Walking In Spirit

Day 16 John 11:39-40

I spent the afternoon walking around in Washington DC today. It is rare when I travel that I ever get to see anything but occasionally the timing fits. I started out at the Lincoln Monument. For some reason, I felt like that was the place to start. I stood and read some of the things that are written there; some inspiring and some dissapointing.

When God speaks to us, we should faithfully do as he asks. Sometimes it may be that there will be a great stench unleashed, but that shouldn't be suprising in a world full of dead men. When Lincoln took his first term in office, there was a threat of Civil War in the air. He too would soon have a stone to roll back regardless of the stench behind it. As promised, there was great Glory to God shown from it. I think Lincoln summed it up pretty well in the last part of his second address after the war was over.

"The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether"
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." - Abraham Lincoln

God is calling..... Roll back the stone.