Outlook Bleak - Try Uplook!

OUTLOOK BLEAK? TRY UPLOOK

BY THE LATE PASTOR JOHN W. SHENTON

There is an old saying: "When the outlook is dark and threatening
try the uplook." This has proved true enough for hosts of people:
but it is a tragedy that we have to be compelled by dark and
threatening out look before we are forced to look upwards, beyond
ourselves and human devices for the help, the deliverance and the
perfect answer to our often self-imposed darkness. Why is it that
only in times of imminent disaster and looming doom do we turn
our thoughts upwards, singing: "0 God our help in ages past; our
hope for years to come"? Why do we not accept the reality that
God has more than a passing interest in us and our national
affairs? Why do we of His Family of Christian nations so often
resist the truth that He has already given us, His blueprint for
ourselves, and for comforting our Company of Nations, a blueprint
of national purpose, prosperity and peace. Even more; He has
committed Himself on His own Holy Word to see that this
proclaimed Purpose is carried forward to its consummation.

The first point we make is crucial, namely that God has a Purpose
for us, here and now on planet Earth; in the Isles of the West
and wherever else He has placed contingents of His Servant
People. It is not "up in heaven", where all is already perfect
there. God at this moment is dealing with us in our respective
homelands.

Secondly, take the statement from His family "Guide Book", the
Bible: "Where there is no vision the people perish." Some
translations read: "Where there is no vision the people go to
pieces" and "Where there is no vision the people do not cohere".
Do we see the point? A nation goes to pieces, lacks cohesion and
binding cement when it loses its vision, its sense of purpose and
mission. It loses its reverence for matters other than material
the things of God. This is nothing less than an assertion that we
are determined to go it alone, to have our own way, to cast off
His moral and spiritual restraint which in every case is imposed
entirely for our own good.

Where there is no vision! - no unifying National vision. No
binding cement to hold the whole community on course. Where do we
now look for such a vision? Are we going anywhere in particular
as a whole heartedly united people? Or have we sunk, from being
truly great, to become a much divided Hotch-potch, with
multiplying sectional interests to such an extent that even those
who have harped so loudly on "brotherhood of man" now, at the
drop of a hat, turn upon each other like animals. We have indeed
reached the hitherto unbelievable state where any one who tries
to prevent section from devouring section is screamed at as
"Animals", "Animals".

This has happened to what was once the "greatest world-serving
people on earth". Why? Because dark forces have been at work ever
since the days when Britain's Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin,
proclaimed to a Canadian audience that the British Empire and
Commonwealth was not merely an economic relationship between
nations but that its real goal was the Kingdom of God on Earth.
Can anyone today think of any present politician of so high a
rank announcing his firm conviction in such a manner?
Alas! since then, forces have been at work to blind the
English-speaking peoples to their glorious vision. Instead of
purpose, there has been let loose the doctrine of permissiveness
in every walk of life. This has polluted the whole stream of
community life, in all its aspects. Few realize that to "do your
own thing" has no chance of securing the freedom which God wills
for His children. On the contrary it becomes degradingly
enslaving. This is the broad road to destruction which Jesus
Christ warned His followers would lead back to the House of
Bondage. This is literally the choice before our people: to
become enslaved in the toils of permissiveness and grinding
materialism; or to see and accept the vision of Life Abundant
which our Creator has planned for us. What, then, is to be the
deciding factor in all our lives - the Will of God or the will of
Globalism which, under the cover of unity uses decadence and the
selfishness inherent in man in its plans for world dominion.

To blur the vision is the constant aim of the enemy, as witness
the trash and trivia which the media churn out for the
demoralization of the people. A brave reporter on a television
programme once made his appraisal as follows, on five showings:
"Poor, Poor, Moderate, Poor, Poor." If one ordered a meal in a
cafe and the waiter served up garbage, one would at once inform
the appropriate authority. But what of a whole nation fed on
garbage, week in and week out?

Another dangerous factor in the downward slide is the powerful
forces at work to decry patriotism, that is, love of one's own
country and people, as social misdemeanors. A further powerful
influence wherewith to blind the judgment of the citizen is when
supposedly Christian leaders make Divine revelation appear
trivial, simply a mere form of selfdelusion.

