Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs

Verse 4 reveals that this psalm is not only about David but is also a Messianic psalm: “He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days forever and ever. “

Just as it was in David’s day, so in these days we are surrounded with enemies that despise, hate, resist, and reject the name and person of Jesus Christ. However, our King Jesus is making ready His arrows upon His strings. Once again, He will cause them to turn their backs and flee.

As parents, we are co-laborers with Jesus Christ to ensure that our arrows (our children) are ready to be placed on the strings of the Lord’s bows.

Psalm 11:12: “For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.”

We are aware that that Satan has plenty of ready arrows with the media and left-wing ideologies. They are sharp and shooting at the upright in heart.

We must not fear or throw up our arms in despair. Rather, we must make sure that our quivers are filled with READY, HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTED ARROWS. Then we will never be ashamed before our enemies within our gates (Psalm 127:4, 5).

Luke 1:17: The Elijah anointing will “turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; TO MAKE READY A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD.”

Matthew 25:10: “And they that WERE READY went in with him to the marriage; and the door was shut.”

Luke 12:40: “Be ye therefore READY also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.”

1 Timothy 6:18: “That they do good, that they be rich in good works, READY to distribute, willing to communicate.”

1 Timothy 4:6: Paul confessed: “For I am now READY TO BE OFFERED.”

Titus 3:1: “BE READY to every good work.”

1 Peter 3:15: “BE READY ALWAYS to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”

1 Peter 5:2: Concerning the oversight of the church, elders should pastor “not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy lucre (for payment of money), but of a READY MIND (a willing mind.)”

Revelation 19:7: “Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife HATH MADE HERSELF READY.”

There is no question that God wants a READY AND EQUIPPED PEOPLE to accomplish His warfare. May God save us from being unprepared, slipshod, out of order, not up-to-par, rusty, and antiquated.

Blunt, unpolished arrows who do not have parents to sharpen them up and make them ready are plainly not good enough for the bow of the King of kings.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

Psalm 120:4 “Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.”

In ancient warfare they attached burning, live coals of the juniper tree to the heads of the arrows. They shot these arrows over the walls of the city on to the roof tops to set the city on fire. They were very destructive arrows.

YOUNG PEOPLE ON FIRE

It is wonderful when young people get on fire for God. Their enthusiasm is magnetic to behold. I remember when we lived on the Gold Coast of Australia and our children were in their teen years. We had a very “on fire” youth group in the church I founded on the Gold Coast. They would go out to the main gathering place in the center of the city called Cavill Mall. It was an outside mall because of the tropical weather.

The young people would begin street preaching where hundreds of people milled around shopping, going in and out of nightclubs, cafeterias, and coffee bars. These young people were so “on fire” that they would soon gather a crowd of by-standers. The people were astounded that these young people were so “on fire” for Jesus Christ. There is something very pure and innocent about it.

As a young teen, our son, Rocklyn, would preach like two Billy Grahams put together. Both the boys and the girls needed to lift their voices and gesticulate with their arms as there were no microphones. Quite often the police would shove them on because their crowd began blocking the footpath.

THE FIRE OF GOD AND ZEAL GO TOGETHER

If we are on fire for God, we will have zeal.

The prophetic Scripture of Jesus in Psalm 69:9 says: “The zeal of thine house that eaten me up.”

The psalmist in Psalm 119:130 confessed: “My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.”

OLDER PEOPLE ON FIRE FOR GOD

It is great for young people to be full of zeal and on fire for God. However, it is just as important for older people to have the fire of God, their spirits burning hot within them in all matters concerning God’s house.

Just because you are middle-aged or even in your senior years, does not give you permission to let the fire die out. God commanded in Leviticus 6:12 and 13 that the fire upon the altar was never to go out. NEVER, EVER!

I want to be more on fire for God in my senior years than at any other time in my life.

If you have the fire of the zeal of God burning within you people will want to listen to you. It is possible to preach God’s Word without fire and zeal, but it will not move people. It is possible to speak the truth with great eloquence, but it will not change the listeners. It must come from a spirit that is ignited by the burning fire of God.

FIRE CREATES MORE FIRE

The great thing about fire is that it creates more fire. When the fire of God is upon us, we’ll release a riot or a revival!

Psalm 39:2, 3: “I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was HOT WITHIN ME, while I was musing THE FIRE BURNED; THEN SPAKE I WITH MY TONGUE.”

