FAMINE IN THE LAND

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A person's honor and word is everything.  If you can not trust someone
how long do we associate with them.  Like the saying goes; "Once
burned twice shy".

Many times we reap what we sow.  Yes we create many of the situations
we find our selves in.  If this country had lived by the gospel as
they started out doing it would be very different today.  

Keeping God first in all things is the key to a peaceful and happy
life but it is the one thing everyone fails to do.








---Fretwell@aol.com wrote:
>
>                FAMINE IN THE LAND
> 
> When  Joshua entered the Promised Land, he was soon met  by  some
men  clothed
> in deceit, (read about it in Joshua ch. 9) who  said they  had come
from a
> very distant place.  They lied, but  Joshua didn't ask of the Lord,
and made a
> league with them.
> 
> Within a few days, he was called upon to defend them against five
other  kings
> who  were mad at them for having  made  peace  with Joshua  and
Israel.  God
> managed to turn the bad situation  which Joshua had created by his
mistake,
> into a victory for Israel.
> 
> God  intends  for us to keep our word-- even when it  is  costly. 
Psalms
> 15:1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?  who  shall dwell in
thy holy
> hill?   Psalms 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he
honoureth
> them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and
changeth
> not.  
> 
> We  learn, that over 400 years later, when Saul was king  of 
Is-rael,  Saul
> broke the National word of Israel to the  Gibeonites, and slew some
of them.
> Then, later, Saul died.
> 
> After David had been reigning about 35 years, II Samuel 21:1 Then
there  was a
> famine in the days of David three years, year  after year; and David
inquired
> of the LORD. And the LORD answered,  [It is]  for  Saul, and for
[his] bloody
> house, because he  slew  the Gibeonites.    And the king called the
> Gibeonites, and said  unto them;  (now the Gibeonites [were] not of
the
> children of  Israel, but  of the remnant of the Amorites; and the
children  of
> Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal
 to the
> children of Israel and Judah.) 
> 
> Think of it-- nearly 40 years had gone by since Saul's  murderous
breach  of
> National honor.  But God DOES NOT FORGET.   Time  DOES NOT HEAL a
breaching of
> our word.  
> 
> Bro. Clinton Brown used to preach that even if we missed God when we
said we
> would do a thing, if it had not been God's Will at the time,  it
suddenly
> BECOMES GOD'S WILL for our life when  we  give our word that we will
do it.
> God EXPECTS us to keep our word.
> 
> I have often wondered just how much of our National and  personal
distress
> has been caused by the breaking of our word  of  honor, which we
have given at
> some time.
> 
> Our  great  nation is not yet 400 years old, and  many  different
> "administrations" have come and gone since that beginning.   Have
some of the
> reversals of policy by some of those  administrations been
contributing
> factors to the mess we find ourselves in today?
> 
> I  wonder.  What about my own life?  Are some of my problems  the
product of
> my own makings?
> 
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> INSIGHTS</A> 
> 

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