God's View of Marriage is Illegal

This country is steadily and slowly turning away from God and the laws which He declared. It seems like every time His laws come into conflict with what a few in society want God loses. Today the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 banning gay marriage were both struck down as unconstitutional by the supreme court. My heart breaks every time things like this happens because I know what is in store for this country. These same people who want to be able to do whatever they want and think that God will continue to bless this nation. How mistaken they are! We now stand in judgment from God as we as a nation have rejected Him and His standards.

Our nation has gone from a nation that was founded on godly and biblical principles to a nation that wants to separate itself from the Creator. Revisionist historians have been trying to wipe out the truth  by rewriting history. They claim the forefathers never thought about Christianity when they were founding this nation. They will have to eliminate just about every building in DC and rebuild to remove all the references to God and the Bible which are found in DC. Even the Supreme Court has the Ten Commandments found in their room. This is the very same room where they declared that having the 10 commandments in our schools was unconstitutional! This same court said that murder of unborn children was a constitutional right of women and since that time millions of unborn children have been executed by abortion doctors for no other reason than the fact they were not wanted. Most of those  were aborted simply because they were an inconvenience. There are more laws on the books that protect animals than that protect the unborn. Now marriage as defined by God  has been  determined by the supreme court to be unconstitutional and that the standards which God has set up can no longer be adhered to publicly. I wonder what this minority of people who are living a perverse lifestyle will tell God when they stand before the ultimate Supreme Judge when He passes His judgment on them? Nothing anyone can say will ever justify their sin before God! The thing that saddens me the most is the fact that they want to be able to marry like a man and a woman and end up in Hell for all eternity. Christ died for their sin as He did for everyone else yet they refuse to accept His sacrifice. God is love but He is also just and holy and because of that everyone who dies in their sin will be held accountable. God doesn't want anyone to perish but all come to repentance and eternal life! God does not change His standards. The world can change its standards all they want but ultimately God will prevail because He is God Almighty and eternal where this world id temporal and will pass away.

We need to pray for God's forgiveness for this nation. Just as Israel turned their back on God and faced judgment, who are we to expect something different when we do as they did? This should be a wake up call for us as believers to not only pray but begin to take a stand for what is righteous and holy no matter the cost, Time is short! Lets redeem this time for God's glory and His kingdom! After all folks, we are on the right side no matter what the supreme court tells us! Lets pray for those who are lost that they will come to Christ and have their lives changed!

The Problem With Birdbaths

   Birdbaths are a great way to watch birds and to offer them some refreshing during the hot sweaty days of summer. Of course I don't know if birds sweat but I sure do when I am out in the hot sun. I noticed tonight the birdbath was low on water so I grabbed my bucket and got some water to put in the birdbath. I noticed the water was pretty dirty so I emptied the birdbath and cleaned it with a brush. There was some algae growing in it along with some bird doo  plus some things I am not sure what they were. I then filled it back up with some fresh water and it looked really inviting. As I was cleaning the birdbath I began to think about our lives and how easily our lives can become full of dirt and polluted with all kinds of garbage. We can become just like the birdbath.

As I was cleaning the birdbath, I was thinking of what my life used to be like before I knew Christ. I was a sinner who had sin that needed to be dealt with by God. So when I accepted Christ as my Savior He began to cleanse me from my sin and gave me a new Spirit to dwell inside of me. Much like the birdbath, we can end up with all sorts of garbage in our lives from all sorts of things and even people. Our lives need to be cleaned on a regular basis if we want them to stay clean. If I want the water in the birdbath and even the birdbath itself to stay clean I need to get clean it on a daily basis. We are admonished in the Word to crucify our flesh daily. What does that mean for us as believers? It means we have to give up our desires and our plans everyday and allow ourselves to be controlled by God and following His plans and not ours. We need to put Christ first in everything. The Holy Spirit is there to help us walk the paths of righteousness And when we do we keep ourselves pure and spotless when it comes to fleshly desires. We have to choose to keep pure and clean before God. I thank God that He loves us and wants to provide everything we need and He does cleans us from all our sin if we only ask Him. But oh how easy it easy sometimes to slack off doing things we ought and end up dirty and full of stuff we don't really want. The sad thing sometimes we settle for the dirty polluted water of this earth and lose out on the clean refreshing water God has for us. I just cannot imagine how God must feel when we opt to be a dirty birdbath when He is there to help us stay clean before Him.

I had no sooner got the birdbath clean and refilled with cool water and walked away when I saw some finches come to the birdbath and begin to drink. They are picky and will not use the birdbath when it is dirty. So here is the big question for you today. Are you willing to be a dirty birdbath and not offer the world anything of value or are you willing to be a clean birdbath and offer refreshing living water to those around you? And in today's world, people are seeking the living water that fills us even if they don't know it yet!