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Every morning my lovely wife reads for us from one of two hymnals we have that contain songs from the eighteen hundreds and earlier. Yes, I said read, for neither of us can read music, and our singing talents, so to speak, are best reflected in this verse. “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;” (Eph. 5:19) Many, if not most of the songs in those books, are about release, release from the burdens of life, the struggles that were in those days, and to tell the truth, all the days before them. They contain phrases of desire to be gone, removed, from the day-to-day struggle just for survival, and the rest awaiting all who have been born again in heaven that they speak of is a real need, for life was difficult. “And having food and

One of the books in my possession is about a man simply known by the name of Brother Lawrence, a large man who was lame in his feet and spent the majority of his life in a monastery. Twice a day he was instructed to retreat into his room and have a private time of prayer, which he did, but he could never completely understand why, for he was nearly constantly in prayer and communion with the Lord throughout the entirety of his day. “Pray without ceasing.” (1st Thess. 5:17) I watch at times different content creators on social media who many times start their videos with words similar to this. “I felt led to bring this to your attention,” or “I believe the Lord wanted me to make this content.” I don’t always shy away, so to speak, from those videos, but many times I do, and usually for

There are two items of this world that have always sold well, that have enticed people to spend their money, that have caused them to venture outside of their normal behavioral patterns and perform tasks that they would not necessarily concern themselves with. One is sex, the other is fear. And our adversary understood the need for both of them in his desire to perform the tasks, if I may use these words, that he was created for. “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” (Eze. 28:15) To believe that the Almighty did not know what Satan would do long before He even created him would be foolishness, our adversary was created for an intended purpose, yet without delving too far into that truth, the choices he made while in heaven as the covering cherubim were entirely his.

Would you care to know just how far a righteous person can fall? He chose the best of the land in the valley before him, and then eventually set his tent facing Sodom. After a period of time unbeknownst to us, he folded up his tents and moved into town, actually becoming so well known as to be one who sat in the gate, a man of wisdom and understanding. One must wonder what the cities of that valley were like when he moved into town, were they slowly becoming depraved, or were they like that when he moved there? And then, one must question, in either case, why did he stay? He had the means and financial wherewithal to go almost anywhere, but he stayed. In fact, after Abraham rescued him in the war of the Five Kings, he went back to Sodom. And one must wonder about the