Choices; May 27, 2025

Posted on May 28, 2025 by jgarrott

Psalm 9:1-2 I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
    I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
I will be glad and rejoice in you;
    I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

David regularly made the choice to thank God and rejoice in Him with his whole heart, as he says here. That isn’t always easy! Even in this Psalm he mentions his enemies, and he actually spent a major part of his life in active conflict of various sorts. Our circumstances aren’t identical to David’s, certainly, but we too can make the choice to praise God – and we will gain the same benefits David did. Dennis Prager has said, “If you want to be happy, act happy.” That seems simplistic, but it is remarkably true. The more we thank and praise God, the more we discover we have reasons to do so. The worst thing for depression is inactivity. The best antidote for life’s troubles is the God who loves us in spite of everything. Choosing to focus on Him is the wisest choice in absolutely every situation! Right now Dennis is in a rather severe practicum on this very point, having broken his neck and being in a very difficult recovery process. The reports his organization is putting out indicate that he is making progress, but it can’t be easy. For someone who has been a world traveler, as well as a public speaker, all his life, this is as big a change as you could imagine. He is a devout Jew, and does not currently acknowledge Jesus as his Messiah, but he is focused on obeying God. I think that God has allowed this in his life to teach him to love Him, and not just obey Him. Dennis has said that he has trouble with the idea of loving God, and of the concept of unconditional love. My prayer is that in this time he will discover God’s love and love Him in return, finally believing that God loved him so much that He already sent His Son to be his Savior. When that happens, Dennis will rejoice that God allowed this in his life, because a right relationship with God’s Son is worth more than everything else in the universe put together!

I am grateful that God has given me the ability to choose, and that I have seen the fruit of it. I chose to love my wife, in a rather abrupt and dramatic fashion, and 56 years later that has only grown and deepened. That said, I renew that choice every day. Likewise, I chose to repent of pride and follow my Lord in obedience. That too gets renewed every day. Sometimes I think I’ve done better at loving my wife than I have at obeying God! I have had times of real depression, but the Lord has enabled me to choose to refocus on Him. Life itself is a succession of choices, and I need always to seek the guidance of God’s Spirit in making them, because I don’t have the wisdom or strength to do it right consistently. Seeking that guidance is itself a choice, and it’s what I need to start with all the time.

Father, thank You for this reminder. There were things I was putting off yesterday. Help me follow through with the choice to get them done, so that Your purposes may be accomplished on Your schedule in and through me, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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King Jesus; May 26, 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025 by jgarrott

Psalm 5:2 Hear my cry for help,
    my King and my God,
    for to you I pray.

Recently there was a “scandal” because Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth opened a prayer meeting in the Pentagon (!) with a prayer to “King Jesus.” The Leftists were horrified, because they do all they can to deny 250 years of American history with the excuse of “separation of Church and State.” They very conveniently ignore two facts about that line in a letter by Thomas Jefferson (NOT in the Constitution). The first is that the Constitution forbids the establishment of a State Church, as in the Church of England, with which the founders were all too familiar. The second is that the Constitution protects the Church from the State, and not the other way around. Theocracies never work, because God is never really in charge, just people who claim to act for God. Iran is a clear example of that today. However, acknowledging the sovereignty of God is wise in every age and every circumstance. Totalitarian governments hate true religion because they don’t want to acknowledge that there is anything higher than the State, and individuals in rebellion against God are the same way. We want to control things ourselves, making our own rules, totally blind to the reality that we aren’t that smart or that pure. David was a flawed individual, as we all are, but this and many other Psalms proclaim his commitment to God. We need to remember that we are no more perfect than he was, and renew our awareness of and commitment to God daily, in all honesty and sincerity, knowing that He alone knows what is best for us and for everyone else.

I have been deeply saddened by some of the people who are taken in by all the Leftist rhetoric that is flying around. That includes people who love God and know better, really. Media, both legacy and social, is seldom objective, much less inspired by the Holy Spirit! A danger for me is to feel holier-than-thou, but that is just another face of “virtue signaling,” which I despise. I am not to do that which I accuse others of doing! I am to pray for those in leadership, and I am to pray for those with whom I have influence, speaking the truth in love and recognizing my own fallibility. We all get defensive! I am to remember that Jesus is the only one who is always right, and stay as committed as possible to His Lordship, in my life and the world around me, for His glory alone.