The New Living Translation says: “But as I stood there in silence—not even speaking of good things—the turmoil within me grew worse. The more I thought about it, the hotter I got, igniting a fire of words.”

The Passion Translation says: “My heart burned with a fire within me, and my thoughts eventually boiled over until they finally came rolling out of my mouth.”

The word “musing” means “complaining or murmuring, meditation or musing.” David is putting more fuel on the fire. Musing also stirred his sorrow about the wicked all around him. He did not want to say the wrong thing, therefore he shut his mouth. But as he mused upon the state of the wicked the fire became hotter and the sorrow increased. He could bottle it up no longer and therefore spoke, and I am sure with great fervor and conviction.

To be continued.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

Numbers 24:8: “God shall pierce them through with his arrows.” God spoke this prophecy concerning Israel through Balaam, the prophet, who was hired by Balak the king of the Moabites. Balaam prophesied that Israel would be arrows to pierce through their enemies. The king of Balak did not want to hear this prophecy. In fact, it made him very angry.

Would to God that such a prophecy could be applied to God’s people today. Sadly, the enemy’s arrows have pierced us.

However, this prophecy has application to all God’s people throughout all generations if we will only wake up. God calls us to be involved in true spiritual warfare.

If we train our children to put on the whole armor of God, take a positive, militant stand in prayer, and teach them the true art of spiritual warfare that involves binding and losing, we will very soon pierce through the defenses of our enemies. Abortion and homosexuality would soon be overcome. All unholy practices would soon be shattered and pierced through.

We most certainly will not be militant against one another. Nor will we be militant against those whom God wants to save, for we do not fight against flesh and blood. Our real enemies are sinister, spiritual ones that are the driving force behind the physical.

Israel of old was always victorious in piercing rhough their enemy’s defenses if God was with them and on their side. If God was not on their side because of sin in the camp Israel suffered enormous loses.

2 Corinthians 10:4: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.”

Nuclear weapons (perhaps the mightiest weapons on planet earth) cannot defeat the principalities and powers that drive the evils of this world. It takes Spirit-powered arrows that are sent forth from our “on fire” prayer meetings and from the Family Devotions we hold around our breakfast and evening meal tables.

These are the simple, but powerful weapons, like the simple sling that young David, who became one of Israel’s greatest warriors, used to bring the mighty Goliath down to the ground. Goliath epitomized the proud and arrogant strongholds of the devil’s camp, but could not stand against God’s weapons.

The mighty weapons of God include the heart-piercing arrows from home schooling families, morning and evening devotions, coupled with simple, earnest prayer, praise, and worship which accomplish more than any atomic weapon could ever accomplish.

Our weapons are so basic that most Christians don’t even entertain them in in our day of sophisticated modern warfare. All the while we hold this attitude the enemy’s fortresses remain unpenetrated and unmoved. The arsenal of the true Christian family and church include the humble, yet highly effective blood of the Lamb, the word of our testimony (which is the Word of God in our mouths when we pray and testify), plus loving not our lives unto death (applying the cross to every area of our lives).

We must not despise these humble weapons if we wish to pierce through the strongholds of the powers of darkness.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

Picture: Daniel and Allison Hartman announcing a new arrow to arrive in their family.

Arrows were often polished with olive oil which in the Scripture represents the Holy Spirit. God wants all His arrows to be polished with this greatest polishing oil, especially designed for all His children.

Oil was always put upon the head. Psalm 23:5 says: “Thou anointest my head with oil.” Each one of our children need their heads anointed with the oil of the Holy Spirit. The head of each arrow is most important. It must penetrate and inflict maximum damage on its target.

The heads of all our children must be anointed with the Holy Spirit—with their minds and thoughts to think God’s truth, their eyes to see what God wants them to see, their ears to hear what God wants them to hear, their mouths to speak what God wants them to speak, and their faces revealing His polished glory.

Exodus 29:7 says: “Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.” This is speaking of Aaron the first High Priest of Israel who represented our High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ whose head is also anointed with the Holy oil.

Hebrews 1:9: “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” Read also Isaiah 11:2; 61:1-3; and Acts 10:38.

Psalm 133:2: “It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments.”

Psalm 104:15 states: “And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.” God does not want any of His arrows to have unpolished faces. He wants them to shine with His glory.

