fiery darts of the wicked (Eph. 6:16) we will be able to stand.

How can we "flee as a bird to his mountain" when Jesus tells us to stand fast having put on the whole armor of God in order to be able to withstand in the evil day. We are to stand and not run. We are to be exercising our faith daily. In the good times or the bad.

As with Daniel there should be no need to change what we are doing!

Hillbilly

Poetry Corner

The Holy Bible

I cherish my copy of the Holy Bible
Its words are engrained in my heart.
From the truths and wisdom in its pages
I am determined never to depart.

I believe its accounts of the Creation
Of how the human race appeared on earth
I cannot buy the fiction of evolution
Only the explanation in Genesis has worth.

Then there’s the story of the great flood
That was sent by God to wipe out man
I surely am thankful saving the Noah’s
Became part of God’s saving plan.

I love to read about Daniel in the lion’s den
And the Hebrew children in the furnace fire
Reading about all of the Biblical heroes
Is something of which I never will tire.

I read where they threw old Jeremiah in a well
He was a fearless prophet of old
We need more like this man of God
Who will preach the Word so bold.

In my copy of the Holy Bible I can
Trace the ancestry of Jesus earthly kin
And read how Jesus resisted Satan
When he tried to get God’s Son to sin.

When I get to the part of the book
That tells how our Savior had to die
That is when the story gets real serious
And I just want to stop and cry.

But my heart again begins to rejoice
When I read how the women came to weep
But instead their sadness turned to joy
Because the tomb our Savior could not keep.

The trials and tribulations of the early church
The Bible is faithful to record
So that when we are tested and tried we can
Learn from them and not forsake our Lord.

Old Paul, the Bible says, was shipwrecked
And he was beaten and left for dead
But from his calling to preach the Gospel
This once enemy of Christ never fled.

In the Book of Revelation we are told
Jesus will return to earth one day
To take home the Church, His bride
Who from the Bible’s teaching did not stray.

The Holy Bible has long been a best-seller
But too often it has been allowed to gather dust
Take up this precious Word of God
All its instructions and promises you can trust.

The books man has written are numerous
To preserve them we endeavor
They will all perish with time
But the Word of God will last forever.

Copyright © 2006 Thomas E. Kittrell

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