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You Asked... Me
Rev. Kenneth Francart, Retired
"Kenn why did God bless us 'white' in a Christian land that God gave us? Do we see only evil in black? In Hispanic?, In Hmong?, Italian – French - German – Dutch, etc? Words of 'of course not' do not dispel what we say and truly believe?!"
First, all people see evil as being black including the African and African-American. They do not consider themselves as a personification of evil because they are black skinned. Remember the Jews are not white and they are not black.
Second, people see God as light and Satan as black or darkness or absent of light. America is a Christian land because those settling here were escaping from religious persecution or the Absence of Light. Here, we worship God in many different forms (faiths or denominations). And for the most part the differences are few and the reason for the differences are based in the comfort zone.
The Catholic Faith is the heaviest on tradition and people are most comfortable in a traditional setting. Then at the other extreme is the loosely strung together faiths that have no church building and worship God in all His Glory by being out in God's nature. All the other religions between those two extremes is where the majority find themselves.
There is only One God, One Son, One Holy Spirit and as long as these people are worshiping Him and Him and Him as one God they are black, white and every color in between and in sync with God. Partly what you say is true but then the truth does not change. What we say is sometime judgment or discernment.
That does not negate the faith we have or the truth that binds us to God. And we are bound to Him not because of our skin color or our education or our freethinking or our political formation of this United States, we are bound to Him because of Jesus and what He has sacrificed for our return to the heritage He holds out to us.
Are we blessed more than others? I don't know. Because each of the nationalities you mentioned in the question were raised under a different faith (Buddha, Muslim, Shinto, and on and on). We have been given an opportunity to reach out to them right here and away in foreign lands. Then if the effort pays off in reaching them wherever they are who has the greater blessing? They have learned of Jesus and accepted a rebirth in Him and the blessing goes on and on.
We are fortunate that this nation is basically Christian and that we have the opportunity to spread the word of God with His guidance. Each time someone comes to know the Lord and learns to love and worship Him, we are also blessed.
Those that suffer in His name are in lands that are a majority of heathen and they cannot stand against the force of God as He moves through the hearts of the countrymen. Where more and more are following the Way of Jesus. The sights we see in the papers and the stories we read in the printouts are demonstrations of how God is moving on those heathens and they are showing the fear of the Christian movement on their families and friends.
Eph 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; (KJV)
March 8, 2006
All Scripture verses are taken from the King James Version of the Bible
Amen
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Jesus is standing at the door to your heart
all the time. He is knocking to come in and love you and guide you. He is
offering you the gift of everlasting life, but you must hear Him and open
the door to Him as He will not kick it in.
(Rev. 3:20) A gift is just outside your
heart's door at this time. Will you receive this gift? Will you open the
door to Jesus and let him flood your soul with His love? If so, read the
following paragraph as your prayer.