Exodus 30;30: “And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.” Not only is our High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ anointed with holy oil, but God wants all His sons to be anointed with the holy oil

All Christian parents are ministers of this holy oil to polish each one of their sons and daughters.

Be encouraged,

Colin Campbell

The arrows God calls forth from the wombs and loins of godly parents have bright eyes and bright countenances. They are arrows that are educated in the truth of God’s Holy Word and not the humanistic reasoning and teaching of educators who do not walk in the light.

Light begets light; darkness begets darkness.

The arrows God calls for not only reflect light like the moon on a clear night, but they also emit light because the true source of light dwells within them.

God calls all Christian parents to “make bright the arrows.”

A dumbed down society cannot make bright arrows, only dumbed down arrows. Drugs, pornography, and all types of immorality tend to fog and dumb down the human brain, the affections, heart, and spirit as well as character and creativity.

The Scripture in Jeremiah 51:11 exhorts us to make our arrows bright. To make bright arrows does not happen spontaneous or automatically. It takes sacrifice, diligence, and hard work.

God does not want us to make average, ordinary, dull arrows that will not bring honor and glory to His name. As Christian parents we must take full responsibility to make sure our children are brightened by the education and lifestyle we provide for them.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

P.S. We will continue to look at the different kinds of arrows God wants us to raise.

God has mandated us to “be fruitful and multiply and have dominion” as well as giving us the ability to do so. The problem we have is of our own making. If we will only humble ourselves, be teachable, and raise the children God wants us to have, we will quickly change the voting dynamic.

In our counties we have allowed ourselves to be deceived by Satan-inspired education and media. Without a doubt God is behind, and backing, all conservative, moral values and the devil is behind all left-wing humanistic, extreme socialistic values. However, we who call ourselves conservative, need to wake up and be fruitful and multiply in the natural realm so there will be people to be fruitful and multiply in the spiritual realm.

The question remains: how can we swamp the voting booths if we do not bring to birth the voters and raise them at home with biblical, conservative values?

Because we face so much negativity in the main stream media and left-wing state schools and colleges, I cannot see for the life of me any other answer to our national dilemma.

The democratic idea is to open the gates to illegal immigration, hoping that they will vote for them. However, I think it is high time we woke up to do things God’s way. God always provides for us if we will only do it His way.

We cannot expect to win elections, no matter how hard we array, if we keep doing things according to our own mindset and reasoning. This is the humanistic way. Humanism, simply explained, is humans doing things according to their own wisdom and reasoning. This is building one’s house upon the sand. When the storms come, the house falls.

But Jesus told us in Matthew 7:24-27 to build our lives, homes, and nations upon His teachings and His words so that when the floods come and the wind blows, the marriage, the home, the family, the city, and the nation will not fall. Those that do otherwise will experience a great fall. This is what Jesus said: “And GREAT was the fall of it” (Matthew 7:27).

We who are conservatives can agree on this point, that we desperately need more conservative voters.

And everyone said, Amen!

Be encouraged,

Colin Campbell

I guess it will have to me!

God was very merciful to conservatives on Election day, November 6th. I was saddened that we lost the House of Representatives. We did not have enough arrows in our quivers to vote in the conservative candidates needed to hold Congress for the Republican agenda.

I believe the answer to this dilemma is simpler than most Christians realize. However, most do not want a simple answer; they want a philosophical answer.

The problem is so simple to see that even a blind man could see it, at least in his mind. That is, we need more people to vote conservative. Many of the races were very close and it would not have taken many more votes to swing the election of the House to a conservative favor.

I will say it again, for the simple answer to sink into our brains as well as our hearts—we desperately need more Christian, conservative moms and dads to bring to birth more children. We need more children to grow up to be sharp arrows, not only to vote in the righteous to rule this great land, but also to be candidates that can rule in the ways of righteousness, peace, and truth.

It’s not hard to see why the Democrats, with their socialist agenda, want open borders, for open borders provide more illegal votes for their agenda. This is a corruption they are pleased to overlook.

The opposition to conservative government wants more voters, but they do not want to bring them to birth or raise them. They would have to sacrifice their careers. It would bind them to their homes. Therefore, they need open borders with all its risks of crime and human trafficking. They are prepared to overlook all the problems related to unregulated immigration to get votes for them to get the power to govern their liberal, socialist agenda.

But wait a minute. Are we conservatives who desire godly, conservative values limiting the birth rate of our own children? Do we send our few children to the state school to be indoctrinated by the leftist agenda?

Where do we think we will get voters for our conservative agenda? The answer is not complex. It is simple. We must wake up and shake off whatever hinders us from bringing to birth godly, righteous voters. We must shake off the small family mindset, the resistance to sacrifice, all selfishness, and the desire to be what the world regards as normal.

Trying to be like the secular world created the 1.8 – 2.00-member average-size family in America. Because of deaths, wars, accidents, diseases, infertilities, singleness, and homosexual lifestyles, as well as the use of contraception, sterilization, and abortion, two children cannot replace two parents. It takes three children to stabilize a population and at least four to increase.

The undeniable truth is that America is a dying nation. Without immigration we cannot survive. We do not want to raise our own children,, except pfor one or two . . .
not because we believe there is anything wrong in raising American children,
not because we cannot afford larger families (we are one of the richest nations in the world),
but rather because we do not want to sacrifice our own selfish ambitions. We don’t want to be other than normal. Normality is a big problem.

If we keep going in this direction of selfish careerism, taking mothers out of the home, and educating the small families we do have with liberal socialism—democrat ideology, transgender lifestyles, and homosexual marriages that cannot reproduce, how will we ever be able to win conservative elections?

We are hypocrites. We substitute giving birth to our own children and are happy to welcome the births of other nations. In other words, it’s fine with us if others sacrifice to have children in third world nations and its right for them to come here illegally so they can vote in place of the children we are not prepared to bring to birth and raise as our own US citizens.

I am not against immigration as I am an immigrant myself and have many grandchildren born here in USA.

I thank God that in His great mercy He enabled us in these midterm elections to not only hold the Senate but to increase it. This was quite a miracle and an answer to many heart-felt prayers. We should all be very grateful to our Great God and His Son, Jesus Christ for His unfailing mercies. God has given to us conservatives another window of opportunity and we must not squander it.

I thank God for President Trump and I join him and his desire to see our nation great again, not just financially and militarily, but also spiritually. I want to see America filled with its own children, raised from our own loins and wombs, and raised with a conservative, morally valued education as well as having legal immigrants who want to be citizens and who love America.

God Himself mandates His people to be fruitful and multiply and take dominion. It’s time we stopped philosophizing and using our own human reason to thwart God’s vision. If we don’t, we will continue to lose the needed voters.

Election time would not be so stressful if conservatives would simply enlarge their own families. Let the left limit their families and conservatives will laugh on election days because we refuse to be fooled!

SO, THERE YOU GO. I’VE SAID IT!

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

We have many nation-destroying enemies in our gates (places of government). The gates of ancient nations and cities were where the governing body of the city or nation decided their strategies.

Tomorrow is the final day for voting. I pray that all of God’s arrows will shoot forth and cast a strong vote against all the unrighteous enemies in our gates. Because many have either ignorantly or purposely withheld the arrows from filling our quivers, we must cast ourselves upon the great mercies of our God.

I urge all Christians to earnestly pray that righteousness will prevail and tomorrow night we will not be ashamed, but rather we will rejoice in the great mercies of our God.

Lamentations 3:22: “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

It’s bow season now in Tennessee. Several of our grandsons get out early in the morning or the evening with their bows and arrows, hoping to shoot deer. They already have a few. They will get many more before the season ends. Eleven-year-old Shepherd recently shot one with his bow. He was very proud of this accomplishment!

I hope the church of Jesus Christ has enough arrows to win these mid-term elections.

In ancient warfare, the bows and arrows were a major weapon to rain down destruction on the opposing enemies.

Joseph, was a type of Christ in many ways. The prophetic word given by his father, Jacob in
Genesis 49:23, 24 says: “The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.”

“His bow abode in strength.” A good bow must be able to maintain its strength. The NLT says: “His bow remained taught.”

Psalm 127:3-5: “As ARROWS are in the hand of a mighty man (a warrior); so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his QUIVER FULL OF THEM; they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”

We note that Christian parents must be strong bows, ready to shoot forth arrows (their children). The “mighty man” is the strong, spiritual warrior father. This father fills his quiver with arrows which both he and his wife raise up—sharpening and polishing and preparing them to shoot forth.

I don’t know how many arrows it takes to fill a quiver, but I am sure it is a whole more than one or two children, which is the average number in American families (including Christian families).

