Now what i write to herein are fundamental truths as have been demonstrated by deeds. I ask consideration not so much on any one person as it is on the total leadership of this nation. In what they have all done or failed to do to date and what they will do together going forward. As these men and woman of power all gather on the steps of our capital I could not help but to realize that we should all reflect on them and who they claim to be. Their smiles, handshakes, gestures of friendship and acknowledgments to each other reflecting their close ties. For they are in truth by those examples all one in mission and purpose. I leave that to you to ascertain what that mission is? However, by fact, the eyes of the entire world are truly on them and our new president. Yes and I ponder just what this New Age is all about that he referred to? Why the consistent theme of world? For it is in the listening, the seeing, the knowing that you are no longer blind.
So by fact, as we look around this nation we see in the millions of stories being played out all across this land hope. Hope in these men and woman we call leaders. To that end is this wrong? Well no, not in the sense of being who they profess to be. No, but a hope in what they do and will do and yes our Hope in a greater power who brings His plan to fruition, not theirs. So this article comes on the heels of my prior one. With hope that this nation will seek God first once again and that our leaders will be truly who they profess they are. In truth this has not been. By fact it is not so. So my hope is only in my God who's plan will be fulfilled, not any man's. I present you with what I have written below on this eventful day to consider. It is directly from God's Word. That is my God, who I and the majority of them profess. History and God will judge. I only ask of you who you profess, where is your hope, really? Let us consider truth. The truth is that men who are of God, do the works of God and propagate, support or stand for the deeds that God has set forth as acceptable to Him. They who are set against God, even while they may even profess God, do not do the Works of God, nor of His teachings. Simply speaking it does not necessarily reflect in one's works, what they accept, condone, do, or don't. It is that simple. No, not mans beliefs, interpretations, and agenda's. So by fact this is set before all. This is set before you to reject, deny or accept. It is simply as I say, that clear. We shall know them by their works.
What are these works?
1- The first is to place God first in all things and recognize His omnipotence over everything not in mere word but as I say in action and deed. In only those works will the nation and yes this world change.
2- The second thing is to do the work in humbleness, not pride or arrogance or disdain and for the general well being and welfare of all and with love of all foremost.
3- The acts of God are not those of sin as seen and demonstrated in this age via the rejection of God's Word as He set forth. No not in the interpretations of men verses God. Fact, the deeds that are made by men of God do not bring forth as I just stated an acceptance, a condoning or a promotion of illegal activities, usury, greed and sins of greater magnitude that not only destroy life in financial and other ways. To reconcile this as acceptable we all must ponder and choose.
Yes the signs that follow after a true person of God are simplicity, humbleness, mildness, meekness, gentleness, compassion, mercy, love of fellow man, obeying. Yes and the opposite of those, even who stand and profess, are those who bring forth not the true works of God or His doctrines.
It matters not ones station in life because all are subject to the same. So as God points out in His Word what are the signs that follow man? What does God say about He who created us?
Ezekiel 7:19 (New International Version)
19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the LORD's wrath. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has made them stumble into sin.
Isaiah 29
13 The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips , but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men .
Isaiah 30
Woe to the Obstinate Nation
1 "Woe to the obstinate children," declares the LORD, " to those who carry out plans that are not mine , forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;
Isaiah 45 [The lesson of our day]
I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
Romans Chapter 9.
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort , but on God's mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: " I raised you up for this very purpose , that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" 20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' " 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use ?
So now we get back to "The Book of Life" and my prior article and God's Word. It will be by your deeds, your heart that we will know and our trust in God, not man, that one is saved and delivered. Not by professing only. Yes and to trust in any man is folly. For man can only do that which the Lord God allows Him to do. Until that man, or any man, does the works, demonstrates the signs, places hope in God, he can not do, regardless of how much hope you place in him or them.
No, the lesson clear and simple. We already know the truth. Do you care to see it? Let us pray that our leaders are who they profess to be from this day forward. Yes, the works of men of God are simple. As set forth in Isaiah 58, this is the path for this nation.
As for me I would have felt better if as part of this mementos day that all there on that mall and all
across this nation, were asked to kneel and pray to the Lord God to forgive us our sin and heal our nation, and lead our new president and our leaders forward. In my opinion and belief, that is what I expect and hoped a man of God would do. That is what I expect would have gone directly from our new leader and not have been by invocation only but by deed and example.
So, it is now up to they who profess to do the deeds. The deeds that demonstrate who they are of. May God guide them in all they do from this day forward, for the Glory of God and Gods works, whatever they may be?
Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright 2009 Robert Melaccio Sr.
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