From My Perspective - - -

Many nations in the world are in turmoil. People are protesting and clamoring for freedom and relief from stern and cruel leaders. Many have lived under the rule of a Dictator all their lives so that their understanding of freedom is suspect. Opportunists lurk everywhere waiting for their moment to seize power and control people – there continues to be danger and peril on every hand. There is great confusion in terms of what the True God might want for them versus what a god has supposedly instructed them to be and do. They really do need at least a Donkey to speak and give them some indication of a pending danger. The Bible contains such a moment in Numbers 22:22-32. Balaam is riding his donkey and is going in a direction contrary to where God wants him to go. When the Donkey saw the Angel of the Lord with his sword drawn, he went in a different direction. The text states: “And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff. Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times? And Balaam said to the donkey: Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you. And the donkey said to Balaam: Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way? And he said, No.” Balaam’s eyes will soon be opened so he can see and know what his Donkey has seen and known.

Wiki-Leaks has posted 349 cables from Libya. Among the documents is a congratulation note Gaddafi sent President Obama on winning the election. Part of Gaddafi’s comments include: “Dear Mr. President Obama, I have the pleasure to send a congratulation note for the first time to an American president… we have the right to congratulate you from the bottom of our hearts because you are the son of Africa. God gives reign to whom He wishes and takes it away from whom He wishes; he holds dear whom he wants and humiliates whom he wants as well. He retains all the good in His hands, and He is the all powerful…” Where do these thoughts originate? One place is Daniel 2:19-23 after the King – Nebuchadnezzar – has had a perplexing dream that no one can interpret. As a last resort, he sends for Daniel who approaches the king with these words: “…the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said: Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.  To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter." King Nebuchadnezzar will hear words of condemnation and judgment that will soon come upon him.

Another passage of significance is Isaiah 40:10-25. The prophet declares the Word of the Lord–“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket…All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness…He brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness…”

What will it take today for our nation to acknowledge the True God? What will gain their attention? Will it be a Talking Donkey? It seems there are many voices of confusion making the sound of a braying donkey and who appear to act just as dumb and stubbornly. What will it take for you to respond affirmatively to God? Why not begin now to - Seek the Lord while He can still be found – and to - Call upon Him while He is still near!  There is still time to repent and to return to the Lord. Don’t delay – Do it today!  Consider these things with me!