The Scripture also says that they will “not be ashamed” before their enemies. We have many enemies within the gates of our nation, e.g. fake media, abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, humanism, extreme socialism, etc. Are we standing ashamed?

It is imperative we stand strong in our convictions about filling our quivers (our families and homes) with godly arrows to defeat our enemies. Currently, we need a great increase of arrows in all the homes of Christian couples.

What’s the point of having strong bows if we do not have enough arrows to shoot at our enemies? You may feel you are strong in the Lord, but God’s Word says that God’s mighty warriors will have full quivers. They multiply their effectiveness in the kingdom of God. The more arrows they have, the more ammunition they have to defeat the enemy.

Godly fathers and mothers are not only raising arrows, but future bows. Bows were made of well-seasoned wood. It takes up to six years to season the wood to make a first-rate bow that is able to maintain its strength.

Parents, we must remember that every day God wants to use us to season (put in the right ingredients) to train our children for the battles they will face, the battles for the saving of the family and the nation, now and in the future.

We must have unflagging strength to send forth many arrows. Many arrows do not hit the mark strongly enough to defeat the enemy because the parents are not abiding in continuous strength.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

To be continued.
In this post I asked the question: What’s the point of having strong bows if we do not have sufficient arrows to shoot from them? Next post I ask the question, equally as important: What’s the point of having lots of arrows if we are not strong bows to send them forth to hit the mark?

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”

We only have six days left before the mid term elections. Having voted yesterday I have only one thing left that I can do and that is to give myself to fasting and prayer.

I believe that it would be disastrous for the Trump Agenda if the Democrats get control of the House or Senate, or both. I think that many Christians do not realize the importance of these elections. Voting is very important. Yet, I believe that possibly there is another thing that is even more important. That is praying that God will divinely intervene and enable us to keep the House of Representatives as well as the Senate. We must pray that all the good things that the president has yet to accomplish will be passed into law.

These last two years, this nation has been given a window of opportunity to reverse, through our president, many of the extreme, socialistic strangleholds that Obama mandated during his years of presidency. We have seen with our own eyes the relief and quick way the country has rebounded back since President Trump was elected. We cannot afford to see this great momentum paralyzed or slowed down because we did not make the most of this window of opportunity.

• We must pray that everyone will come out en masse to vote for the most conservative candidates.
• We must pray for the races where the Republicans are neck and neck with the Democrats.
• We must pray that the Fake News Media will not be able to persuade people against the Trump Agenda with all their lies and deceptions.
• We must pray against abortion for the sake of the unborn children that are being murdered in the womb daily. Their innocent blood is bringing our country into judgement.
• We must pray God will stop many who oppose righteous government that they will not be able to vote.
• We must pray that Christianity will not be marginalized by our government and justice system, as well as our schools.
• We must pray that God will give wisdom to our leaders and our president on how to stop people being shot down in our streets and public places.
• We must pray that our country will be spared the devastation from hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, fires, and epidemics.
• We must pray for deliverance from the drug abuse that causes multitudes to become addicted in multitudes of homes and families.
• We must pray that our president be well protected, as well as all our leaders, from assassin’s bullets, knives, or poisons.
• We must pray for the youth of this nation to be saved from the evil indoctrination of leftist teachers and professors in our schools and colleges.
• We must pray that our young ones will be protected from pornography and all transgender propaganda in the schools and on the Internet.
• We must pray that the immoral sex abuse going on in high places will be dealt with speedily.
• We must pray for our homes and families that God will protect us and hedge us in from all enemy attack.
• We must pray for a great turning back to God and His Word.
• We must pray for the turning of the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers (Malachi 4:5, 6).
Tonight, we have our weekly prayer meeting. We will come to the prayer meeting as “battle horses” ready to do battle. Read Job 39:19-25; Zechariah 10:3; and Song of Solomon 6:4, 10.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

I am glad to say I voted today. I am not ashamed to say who I voted for and who I voted against. To only say “I Voted” is rather nebulous and politically inoffensive.

If it is offensive to say that I voted for Republicans who wholeheartedly support Donald J. Trump, then am not ashamed of being offensive.

There are so many godly values that are on the line--waiting to be destroyed if the Democrats win either the House of Representatives or the Senate. Or, God forbid, both houses.

