Make Your Face Shine upon Us

  

Psalm 67

 

July 1, 2022

 

Make Your Face Shine upon Us 

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us,  (Selah)   that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!  

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,  for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.   Selah

Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!  The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.  God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!

 

One must ask this question, should God be gracious and blessed and make His face shine upon a nation that has told Him He has no business in their government, or public school system?  A nation that leadership has disdain for Him and makes laws that conflict with His written word?  A nation that has killed 62+ million babies calls it a right for a woman to do as she pleases with her body.  As a follower of Jesus Christ and the USA is my temporary residents it is not home, no home is where my Lord is with the Father, and it is not anything like this.

 

If you are part of the body of Christ if you are in Christ and He is in you, by faith in His death and Resurrection and now He sits by the right side of God the Father in Heaven making intercession for His Church.  This place is not home, but we should be telling all that will listen that God cannot bless our nation or any nation that sets its heart on doing evil, and as stated above that is the USA.

 

What can the Church, not the Baptist or Catholic or some other man-made denomination but God’s Church, people who by faith in the finished work of Christ, and by the grace, God has given put their faith in Him alone?  It can begin by asking forgiveness for allowing the world's evil system to have a part in their lives, they can pray to ask for forgiveness for the many sins of our nation against God and His laws and Commands.  But its real goal is to go and tell, each of us has been called to share what God has done for us.  I am like many in the Church, I get caught up in all that is going on and forget my calling to go and tell.

 

I hope for a day when all nations will praise our Lord, which will happen, but only when Jesus returns, this time as Lord of Lords and King of kings.  Then the nation will come and honor our Lord.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice

 

P.S. What would happen if the Church awoke and followed Christ?  Maybe you and I should begin with “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and your neighbor as yourself.