Father, thank You for this reminder. I ask for Your wisdom in how to respond to people I care about when they spout falsehoods, not recognizing that they themselves have been deceived. May I be an agent of Your rule and reign being established as Your will is done, for Your glory alone. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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The Basis for Joy; May 25, 2025

Posted on May 26, 2025 by jgarrott

Psalm 4:7 Fill my heart with joy
    when their grain and new wine abound.
(I greatly prefer the alternative translation:
You have filled my heart with greater joy
than when their grain and new wine abound.)

We tend to let our joy be dependent on our circumstances, but God has much better in mind for us. When we are focused on our circumstances, all sorts of things can shake us, and we have no real stability. When we are focused on God’s kingdom and His righteousness, (Matthew 6:33) we can have peace regardless of what is going on, and joy in the process. Simply knowing we are loved by our Father God should bring us joy that can be had no other way! Children are happy when they are assured of their parents’ love, and that their parents love each other. Sadly, many parents fail to grasp how to communicate their love to their children, or to each other, for that matter. Discipline is an essential part of parental love, and that is sadly lacking in too many homes. Hebrews 12 gives a very good exposition of discipline as love, and we need to take it to heart in our families as well as in our relationship to our heavenly Father. When we are secure in His love, then joy is our usual state of being, to the amazement and envy of those around us.

This is very applicable right now. My wife and I are at a hot-springs hotel, celebrating our 56th wedding anniversary, but several things have not gone as planned. For starters, it rained all day yesterday, so the sightseeing we had planned became out of the question, and there were various other things as well. However, we have the assurance that none of those inconveniences change the reality of God’s love for us in the slightest. Today we will be attending worship at a church where the pastor, and probably a sizable percentage of the congregation, are deaf. We have known that pastor for over 50 years, and are really looking forward to it. This is a rare opportunity for my wife to interpret for me, rather than the other way around. We are to receive each moment of today as a gift from our loving heavenly Father, and rejoice, whatever our flesh might think in the moment. God has been incredibly gracious to us over the past 56 years, and He will continue to be so until we are with Him in glory!

Father, thank You for this reminder. It’s a bit ironic that I would need it, when You told me to rest, relax, and rejoice in You several years ago. Help us receive Your joy with gratitude, giving You glory by our response to everything that happens today. Thank You. Praise God!

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Seeing God’s Face; May 24, 2025

Posted on May 25, 2025 by jgarrott

Job 33:26 then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,
    they will see God’s face and shout for joy;
    he will restore them to full well-being.

Oh the joy of seeing God’s face! This isn’t something we see expressed often in so many words, but the feeling is there in several places in the Bible. This is rather in contrast to what God told Moses about seeing Him, (Exodus 33:20) but it agrees with Moses’ regular practice of meeting with God in the tabernacle. (Exodus 33:11) That might seem contradictory, but there all sorts of “seeing.” Because God is Spirit, our physical eyes can’t possibly see Him, but it is entirely possible to be as aware of Him as if He were a person in the room with us. For someone who is turned and yielded to God, that is a joy beyond words to express. For someone who is in rebellion against God, that is conversely an inexpressible terror. The difference is entirely in heart attitude, founded on faith. Countless people have found God, just as He promised Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:13), and as it says here, that is joy indeed.

I will always be grateful for the privilege of interpreting for Benjamin Berger when he came to Japan. He was born in New York City after his parents refugeed there, all four of his grandparents having been killed in the Holocaust. He had been told from childhood that “Christians caused the Holocaust,” and he believed it. After college he got a job in Europe, and one day after coming home he was reading the newspaper when he felt someone was in the room. The feeling got stronger and stronger, until he heard a voice: “I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and I’m your God.” A conversation ensued, and after a few minutes the Lord said, “And by the way, my name’s Jesus.” Not many people have encounters that dramatic, but God is that real, if we will open our hearts to Him. In my own experience, in a time of worship in a small group I once felt such intense joy that I literally told the Lord, “If You have anything more for me to do here, You’d better back off, because my flesh can’t take any more.” I felt like one more drop of joy and I would go straight to heaven! Needless to say, I’m not afraid of death! That experience makes me identify fully with this verse, because I know that seeing my Lord will be “joy unspeakable, and full of glory,” as the hymn puts it. (1 Peter 1:8) However, I know He still has work for me to do, because I’m still here!

Father, thank You for this reminder. It’s very appropriate for my 56th wedding anniversary! You have given me great joy in my wife and in our relationship, and at the same time I know that is just a pale reflection of the joy of full fellowship with You. I do ask for grace and anointing in how we spend this day, and I pray that we, individually and as a couple, may draw many into right relationship with You, for their salvation and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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Antisemitism; May 23, 2025

Posted on May 24, 2025 by jgarrott

Esther 8:17 In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.

