Chaplain Report May 2001

Rev. Dr. William Jackson  Lincoln ALP 3 Chaplain 

Message From The Chaplain 

Time To Pray 

mixed up world of ours. But how do you know God  

is real, and cares about you? Great question.  

Suppose I pose it to you like this: if God is  

Omniscient (i.e., All-Knowing), Omnipotent (i.e., All 

Powerful), and Omnipresent (i.e., Ever-present),  

then serve Him without fear or hesitation, as noted  

in Psalm 29:4, Psalm 144:3, and Genesis 3:8. If He is  

not as so described, then do not serve Him. But you  

know as well that failure to love and serve the Lord  

means you’re serving Satan (e.g., Devil, Lucifer,  

Beelzebub, Prince of the Power of the Air),  

according to His Word, the Bible. You cannot serve  

There’s going to be a time when it’ll come down to  one thing: who are you really???? 

By that I mean: where do you stand—or fall—when it comes to your walk of faith with Jesus? Oh, I’m  sorry, you don’t know Him enough to get that cozy  with Him, huh? Well, why don’t I acquaint you with  someone who truly knows who and what you are,  God Himself. 

If you are a disciple of Christ, a Christian, or respond  to any number of epithets related to your belief in  the Lord, you’ll be just fine, as the Lord revealed in  John 16:33. I’m really trying to squeeze a Word (i.e.,  the Bible) in edgewise to those Lincoln Post 3 Nebraska Legionnaires who find themselves on the  back end of a front-end loader, so-to-speak, with no  apparent way to get back in the driver’s seat. But  you say you like being dragged around the world  because you’ve been told…unfortunately…that it’s  the way to go to be…successful..?!?! Ya got’ta take  yo knocks they told ja, huh?  

So what’s next? 

Freedom…peace…certainty…confidence?  

If God IS who and what His Word, the Bible, say He  is, then you’ve got all you need to make it in this  

two masters (Matthew 6:24). 

Ssssssoooooo….What’s it gon’na be? Continue to  stumble in the dark while the world trips you at  every corner, feeding you lies and false hopes, and  no deliverance from your anxieties..except with  alcohol, illicit drugs, and sex. You’ve tried those  avenues, but found them wonting, huh? Then return  to the Lord Jesus as your ONLY hope of long life,  prosperity, and inner joy. Become counted among  those who WILL meet the Lord during the Parousia (Greek for the Rapture), while others shake their  fists at God and face eternal damnation (1  Thessalonians 4:15). 

Do the better thing. Walk with the Lord. Yes, He is  bringing condemnation upon the world, and  particularly to America, for our denying our first  love—Jesus—who helped this once great nation rise  to prominence and send missionaries with the  Gospel around the world (Matthew 28:19). How  much longer are you going to allow others to  destroy us? Love the Lord, so He may show you how to be angry, yet not sin (i.e., combating evil your  way). When you walk as a disciple of the Lord, no one can stop you from telling others what they need  to hear.