I really don’t have to confess this here because I’ve voiced nothing here about last Wednesday other than revealing an afternoon of prayer, but I am.
I got caught up in the grieving, emotional grieving, rather than Scriptural grieving, I’ve come to see. I repent!
Assassination. It’s heinous! No one deserves that! Neither should a mere human be idolized, yet we may be seeing it done, I’m afraid.
Still others may, as a result of Wednesday, turn over a new leaf, but I’ve discovered leaves blow every which way with raw emotions.
A new leaf will not cover us. Please recall with me in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve made for themselves coverings of fig leaves.
A new leaf, we might say.
The Creator rejected their leaf coverings and He made for them coverings of skin (coverings which they accepted!).
He made those coverings because He required and still does a Blood Sacrifice for the remission of sins. Please note that the Requirement is HIS Requirement, and that HE is the One who provides the means to satisfy the Requirement. What more could we ask?
I have marveled again and again that many people are content to watch the shedding of blood in movies, even paying for such in the name of entertainment. Moreover, some resort to shedding blood themselves, either as we saw on Wednesday or in so-called medical clinics, etc., and yet to speak of the BLOOD of YESHUA (JESUS if you prefer) is an affront to more people than to those that it is not. Go figure that.
We are a blood-thirsty world, but not for the cleansing, regenerating Blood of the ONE who can give us LIFE, here and now, and forever.
So, as a result of September 10, 2025, please don’t turn over a new leaf, don’t make resolutions to read your Bible, and do good deeds. Yes. I did say that.
Instead, seek with all your mind, heart, every ounce of your being to KNOW The JESUS of the BIBLE (the Reading and good deeds will follow). Please seek to know the JESUS who is better than any new leaf you can turn over again and again and again.
I am not interested in you or anyone setting out to follow a bunch of dos and don’ts. I am interested in you and everyone having a saving, never-ending encounter with The GODMAN, who is worthy of our love, trust, worship, adoration, and allegiance now and forever.
Today, I am not going to expound on patriotism, America, or any of that, other than to point you to what JESUS said at Mark 12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him. Mark 12 I hope you will use the link; perhaps you will notice it is taxes we owe Caesar. And in some of the Epistles of Paul, we are commanded to pray for all the Caesars of the Land and to obey the laws of the Land that do not violate the Scriptures.
What else Scripture tells me that I owe to this Land, I know not.
This temporary Land we do appreciate, and it would MOST benefit from our unwavering and exclusive allegiance to our Creator GOD, revealed to us in JESUS the CHRIST, quickened to us by HOLY SPIRIT through the Scriptures.
So yes. Do we need to read our Bibles daily? Absolutely! But not because we have a new leaf but because we desire to be cleansed from head to toe, inside and out by the BLOOD of the Risen LORD of The Universe.
One more thought: salvation is not a fire insurance policy that we apply for and then go on with our old sin-filled ways until cash-in day. Nope. See Matthew 7:23
