Labor Day, raise your hand. I'm for the Holiday. It's not always an easy holiday. Children have seen their school year unfold and have needs. People usually do retail therapy. Labor Day seems to be fitting in a vacation before the rest of the year unfolds. A Celebration of summer, but it will be some time before the Holidays.
For most of us, we are in the process of overcoming.
Today, we are considering the last 12 shootings done by Trans individuals. In the last century, the men found in homosexual relationships were horribly forced to take female hormones. Those men said and said and said, this hurt their minds. We can't forget what this says. It isn't a trend that is without victims. Especially children. These are adult decisions and should not be profit taking. No one speaks of the knowledge of the last century. And more and more people are beginning to say this was a horrendous thing to take the wrong hormones.
The children involved in these shootings have seen what we all hope never to experience. These children probably worry their lives haven't started out well and wonder if they are blessed in this life. Labor Day. Many questions about the future and the larger world.
Isaiah 30:18
Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
He rises to show you compassion.
For the LORD is a God of justice.
Blessed
are all who wait for Him
One of the few ways fiction mimics life, the evil actor is generally not alive after generating the violence.
People do not seem to mention this as we discuss what evil forces caused the violent to set forth to do harm to the innocent.
It is baffling why in the 1990s, we all dressed to look sleek and dark after the cinema heros were, generally, not really heroic. There can be an odd situation when those who are harmed then try to mimic the violent. I know someone, who chose her after divorce personality to be the same as her decades 'friend' who ended her marriage and then married the husband. Seeking safety unwisely in modeling after the harmful or violent.
Then again, never spend our lives anticipating doom. We must be the people who believe Blessings and God are for us.
Isaiah 65:23
They will not toil in vain or bear children
doomed to misfortune;
for they
will
be a people blessed by the LORD,
they and their descendants with them.
The Scriptures wisely point out to be as innocent as doves and wise as serpents.
Matthew 16:16,17
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in Heaven."
If we must consider acts of random evil done upon this Nation, then we must consider another day of the everyday living. Men at work, seeking to prosper their families, and a supernatural event changes the world.
Luke 2:8-15
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them,
“Do not be afraid.
I bring you good news of great joy
that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you;
He is the Messiah, the Lord.
This will be a sign to you:
You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
Suddenly
a great company of the Heavenly Host
appeared with the angel,
praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the Highest Heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom His favor rests.”
When the angels had left them and gone into Heaven,
the shepherds said to one another,
“Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about!”
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this Child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
This day, the first day of The Lord's plan to save the world.
The world was used to slavery, of war victims, family selling family, warlords taking citizens to slavery, slaughter, pirates, early death, starvation. Murder of warring neighbors and clans. Towns that suddenly were at war and the whole of the town was filled with blood and death. Forced marriages, trafficking of family. When the 325 A.D. famous Nicaean Council sent invitations out to the Christian Bishops, historians say 1,800 Bishops were invited by the Emperor Constantine. And fewer than 450 agreed to meet a Roman Emperor.
It wasn't seen as an honor to meet the head of the Roman Empire. It was an opportunity to be fed to lions, set on fire, put into slavery, killed by pirates, potential shipwreck, killed seeking shelter for the night. There was no hotel network, because one of the greater ways to make a living was robbery of the stranger.
And in fact, the faithful 1,400 Bishops missed the Labor Day Achievement of the entire world by staying home. If faith had caused them to look UP and not to such safety, their lives would have been blessed. The Nicaean Council was bringing Christianity from punishment to Blessing of Knowing The Lord Established.
And did the Lord wait until 325 AD to change the world? The Book of Acts records the wide ripple immediately during the first days after Good Friday and the first Easter. When Peter and Mark showed up in Rome, 16 years later, the Emperor Claudius knew of Jesus Christ and was killing Christians. Peter had Mark write His Gospel because the people meeting and worshiping in the Roman Catacombs knew of the Jesus Miracles and wanted to see what they had experienced put down on papyrus. The Gospel of Mark is the Hit Parade of Roman Interest in the First Century.
The compassion people sought and the next 300 years of praying for one another changed the world. Women were not as much chattel. Roman laws of marriage were changing. Women could own property and not be property.
If we must consider the sudden wars and violence, we must also look at the good
the world has learned to do.
The Lord does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. In Genesis, The God of All said His Creation is Good. Even when the Garden of Eden is polluted with self-seeking. Psalm 24 tells us, The Earth is the Lord's and the fulfillment there of. Jesus Christ tells us to proclaim our Love and Faith to All of Creation. Because if we tell of our faith, we are filling our lives looking at the Good.
God Himself
has given us
Labor
John 6:29
Jesus answered them,
“This is the work of God,
that
you believe
in Him
whom He has sent.”
Abba, Father!
WE PRAY
BLESSINGS
Because every time, in Church,
we pray
"Be with us now, and in the hour of our passing"
You, Father,
answer
Prayer!
Thank You, Father.
and
GIVE THANKS
FOR YOUR BLESSINGS
FOR YOUR BLESSINGS
THANK YOU
The safety
of Your people.
The safety
of those
helping the earth
to heal.
Let evil and practicing evil
depart
far
from us
and our children.
With Your Help
We will act justly
and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with You, our God.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for He has visited and redeemed His people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of His servant David
As He spoke by the mouth of His Holy Prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies
and
from the hand of all who hate us;
to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember His Holy Covenant
The oath that He swore to our father Abraham,
to grant us
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve Him
without fear
In holiness and righteousness before Him
all our days.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways,
Father Dennis Zehren
and
the Nation
to Overcome
Violence,
especially to children.
to give knowledge of salvation to His people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy
of our God.
Whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
We pray for the Nation
suffering this storm,
God's Mercy and Blessings.
For all our families!
Dwell in me,
Dwell in us,
Dwell in those we Love,
Help us to seek You first.
And we will finish well,
in Jesus Christ.
Help us seek and find
and bring,
to become,
more Heaven
to this earth.
Matthew 6
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret.
And your Father who sees in secret
will reward you.
Blessed be the Highest Name
of Jesus Christ
Bless the Holy Spirit as the
Light of mankind
Light of the Nations
Light of Heaven
Blessed be our Father
bringing us His exact nature
in Jesus Christ,
Lamb of God
Savior of the world
Forever
and ever.
Amen!
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
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