January 27, 2015 Tuesday morning and it is a bit cool this morning, I am showing 26 in my back yard. I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday, we just took it easy most of the day and really relaxed pretty well, today? I’m not so sure what is up on the wall for today. A few days ago I told you about the book I had just bought, “The Complete Guide to the Bible” by Stephen M. Miller. Well, in my first flipping through the book and I ran across a piece in the book about terrorism, it makes the terror we are experiencing today sound very tame. But as I have given it all some thought there may be a very major connection. Long before Jesus was born there was a people called the Assyrians, a very ruthless people who took pride in their treatment of their enemies in their wars. One time the Assyrians decided to attack Israel and the came into the area of Judea. They destroyed 46 Jewish cities and their treatment of the Jewish people was terrible. The terror that they bestowed upon those people was such that I do not feel that I should put it here, there may be some of you that are just too sensitive to the things that went on. They killed women and children as well and it was not a pleasant thing to even think about let alone tell you about. Babies were killed right in front of their mothers, women were brutally raped then killed. The men were mutilated in many different ways and their bodies would be stacked up like firewood. Here is something I find very interesting, the Assyrians came from the area we now know of as Iran and Iraq, where are the modern day terrorist from? I cannot truly say that the modern day terrorist are related to the Assyrians but I do have a great suspension that maybe they do. I’m sure that if we were to start looking around we could find other people that caused as much terror but I don’t believe that anyone has ever been any worse than the Assyrians. I will tell you this, the Assyrians would make carvings of their conquest and then mount them on the place walls. We have all heard about the real Count Dracula and his obsession with impelling his enemies up and down the roads near his castle, that is but continued action from the Assyrians. That is but a little sample of their brutality, I hope and pray that the modern terrorist don’t start practicing the methods of the Assyrians from Biblical times. Things are very hard in this world of ours, no matter what you do you can’t win. Sure, you may gain great wealth and want for nothing but what do you truly have? You may own all the land that one can see in any direction, what good is it? Without the love and guidance of our great Almighty God you simple have nothing at all but with His love, even though you don’t have two pennies to rub together, you have all of life, both here and now and for all eternity. All the things of this world will not give you the joy that the love of God can give you. All the land that you might survey is but a dot on the map compared to the vastness of all the universe that is yours in Christ. Stop looking for your next dollar, your next car, your next house and start looking toward Jesus, give that extra dollar to someone who may truly need it. If you can’t give a car to someone who may need one, then give them a ride to where they may need to go, open your house to those who need a warm rest from the cold nights. Showing the love that God has shown us toward others will bring us more joy than all the money in the world, there is no joy like Godly joy. fbcjonesboro Matthew 28:18-20 (ASV) 18 And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:36:24 +0000
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