Christian Reflection and Prayer

It's time for you and I to talk!
Not about meaningless things,
but about something that means
everything to you and I.  Let's
talk about all these people who
are demonstrating in some of the
bigger cities of this country.

LET'S TALK ABOUT GREED!
THAT'S RIGHT .....GREED!

To all of you, especially my
"Christian" brothers and sisters,
THIS IS A MORAL ISSUE! 

This is a moral issue that has been
made into a political issue.   The
greedy are in control. Wall Street
is ruining our lives.  As Christ
threw the "money changers" out
of the temple, we need to throw
the "money changers" out of our
government, not by violence, but
buy peaceful demonstrations, and
most of all....by voting.  Many of the
people who are running for political
office and control of our lives are
they themselves controlled by the
"money changers"!  Not since the
Great Depression have we seen
and have been affected by such
greedy people.  People who care
only for themselves and for their
self indulgent lives!

Please, Please, don't be fooled!
They will call themselves good
Americans, they will call themselves
good Christians, and they will call
themselves good and decent
people.  THEY ARE NOT!!  THEY
ARE FOR ONLY THEMSELVES.
This is directly opposite of the life
and teachings of the "One" of
whom they claim to have faith.
This is the very opposite of Jesus
Christ.  You cannot, I repeat
cannot, care about your neighbor
and only love yourself.  You cannot
make other lives better when you
only care about the betterment of
your own life.  Isn't that why we go
through this process of voting, to
place control on people who care
about the betterment of all our
lives. 
So please get out into the streets,
talk to your friends and neighbors,
and most of all, "VOTE FOR
PEOPLE WHO CARE!"

Pastor Kim

Scripture:
   
Their only suggestion was that we
keep on helping the poor, which I have
always been eager to do.
Galatians 2:10, NLT    

Reflection:

The apostles were referring to the poor
of Jerusalem. While many Gentile converts
were financially comfortable, the Jerusalem
church had suffered from the effects of a
severe famine in Palestine and was
struggling. So on his journeys, Paul had
gathered funds for the Jewish Christians.
The need for believers to care for the poor
is a constant theme in Scripture. But often
we do nothing, caught up in meeting our
own needs and desires.    
Perhaps we don't see enough poverty to
remember the needs of the poor. The world
is filled with poor people, here and in other
countries.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

(Life Application Daily Devotion)

For any who feel wordless, even in their
attempt to pray, I offer this story.

A young boy, age five or six, was impressed
by the Russian Army,  As he grew older, he
retained a simple cognizance of his
Jewish heritage, despite Russian urging to
forget.  In his teens, the spark in his soul
ignited, filling him with the desire to
return to Jewish tradition.  He found a synagogue,
in which men wrapped in prayer shawls cried
out to God even into the late afternoon. 
Childhood memories returned, and reflecting over
his years of separation, the adolescent began to
weep.  He entered the synagogue and opened
a prayer book,  The letter seemed familiar, but he
couldn't put them together into words.  Turning
his eyes toward heaven, he cried, "God, all I
remember is the Hebrew alphabet.  I will read
the letters; You put them into words.  And
forgive me,"  AND GOD DID.

Didn't St. Paul say something like this to us?

"Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness;
for we do not know how to pray as we ought,
but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too
deep for words".  (Romans 8:26)

(C. John Weborg)