“FLOOD!”

Me-Maw thoughts

Number 701

September 17, 2024//

Isaiah 59:19B (KJV)

When the enemy shall come in like a flood,

The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

This scripture came to mind as I was pondering all that has happened in our country lately.

It seems the enemy of all that is good is busy causing chaos and destruction in quantities we have not experienced before in the United States.

We who are Christians know that God is raising up voices of right and voices of common sense, to stand against evil.

I want to share with you one thought that I read a long time ago on this scripture.

The commentary on this said that many believe that the translators had the comma after the word FLOOD, in the wrong place. This thought was that it should be a few words before it after the IN.

This would cause that sentence to read: “When the enemy shall come in, like a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”

The enemy may bring chaos on every hand, but God floods this earth with a standard raised against the enemy.

Evil may get more media coverage, and our teens and youth are being attacked from every side, but God has a people who may not be in the media but are spreading Love, Peace, the Gospel, and a better way.

Multitudes are living every day as a light to a dark world!

There is revival on college campuses and an awareness of a change that needs to come.

Most American’s want peace to live, and work and enjoy their families without fear of guns being drawn at every turn. They want to be without fear of their children being given drugs or killed by a lost and confused individual.

How will this happen, by allowing the Spirit of the Lord to Flood this earth with good through each of us.

I have said it here before: We cannot do everything but each of us can do something to spread good and stomp out evil.

It is evil that would cause a creation of God almighty to shoot fellow classmates and teachers.

It is evil that would cause one of God’s creations to be bent on killing an individual running for President because they do not like that person.

It is evil that is filling our schools with drugs and violence.

But it is Jesus that can change that. Jesus is the answer because accepting his sacrifice on the Cross changes’ individuals from the inside.

We can use laws to try to keep evil under control, but you really cannot legislate good. Good must come from a changed heart and mind and that, dear reader comes from Jesus Christ, the Savior of all who believe and receive!

As Christians, do we really believe that Jesus is the answer to all the questions the precious creations of almighty God are looking for?

If we do, we need to do what Matthew 5:16 tells us to do!

Matthew 5:16 (KJV)

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Does our daily life show good works?

Good works is doing the best we can every day and doing it all as unto the Lord! It is showing kindness and mercy to those who are all around us who need to see through our life that there is a Savior who loves unconditionally.

It is reaching to the hurting and lifting them up with a word of encouragement and it is letting the Love of Jesus show through all we do.

This will bring the good and the right flooding into all the dark and hurting places of our world.

John 3:16 (KJV)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

May we show that Love!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come. Thank you so much that our hope is built on the security and knowledge we have of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let each of our lives shine the light of God’s Love to those who are searching for the answers. Amen!

Love, MeMaw