If I died tomorrow . . .
I am the Lord your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other God before me . . . I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.
-- Exodus 20:3, 5
God has brought me out of my own personal bondage, when I was a slave to sinful anger and pride, and guilt and shame, and fear and self-hatred. I have no other Gods, yet I often do not obey Him, in matters both small and large, even though He saved my life. I put my personal pleasure and vanity ahead of spending time in prayer and study and companionship with Him, and ahead of the work He has given me to do, pleasant though it is. I still live as if I have forever, when in fact my days, and all our days, are numbered. Only God knows what that number is.
If I died tomorrow, I would not want to leave any important thing undone or unsaid. And so I will say the following.
There are those in the U.S. who worship a man who is very much the opposite of Jesus Christ. Where Jesus is pure truth, this man is pure lies. Where Jesus is love, this man is hate. Where Jesus is the Prince of Peace, this man is a bringer of deadly strife, by means of his lies. Where Jesus led us all into freedom and justice for God's sake and our own, this man leads to oppression and cruelty for his own benefit. Personal loyalty to this man, rather than to Jesus Christ, will plunge the whole world into deep darkness, not only for the rest of his life, but for generations to come.
I say this in love, because I do not want my fellow Americans to perish, nor to condemn their own children and mine to a hell on earth.
-- Phil Jones
www.sunriseministries.org