Esther is the only book in the Bible that doesn’t mention God, but it is still of considerable historical significance. Antisemitism has deep roots! That said, the retribution delineated in verse 11 seems extreme, even horrible to us today. It’s no wonder Gentiles were so scared they proclaimed themselves to be Jews, as it says here! The problem is, many people feel there is no consequence to antisemitism so they indulge in it with impunity. Even apart from the devil’s hatred of the people chosen by God, human beings have a bad tendency to inflate themselves (they think) by putting other people down. The devil has seized on that to generate antisemitism, and it has certainly been manifesting recently. On the occasion mentioned here, God “flipped the script” and gave Jews legal permission to do to those who hated them what was done to them on October 7th of 2023. They didn’t have the weapons in ancient Persia that Hamas used against them in the 21st Century, so the carnage wasn’t as complete, but the threat of it was obviously very effective. At issue is the whole concept of peace through strength. In America today, some people are making a stink about people having their visas revoked because of their overt antisemitism, but that is certainly mild compared to what happened in Persia! It is significant that the land of Persia is today called Iran, and the Islamic government there is actively pursuing nuclear weapons for the express purpose of wiping Israel off the map, literally. I’ve heard well-meaning Christians, even, bemoaning the idea that Israel and/or the US might conduct a preemptive strike to take out Iran’s nuclear capability, but the fact remains that other nuclear-enabled countries have at least a semblance of sanity, which the mullahs of Iran have not demonstrated. If they had nuclear weapons, they would rejoice to use them! I don’t know what God’s solution is at this point, but I do know that His final solution is the return of Christ as King, and I look forward to that.

I’ve never had a trace of antisemitism, but I am certainly all too familiar with racial prejudice, from a number of angles. Growing up as a Caucasian in postwar Japan, it was inescapable! I saw Americans looking down on Japanese and Japanese despising Americans, and at times it got pretty ugly. Mankind is a mess, and we need the redemption of Jesus Christ! I don’t have the political influence of Mordechai, certainly, nor do I want it, but I can express the love and character of Jesus Christ on a personal level, and that is the best answer to prejudice of all sorts.

Father, thank You for this reminder. Thank You that You are greater than all our human flaws and sins, and that You have made repentance available to everyone. Help me be, say, and do what You desire, so that those who see me may be drawn to You for their salvation and Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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Shared Joy; May 22. 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by jgarrott

Nehemiah 12:43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.

Reading this chapter up to this point, there are so many unfamiliar names that it’s enough to make most people stop reading! However, Nehemiah was a good leader, and he cared about the individuals working with him, giving them credit. We shouldn’t let the lists of names numb us to verses like this, that talk about the level of joy the Lord poured out on the people of the city. Some translations say “Jerusalem’s joy,” but we need to remember that cities, like churches, aren’t fundamentally buildings, but people. Buildings can’t rejoice! It speaks to me that the women and children are specifically mentioned here, and the Japanese indicates that it was because they also rejoiced that the joy carried far away. We don’t have to make a big scene with our joy, but we shouldn’t hold back. It is easily demonstrable that if one person starts laughing, the people around them will fairly quickly start laughing too, improving the mood for everyone. I’ve seen video of specific experiments with a hidden camera of someone watching a video on a tablet computer on a subway. When they start laughing, the people around them start laughing too, even though they aren’t seeing the video, and eventually most of the car full of people are laughing openly. Our joy in the Lord should be like that! The better we recognize God’s love, grace, and mercy toward us and respond to it, the more the people around us are likely to recognize God as well. I think the only people who were unhappy on this day that Nehemiah is writing about were the enemies who didn’t want them to succeed!

I have had non-Christians introduce their friends to me because they wanted their friends to “know someone who enjoys living.” I take that as a high compliment. God has indeed made me glad! I do have various things I don’t enjoy, but God has been more than gracious toward me. One thing that gets numbers of comments is the relationship that my wife and I have. Just yesterday a friend said yet again, “It makes me happy just to see you two together.” We will be celebrating our 56th wedding anniversary this Saturday, and our gratitude level is very high! I have certainly learned that sharing joy doesn’t diminish it, it multiplies it. I am not to hide what the Lord has done for me, but rather share it with as many people as possible, as David proclaims in many of his Psalms. Doing that gives God glory, which is a joy in itself!

