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August 4
Tuesday


OUR MORAL
COMPASS

READ:
2 Chronicles 7:1-14
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If My people...turn
from their wicked ways,
then I will...forgive
their sin and heal their
land. __2 Chron. 7:14
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When Abraham Lincoln was introduced to author Harriet Beecher Stowe, he reportedly said that she was "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."

Although President Lincoln's comment wasn't entirely serious, Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was instrumental in abolishing slavery in the US. Its graphic Depiction of racism and the injustice of slavery helped lead to the start of civil war. Ultimately, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves "shall be free." Thus, Stowe's novel helped to change a nation's moral compass.

Centuries earlier, King Solomon was told about what would change the moral compass of God's people Israel. It was to start with humility and confession. The Lord told Solomon: "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7"14).

As a Christian community, we should first take an inventory of our own personal lives. As we humbly seek God in prayer and repentance of sin, changes begin in our lives. God may then use us to change a nation's moral compass.
__Dennis Fisher
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``````````````````````````Revive us again,`````````````````````
````````````````````Fill each heart with Thy love;`````````````````
````````````````````May each soul be rekindled``````````````````
``````````````````With fire from above. __Mackay````````````````
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Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
__Lincoln

************Today's Bible Reading __ 2 Chronicles 7:1-14**********

1 When Solomon had
finished praying, fire came
down from heaven and
consumed the burnt offering
and the sacrifices; and the
glory of the LORD filled the
temple....So the king and all the
people dedicated the house
of God....

8 At that time Solomon kept
the feast seven days, and all
Israel with him....9 And
on the eighth day they held a
sacred assembly, for they
observed the dedication of
the altar seven days, and the
feast seven days. 10 On the
twenty-third day of the
seventh month he sent the
people away to their tents,
joyful and glad of heart for
the good that the LORD had
done for David, for Solomon,
and for His people Israel.

11 Thus Solomon finished
the house of the LORD and
the king's house; and
Solomon successfully
accomplished all that came
into his heart to make in the
house of the LORD and in his
own house.

12 Then the LORD appeared
to Solomon by night, and
said to him: "I have heard
your prayer, and have chosen
this place for Myself as a
house of sacrifice. 13 When I
shut up heaven and there is
no rain, or command the
locusts to devour the land, or
send pestilence among My
people, 14 if My people who
are called by My name will
humble themselves, and pray
and seek My face, and turn
from their wicked ways, then
I will hear from heaven, and
will forgive their sin and heal
their land."

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Solomon was a very complicated man--blessed with great wisdom
from God, yet marked by the foolishness of his own unwise choices.
Some of the lessons he learned from those choices are found in
Ecclesiastes 1 and 2. __BIL CROWDER