For what do you pray?  Is wealth the answer to all which confronts you?  Does longevity bring closure to your worrisome heart?  Would you be pleased by position, power or fame, provided platform through which to change the world?  Is peace what you pray for, hoping that man will suddenly change course and care for his brother if not more than himself at least as much?  Perfect days, quiet nights, fun and contentment, what finds its way to the top of your requests to God?  What would make your life complete, worth-while, fulfilled?  Is it things, a state of living, an achievement, a prize, a person or a dream?  Or is it knowledge of the God who made you, understanding of your worldly purpose and completion of His Will For your life?

On this celebrated day, we were given the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ to end the war between God and man.  We were exposed to a plan beyond even the Angel’s comprehension.  Look they live with God and still they are amazed at the mystery of salvation.  An angel will never see salvation.  God loved us so much that He prepared a method, a path, a Way by which we may not just be returned to our original design but something greater still.  This is the thing of prayers yet oddly runs low on the list of mankind’s wants.  This is a glorious story which we raise to tell for one day, week or month each year yet nearly forget the rest of each year.  There is no other treasure which may even come close in valuation, all else rings tawdry on the spectrum of price when compared to God’s rescue of humanity from sin, death and damnation.

We have been told.  We have been instructed.  We have been warned, yet we fail to listen, even those of us who calls ourselves by His Name.  There is only one explanation for the tragedies which plague this nation, this region, this species and the Globe.  That is we continue to forget there is a God and He will not allow certain behaviors in His world.  Our experts point to all manner of logical sounding psychology, philosophy and science to offer causality for our suffering.  World leaders pronounce the failings of markets, politics and publicans for the demise of nations.  But the only heralds who hold the answer, historical understanding and pulpit by which to proclaim true, remain silent in comfortable fear.  We are suffering because we will not listen to God.  We are failing, as he foretold because we will not humble ourselves and beg His intervention.  And we are destitute because we will not learn what must be learned in order to understand what will soon come to pass and become subsequently driven to preparedness and right standing with Jesus Christ the Lord.  If you aren’t saying it then you are fake, false, naive, disobedient and self-serving.  It is after all not about our comfort but for those who have not yet heard His Word of Grace, Mercy, Salvation and Peace.  If you have received this glorious gift which amazes even the Angels and have not found the overwhelming compulsion to share it with those who have not, then you have never comprehended this gift yourself.  We are a nation that once believed and understood the requirements of Christian Faith, we have now been deceived, forgotten or just plain left our jobs to those who would do the work.

This gift is worthless unless passed on to the next person needful of salvation, abundance and life.  Do not allow it to sit upon the mantle above your comfortable fire, gathering dust.  Pass an ember on to those who have no light, no heat, no warmth.  Bring light to the darkness, bring hope to the lost, bring joy to the destitute.  The light shall prevail by dispelling darkness will you raise the torch to cast away shadow?  Repent of your personal sin and surrender to the Lord in your service to the Kingdom.  Praise Jesus the King in all His mercy Love and Grace.  Amen.