Praise God For Us

Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day.
  -- Proverbs 23:17

We find it easy to compare our circumstances with another person's circumstance and leap to some conclusions. Whatever your place is in this world today, I say praise God for both of us! The Lord God has led each of us to the place He wants us to be by our faith in Him. Now, as for our comparison to and perhaps envy of that other one, the rich one, famous one, powerful one, whoever he or she may be, if that person is a known sinner then our Lord has a proverb for us to recall. The first part can be summarized as, "Don'tcha do it!!" One of us may even ask our Lord the why of us not being rich, famous, powerful and so on. If He answers it may be to tell us of a tragedy that He prevented. That tragedy being that in those circumstances one might be forever lost as a sheep convinced that he or she did not need a savior, having accomplished in his or her little sheepy mind all this world had to offer by a sheep's own merit. The other part is of course to turn to the Lord always with reverence and zeal for Him!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend! Praise the Lord our God for those He called home in the service of our nation.

Bucky