If we can learn from history...

Good Morning,

During the American Revolutionary war, a Methodist preacher in England said the following about the people of England as they engaged in putting down the rebellion in the American colonies:

"In this hour of tremendous danger, it would become us to turn our thoughts to heaven. This is what our brethren in the colonies are doing. From one end of North America to the other, they are fasting and praying. But what are we doing? Shocking thought! We are ridiculing them as fanatics, and scoffing at religion."

and

"If the colonists thong the houses of God, while we throng play-houses, or houses of ill fame; if they crowd their communion-tables, while we crowd the gaming table or the festal board; if they pray, while we curse; if they fast, while we get drunk; and keep the Sabbath, while we pollute it; if they shelter under the protection of heaven, while our chief attention is turned to our troops; we are in danger-in great danger"

And here we are some 234 years later, and the tables have turned. The Americans are now the ones who are forsaking the house of God and ridiculing religion.

As our culture moves away from God and his word, we too can find ourselves on the losing end of an event that we should not have lost.

I take this warning seriously and look to the Lord for guidance, to get back into the house of worship and to get right with him each and every day.

It is my hope you will too.

Sanford

sanford@berenberg.net