What Is Your Will In Christ?

“I hate all your show and pretense— the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings.  Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living."  Amos 5:21-24 (NLT) Oblation ... It's an interesting and uncommon word that's found a number of times in the King James translation of the Old Testament. Its meaning is essentially bound in the  act of solemnly  offering something to God.  As added context here,  The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word "solemn" as "serious and without any humour". "And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it."  Isaiah 19:21 (KJ) A n

"But the LORD reigns forever,  executing judgment from his throne.  He will judge the world with justice  and rule the nations with fairness.  The LORD is a shelter for the oppressed,  a refuge in times of trouble.  Those who know your name trust in you,  for you, O LORD, do not abandon those who search for you."  Psalm 9:7-10 (NLT) We're living in what may seem to be a very volatile and and tumultuous time of dynamic change. It's a moment in time that has every needed ingredient to provoke indignation, repulsion or disabling fear... ...but one thing I feel confident in pointing to in the midst of all of it is ... that your reaction to any of it will be based on what you truly believe and who you're listening to. I quite literally believe that we're living in the last of the last days. As time goes on, I'm convinced that things will likely get worse. That's why how we handle life on a daily basis, where we put our trust, and who we look to as we