LETTERS: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD

Dear Editor

I listened to a tape by a policeman from Los Angeles County recently. He really hit the nail on the head. We can talk about morality, offer solutions, try to teach our children right from wrong, but nothing will work until we are ready to accept Christ as our King, Lord and Savior.

I feel this is much more than just going to church and knowing that Jesus is Lord and Savior.

We must LIVE as a disciple of Christ. We must not allow money to rule our lives, constantly lying to get more or lying to cheat your employer, the insurance company or government out of what is due them. (Jesus did say give to Caesar what is Caesar's.) Many people do not understand that lying is lying no matter how small it is, it is still a lie. When we lie for money we are making money our king, not Jesus.

If our children learn from us how to lie and cheat to get what they want, how are they supposed to know what is right and what is wrong and who their king should be?

Are the pleasures of the flesh your king? Before I tough on this subject, I would like to say that I am not judging anyone. I apologize now if it sounds that way.

Hebrews 13:4 "Let the marriage be honored, and the marriage bed be kept undefiled for God will judge the immoral and adulterers. Let your life be free from the love of money, but be content with what you have for he has said I will forsake and abandon you."

Being divorced, you do not have to tell me about how difficult it is to be alone. I have gone through all the feelings that anyone could possibly have had. What I have done, thanks to God's grace and guidance, is really find Jesus as my king -- not money, not sex, not alcohol, not drugs, not any of the vices that I could have gone to.

Jesus is all I need and all you really need if you want to find true happiness.

One very large regret that I have is that I did not do this many years ago and I did not give my children the spiritual guidance they needed when they were younger. I was "lukewarm" as Jesus warns about in Revelations 3:14-15 "I know your works, I know that you are neither cold nor hot. So because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth..."

Therefore, we must not be lukewarm. We must be on fire with God's love and not be afraid to spread the good news of Christ our King.

If everyone made Jesus King there would be no need for police, no need for armies, no kids killing kids, the list goes on and on.

You might say that this is impossible, improbable maybe, knowing man's addiction to sin over the centuries. But I say nothing is impossible with God.

Gerard Macke

Leopold