Social Distancing He Restores My Soul

Social Distancing

He Restores My Soul

A more dangerous social distancing is taking place

 It started with sin

A man allegedly committed a crime

An officer killed a man

People filled the streets and destroyed the livelihood of their neighbors

American’s souls are filled with anger and hate

It is a time to examine our soul

A time to pray for God to restore our soul

Without the restoring of the soul there will continue to be injustice

Righteousness will never be obtained

 Righteousness should not be looked at as a spiritual word

Righteousness should be the cry of humanity

Doing wrong, reaps wrong

Doing right, reaps righteousness

Without righteousness there is no peace and no joy

Good Shepherd, restore our soul and lead us in the path of righteousness. A-Men!

He Restores My Soul

A more dangerous social

distancing is taking place.

 It started with sin.

A man allegedly committed a crime.

He was arrested.

The officer arresting

him used abusive force.

Humiliating this human being in hand

cuffs by holding his face to the

pavement with the officer’s knee.

The arrested man died.

The whole thing is on video

and viewed by the nation.

 The media reports the officer’s

actions as a horrible crime, and it was.

A crowd turned into a violent protest.

It is not just a matter of justice

anymore, but a racial issue.

In Milwaukee, the violent protesters

burned and vandalized hundreds of businesses.

Now hundreds of people have

suffered loss to their businesses.

Thousands of innocent multiracial

people have lost their jobs and a

community to shop and live.

The violence has spread throughout

the United States in many cities.

One sin led to another to another.

Souls need to be restored.

How will America’s soul be restored?

When the soul is filled with anger,

hatred, discord, fits of rage, selfish

ambition, dissensions, factions and envy…

People become enemies and they fight;

they become jealous, angry, and ambitious.

They separate into parties and groups

Galatians 5:20 TEV

What is in the soul spreads.

It is like a seed that chokes

out life of everything good.

If we are ever to see

the right thing done…

We must stop and restore our soul.

Hate and anger keep the

mind from thinking properly.

You cannot think straight when

your soul is full of hate and anger.

The things we have seen in

Milwaukee have made us all angry.

We have all found things we hate

from the terrible actions of others.

It is time we check our soul.

It is a time to restore our soul.

Psalms 23 gives us a process to

making things right in verse 3…

    

 He restores my soul

He guides me in paths of righteousness

for His name's sake.

 Our soul needs to be restored

before we can see and walk

on the path of righteousness.

You cannot be guided on the path

of righteousness if your soul is

contaminated with anger and hate.

I know the scripture says…

 “For His name's sake”

      

I wish all people would hold to

the righteous standard of the Lord.

But this makes sense even

if you do not believe in God.

 

It is a time to examine our soul.

A time to pray for

God to restore our soul.

Without the restoring of the soul

there will continue to be injustice.

Righteousness will never be obtained.

 Righteousness should not be

looked at as a spiritual word.

Righteousness should

be the cry of humanity.

Doing wrong, reaps wrong.

Doing right, reaps righteousness.

Without righteousness,

 there is no peace and no joy.

Good Shepherd, restore our soul

and lead us in the path of

righteousness. A-Men!

Scripture Reading

Psalms 23:1-24:1 NIV

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leads me beside quiet waters,

3 he restores my soul.

He guides me in paths of righteousness

for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and love will follow me

all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.