The outlook is indeed bleak if there is no uplook. It is up to
each one of us to rediscover the unifying, inspiring vision which
has carried the Servant People along. This is patriotism in its
highest form. This sublime Code is set out in our Book of
Instructions - the Bible. This is the book which Wycliffe stated
"was for the Government of the people". We can relate its message
to our history and see how God has developed a people for His
purposes for mankind from the very founding fathers of our
people: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "This people", God says, -
"have I for Myself; they shall show forth My Praise." At Sinai
they were brought to nationhood and constituted as the very core
of His Kingdom on earth. A National Constitution, Statutes and
judgments were there given to them as their national code of
living. This incomparable body of Divine Law, has been constantly
under attack, recalling God's warnings to His people: "See, I
have set before you Life and Death: choose Life." The keeping of
God's laws is the only way to life.

Through all the changing scenes of the centuries, the moral,
spiritual and material Divine Laws have held good for nations and
individuals who followed them. God knows what is best for us.
There are blessings in abundance for response to His Instructions
- every need met. And there are stern consequences when they are
disregarded. It is as simple as that. And it remains a matter of
choice, as we are now experiencing. Our leaders are causing our
peoples to break God's Laws in many ways. We suffer grievous
consequences thereby and these are piling up to such proportions
that they have already become unbearable. So threatening is the
future that we shall be compelled to seek the One Who,
thirty-four centuries ago gave the vision to our forefathers in
Israel. To achieve deliverance from their folly, our peoples,
with repentant hearts, must get back to their God-protected
highway of Destiny, there to demonstrate what it means to be a
people governed by Almighty God. Then, as His Word says, the
nations will "run to us" to examine this new-found experience of
a whole people united in reverent obedience to the Most High God.
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The above article was in the November 2011 "Thy Kingdom Come" - a
publication of the Association of the Covenant People, Burnaby,
B.C. Canada.
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It is sad for me to have to say it, but we have as nations gone
over the line of no return, until we have to be brought to our
knees by destruction and captivity, by our enemy lovers. Yes, the
very people and nations we think of today as our friends, our
lovers, will be the nations that the Eternal God will use to
punish us to REPENTANCE. If I was given a full Western world
prime time TV slot, where hundreds of millions, and the leaders
of the Western world nations, would all tune in to see and hear
me. If I was given this opportunity, and shouted out our SINS,
and where and how we needed to be AT-ONE again with our God and
His Son Christ Jesus, you can bet your life on it, I would be
LAUGHED at, called a FANATIC, I would be branded a hate-monger of
this freedom or that person/s. The leaders of our nations would
be sending the padded van to put me in a padded cell in a padded
mental hospital.
The truths of God are on my website, you can find them, read
about them. To now think that today in the year 2011, any Western
nation would take those truths seriously and REPENT of SIN and
CHANGE to LIVE in harmony with the LAWS of God, is just a dream
of smoke that has no body of reality to it at all.

SAD  TO  SAY,  BUT  WE  HAVE  GONE  OVER  THE  LINE  OF  NO
RETURN,  UNTILL  WE  ARE  BROUGHT  TO  OUR  KNEES  IN
DESTRUCTION  AND  CAPTIVITY,  THAT  WILL  THEN  BRING  US  TO
REPENTANCE  AND  A  WILLINGNESS  TO  SAY,  "WE  DID  IT  OUR  WAY
LORD,  AND  IT  BROUGHT  US  PAIN,  SORROW,  AND  DEATH.  LORD
WE  ARE  NOW  WILLING  TO  DO  IT  YOUR  WAY,  BY  YOUR  HOLY
AND  RIGHTEOUS  LAWS  AND  COMMANDMENTS."
WHAT  ALL  THE  PROPHETS  OF  THE  LORD  WERE  TO  WRITE  AND
GIVE  TO  US,  IS  IN  THE  BIBLE.  I  HAVE  EXPOUNDED  FOR  YOU
ALL  WHAT  THOSE  PROPHETS  WERE  INSPIRED  TO  WRITE  AND  TO
PASS  ON  TO  US,  FOR  OUR  DAY  AND  THE  DAYS  YET  AHEAD  OF
US.  AND  THE  GOOD  NEWS  OF  THE  WONDERFUL  AGE  TO  COME. IT
IS  ALL  ON  MY  WEBSITE. 
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