--Jesus
My eleven year old granddaughter and I sat on the couch last night watching the Grammy Nominations program. After Taylor Swift's sensually suggestive performance, we talked about the transformation of young ladies like Taylor and Miley from family-loving innocents of light to fame-following instruments of darkness.
I asked her what she thought these girls would say if someone had shown them, at the age of eleven, the script
of their life and the kind of things they would be promoting in their twenties. "I think they wouldn't believe they would be doing things like that, grandpa," Vanessa replied.
____________________________________________ "The wicked strut about freely when what is vile is honored among men." -Psalm 12:8
____________________________________________ I pray that my granddaughter will continue to grow in her moral convictions and be a light to her generation who are easily duped by a wicked world system bent on violence and self-rule. A world that will not honor the King of Light, Love and Life. A world that exalts death, destruction and disease while giving lip-service to compassion. A world that demands tolerance to open mockery & disdain for all things sacred.
There is a sorrow that mourns for those caught in the web of deceit and the destructive power of sin. There is a deeper sorrow that yields to fear when hope is overwhelmed by helplessness. Imagine spending three years of your life in intimate contact with the Power that convincingly overcame the world. Imagine the hope ignited in your heart for a world ruled by righteousness. Imagine the deep sorrow when hope was dashed at the cross by this rebellious world.
Imagine the joy when Hope was resurrected!
Do not marvel, then, follower of Jesus, that darkness grows deeper as the vile strut freely about, making it harder to see the Lord. While the world rejoices in less accountability and conviction, let us not lose hope knowing the joy we will see when Righteousness finally rules this world!
I asked her what she thought these girls would say if someone had shown them, at the age of eleven, the script
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____________________________________________ "The wicked strut about freely when what is vile is honored among men." -Psalm 12:8
____________________________________________ I pray that my granddaughter will continue to grow in her moral convictions and be a light to her generation who are easily duped by a wicked world system bent on violence and self-rule. A world that will not honor the King of Light, Love and Life. A world that exalts death, destruction and disease while giving lip-service to compassion. A world that demands tolerance to open mockery & disdain for all things sacred.
There is a sorrow that mourns for those caught in the web of deceit and the destructive power of sin. There is a deeper sorrow that yields to fear when hope is overwhelmed by helplessness. Imagine spending three years of your life in intimate contact with the Power that convincingly overcame the world. Imagine the hope ignited in your heart for a world ruled by righteousness. Imagine the deep sorrow when hope was dashed at the cross by this rebellious world.
Imagine the joy when Hope was resurrected!
Do not marvel, then, follower of Jesus, that darkness grows deeper as the vile strut freely about, making it harder to see the Lord. While the world rejoices in less accountability and conviction, let us not lose hope knowing the joy we will see when Righteousness finally rules this world!
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