Father, thank You for this reminder. Thank You indeed for Your overwhelming grace and mercy toward me. May I be an open channel for that grace and mercy to flow to those around me, for their blessing and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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The Bible; May 21, 2025

Posted on May 22, 2025 by jgarrott

Nehemiah 8:10 Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

The last line of this verse has been made into a very well-known chorus, but for most people today, the question remains of why the people were weeping in the first place. I think that for the majority of the people gathered that day, this was the first time they had ever heard the Torah read to them. We forget that this was thousands of years before the printing press, and books were hand-copied, rare, and valuable. To this point they had been told things, but this was the first time they had heard the actual words recorded by Moses. To top it off, the Torah is in Hebrew, and most of the people only spoke Aramaic. That’s why the Levites had to “give the sense.” (verse 8) They were interpreting into Aramaic. All in all, the experience was overwhelming. Most of the people had been born in exile, but God had brought them back to the land of their forefathers, so they knew He was real, but they had very little knowledge of Him personally. In some ways I think they were like many Americans today: cultural Christians who probably have a Bible or two in their home but who have never really read it, particularly as applying to them. What a huge, and dangerous, waste! Getting God’s Word into us, to put it into practice, is the greatest privilege and the greatest protection we could ask for. James famously said, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7) But how do you submit to God if you don’t know what He said? And if we aren’t submitted to Him, trying to resist the devil in our own strength is laughable. Today we have almost countless translations of the Bible, available not only in print form but also electronically, and even in audio form for those with vision problems. The devil likes nothing better than to blind us to such riches so that he can deceive us and tear us down. If we would really take the Word in to make it part of us, then God’s joy would fill and strengthen us more than we can now imagine.

I was raised in a home that was steeped in the Bible to a remarkable degree. My father had gotten his Master’s degree in Hebrew and his PhD in Biblical Greek, and he taught those languages in a Japanese seminary. He was well aware of translation difficulties, and we always had multiple translations available. After I was baptized at 7 I was given my first full Bible, and my father chose the RSV translation as the most accurate and understandable at that point – and I read it through by the time I was 10. Since then I have lost count of how many times I have read through the Bible in various translations, so you could say I’m marinated in it. However, the question always remains of whether I’m acting on it, putting it into practice. I think I’ve grown in that over the years, but I’m certainly no more perfect than Paul was. (Philippians 3:12-14) That said, I do have the joy of knowing my Lord and hearing Him daily, and that makes me strong indeed.

Father, thank You for this reminder, and for Your Word. Thank You for Your incredible grace toward me, to have blessed me like this. Help me not take it lightly, but apply Your Word consistently, in every area of my life, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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Leaders; May 20, 2025

Posted on May 21, 2025 by jgarrott

Ezra 6:14 So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

This verse explicitly includes both spiritual leaders and government leaders. Some people tend to rebel against all leadership, but they are seldom successful in their lives. Some people think or feel that everything depends on government, and they either despair at what they have or want more of it. And some people so focus on what they see as spiritual that they despise government, and/or see it as beneath their notice. All of those are wrong! We are too weak and foolish to make it entirely on our own, and all human organizations are fallible, but we need personal accountability and civil government in order to live lives rightly related to God, who is Spirit. As Paul famously said, “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:1-4) If we don’t have good civil government, it will be very difficult to “live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” However, God is ultimately in charge, and He uses secular leaders to do His will. If we focus too much on politicians and government, we will leave God more and more out of the picture, and we can certainly see the results of that. However, we aren’t to be “so heavenly minded we’re no earthly good.” Particularly in representative democracies, we are to be actively involved in society in all the ways available to us, all the while realizing that all of this is temporary, and God is the only eternal good. That’s why we need both spiritual leaders and political leaders – and we’re to pray for both.

I was not at all political for the first 2/3 of my life, but once I passed 50 I started paying more and more attention. At this point I am generally very aware, and certainly interested, but I’ve got to keep it all in proper perspective. I am sharply aware both of human fallibility and the ability of God to use anyone, even a donkey! (Numbers 22) (That’s not a reference to a political party, by the way.) I have seen spiritual leaders who genuinely drew people to God, to listen to Him, and I have also seen spiritual leaders who were all about themselves, and effectively blocked people from following God. I’m to follow Paul’s advice and pray for both, particularly since I’m in a position of spiritual leadership myself. I am never to take that position lightly, but also remember that I am no more than an under-shepherd, fully accountable to the Great Shepherd of the sheep – to use the expression in Hebrews 13:20. I am to despise no one, but let God be the Judge, and pray for all.

Father, thank You for this reminder. The world is certainly getting some lessons in leadership, for good or bad. I pray that those You have set in leadership would be increasingly faithful to You, so that Your name may be acknowledged as holy and Your rule and reign be established as Your will is done, for Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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Emotions; May 19, 2025

Posted on May 20, 2025 by jgarrott

Ezra 3:13 No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.

