Get Ready

Happy New Year my dear student! How are you? Aren’t you glad God has brought us into another year? Of course, we all are thankful and happy to have come a year closer to His coming. So, why don’t we commune with him in the study of His words? Our key test is found in Genesis 6:7 “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”

What a wonderful feeling of security there is in walking with God! As Noah built the ark and preached for 120 years, he kept his thoughts if God and talked to him as companion. That is the way Noah walked with god, Noah was mocked and he was abused, but saved him and his family when millions of people refused help were destroyed. The three young Hebrew men walked with God in the simple way praying, reading the scriptures daily deciding to do nothing that God would approve. The angry king threw them into the fire, but god joined them in the fire, and not a hair of their heads was even burned.

Have you heard Desmond Doss? He was only a humble medic in World War II, but he too walked with God. He put God first every day of his life, by prayer and reading his Bible. At first the soldiers made fun of him and his Bible reading, and often called him a sissy and threw their boots at him. But when it came to danger, the soon changed their tune. There were the memorable battle of the precipice, when the United States armed forces were landing on Okinawa. There were 155 men who waited for Doss to say a prayer. Before they scaled the cliff on rope nets. After a few days, only 55 came back down.

Doss was the last man. He dragged the wounded, man after man, to the cliff and lowered them down by a rope. “Come on down, Doss!” shouted the captain. “You’ll only get yourself killed.” But Doss replied, “Just give me a little more time. I can’t leave wounded men up here to die.” And alone he lowered 75 men to safety. At last he himself was badly wounded, but he came home alive and was greatly honored. President harry Truman personally presented to him the Congressional Medal of Honor – the highest award a grateful nation can bestow to hero.

It pays to make God first. It pays to take God with you everywhere you go. It pays keep away from places where God or the angels wouldn’t go. Won’t you decide to talk with God this year?