BBD 08.20.21 An Outrage! (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1829^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

20 August 2021

An Outrage!

This is a rewrite of a 2016 devotional in an attempt to address the
situation we find ourselves in today.

The mouth
of the righteous is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the
wicked. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins. – Proverbs 10:11-12
NKJV.

Now the
works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of
wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
drunkenness, revelries, and the like…. – Galatians 5:19-21a NKJV.

Who is
wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works
are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and
self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This
wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where
envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the
wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to
yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. –
James 3:13-18 NKJV.

What
has happened and is happening in Afghanistan is an outrage! It is awful,
horrible, a travesty! It was so preventable! The U.S. Embassy was evacuated
leaving all of the records for the Taliban. This could not have been an
accident giving the Taliban the records they need to target all who have helped
America in the past. Leaving Bagram airbase to the Taliban prior to all
Americans and Afghans who have been helping us being taken to safety could not
have been an accident. All American troops leaving Afghanistan with all of the
weapons left behind could not have been an accident. It had to all have been a
very evil plan which benefits our enemies: the Taliban, ISIS, China and Russia.
It is an outrage! But all of us Americans bear some responsibility.

What
is the problem that has created such a racial divide, hate and violence in the
United States? What is the problem that now appears to have given us a plague
of bad leaders? Leaders who appear to be acting in concert with our enemies. John Adams, the second
president of the United, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence long
ago identified the problem we now see in the United States. Adams said
this: “We have no government armed with power
capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Franklin Graham in his essay “America the Beautiful?” in a 2016 issue of Decision Magazine writes, “Wherever Christianity flourishes, freedom flowers.
Wherever it is marginalized, tyranny, despotism, and eventually anarchy will
inevitably follow.”

The
solution to the hatred, the racial divide, and the violence is obvious. The
solution to this plague of bad leaders is obvious. The people who make up these
United States of America must turn to God; we desperately need a spiritual
awakening to sweep across America. No presidential change, no amount of new
laws, no amount of great speeches will change the hearts of Americans. Only God
is able to change and renew the hearts, lives, and attitudes by writing His law
upon our hearts.

The
Bible tells what we must do in multiple places similar to Galatians 5:16 which
says, “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.” It will take all
of us, turning from the godless evil that threatens our freedom, and turning to
a real walk with God to bring to an end the outrages we now see destroying our
nation and really the world. Let it begin with me; let it begin with you, as we
seek to daily obey the law of our God which He has written upon our hearts.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for the people of
Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to God.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W;
Addison; JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman;
Patsy M.; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and
Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah;
Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey;
Nannie R.; and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this is
the 1829^th

The Burning Bush Devotional

20 August 2021

An Outrage!

This is a rewrite of a 2016 devotional in an attempt to address the
situation we find ourselves in today.

The mouth
of the righteous is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the
wicked. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins. – Proverbs 10:11-12
NKJV.

Now the
works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of
wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
drunkenness, revelries, and the like…. – Galatians 5:19-21a NKJV.

Who is
wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works
are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and
self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This
wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where
envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the
wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to
yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. –
James 3:13-18 NKJV.

What
has happened and is happening in Afghanistan is an outrage! It is awful,
horrible, a travesty! It was so preventable! The U.S. Embassy was evacuated
leaving all of the records for the Taliban. This could not have been an
accident giving the Taliban the records they need to target all who have helped
America in the past. Leaving Bagram airbase to the Taliban prior to all
Americans and Afghans who have been helping us being taken to safety could not
have been an accident. All American troops leaving Afghanistan with all of the
weapons left behind could not have been an accident. It had to all have been a
very evil plan which benefits our enemies: the Taliban, ISIS, China and Russia.
It is an outrage! But all of us Americans bear some responsibility.

What
is the problem that has created such a racial divide, hate and violence in the
United States? What is the problem that now appears to have given us a plague
of bad leaders? Leaders who appear to be acting in concert with our enemies. John Adams, the second
president of the United, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence long
ago identified the problem we now see in the United States. Adams said
this: “We have no government armed with power
capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Franklin Graham in his essay “America the Beautiful?” in a 2016 issue of Decision Magazine writes, “Wherever Christianity flourishes, freedom flowers.
Wherever it is marginalized, tyranny, despotism, and eventually anarchy will
inevitably follow.”

The
solution to the hatred, the racial divide, and the violence is obvious. The
solution to this plague of bad leaders is obvious. The people who make up these
United States of America must turn to God; we desperately need a spiritual
awakening to sweep across America. No presidential change, no amount of new
laws, no amount of great speeches will change the hearts of Americans. Only God
is able to change and renew the hearts, lives, and attitudes by writing His law
upon our hearts.

The
Bible tells what we must do in multiple places similar to Galatians 5:16 which
says, “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.” It will take all
of us, turning from the godless evil that threatens our freedom, and turning to
a real walk with God to bring to an end the outrages we now see destroying our
nation and really the world. Let it begin with me; let it begin with you, as we
seek to daily obey the law of our God which He has written upon our hearts.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for the people of
Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to God.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W;
Addison; JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman;
Patsy M.; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and
Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah;
Clark S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey;
Nannie R.; and Shonda Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
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