Sunday, November 2, 2008

Above all...Love



I thought it especially fitting this week to echo Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation:

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free In Jesus' name, Amen!"

Vote - but above ALL, may we remember to LOVE as He first loved us.

3 comments:

shelbi said...

this is a perfect meditation ruth...just perfect!

Anonymous said...

Thank you for finding and posting that. It does capture the times we are in currently. It's difficult not to feel overwhelmed by the culture and I need to remember that God's "hand controls power and might" as it says in 2Chronicles.

Unknown said...

Hello Ruthie my friend,

Love, above all... you've been that way as long as I've known you... hmmm that's been 35 years.

It was such a pleasure to get a note from you on Facebook. I hope you check this as I didn't know how else to get ahold of you without the WORLD seeing my every word. I guess I'm private and can't stand the thought of facebook. I'm only on it to stay up with Audri (my daughter) who is on it pretty often.

I'd love to hear from you on my personal email. It's hatch.cheryl@gmail.com

Hoping this reaches you soon.
Hugs,
Cheryl Hatch