October
Text Box: Pastor’s Thoughts This month’s thoughts do not originate from my own inspiration but rather from the writing of Reimar A. C. Schultze from Kokomo, IN. Seldom do I read something in which I am in total agreement but Brother Schultze shares some a wonderful truth that fits right into my frame of thinking and what I felt should be shared in this issue of “Pastor’s Thoughts”. I hope that it speaks to you as it has to me. *The Devil Exaggerates and Twists Truth When truth is exaggerated, it ceases to be truth. The universe is so delicately balanced that it cannot hold one single untruth without serious consequences. You cannot have science without truth. Science without truth throws everything into disarray. This is why you see nations who hold truth in high regard being the most advanced in science and technology. From this it can be said: “Whenever theology suffers, science suffers.” What is true of the physical universe is also true of the moral universe. Therefore it can be said that theology is the queen of all sciences. Since Adam and Eve, there has been spiritual darkness upon the face of the earth because lies were introduced to man by the devil. God told Adam and Eve that there was only one tree in the garden from which they should not eat, but the devil came to Eve and created doubt in her mind by asking her:… Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? (Gen 3:1 ASV) What is the difference between one tree and any tree? God told Adam and Eve not to eat of “one tree” in the garden, but the devil said they should “not eat of any tree.” That was a preposterous exaggeration. The devil always tries to make things look worse by blowing things out of proportion. With any problem that you may have, the devil will take it out of context and make it look worse. The devil will make your problem look larger than your God. This is true whether it is about a family problem at home; or a problem at your workplace, at church or in your heart. God is far greater than any problem you will ever have. For example, when Moses and his people stood between the Red Sea and the angry Egyptian army, it looked like a gigantic problem to Israel. It looked to them like their problem was much larger than their God. To Moses, however God was greater than their problem. That fact gave him faith and God did a miracle and saved them all by dividing the waters in the front of them so that could pass through on dry ground. Consider the story of Elisha when a host of Syrian chariots and horses surrounded his house to capture him. That was a gigantic problem. The only man he had with him was his servant. But Elisha was a man of faith and he saw what the servant did not see. Faith can see what unbelief cannot see and therefore Elisha asked God to show his savant what he saw. Following is the story: And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. (2 Kings 6:16-17) You need to walk close to God, my friend, and then you will see through problems like Moses and Elisha did. You can then live above the devil’s tricks. *CALL TO OBEDIENCE Reimar A.C. Schultze Pastor Danny