One, Two or Three

Ever have a bad hair day or know someone who has..what are the choices they face and things that must be considered. Usually a time assessment must be made and then depending on time available a course of action is taken. Consider the 3 choices that can be made...one is to do nothing just face up to fact all will see the unacceptable hair and just suck it up and go with flow...two is to attempt a cover up and wear a hat/cap that will make the bad hair less noticeable. Three is take time to wash and redo the hair so it will pass muster without shame or hoping to hide the hair problem. Now think about it what really is the big deal anyway if only problem is the hair at least have hair to work with and others do not have to look at the hair as they should mind their own business anyway. So really should be no big deal that you are giving most important speech of your life to the largest most important group you will ever address and the speech is being web-cast around the world. Okay so most would think should be considered mega big deal. Would this affect our decision as to which choice we would choose to make. Only the third choice is sensible as really the only right choice. Now that we have figured that out lets look at another choice.
No one is perfect and everyone has sinned and broken the Law of God so what are our choices for the sin problem. One we can do nothing and hope that when we die God will not notice or care that we have not kept His commandments. Two try to make our sin less noticeable by having argument ready that compared to many others our sins really were not that bad. Three we can study the Bible to find out what God expects from us and how we can have our sins washed away so when we stand before He will see no sin since the sin problem has been cleared up. Now think about the first two choices and how foolish they are when thinking about standing in front of a Holy God who allowed His son Jesus the Christ to die for our sins so we would not have to pay the price. Only the third choice is sensible one as it accepts the payment made by Jesus as provided by God so we can be cleansed from our sin and free to enter into Heaven for eternity. The Bible shows us how to prepare for our meeting with God but the choice is ours. Consider well your choice for God will honor your choice for all eternity. Time is short start by first checking out book of John in the Bible, while there is still time to change current decision. With the final breath the decision becomes locked in for all eternity. Can not afford to choose 1 or 2 and be wrong about the Bible being the word of God.

SomeThoughts for today...

There is none so deaf as those who will not hear.
There is none so blind as those who will not see.
Those who have no standards will not be able to stand in the time of trouble.
Those who will fall for anything will never be truly free.
Those who choose to be blind will miss the Light.
Those who make up their minds before seeking all of the facts will become mindless.
Those not wishing to be confused with the facts will remain ignorant.
Those who stir up strife will miss the joy of knowing peace.
Those who shout down opposing positions will become self-deluded.
Those who seek to be rich will live a life of discontentment.
The friends of the rich will disappear when they become poor.
The friends of the poor will be a help in the time of need.
Quick gain is but a step from a quicker loss.
Truth is always true and a lie is always false.
Those who desire a life full of pleasure will have an empty life.
Those who desire to be a blessing to others will have a full life.
Those who believe they are god will not know God.
Those who live to drink will die of thirst.
To be strong one must become weak.
To be found one must be lost.
Without hope there is no victory.
Without God there is no eternal life.
Without Jesus there is no forgiveness.
Without the Bible there is no knowledge of Truth.
Without light there is only darkness.
To be truly free one must first become a servant.
Eternal life is free just not cheap.
To remove the penalty of sin a price must be paid.
To find Life is to know Jesus Christ as Lord.
Think about it.

Being Happy

Who really controls your happiness when things get tough or just hectic, seemingly out of control circumstances that constantly come your way. Many think they are or become unhappy because of the actions of those around them which may or may not be considered self directed me first or nothing attitudes. The failure to be happy may be considered by some to be the result of hard financial times, the failure to be hired for employment we really wanted or thought we should have gotten. For some not being popular with a lot of friends or party invites is the result of bad or lacking parents or just hard knocks of life. To others it is the failure of their spouse, boy or girl friend to meet their expectations that is cause of unhappiness. Not making enough money or having the right job title is source of unhappiness according to some. For many they could be happy if ... they had right job, large enough bank account, right spouse, right friends, right boyfriend, right girlfriend, large home in good neighborhood, fancy new automobile, and rich parents. For others it would be no problems, no debt, being able to afford any thing they wanted when they wanted it, vacations around the world, or just a vacation home at the beach. Now you might find something listed that you think would ensure your happiness now and over time, however if you look around or read the news you will find that those who are super rich, famous, hold positions of prestige or power have lots of problems and are most often unhappy insecure people. So lets consider the basics, being happy long term is not the result of ones circumstances, it has to be something else. When you find someone who is truly a happy person you have found someone who has decided to be content with what they have regardless of their circumstances. It is when we learn to be content with what we have rather than dwelling on what we do not have, that we can obtain a life of happiness that can not be taken from us no matter what comes our way. The path to true happiness lies in knowing God and His love for us as shown by His son Jesus the Christ paying the price for our sins and accepting by faith His plan for our life which is able to bring us blessing now and forever. Make study of the Bible and time of prayer the 1st part of your day and you will be on path to real happiness. Contentment is best learned through a personal relationship with God. May you find true happiness for your life.

Backwards?

