FROM THE KEYBOARD

God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad to our greatest calling. You see, He does His greatest work through broken vessels, not golden vases. "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us" (2 Corinthians 4:7).

It's not "good fortune" but God's favor that works things together. You see, good things don't just work out, but rather, it is God who works things out for good. "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).

Without a declaration of repentance, our land will lose its God-given independence. You see, our country was born 246 years ago, but it's time to be born again. "If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14).

The cross of Christ is the gavel that incriminates. All are guilty there. And yet, it is also the grace that exonerates. Anyone can be forgiven there. "But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world" (Galatians 6:14).

"God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart." (Charles Spurgeon)

Calling sin an opinion doesn't stop sin from being poison. And that is why softening what the Bible says so as not to offend, isn't loving, it's lying. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).