Men can’t live without Him, and be men!”
–Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot)
“For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.”
–Romans 1:16 (NLT)
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Take a gander at the following epitaphs; they were actually put on tombstones.
On the grave of Ezekiel Pease in Nantucket, MA
Pease is not here,
On his pod
He shelled out his Peas
And went to his God.
On the grave of a grave digger
Hooray my brave boys
Let’s rejoice at his fall.
For if he had lived
He would have buried us all.
One more–on a grave in Silver City, NV
Here lays Butch
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
I have often wondered at the initials on tombstones or when people say it when someone dies. R.I.P. — Rest In Peace. I guess they say it to make others, or themselves feel good, but in reality many of those who are R.I.P. are not really doing so.
But I want to mention a question raised by Dave Roever in his newsletter. “Must we die to Rest in Peace?” With the terrible shooting yesterday in Florida can we say that we are at peace? Our nation is seeing darkness move across it; the darkness of immorality of a “dark, mental state.” Roever states that “We are a ntion at war, not in the Middle East only, but at home. It’s a spiritual war and it’s deadly. The spiritual state of the Union is cold. Cold and dying.”
A member of the F.B.I. stated on television after yesterday’s shooting that the cause is the moral state of the country. I read where one of those on the view mocked Vice-President Pence and said that he had a mental disorder because he talked to God, and even worse God talked to him. Oh my, how deadly that we would have men that listen when God speaks.
Go back to your school days. Did you ever fear going to school and worried that some nut would come in and start blasting away? We have the media taking constant shots with little or nothing to back up what they say; people do not have to be guilty of any charge, for to be accused is to be guilty–no peace. We have judges making decisions “according to thie wicked conscience, or total lack of conscience.” Praying is not allowed, and any religion or thought is alright unless it is Christian.
If this continues there will be even less peace. There will be a “famine of peace, rest and righteousness.” We must realize, no matter what the liberal left says, no matter what the pseudo-intellectuals say, no matter what the scorners and mockers say, that the only way to have peace is to have faith and hope in Jesus.