Who Knew?
'Don't proselytize me...Don't proselytize me? I wouldn't dream of it.
But, no matter if you will listen or not— There will come a day when anything you have built your life on will be tested. Money, career, family, even God.
There will come a time when you will stand face to face with God who will either be your Savior, or your judge. And you will have already chosen which it will be.
I'm reminded of the movie Shenandoah starring Jimmy Stewart. In the beginning the main character doesn't bow to the idea of God's providence. In his meal time prayer he thanks God for all of the things that, as a man he has worked for.
"Thank you, God, for these things, even though I've worked and worked hard for them," is the gist of his prayer.
By the end of the movie war has ravaged his family and his life, and he has come to recognize that without God's blessings all of his hard work is worthless.
My mother used to say, 'Figure long, figure wrong'. She had seen her share of plans go wrong. She built her life on weak and shifting sand.
Each generation not taught the truth of God ebbs further and further away from the 'faith of our fathers' and has no firm foundation to build on.
God's truth has a cure for all human kind's ills, but it won't cure all of our ills. Not because it couldn't, but because the salve left in the bottle won't heal the wound it isn't applied to. The medicine left in the bottle won't help if it isn't taken.