Strong emotions can indeed blend together. In some situations that can become pathological, as in masochism. Some people become fear junkies, actively seeking out dangerous situations for the adrenaline hit. Such things are indications of human weakness and stupidity. In this particular situation the strong emotions weren’t being held by the same people simultaneously, but the effect was much the same. I’m sure everyone was exhausted when the day was over! It strikes me that those who were weeping probably had mixed emotions in the process, because there should have been gratitude at the new beginning, as well as mourning for what had been. It was probably a sort of flashback, as they remembered not just how the temple had been in its former glory, but what went on when it was destroyed by the Babylonian army. That was a horrible scene indeed! Those who had been born during the captivity probably had little to no empathy with such flashbacks. The thing is, God knew and cared about it all, and cared for each individual whatever their emotions. I really think that’s one reason Jesus came as a human being, so that He could actually feel the emotions we do on our scale. However, He did that, so we can rest assured that He understands us even when we don’t understand ourselves.

Today is to me a day of mixed, and potentially strong, emotions. Some good friends have asked to use our building for a celebration of life. That’s a currently popular term in the US for a funeral, but in this case the person in question is still alive, though they won’t be for much longer. The couple is 84, and the wife is in the terminal phase of lung cancer, with one lung full of tumors and the other filling with fluid, though she currently has no real pain and is able to be at home. She is already over a year past the first “expiration date” her doctors gave her! They are very active in evangelism, being members of the Salvation Army, and they planned today’s program as an evangelistic outreach. About a third of those expected will step into a church building for the first time today. A few days ago I spoke to their son who is currently living with them as support in this time, noting the conflicting emotions he was doubtless feeling, and he was very appreciative of my understanding. I will be in charge of videoing the whole thing, since the couple’s daughter lives in the US, and my wife and I will be singing a bilingual song about the love of God for us. My biggest personal concern is that I will be able to do the video editing afterward correctly, since there will be two cameras, and I’m not experienced in editing. I am filled with empathy for the couple, since my own wife has a list of medical issues, and I have thought many times about what it would be like if my wife precedes me, which she is likely to do. Today I am to “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.” (Romans 12:15) My prayer is that I will do it well.

Father, I do pray for the couple and their family, and for all of today’s activities. The couple is well loved, for excellent reason, and they are loved most by You. May today be an effective demonstration of Your love to both those present and those who observe from a distance, so that You may be glorified and people be brought into Your family. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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Heart Attitude; May 18, 2025

Posted on May 19, 2025 by jgarrott

2 Chronicles 30:18-20 But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the Lord, who is good, pardon everyone who sets their heart on seeking God—the Lord, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.” And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

This is one of many places that indicate that God is far more interested in our hearts than in our ceremonies. Some places say it a little more directly, but this is certainly clear enough. This was a massive, national return to Yahweh, and He received it as such. We get all caught up in rules and regulations to the point that sometimes we forget what they are all about. This is something that Paul wrote about extensively. The letter to the Galatians is all about taking them to task for forgetting what faith is all about. Ephesians 2:8-9 famously encapsulates it: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” The people in Hezekiah’s day didn’t have the prescribed “works,” but they dedicated their hearts to return to the God of their fathers, and God was pleased with that. In Jesus’ day, many of the Pharisees were ritually perfect, but Jesus said they were no better than “whitewashed tombs.” (Matthew 23:27) Ceremonies have meaning, and we aren’t to take them lightly, but above all God wants our hearts, and we must never forget it.

I was thankfully not raised in a ritualistic environment, but I still have the tendency to just go through the motions at times. I must not do that! Occasionally I am tempted to skip morning devotions, but I know well that impulse is from the devil! That said, this morning I overslept just a bit, so my devotional time has been interrupted, but I’m back at it. Maintaining right priorities is always a choice, but it is one that is amply rewarded. I am to be careful that right actions are motivated by a heart that is right with my Lord. When that is the case, the result will be His will being done, for His glory.

Father, thank You for this reminder. Today’s schedule is certainly packed. Thank You for the man who called yesterday confirming our service schedule. I pray that he would indeed show up, and would encounter You here. Thank You for the Shigeta family members who will be here. I pray that they too would be aware of Your presence, and that everything would go smoothly in the cleaning and then the preparations for tomorrow’s special service. I pray that it would be done quickly enough that there will be no conflict with the marriage counseling I’ll be doing from four. In all of this, may I indeed rest, relax, and rejoice in You, just as You have told me, so that Your will may be done perfectly, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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