Quote:
Originally Posted by byHismercy
furlough means you must be at work, but your paychecks cease. I cannot think of a more unbalanced scale. Please pray for our family and all the other US Customs employees who must sustain homes and families without their paycheck, and equally without the freedom to walk away and find another income.
|
Incredible story. Lord have mercy on the U.S. government employees and their families.
Some years ago my neighbour ran over his dog. I went into the stream-bed where the poor broken creature had crawled midst the rocks, and just as I reached it, my father called out, "Don't touch it! It will bite you!"
The animal, formerly docile, was wild with pain. I'll never forget its eyes, its heaving side and rasping breath. To me, that's a depiction of most of us, most of the time: crushed, driven wild by guilty fear and shame and anger, by forces we can't see or comprehend. All we can see is wreckage behind as we feel agony within. All's lost, and the end is at hand.
Such a man hung on a cross once; he looked over at Jesus and said, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom." If such men can be redeemed, then so can I, so can we all.
This is truly the Saviour of the world (John 4:42; 1 John 4:14); and now has come the hour of salvation (2 Cor 6:2; Rom 13:11).