Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem
My brother and his new bride were very upset. They had just purchased a 200-year-old farmhouse on acres of wooded property with the assurance that the area would not be over-developed. They had even arranged, as part of the purchase price, to put $30,000 in escrow to dig their own well and septic system, as no municipal services were planned for that area.
Then, the elderly person in the property across the street passed away. The son of the deceased had no desire to live in the farmhouse, work the farm, or even just sell the property as-is to an interested buyer. Instead, he planned on bulldozing the entire property, clear-cutting all the trees to sell as lumber, and then building 20 so-called "McMansions" without a single shrub or tree for years to come until new ones could grow up. This would also mean that the town would have to extend water and sewer lines to the property, widen the street, raise taxes to provide services and schools to all the new people, and put in new traffic controls. The same developer had done something similar in an adjoining town, and it was a disaster.
My brother had not been deceived when he bought his farmhouse; as these were all circumstances that occurred after he had passed papers.
I said that it probably wouldn't happen, because the property was right on an important river. Still, there was great cause for concern. I told my brother to attend the very next town meeting and make sure his voice got heard.
A few weeks later, my brother told me that the town did NOT approve the plan, and the property was sold as a farmhouse. The ugliness of the development in the adjoining town was the deciding factor. While neither of us are extreme die-hard environmentalists, both of us could see that the "Many McMansions" would, in this case, destroy the community.
When Jesus said "In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions" He wasn't talking about a row of buildings like the one that was planned across the street from my brother. Unfortunately, the normally lofty and beautiful King James version used that particular word, and it has stuck. Be assured. It will NOT look like Southeastern Massachusetts!
Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.
"The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance..” Psalm 33 NASB
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Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.
This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.
Hallelujah and Amen
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