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turtle30cshell Daily Devotions For October 25, 2020
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10/25/2020

Daily Devotions:
by Christina Farris

1 Thessalonians 5:1-10 KJV
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

Prophesy and events of our world today sometimes seem larger then life, and at the same time we must understand that something have already happened during the Democrate administration that is coming to pass in the Republican Administration. Some of the turmoil we have seen in our own land has to do with the Holy Land and the events of prophesy of time of peace and safety. President Trump doing more negotiations in the Middle East that began to be fulfilled since the time of World War II and through Obama administration. Something taking place because some countries are tired of war and destruction and desire to try peace. God's word says that when you hear peace and safety destruction comes just like woman giving birth. I was listening to a minister on tv prophesy not good if President Trump remains for a second term that he will have many struggles the next four years. I stop there for a moment and say not a blessings on a president of your party. Not a blessings and hope for a better and brighter future. Then I listened a little more and I said to my husband heard enough change the channel. We all feel this way when it comes to our own nation and the hope we have for it because of our freedoms and not our struggles. It does not matter, our nation struggles and it is a fact. It might be wealthy and it might not be at the present, it matters not, the American dream is still alive to have hope to do the thing we desire to do in our life life by pursuing happiness. Our hope and future all resting on what, the hope of a brighter tomorrow of things we know and not necessarily understand to come.

Maybe that my whole point when we hope is rested in how well we do and hope to do only to have destruction come. Peace is like that, man made peace will not last. Destruction coming like woman giving birth, with contraction of pain to only expand to when a baby is born in sorrow. If you ever seen a building rebuilt to only be destroyed the same way it was destroyed the first time and only perhaps the fire being much worse, one can only imagine what peace brings but more destruction, why because of the birthpains of peace is only on paper and not the heart and minds of the people yet. The feuds of yesteryears still etched in the heart. If we look at the destruction of the World Trade Center it was hit two different years, 911 most popular and i think the other year 1995. Anyway, first attack not so destructive and rebuilding took place only to have the whole building destroyed. I seen the resturaunt in a local town rebuild only to be destroyed that same way.

The world is going through what some might call a building process of hope for the Middle East and Israel. With that comes building project of hope and destructive force of man's fury that divides. Our mindset can be peace and safety, but with it comes the bullets of unsafety, uncertainity and so forth. The question is will true peace arrive. The world of cowboys and Indians and shoot outs long gone, but the Indians still face hardship, misery and pain due to white man. Our country says I seen more mask, more this and that, and if i was on reervation I would refuse it based on the small pox epidemic, after all can they not make mask. I would take them from mission people and use them, because their goaled is to aid and assist. As peace come far enough that Indians take what the government gives out?

People in desperate need, to feel safe, and protected even within the word of peace and safety. The hope realized but the reality far from true. The hope of real peace can come to soul during times of chaos, mayhem, and fear, and it comes through Christ Jesus the eternal redeeming hope of eternal life that is to know that we spend every day with Jesus and even if absence we are then present with our Lord. Our rest coming with God's protective hand in our life despite the destruction in our world during the time of the cry of peace and safety and it be never more because God's judgment is not safety for the heathens but safety only for his people.

Here is my cry this morning, that those that listen to the words and peace and safety remember we have hope, but hope is still only on paper and not a full reality yet. God's peace is the everylasting hope through Christ. It takes time to build peace and even with peaceful structure can come desvastion. No one though a pandemic would reach us, no not true, many illness have reached our shores, but this one cause much destruction, only peace is still found through Christ Jesus.

Another example is freedom of the slaves it took years for Black man to realize his full freedom as white man adjusted to the knowledge of the call to equality of all people. That point it takes years and even decades for true change to come to the hearts and minds of the people. A process that can not be made quickly no matter how much everyone either wants it or not. Change in our nation with our education seemed to happen over night, yet colleges were already online education, so the change to lower ages were not so difficult only perhaps for teachers to adjust. That the point we look at change coming to individual and the segregation coming to the home life and even to our classrooms.

Yet for abused child it is a total nightmare that does not end. What then do we fail once again, of course, but it issues that can be fixed with changes in laws and reporting from neighbors, store owners and cops. Peace and safety for the good moral man, Peace and safety for God's children that trust in Jesus. The walls of socializing closing in as if one is old and not young. What can we do as children of God despite the evil of our time, but to concentrate on love, hope faith and salvation that Christ will return for his people. We put on the full armor of God on and share his love with the world around us.

There will always be partiers, those that stay up all night without even working a nightshift to see or listen to the world around them. Some living in the darkness of evil only to be separated by the children of light. How far can this pandemic take us into two world's fully be separated. I am not sure. The world is living in their nursing home because of a pandemic. Yet peace and safety is shout because everyone inside their homes. It what outside the door people worry about. All craziness, perhaps, but the moral point is Christ is till among us despite the pandemic, the chaos, the destruction, despite death for Christ is the hope we have in our hearts of a better tomorrow, the true peace that will come and not isolate us from each other. The biggest homecoming of God's people to rejoice and share with Christ return.

Be watchers of the things around us, know that time is short for Christ return, yet we not the day in which he comes but that he comes as the flood of Noah's day came, the time of Sodom and Gommorah came. We will be taken up into the sky only for destruction to reign down on the earth and destroy it. We wait for God's salvation and it for all that will believe. Think where they believe Noah Ark rest in Mount Ararat and if so how did it get there, the flood water was that high. Christ return will come, and destruction will be of the earth and heaven above, but New Jerusalem will be a place of safety.

Dear Heavenly Father, remind us of the continual hope of peace through Christ Jesus, and that manmade peace is not eternal, but only shadow of what we long for not just in words but reality. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Matthew 24:29-42 KJV
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

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