Trump Indicted

Today, 30 March 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg successfully convinced a Grand Jury that there was sufficient evidence to indict President Donald J. Trump on charges as yet undisclosed to the public.  Today, the United States of America became a banana republic. 

It is the position of “Lamp in a Corner” that American elections should be free, fair, and conducted according to law.  It is our position that our government should be elected by the people, and that the people should be able to vote for the candidate they choose, provided that person meets the requirements set forth in the U.S. Constitution. 

We oppose the manipulation of elections by persons in authority who seek to prevent candidates from running for office by any means, ethical or not, to further their political ends, and those of their party and financial backers.  We are ashamed that our country has come to this.  Whether you support President Trump or oppose him, let us all agree that this is not the way we do things in America. 

Please pray for the United States of America.

"Made Like Him, Like Him We'll Rise"

For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:  whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.  For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,  who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

(Philippians 3:18-21 NKJV)

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.  Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;  that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,  if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

(Philippians 3:7-11 NKJV) *

 

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words.

(1Thessalonians 4:13-18 NKJV) **

 

* https://biblehub.com/nkjv/philippians/3.htm

** https://biblehub.com/nkjv/1_thessalonians/4.htm

The Peace of God

Paul wrote these words from prison, not knowing whether he would be released or executed.  The truth that the Holy Spirit is showing us here is that we may have the peace of God in all circumstances.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.  Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:4-7 ESV) *

 * https://biblehub.com/esv/philippians/4.htm