From the Home Place

March 1, 2026

30 degrees at 4 a.m., moving up to 54 before the day is over. It doesn’t look like very much sunshine today though.

Thursday found Miss Deb and I in Casper, back to Lusk to meet with my young men’s group. Friday and Saturday we were in Rapid City. Hopefully we will get to spend a couple of days at home. I’m really looking forward to attending worship at our home church today!

With all that is going on in our world, it will be good to fellowship with other Christ-followers. To pray, sing and hear from God’s holy word. You see, when the world around us is unraveling, it is extremely important to spend some time in the presence of All-Mighty God! Time to be reminded that He is in control, and that the circumstances of life are unfolding in a way that does not surprise God.

I can’t say for you, but for me, I’m so grateful that the God of the Bible is still active in the affairs of humanity today. Not only is He involved in our lives today, but He will also be there again tomorrow, and the days after that. As we begin a new month, and as there so many new events within our lives, it a great blessing to know that the One who has held time from the beginning, continues to hold every bit of today’s events within those same powerful hands.

Lest we forget, may I remind each of us that God never has, no will He ever be required to ask mankind for permission to act. God is, and God does according to His sovereign will. And here is another absolute: God has a plan and a purpose, yet He has chosen to work through different people at different times to accomplish that purpose.

Sometimes God uses bad people to correct the lives of His children, other times God uses a good person to correct the lives of evil people. Read 1 & 2 Kings. You will soon recognize the previous statement is true. Whom God uses when for what purpose is not up to us, but up to God Himself!

With perfect wisdom and absolute justice, God the Father accomplishes that which He determines! We humans think that we know how to meter justice, yet we can only do so in accordance with circumstances while enacting that which we think to be just. Today, just like the times at the end of the book of Judges, we find the Bible correctly stating our circumstances when it declares, “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

May we at least admit that we each see the world events of the past and of today, from our “own eyes.” However, it seems to me that a problem often arises when I see life events only from my “own eyes.” When we no longer see life events through the eyes of Scripture, and as such, through the eyes of God, then we a quite like do not fully understanding how all of the events fit together in a way that is completely correct.

You see my friends, when we begin to see life events through the eyes of our personal political eyes only, we quickly open ourselves up to only personal beliefs and limited understanding. In another words, the truth is as I see it. To me, that is a very dangerous place to take a stand. When the big “I” is in charge, and the big “you” is in charge, we open ourselves up to personal opinion, usually colored by our enemy (Ephesians 6:10-18). Instead, we need to keep our eyes fixed up on the author and the perfecter of faith, the Lord Jeus Christ.

So, for me, I go to church today to worship, to pray, to receive a lesson in biblical truth, to fellowship and to refocus my mind and life upon allowing God to be GOD! And to accept that He is the GOD of the world in which I live, at the time in which I live. In today’s language, “God’s got this.”

Is this the beginning of the end, yes – today moves me one day closer toward my earthly end; and then eternity in the presence of God the Father! What a day of rejoicing that will be! So, why not use today for some of that rejoicing? Rejoicing that all of this is temporary, and then there will be the eternal.

Rejoicing that God is in control with you, Neal