SHALL WE PLEASE GOD OR MAN?

SHALL WE PLEASE GOD OR MAN?

 Kindly pardon the old Middle-English language in this devotional; but you’ll surely get the point.

 Hugh Lattimer once preached before King Henry VIII.  Henry was so greatly displeased by the boldness in the sermon that ordered Lattimer to preach again on the following Sunday and to apologize for the offense he had given.  The next Sunday, after reading his text, he began his sermon as follows: “Hugh Lattimer, dost thou know before whom thou are this day to speak?  To the high and mighty monarch, the king’s most excellent majesty, who can take away thy life, if thou offendest.  Therefore, take heed that thou speakest not a word that may displease.  But then consider well, Hugh, dost thou not know from whence thou comest--upon Whose message thou are sent?  Even by the great and mighty God, Who is all-present and Who beholdeth all thy ways and Who is able to cast thy soul into hell!  Therefore, take care that thou deliverest thy message faithfully.”  He then preached the same sermon he had preached the preceding Sunday--and with considerably more energy. 

 There’s a New Testament scripture that is absolutely applicable: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John…they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” (Acts 4:13)

 Hold fast to THE TRUTH – not ‘your truth.’ (John 14:6)

 Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!