Maybelle Kirkland
The gracious hand of our Lord God is on everyone who looks to Him, but His anger is against all who forsake Him. When our deliverance comes, how quickly we forget to continue to rely on the one who brought about our liberty.
When we have decreed, declared, shouted about and rejoiced over what God had just done for us, we should not ask of another human the means to continue what God has begun.
Too often we suddenly begin to consider how our employer, parents, companions or children can be our source of success. God has brought us out of darkness into His will, only to abandon us. Rather He has rescued us from darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His Son so that we accurately assess that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
The welfare system was intended to aid the elderly, infirm and dependent children without family. It was never to be used to the point of abuse. The problem is that the abusers of the system have become the abused because of the system. God wants His people to fare well, but welfare has robbed people of their initiative, creativity, self-respect and pride of authorship.
We should be ashamed when we do things that fail to promote the good hand now our God. Are you a beggar or bragger?
The families of the late Marie (ReRe) Roberts, Frances Green and Mother Helen Autry thank you, their families and friends, for all acts of kindness shown to them during their hours of bereavement.
Birthday wishes to Louise Jones, Oscar Jones, Neisha Rainey, Linda Hooper, Stacy Stewart, Cindy Roberts, Nehemiah Sharper, Patrick Cribb, Elaina Stewart, Rosalind Henry, Corliss Brown, Hannah Carson, Nikita R. Geter, Paula Evans, Kevin Smith and Neisha Smith.
Maybelle Kirkland-Brown was born and raised in Nassau County but has traveled to many places, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the English Channel. Mother of five children, grandmother of 20, and great-grandmother of five, she is very active in First Missionary Baptist Church.