History
“Now go, write it
before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to
come for ever and ever” (Isaiah 30:8)
Today’s Morsel: Do you know your church's
history? Can you explain how it began? “The most effective way to destroy
people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history,”
said George Orwell. This is so true. We see it with the children of
Israel. Moses had admonished them, “And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the
land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to
give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, And houses full of
all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst
not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have
eaten and be full; Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.” (Deuteronomy 6:10-12) The book of
Deuteronomy is nothing but Moses giving the children of Israel a history
lesson, and yet they fail the course. In Acts 7, prior to Stephen’s stoning and
death, he gave them a history lesson in hopes that they would understand where
they had come from and who Jesus Christ was. They fail the test. They forgot
their history and they were destroyed. I am afraid that even here in America,
we have, and we are forgetting our history. It is not being taught to the next
generation. We have removed the status that told our history, and now the next
generation will have no clue. They think this is the way it has always
been. They have no clue about outhouses for bathrooms, segregation, or
the sacrifice made by men and women during the world wars, just to mention
a few things. Thus, the people and nation will soon be destroyed. As the Lord
admonished through the Prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to
me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy
children.”
(Hosea 4:6) Don’t ever forget where you come
from.
Sing: Tell me the story of Jesus, write on
my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious, precious that ever
was heard. Tell how the angels in chorus sang as they worshiped His
birth; glory to God in the highest, peace and goodwill to man on earth.
Thought For Today: The only thing that
will destroy America is herself (Abraham Lincoln)
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