Scripture

While you look on, foreigners take over your land and bring everything to ruin.

~Isaiah 1:7b, GNT

Quote

Depravity to an evangelical is that man was corrupted by the fall and all his motives are vain making it impossible for him to produce a righteousness that God will accept.

~Ya’akov

Dr. Graham quotes Isaiah 1:6 in his April 24 entry in PEACE FOR EACH DAY. It goes like this…From head to foot there is not a healthy spot on your body. You are covered with bruises and sores and open wounds. Your wounds have not been cleaned or bandaged. No medicine has been put on them. Israel was an infected wound or sore. Their sins had draged them down. They had rejected the LORD by turning their back on Him and both their heart and head was sick. It would be nice if we could point to the ancient Israelites without indicting ourselves but since we are as guilty as they were, this is not possible. When I read Mr. Graham’s thoughts, I could help but open my bible and read the entire passage. This is when I came across today’s verse…While you look on, foreigners take over your land and bring everything to ruin. Practically every gas station in North Alabama is run by a foriegner. I don’t know if they are Iranians or what: I know they look Middle Eastern.

I went to AI for more info. The majority of gas station owners are immigrants from Pakistan, India, and the middle east. As of 2017 they owned 61% of our gas stations. AI says they get no government assistance other than Small Business Loans that they have to repay with interest. According to AI, their funding comes from outside the US. According to what I read, gas stations demand long hours that most Americans do not want to work. The greater problem may be our lost of incentive. We are spoiled and have grown lazy. Immigrants seem to have a stronger work ethic. Either way, the current phenomenon is a little disturbing to me. To keep from being censored or banded, let me use the word hispanic instead of the normal word I use. We were at a soccer game last week in Limestone County. June and I carried our lawn chairs where we could sit away from the crowd. A horde of hispanics came in and I think their goal was to annoy me and to disturb my peace. They brought a drum and some kind of ungodly noise maker. They almost drove me crazy. One of them came out of the stands and stood right behind us talking very loud on his cell phone. We got up and moved, but you could still hear him.

I told my sweet daughter-in-law on the way home. “I feel bad about the way I reacted to these foreigners and their obnoxious behavior. I can promise you, it is not the way Jesus would have reacted.”  She just smiled. She is the most understanding human I know. By the way, the one on the drum was horrible. He would be cut from any high school band in North Alabama. He wasn’t making music, he was making noise or racket. On the way home I thought: “Noise gets on your nerves, right! What about a nail in each hand and one through your aching feet?”

Extra

I wrote the blog on Wednesday I think and part of it was gone when I got to it this morning. I don’t know whether it failed to save it or it was edited by word press but it was gone. What is about except for paragraph one is not the original but I can’t recall it. They may edit this one too.

Today is our 49er fellowship at 11:30. I’m not doing much today: bringing cornbread muffins from CB. I am still tired from Sunday.

A couple of the young people backed out of going to Guatemala so no more offerings unless we have figured wrong. I do want to thank those who helped us.

Billy Con Turney was better yesterday: still in ICU at Decatur General.

Have a great day and thanks for reading the blog.