Good Lessons from History

 

Proverbs 30: 21-23

 “The earth trembles under three things; it cannot bear up under four: a servant when he becomes king, a fool when he is stuffed with food, an unloved woman when she marries, and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.”

We have seen this Scripture played out in our history in Venezuela’s latest President.  “Maduro grew up in a family of moderate means in Caracas, where his father was engaged in leftist politics and the labor movement. His early interest in left-wing politics led Maduro to pursue training as an organizer in Cuba rather than a university education. While working as a bus driver in Caracas, he became a representative in the transit workers union and rose through its ranks. When Chávez, then an army officer, was imprisoned in 1992 after leading an unsuccessful coup attempt, Maduro and his future wife, Cilia Flores, then a young lawyer, campaigned for Chávez’s release, which came in 1994.”  First, you had a leftist Chavez, who began to destroy Venezuela’s economy from one of the best in South & Central America to this; “The Venezuelan crisis is summed up in a recent report by the IMF as "one of the worst in the world" in the last 50 years.”  When you choose a community organizer, who is a left wing and in this case a bus driver with training from radicals who hate freedom and believes that socialism works, you have a problem.

What lessons should a free people learn from history, for the same thing has happened often in the past, in France many years ago, Germany with Hitler, and now in Venezuela, and there is a significant movement in the United States of America to socialism?  So many are ignorant of the truth, Jesus makes a bold statement, in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”  You may call that an absolute, it is not up for debate, but for all who are seeking after truth, you will find it in Jesus Christ.

Do not lose sight of the Truth, because someone who claims to be a follower of Christ acts in a manner other than what Christ has taught, even a follower of Christ can walk in the flesh and not obey the Spirit of God.  Today I had to confess to the Father that I said and thought many things about others but the only problem was they had not yet met Jesus Christ.  Yes, as my pastor often says we are a mess, but this I know the ground is level at the Cross.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice