Belshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar's kid - so it didn't take long!). When I first read the interpretation of what the hand wrote on the wall the second word struck me. It is something like God has set you on a scale and found you lacking. Gulp. There is a verse in the NT , well all over the place there are these verses but it says something like…
Belshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar's kid - so it didn't take long!). When I first read the interpretation of what the hand wrote on the wall the second word struck me. It is something like God has set you on a scale and found you lacking. Gulp. There is a verse in the NT , well all over the place there are these verses but it says something like the fire will try every man's work to show what sort it is. (like good works remain and the dross gets burned up). Gulp. I don't want God to look at me and find me lacking!
Anyway, I think the hand is getting his pencil sharpened for America. BUT we can still go to Him with prayers for revival. I thought we made a small turn a few years ago and we certainly did when we made a good stride against abortion so there is hope. There is always hope, until he writes and you don't see an eraser at the tip.
Love your metaphor about the "eraser", Raptor. Actually....the fountain of Christ's shed blood OBLITERATES all our SINS and SHORTCOMINGS....that beautiful, old Christian hymn, "There's Power in the Blood"--remember that one?
I appreciate so many of my fellow C & C'ers comments since I started commenting myself. I was a "troll" for 18 months--but NO MORE. Participating in the exchange of encouragements and exhortations with fellow believers is SO CRUCIAL to keep us "occupying" and "shining" until our Lord Jesus Christ descends from Glory and shouts, "COME UP HITHER" to His "bride".
Belshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar's kid - so it didn't take long!). When I first read the interpretation of what the hand wrote on the wall the second word struck me. It is something like God has set you on a scale and found you lacking. Gulp. There is a verse in the NT , well all over the place there are these verses but it says something like the fire will try every man's work to show what sort it is. (like good works remain and the dross gets burned up). Gulp. I don't want God to look at me and find me lacking!
Anyway, I think the hand is getting his pencil sharpened for America. BUT we can still go to Him with prayers for revival. I thought we made a small turn a few years ago and we certainly did when we made a good stride against abortion so there is hope. There is always hope, until he writes and you don't see an eraser at the tip.
Love your metaphor about the "eraser", Raptor. Actually....the fountain of Christ's shed blood OBLITERATES all our SINS and SHORTCOMINGS....that beautiful, old Christian hymn, "There's Power in the Blood"--remember that one?
I appreciate so many of my fellow C & C'ers comments since I started commenting myself. I was a "troll" for 18 months--but NO MORE. Participating in the exchange of encouragements and exhortations with fellow believers is SO CRUCIAL to keep us "occupying" and "shining" until our Lord Jesus Christ descends from Glory and shouts, "COME UP HITHER" to His "bride".