Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs

We are certainly living in challenging times, aren’t we? It seems like nearly everything in this great country is being challenged. I would like to share with your seven different areas where we are currently being challenged.

1. POLITICALLY

What will happen to this country if Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, with their pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, $3 trillion tax plan, New Green Deal, universal background checks, no borders, slashing the defense budget, and communist plans, win the White House in these coming elections? And the elections are less than three months away. May Almighty God have mercy upon us.

2. LAWLESSNESS

Our great cities are being challenged with wild, lawless, destructive anarchists screaming out obscenities as they smash and loot innocent people’s properties and businesses. And mayors and governors stand back and watch the destruction of their own cities. It’s time to be on our knees, crying out to God.

3. ECONOMICALLY

Our economy which was so strong a few months ago is being challenged by the lockdown, mask-waring, social distancing, and strangle-holding mayors, governors, and government officials. Plus the trillions of dollars in stimulus packages to help those who wait for jobs and businesses to return to normal.

4. HEALTH FEARS

We are challenged with the COVID-19 health crisis which has injected enormous fear into the general population. People are subjected to fear-mongering by leftist politicians, governors, mayors, and also physicians who want to make the most of this pandemic to bring about a change in government.

5. LYING OFFICIALS

We are being challenged by health officials who are flat out lying to us about the importance of masks. And now Dr. Farci is recommending goggles as well! Has he gone crazy?

In some states they mandate masks to be worn as soon as you leave your home. How is it that intelligent people don’t check the size of the virus and compare it to the size of the pores in the various cloth masks.

Dr. Simone Gold, MD., FABEM., JD., states: “The pore size of cloth face coverings range from 20 – 100 microns. The COVID virus is 200 – 1000 x smaller than that, at 0.1 microns. Putting a chain link fence will not keep out a mosquito.”

The general public are being lied to. We are dumbed down by leftists and wealthy people like Bill Gates who wants to control the earth’s population. They found a way to release a rogue virus in China snd get the whole world to wear stupid non-effective masks so the will be so sick of the crazy things they will gladly dispose of them for the coming vaccine! His biometric, trackable vaccine may contain possible life shortening substances. Bill Gates is currently being challenged in court for deaths in Africa and other countries because his vaccines.

The good thing is that challenges are not the end all. Challenges are to be overcome. Let’s not sit down and become victims to what is happening. Let's walk in our freedoms give to us in the Constitution. Let's walk in obedience to God's Word.

Let’s rise up in positivity and inspire hope and faith in everyone we meet. Let’s get down on our knees daily to pray before our mighty God that He will bare His mighty right arm and deliver us.

More tomorrow.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

Who knows the joys of girls and boys,
His lads and lasses too,
Who’s bounced upon and pounced upon
When his day’s work is through?
Whose trousers know the gentle tug
Of some glad little tot,
The baby of his crew of love
Is wealthier than a lot.

Oh be he poor and sore distressed
And weary with the fight,
If with a whoop his healthy troop
Run welcoming at night,
And kisses greet him at the end
Of all his toiling grim,
With what is best in life he’s blessed
And rich men envy him!

~Unknown

Painting: Madison Gregory Fine Art

Amos Sundquist who was at our Above Rubies Family Camp last weekend gave the above poem to me. He has recited it for years.

All too often, children see their parents putting on a façade to strangers or people outside their immediate family. The children must often think, “if only these people knew how bad and unliving it is at home.”

Marriage, home, and family are obviously, and without doubt, the first place we should display fervent love. It is those who are closest to us who really know us and know how true and fervent our love really is.

1 Peter 4:8 says: “Love shall cover the multitude of sins.” Fervent love is the antidote to bitter debate, slander, criticism, tale-bearing, and gossip. The old maxim says: “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all.”

It is only fervent love that covers a multitude of sins. Some may argue the point concerning the subject of “covering a multitude sins.” They think they are doing right by telling the world about the sins, weaknesses, and failures of others. They even enjoy doing it for it makes them appear more righteous than those they are running down or whose reputation they are destroying.

To be honest, I think it should give us great pain to talk against people we should be loving. It can be appropriate to seek godly counsel from church leadership if you are concerned that innocent people are being hurt or could be hurt. In some cases, it is appropriate to stand up and say something if it is not with the intention of spreading gossip, hatred, or malice.

You may need to execute the biblical premise of Matthew 18:15-20. Very often matters can be cleaned up by going to the accused first and hearing their side of the accusation.

We should never say something bad about someone behind their backs that we have not already spoken to them face to face. When Jesus went to the cross, He did not to go condemn, criticize, judge, or slander the world. He went to the cross to save the world. We can never take John 3:16, 17 for granted: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

Jesus was the greatest example of fervent love “covering a multitude of sins.” His blood covers more than a multitude of sins for it covers all of the sins of the world from Adam to the end of time.

More to come on this subject next post.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

God intends the family to be the greatest institution on earth. We are living in a world where the home and family is being attacked, and in many cases, abandoned. Abandoned by fathers who have never been taught the importance of their role in raising and providing for their family’s needs.

Mothers likewise have abandoned their nests for the glamor of the corporate world. They do not realize they are destroying the “cradles” that become the next generation, children who were destined to be born to make the world a better place.

Marriage and family are the first institutions God created and marriage was mandated to be fruitful and multiply and rule over the whole earth (Genesis 1:26-28). The importance of the family should never be underestimated, and if so, we do to our own peril.

Love begins in the marriage and is revealed and manifested in the raising of the nuclear family which means “father, mother, and children.”

The family is the primary institution where the graces and character of our Creator God should be taught. Dedicated parents, who understand the importance of their respective roles will mirror these roles to their children, along with revelation of God’s character.

We should not mistake God’s love for the casual, half-hearted love we often experience today. God’s love is hot and intense. It does not come from our fallen nature but directly from the new nature provided by the new birth in Christ. It is best taught by example from the moment the child is born, continuing day by day throughout the child’s learning years.

There should never be a doubt in the child’s mind that his/her parents do not love them with heart-felt fervency. This is the way God loves us and expects us to love one another. This kind of love is the essential element of the Christian family home.

To be continued.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell