Lately, some of the good ole boys got waylaid and diverted from the straight and narrow. The straight and narrow Way says we’re only made righteous by the blood of the Lamb who was slain for us on Calvary’s hill.
But some of us got the notion that our peace and safety was somehow depending on some high and mighty principalities and powers in high places on this earth.
It reminded me of what ole Paul wrote to the believers in Galatia, way back in the day, when he posed the question of who had bewitched them!
Boys, we gotta remember that the shield of faith protects us from the schemes and the wiles of the devil. It ain’t no AR-15 that’s gonna be our security, even in these perilous days. And there ain’t gonna be no saving grace flowing from the latest joker who thought he was in charge of things. No sirree.
I mean, its sure enough pretty obvious that times are bad and all hell’s a-break-in’ loose and maybe even the seven seals breaking loose and all that.
But this ain’t the first time that times got so bad that God had to bring judgement.
Remember Noah, way back in the early days. I mean, as bad as people had gotten, God counted Noah as righteous. And he didn’t have no AR-15, didn’t have no connections to the prood hooligans nor the qanon crowd nor the racist rabble nor even the Republican Party.
All Noah had was his own two hands, a few tools, and some helpful young’uns that he and his wife had raised, and enough faith to believe what God was a-tellin’ him, and then the faith and the courage to act on what God said to do.
I mean, Noah knew things were goin downhill but he didn’t let it waylay him from doing what he had to do
He just stayed busy, kept his nose to the Arkstone, doing what the Lord told him to do and sure ’nuff when the Big One came, he and family and all them animals rose above all the destruction.
I heard this song from Tom Pittman on WNCW. It's about Noah, a man who found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Some of the good ole boys, Dailey & Vincent and friends. . . they got it right in this rendition . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqdNATGR2Yg
And while that is some mighty fine singin', I thought I’d toss in my two cents worth, because since the days of Noah, we’ve gone high tech and now we have trains!
So here’s my version of a train-song update that a few good ole boys and three gals helped me sing back in the day, 1978. Because we believers today are a little bit like Noah insofar as we can also find grace in the eyes of the Lord
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