Our Lighted Path

At Christmas, we sing a song that says, "His law is love, and His Gospel is peace." Yet many lives neglect to know what Christian love means. Wonderful, agape love isn't sinful. Instead, it's a blessing. Without the least sin or stress, Jesus gives the disciples instructions: to, at appointed times, provide ordinary food and fellowship — not only scriptures — for the spiritually poor. And He repeated, "Feed my (spiritual) sheep." In Old Testament times, the Savior already was active in this world, through those scriptures that were known to Hebrew people at that time. At that time, Heaven gave clear words of instruction:   Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day; and a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known. De...

My brother was right, and I was kind of wrong. It's true that colonists in early America could be ungodly toward Indian Americans, and my brother knew so. But what I knew was a little history from the viewpoint of Spanish missionaries, who didn't grow weary in ministering to Indian Americans who sometimes could be murderous. Although I knew some among the missionaries did murder in return — although, as Christians, we're not to repay evil for evil — I felt the missionaries were steadfast in faith and that the fruit of their labor is apparent even generations later, in some churches that still stand in their original places, ministering to diverse people.   Many Spanish Christians in historic South America, apparently did a much better job ministering to and becoming true sisters and brothers with those of our ancestors who were native to the American continent; and that reality is apparent also in some parts of the western United States. Although we know too well the saddes...