From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 5:27 AM

Subject: 12-2-24 THOUGHTS

12-2-24   THOUGHTS

Prophecy normally took refuge in times of trouble.  There would be a better time in the future.
Surely there’s a difference between foolishness and righteousness.  Verse 5 notes “ No more will fools become celebrities, nor crooks be rewarded with fame.”  This all seems appropriate for our day.   May we be the “noble make noble plans, and stand for what is noble.”  May  we open our hearts and hands to those in need.  A quote from “Ducky” in NCIS  “I’ve always found my giving most fulfilling when I could look them in the eye.”  

                      (please read from a good word for word translation)
Isa 32:1-8   Message Bible    But look! A king will rule in the right way, and his leaders will carry out justice.  2  Each one will stand as a shelter from high winds, provide safe cover in stormy weather. Each will be cool running water in parched land, a huge granite outcrop giving shade in the desert. 3  Anyone who looks will see, anyone who listens will hear.  4  The impulsive will make sound decisions, the tongue-tied will speak with eloquence. 5  No more will fools become celebrities, nor crooks be rewarded with fame. 6  For fools are fools and
that’s that, thinking up new ways to do mischief. They leave a wake of wrecked lives and lies about GOD, Turning their backs on the homeless hungry, ignoring those dying of thirst in the streets.  7  And the crooks? Underhanded sneaks they are, inventive in sin and scandal, Exploiting the poor with scams and lies, unmoved by the victimized poor. 8  But those who are noble make noble plans, and stand for what is noble.

My Prayer:
Father, we long for a time of love and rightness.  May Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  May Your will be done, period.  May we be the purveyors that which we desire, that which we know to be true and good.  Help us to be kindly bold as we spread the Good News of our Savior.  We love You our God, the source of all that we are and hope to be.  We pray in Jesus,     Amen.