• Today I voted for life, not abortion, which is without a doubt in my mind, murder.
• Today I voted for our police who have been constantly demonized by the left.
• Today I voted for marriage between one man and one woman.
• Today I voted for a party that will stand against transgender being taught in our state schools and colleges.
• Today I voted against the removal of the pronouns “he” and “she” or “man” and “woman” or “husband” and “wife” being removed from our school literature or our daily conversations.
• Today I voted for the United States to be always an independent nation under God and not part of the one world government alliance that would tell this nation what it can or cannot do.
• Today I voted for strong government that will create strong borders and protect the United States from all illegal invasions, small or large.
• Today I voted for the right to bare arms so that we can defend ourselves from the “crazies” who want to kill us in our schools, churches, shopping centers, or other places of innocent gatherings.
• Today I voted for pro-life, pro-constitutional Supreme Court Judges.
• Today I voted for the government border control agency called ICE ((Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and all agencies in our government that the Democrat Party want to destroy if they win.
• Today I voted for the great tax cuts that are freeing up this nation to have better markets and more jobs.
• Today I voted against sanctuary cities where they harbor terrorists.
• Today I voted against Obama Care.
• Today I voted for the freeing up of all the tariffs and codes that have strangled our own oil, coal, and natural resources from being developed and marketed. This gets the nation off food stamps.
• Today I voted for religious freedom and that Christianity will not be regarded as less important than other faiths in our colleges and justice system.
• Today I voted that Christianity will not be discriminated against by the Internet or main stream media or in any type of state or federal government agency.

This country was founded on a Judea/Christian ethic and we should not forget it. It is because of this foundation that we have been, up until now, so blessed by God. I am sick and tired of tip-toeing around opposition to righteousness and plain common sense.

I for one, believe it is high time that people of true faith should stand up for what they believe and not be ashamed to do so. The opposition stands up for what they believe which are plain, straight deception and lies.

Let’s face it. Political correctness puts us all in “no man’s land.” It effectively neutralizes us so that we cannot accomplish what is right and true. This is because political correctness wants us to avoid all offence and by doing so we compromise the truth.

As Christians, we can still love our enemies and do good to those who persecute us. However, we must never be silent when we have opportunity to stand up and speak out against what is evil and unjust.

We must never be ashamed to speak up against evil and we must stand up for all that is right. Otherwise we will lose it all.

Romans 9:23 states: “And whosoever believeth on him shall NOT BE ASHAMED.”

Be encouraged. Colin Campbell

The people who built the tower of ancient Babylon were unified. Was it a good thing? Or was it wrong? Why did God interfere?

All men are born with a sinful nature because of the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This sinful nature, if left to its own devices and without divine intervention by God who created us, will eventually lead to wrongdoing. Mankind left to his own wisdom and creativity will corrupt himself.

We read in Genesis 11:1 that “the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” From the next verse it appears that they were a unified force as they journeyed from the east to where they found a plain in the land of Shinar (modern Iraq).

On this plain, under the leadership of the mighty hunter, Nimrod, they all united to build a city and a tower that would reach unto heaven. They wanted to make a name for themselves, perhaps of great fame. It seems they also had a fear of being scattered across the face of the whole earth (v. 3, 4).

We do not know why they feared being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. Maybe they knew their strength and security was in their unity.

Nimrod led the first New World Order after the flood had destroyed the old-world order.

Genesis 10:8, 9: “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”

He began his manhood as a mighty hunter “before the LORD.” The fact that there is an emphasis on “before the LORD” denotes that he had some relationship with God that the rest of the people could plainly see. Because of his renown he became the world’s first universal leader.

But somewhere along the journey he took his eyes off God to build the world’s first capital city of a One World Order. This city would be famous for its extremely high tower. This tower symbolized the elevation of man to the point where man became his own god. He could accomplish anything he wanted to accomplish, and God did not have any say in the matter.

This is the foundation of all humanism. Man elevates himself to decide his own destiny. Man becomes his own lord.

God does not want man to put his affections and trust upon the cities and towers that he builds and all they represent. When the whole world gravitates to the plans and ideologies of mortal man and becomes united to form a new world order, even though on the surface it may appear to greatly benefit mankind, God will step in to confound it. Why? Because man was made to live his life in a right relationship with his Maker. Otherwise, his life and all those united with him, will be corrupted.

There is only one man worthy to lead the entire new World Order and that is the man CHRIST JESUS. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world by His own blood. He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. He specializes in digging wells of living water, not building towers of brick and slime.

To be continued

Be encouraged,

Colin Campbell