DAILY DEVOTIONAL   MAY 12, 2008
(Joshua 1:8, Job 22:22)

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"Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart." Job
22:22

Bibles are being replaced with sex kits at hotels. The next time you take
your family on vacation and check in to a hotel, ANY HOTEL, make your
children stay in the lobby while you inspect the room. When you get to the
room, start with the television. Virtually every hotel now carries hardcore,
triple x movies that can be accessed in a few seconds with the remote
control. Take 2-3 minutes and block those channels so your children can't
access them. Next, go through all the drawers in the room. Sadly, in May of
2008 you probably won't find a Bible in any of the drawers, but you are very
likely to find a sex kit!

More and more hotels are no longer supplying Bibles in their guest rooms.
Many hotels are removing the Bibles because some guests complain other
religion books are not also available. One trendy Manhattan hotel doesn't
put Bibles in their rooms because "society evolves," said a hotel
spokeswoman. She said that providing Bibles would mean the hotel "would have
to take care of every guest's belief." According to the American Hotel and
Lodging Association, since 2001 the number of luxury hotels with religious
materials in the rooms has dropped by 18 percent. However, what is replacing
the Bible in many hotels are "intimacy kits" with items like condoms.

The new Indigo hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz., a "branded boutique" launched by
InterContinental, also has no Bibles, but it does offer a "One Night Stand"
package for guests seeking VIP treatment at local nightclubs and late
checkout for the hazy morning after. Sofitel's brand, for example, is taking
"a new direction," says Daniel Entenberg, the "romance concierge" at the
chain's flagship Los Angeles location. He was brought in two years ago in an
effort to reposition the entire company's image. With business travel down
and leisure travel up, the hotel industry is now catering to a "less
religious" younger clientele who are out for a good time, and certainly
don't want to open up a drawer on the nightstand have be confronted with
God's Word!

I know many people will think that this is no big deal, if people are really
into God's Word they should bring their own Bible, and that this is much ado
about nothing. I disagree. I think this is a VERY big deal from this
perspective. It is simply more empirical proof of what I have been telling
you for over 8 years now that this is no longer a Christian nation, in fact,
we are a nation in complete rebellion to God and His Word. Since 1908, the
Gideons have done a great job providing Bibles for hotel rooms, and still do
today.  It was a given even 10 years ago that virtually any hotel you went
to, whether it be a $20 a night or a $2,000 a night room, there would be a
Bible in the room. From the east coast to the west, from the north to the
south, you could always count on finding a Bible in your hotel room.

The fact that Bibles are now being purposely excluded from most new hotels
and removed by many hotels where they had been part of the standard room
amenity, is simply further evidence that we are not only a nation in
spiritual freefall, but a people who are living in complete rebellion to God
and His Word. Look at what IS now being offered in hotel rooms. Gone is the
Bible, but now available are hardcore triple x adult movies. Gone is the
Bible, but now available are condoms. As business travel has decreased over
the years, the hotels are clearly marketing their facilities to people
looking to meet for sex.

Listen, people using hotel rooms for illicit sexual rendezvous is certainly
nothing new. That has existed since hotels have been around. However, never
before was it so openly marketed for that purpose. In Asia, the infamous
"love hotels" have been around for thousands of years. They have always
unashamedly promoted themselves as a place for people looking to engage in
sex. It is common for some Asian businessmen and businesswomen to take off a
few hours during the day and visit their lover at one of these "love
hotels." The new "boutique hotels" now popping up around this country are
not much different, they just aren't quite as bold about declaring that is
what they are.

No doubt husbands and wives will occasionally spend a night at a hotel, but
most people using hotels as a place to have sex are either cheating on their
spouse or engaging in sex outside of marriage. So from a marketing
standpoint, I guess porn movies on the TV, sex kits in the rooms, and no
Bibles makes sense. After all, who wants to open up the drawer and see a
BIBLE as they get ready to commit adultery or an act of fornication? It
isn't likely that afterwards, either will be reading the Psalms together or
the 10 Commandments!!!

I love you and care about you so much. This is simply another visible
cultural sign of how far we are from God and His Truth. It is not getting
any better. I really do believe this year will be a year of GREAT change. We
are either going to turn back to God and His Truth, or we may be seeing His
wrath unleashed. It has only been His mercy and grace that has kept it from
happening so far. But after killing 50 million innocent babies since our
nation legally protected the practice of infanticide, with God's definition
of marriage and family now redefined, with homosexuality and every other
kind of sexual sin now accepted in our culture, with the vast majority of
people who live their lives in open rebellion to God and His Word, we should
not be surprised or shocked when God finally says enough is enough.

Putting Bibles back in hotel rooms is NOT going to lead this nation to
repentance. That is only going to happen as hearts and lives are changed by
the power of God. Just like the rich, fat priests of the Old Testament, most
of God's priests today are focused on the temporal things of this world and
not the eternal things of God. They are more interested in a person's bank
account than their soul. They water down the Gospel and comprise the Truth
of the Bible like any other motivational speaker, giving people the false
hope of this world instead of the life changing hope found in the
Scriptures. So why would we expect the people to live a holy and righteous
life when it is not a standard many of God's leaders even try to live up to?

The good news is that there is a remnant. There is a group who will not bow
their knee to Baal and follow the lies of this world, but have chosen to
follow the Lord. It is that group and "many more who are lost today but will
soon be saved" who will lead this nation back to God and to HIS Truth. The
message of "repent and surrender your life to Jesus" won't sell many books
or get you on Larry King, but it is the message that is going to save this
nation from experiencing God's wrath and unleash a spiritual revival that
has never been seen before. The hotels may be removing the Word of God from
their rooms, but they can't remove God's Word from the hearts of His
people!!!


In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller




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