TRIFECTA PLUS

TRIFECTA PLUS

Thursday, October 08, 2015

Romans [GW] 10:13-14 So then, "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." But how can people call on him if they have not believed in him? How can they believe in him if they have not heard his message? How can they hear if no one tells the Good News?

2Corinthians [ESV] 5 … if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. …

  Responding to the murdering of police officers, Jim Pasco, executive director of the USA national Fraternal Order of Police, succinctly stated that many officers now serve in an anti-police environment. He points out that it’s not just a single thing that officers are confronted with, “It’s a trifecta.”

  “There’s [1] a hostile element within the community at large. There’s in many incidences [2] a lack of support on the part of elected officials and police management. And there’s [3] this ubiquitous [i.e. omnipresent] social media effort to discredit all police officers because of the extraordinary rare misconduct by a very few.”

  As followers of Christ we pray for the work conditions of those that Protect and Serve.

  There is however another utmost need that we should be praying for.

  As with all persons, after this life police officers spend eternity in the presence of God or cast in outer darkness suffering forever.

  Hear the Word of the Lord: “Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.' And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests."But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen." “ (MKJV Mt.22:9-14; Also note Jn.3:3-18)

  Indeed let us pray for the problems Jim Pasco points out, but above all let us pray for the greatest need of all; blessed assurance of their eternal salvation before it is too late.

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