Good morning! The rain clouds are moving off and the day dawns quite cool out here. Of course I can only see to the east out of my window so there may be huge storm clouds coming that I don't perceive. It is interesting how in this life we often make judgments or pronouncements based on only what we can perceive. Only through God's Holy Spirit in our hearts can we see what we need to see in the Bible, God's own Word. Even the so called "natural" world is often not as we perceive it. When Paul reminds us that we fight against powers and principalities, that is no idle warning. There are powers that we cannot perceive in this world and some of them hate us. The world would tell us that God does not exist, or has taken a step back and will not interfere. However, without the powerful hand of God keeping the world intact and imposing limits on the evil ones, we and all the world would be destroyed by the hatred of those we cannot perceive. Does that sound a bit frightening? The visions that Milton, Dante, and the modern horror writers have do not come from nothing. I am not saying that a vampire will come out of your closet tonight, but that we should cling to Jesus in this world. We know from science that there is much that we cannot see with our eyes, but we do not know how much we do not know. What angels are fighting or standing watch on our behalf that we cannot see? Is it any wonder the world would try so hard to convince itself that the spiritual does not exist? It is very comfortable with its head in that sand!
Praise God for the strength to endure!
Bucky
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