raising the standard

RAISING THE STANDARD
 
            WHEN THE ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD ...GOD WILL RAISE UP A STANDARD (ISAIAH 59:19).  WHAT STANDARD?  A STANDARD THAT COMES FROM GOD'S WORD - THE GOD OF THE BIBLE - THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB - YESHUA
MESSIAH  - AND SOON  COMING KING.
 
            IN OUR WORLD TODAY  - WE SEE ANOTHER STANDARD BEING SET .... "AN INCREASINGLY WICKED AND PERVERSE"  STANDARD WHERE  "GOOD IS SPOKEN OF AS EVIL .. .EVIL SPOKEN OF AS GOOD" ... WHERE "RESTRAINTS" ARE CAST OFF ... AND THE BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS THAT CREATED OUR GREAT NATION ARE BEING DESTROYED BY AN "ENEMY" WHO KNOWS HIS TIME  IS SHORT. 
"WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS RULE, THE PEOPLE REJOICE, WHEN THE UNRIGHTEOUS RULE,  THE PEOPLE GROAN"  (PROVERBS 29:2).
 
            AMERICA IS GROANING TODAY ... ITS "LEADERS"  HAVE BECOME AHABS - AND THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT IS ALIVE AND WELL  SEEKING TO CASTIGATE ANYONE SPEAKING "TRUTH" TO POWER ...  BIBLICAL TRUTHS, THAT IS!
 
IT'S NOT A RACE ISSUE ... IT'S A  SIN ISSUE
IT'S NOT AN LGBT ISSUE ... IT'S A SIN ISSUE
IT'S NOT A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISSUE ... IT'S A SIN ISSUE
WHATEVER THE ISSUE ...THE SCRIPTURES ARE CLEAR:
 
A MAN  DOES WHAT'S RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES, AND THE WAY THEREOF IS DEATH  (PROVERBS 14:12)  
KEY WORD HERE:  DEATH
I HAVE COME THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT MORE ABUNDANTLY  (JOHN 10:10)
​KEY WORD HERE:  LIFE
 "ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD" (ROMANS 3:23) - ALL!
KEY WORD HERE:  SIN
 
 SO THE QUESTION BEGS:  WILL YOU CHOOSE LIFE OR DEATH?  GOD'S WAY OR YOUR WAY?   HIS STANDARD OR YOUR STANDARD?
  AND IF GOD'S STANDARD - HOW?
 
MAY I  SUGGEST SOME SCRIPTURES TO ENCOURAGE YOU AND A STORY TO EMBOLDEN YOU:
"THE RIGHTEOUS ARE AS A BOLD AS A LION"
(PROVERBS 28:1)
"OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN HIM"
(2 CORINTHIANS 5:21).
"WHOEVER CONTENDS WITH YOU, I WILL CONTEND WITH HIM" 
(ISAIAH 49:25)
 
AS QUEEN ESTHER UTTERED THE WORDS, "IF I PERISH, IF PERISH" - BEFORE GOING BEFORE HER KING (EXPOSING EVIL IN THE GATES) GOD SAW TO IT - THAT HER COURAGE WAS HONORED, THE WICKED DESTROYED, HER PEOPLE SET FREE,  AND HER OWN LIFE SPARED.  SHE SEIZED THE MOMENT  .. .AND SO MUST WE!!
 
            AS CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH GOD - WE ARE, EACH OF US, CALLED TO BE THE  ESTHERS OF  OUR GENERATION, .THE DANIELS ...THE JOSEPHS  ... ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND OFF ...IN THE MARKETPLACE, IN THE PULPITS, IN OUR HOME AND IN OUR SCHOOLS, OUR GOVERNMENT, IN MEDIA, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ...IN EVERY SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, A STANDARD  CAN BE SET   HIS STANDARD - HIS RIGHTEOUS RULE - HIS WAY! 
"I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE" (JOHN 14:6).

            IN WHAT WAY IS GOD CALLING YOU TO "RAISE THE  STANDARD" FOR HIM?
   
 [Commentary By:  Jensine Bard © April 20, 2015]