Build-a-Book Report # 9
Here is this week's "special" for your contemplation while I continue the tedious task of sorting and organizing the file material for my new book. Hang in there with me, as I have some new developments on that project coming up soon.
Moral Choices Today
As I watched the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night and heard about their worldwide tours, I couldn't help but wonder what other people around the world think of us. What is America (the U.S.) like? Is this how their people act? Cone breast covers and big protruding booties on the women circled the stage while the men thrust forth their prominent private parts in simulation of the sex act. Flashing neon bright colors streaked in and around their gyrating bodies. Dear God, I thought, Is this what America stands for, in their minds? It should come as no surprise that other races and cultures are questioning our modern moral choices.
Turn the dial. See God's view of this picture:
"These precious creatures are My creation. I love them dearly. But they don't know that. They probably know very little about Me, or if they do, they don't care what I think. If they did, they would not use their beautiful bodies--wonderfully made--to exalt meaningless passion over saving their bodies for the most intimate exquisite act of love for use with one's beloved spouse only. So magnificent is this love-in-action when rightly used, I have compared it in My Holy Word to my own relationship with My perfectly loved followers. What a sham humanity is making of something to vital to human soul-deep joy-filled happiness. What a loss to the true beauty of living!
"It is not too surprising to Me. I knew when the baby boomer generation threw off all symbols of authority in the late 1960s that their future and that of their children would be in jeopardy. Though they have long since realized that society is chaotic without a workable system of law and order, many have not yet realized their need of Me to keep their souls healthy, settled with the peace of God that passes all understanding. Even those who haven't given up on me are too busy with their material-driven prosperous lifestyles to remember Me and thank Me weekly on Sunday mornings--Me, the One who blessed this once heavily God-fearing nation with this prosperity. Who needs to commune with their Savior in remembrance of His holy sacrifice for them when the world has such pleasurable alternatives as golf or fishing, shopping, or dining in a nice restaurant?"
Yesterday morning the national news reported that a devastating tornado destroyed half the city of Joplin Missouri, ripping right through the middle of the town of 50,000. There have been more and more of these kinds of crises lately. To those who ask, "Where was God?" I reply, "How much evil will God allow to consume His creation until they start listening to Him again? Marriages are failing. The divorce rate is sky-rocketing. Job security is yesterday's story. And the popular shows on TV keep getting raunchier and increasingly filled with foul language and dysfunctional, senseless shows--even for teens and children. How long?" We live in an evil world. God did not cause that, but He does give us a better morally higher choice, one where values are constructive and people truly happier and content at a soul-deep level. It's our decision. And the price is free.
Your ever-loving book-writer and blogger,
Margaret
Turn the dial. See God's view of this picture:
"These precious creatures are My creation. I love them dearly. But they don't know that. They probably know very little about Me, or if they do, they don't care what I think. If they did, they would not use their beautiful bodies--wonderfully made--to exalt meaningless passion over saving their bodies for the most intimate exquisite act of love for use with one's beloved spouse only. So magnificent is this love-in-action when rightly used, I have compared it in My Holy Word to my own relationship with My perfectly loved followers. What a sham humanity is making of something to vital to human soul-deep joy-filled happiness. What a loss to the true beauty of living!
"It is not too surprising to Me. I knew when the baby boomer generation threw off all symbols of authority in the late 1960s that their future and that of their children would be in jeopardy. Though they have long since realized that society is chaotic without a workable system of law and order, many have not yet realized their need of Me to keep their souls healthy, settled with the peace of God that passes all understanding. Even those who haven't given up on me are too busy with their material-driven prosperous lifestyles to remember Me and thank Me weekly on Sunday mornings--Me, the One who blessed this once heavily God-fearing nation with this prosperity. Who needs to commune with their Savior in remembrance of His holy sacrifice for them when the world has such pleasurable alternatives as golf or fishing, shopping, or dining in a nice restaurant?"
Yesterday morning the national news reported that a devastating tornado destroyed half the city of Joplin Missouri, ripping right through the middle of the town of 50,000. There have been more and more of these kinds of crises lately. To those who ask, "Where was God?" I reply, "How much evil will God allow to consume His creation until they start listening to Him again? Marriages are failing. The divorce rate is sky-rocketing. Job security is yesterday's story. And the popular shows on TV keep getting raunchier and increasingly filled with foul language and dysfunctional, senseless shows--even for teens and children. How long?" We live in an evil world. God did not cause that, but He does give us a better morally higher choice, one where values are constructive and people truly happier and content at a soul-deep level. It's our decision. And the price is free.
Your ever-loving book-writer and blogger,
Margaret
