Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Jacob knew how to appropriate the blessings of God. Even though his character was not perfect, he was taught from a young age how to honour God and how to honour those whom God had placed in his life. It would be about another seven or so generations before God would download the laws to Moses, but Jacob learned to honour those who were before him in the faith. One important piece of information that has gone out of our society is that of honouring those who have been trail blazers. They all have short-comings but Instead of honouring and respecting them, we tend to focus on their short-comings and their sometimes lack of integrity. Hence today we have children who are ravaging our streets who have neither respect for their elders or other people’s property. There is a need to go back to basics. We need to teach our youngsters, like Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs of time past were taught, to honour their elders so that their lives may be long on the earth. Today we certainly see and hear of a lot of youngsters dying well before their time. We certainly need a campaign championed by people of faith for this country to go back to their roots. Honouring those in public office; respecting the law of the land; treating others as they would like to be treated and learning right from wrong. Jacob knew that blessings were not just about material things. It was and is more than that. It involves, obedience to those set above us, hearing and doing the word and giving back to God a portion from what he has given us. So today as we pray for our country, pray that God would raise us up to let our disciplined light shine into the lives of those who are without hope and have seemingly lost the plot.  Today read James 1.