On this Thanksgiving Day, let us each and everyone stop to consider the Father’s loving plea to us. In a world so caught up in counterfeit joys, let us for a moment consider the truth of God. He who gives us life and being. Created in His image, yet, given the liberty to choose. As we look around us and inside our own hearts, let us examine for a moment all that we see.
Has humankind become more kind, loving, and united in joy, love and peace by seeking after humanism. Have we of our own efforts evolved this world into a Utopia? No, because only God can make that which is infinitely good, righteous, and just. Only He can shine forth truth and light into the deception and darkness, humans have chosen. Why would He allow all this? Could He not have caused everything to remain good? Yes, but then there would have been no choice for you and without choice you could have never understood all of His attributes, nor could you have known what love or mercy is. You would have been no more than a programmed robot. Would that have been loving or kind? I think not.
The FATHER’S Loving Plea: Free to choose
Instead, God chose to allow all of us to see the depth of depravity, that we might see the magnitude of Glory. Always providing a way for our salvation, if only we choose. He willingly came to earth and paid the price for our sin, that we might through faith know Him and know what is truly good, kind, and beautiful beyond our own imaginations. And why has He not yet returned to change all this? He is waiting with patience that you might choose Him. That one more might come to know Him. How long will he wait? We do not know but we do know, one day their foot shall slip. He will not tarry forever.
Deuteronomy 32
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my [a]teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As raindrops on the tender herb,
And as showers on the grass.
3 For I proclaim the name of the Lord:
Ascribe greatness to our God.
4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect;
For all His ways are justice,
A God of truth and without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.
5 “They have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus deal[b] with the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father, who bought you?
Has He not made you and established you?
“For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them.
29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end!
‘Is this not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up among My treasures?
35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;
Their foot shall slip in due time;
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’
36 “For the Lord will judge His people
And have compassion on His servants,
One day He will return, but until that day, the Father’s Loving Plea continues on.
The Father’s Loving Plea
What have I done to you my child That you would scorn my love, defiled The grace with which I reached for you Cast aside for something new Chasing after some new toy When I alone could give you joy What was the reason that you ran Believing lies you chose your plan So far away from me you trod Forgetting I am your One true God Before the earth was ever born I loved you, named you, and did adorn You with a life, a heart, a song I wanted you to then belong Forever safe within my arms Protected, loved from all life’s harms Yet, without choice you’d never know The depth of love I could bestow You’d never feel a love so true If choice was never given you And so, my child I bid you turn From all the passions that you yearn For they will only cause you grief And rob your joy just as a thief Does steal all that is truly good Destruction left where once you stood Despair and pain do rob your soul The bitter lies do take their toll Oh, hear me sounding forth alarms Pursuing you with open arms What does the Lord require of you? To hold fast My truth, the truth you knew Was written in your heart and more It shineth forth from shore to shore Humbly bow before My throne Where there you name, your being known Surrender all into My hands So, I may heal your heart, your lands One day, oh soon, I’ll say it’s done Restoring Justice in My Son And on that day, oh let it be You stand with Him, in victory Do not be left behind in scorn Eternally to weep and mourn When Christ has paid the price for you By faith alone, I will renew Your heart of stone, I’ll take away That you might live with Me that day I will not force you, you are free That is the price of liberty And yet, I bid you come to me Where I will truly set you free From earthly bonds and sin filled chains That injure you and cause such pains Jesus came and died for you To pay the price that’s justly due For every thought and deed you’ve done I placed upon my dear, dear son So willingly he bore the pain To wash you clean, remove each stain And cloak you in His righteousness If only you in faith confess Mercy, love and grace my gift To all who now are lost, adrift Upon the tempest storms of life So tortured by the sorrow, strife Just come accept my gift of love I bid you from my throne above I will forever hold you tight Will all my strength and all my might That one day soon you too may see The Glory of my Majesty
DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD? He is our only Hope in Life and Death! Our Joy is found in Him.
Therefore if you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord: I urge you today. Go to my page titled How to Be Saved by clicking on this link. There is nothing more important than this; because He is the way, the truth and the life. Therefore, I urge you to seek Him today.
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©Effie Darlene Barba, 2021
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