Commitments

As we start a new calendar year we might be tempted to make some New Year's Resolutions as a custom or tradition. However, a valuable lesson I have learned during the past 34 years in knowing Jesus as my Lord and Savior, is in January of each new year to make commitments to Him as to how I can obey and serve Him. Much better than resolutions, don't you think?

May I suggest a commitment we all, who love and support Israel, can set as a goal for this new year. This would be a commitment of speaking The Truth With Boldness And Clarity When We Know False Statements Have Been Spoken. The enemies of Israel for many years have been trying to destroy the foundations of Israel and cause the Jewish people to break covenants with their God in the very locations where God made the covenants with them.

On the mountains of Israel in Beth El, Israel was born when Jacob's name was changed to Israel. There, God promised the heartland of Israel known as Judea and Samaria and all the land of Israel to the Jewish people. "The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, 'Lift up your eyes from where you are and look North and South, East and West. All the land that you see I will give you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breath of the land, for I am giving it to you.'" Genesis 13:14-17.

From Beth El on a clear day one can see to Mount Hermon, to the Mediterranean Sea, to Jordan and to the hills of Hebron. Beth El is the center of what is now being proposed for an Islamic Palestinian State by the nations of the world. However, our God says to Abram, "I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God." Genesis 17:7-8.

The definition of what is referred to as The Big Lie is, "If you keep telling the same lie over and over again, eventually some people will think it is the truth." The enemies of Israel keep telling The Big Lie. However, we know The Truth and we can and should commit to telling The Truth over and over again in the New Year. Praise The Lord!

May The Lord Bless You And Keep You This Day And Each Day,

Frank