US Senate has approved a new member for the Supreme Court. All the evidence shows she will take an oath to uphold the US Constitution by placing her hand on the Bible and then disregard that sworn oath. She does not accept the Bible as word of God and thinks the Constitution should be seen only as a changing guideline. When the foundation for a society and its laws are undermined openly there is little left but the inevitable break down of law and order. This can be seen in many facets of the lawlessness that is spreading through out the country. Prime examples are in illegal immigration where the federal government sued a State for upholding the requirements of article VI of US Constitution. This article expressly requires the police power of every state to enforce the laws of the US federal government. The Federal government in this case sued the state for enforcing federal law as required while at same time has taken no action against cities who openly state they will not enforce the US immigration laws. The result has been violence and lawlessness in the streets with worst areas being the states on US southern border. Another example is with homosexuals who openly flaunt their lifestyle and demand everyone else approve their perverse actions by requiring that marriage be redefined. They demand that all citizens pay the cost for their expensive destructive conduct and openly attack any who dare speak up to point out the negative impact on our society from their chosen behavior. Children are at the greatest risk as the government schools have become not only the recruiting grounds for homosexuals but the labs to produce more homosexuals. Physical violence and intimidation are their trademark when the courts do not move quick enough to overturn laws passed to uphold Constitution and protect the rights of our people. The question remains how much longer can the US survive the onslaught directed against her from the elites and progressives who seek to tun off the light. The light has grown dim who will stand up against the forces of darkness to fight to retain the light. Will you?

Distortion or Deception or Both......

Do you ever wonder how some people can respond to a question or issue without answering the question or actually addressing the issue. If anyone points out that their response was off point they simply say that they did answer and the questioner did not understand or something similar thereto. It should be an insult to all listening when someone tries to evade answering then attempts to cover their deliberate evasion, but the fact is we now have a lazy weak minded society that does not know how to analysis information, therefore they do not realize they are being deceived. If you do not have the ability or intelligence to figure out you are being played then you can not be offended. Then you will not take any action to counter the distortions and smoke being proffered by liberals and those in the progressive movement. They realize their ideas can not stand up to the test of truth or history, so they resort to lies and deception knowing that those in the media are on their side and will not expose them and their cohorts in the government school systems who have taught the lies and distorted the facts to a whole generation, so they are now unable to think critically and except the untruths they have learned. When a lie is heard over and over with little challenge it all too often becomes excepted as a fact although it is still a lie.
It has been said that those who do not find the truth and then stand up for that truth will fall for anything. Take a hard look at our society and you will see the basis for this adage. If you now wonder why no examples have been listed to reflect what is being referred to, the answer is actually pretty simple. Those who need the examples are not yet ready to see or understand and those who are ready do not need the examples because they have already sensed that the truth is being distorted. This is to encourage the latter group to find the truth and then stand up for the truth no matter what may come, the former group must first decide they want to see and put in the work required to overcome their blindness. Those who see must stand up and make a difference!

DOES NOT ADD UP....

There has been increase in attacks on Christian prayer in last couple of years esp. in the USA. An all out attempt to outlaw any public prayer that is Christian, which has included the firing of workers for praying over a co-workers area after hours when the co-worker was not present. Christian prayer before public meetings that have occurred since the nation was founded are suddenly being found unlawful by many judges. Intimidation tactics have been employed by atheist groups like ACLU and ASCS are leading the charge, they have no problem with prayers in general, only prayers which are prayed through the name of Jesus Christ. With atheism being the belief that there is no God, you would assume that what others did would be of little concern if there was in fact no God. Throughout history you can find examples of prayer being outlawed or restricted along with other attempts to control religious thought. Communist countries along with Islamic nations have been the latest using harsh tactics including death to stop christian prayer and adherence. Now the free countries are moving to restrict same while becoming more open to religions that would enslave women and eliminate all who oppose their rule. The question one should ask is why does it bother someone who claims to be an atheist if someone prays. If there is no God, then prayer would just be empty words spoken in the wind. Another question should be why no real concern of prayer unless it is a Christian prayer using name of Jesus Christ. Looking at these 2 questions unless blind and brain dead you must come to conclusion that they not only know there is a God but that He is also the God of the Bible. God says He will hear and answer the request of those who love Him and make their request to Him in the name of Jesus. Now there are two ways we can know for sure that there is a God, one is by God revealing Himself to us through repentance and faith in Jesus death burial and resurrection. Second way the Bible tells us is that Satan the prince of darkness and the father of liars, believes and reveals the same to those who follow him. All others he seeks to deceive using their unbelief and the pride of life to distract them from the truth that one day everyone will have to pay for their on sin if they have not accepted Christ payment for that sin. All will choose and the failure to choose or making wrong choice will have same result of no forgiveness and joining Satan and his followers in eternal separation from God and His loving light forever. It is written that darkness, weeping, gnashing of teeth, worms that do not die with tormenting heat await all who will not accept the payment of their sins by Jesus the son of God. Life is short but eternity is forever, choose well for God will honor your choice. May you count yourself worthy of forgiveness and faith.

BOTH WRONG

Sports have long been held up as good way to keep kids out of trouble and teach values that will help through out life. Somewhere along the way something got flipped and no one paid much notice or just did not care. Think about the following everyday happenings.
Watching kids playing in a sports game and you will notice that the parents tend to be a little crazy. Yelling at officials and coaches alike if disagree with a game decision. There seem to be two main groups of parents, one that believes in win at any cost and the second is almost as bad teaching that it does not matter how you play as long as you have fun since no one should feel bad and all should be rewarded the same win or lose. The win at any cost crowd want the increased prestige & money/opportunities that come with winning. We see this in to many of to-days political leaders as they believe everything is about them and the rules they put in place only apply to the regular people not them or those wealthy individuals who help them stay in power. The other group seem to want everyone to have not the same opportunity for success but to receive the same rewards regardless of efforts or applied abilities.
Ask yourself would you really want to play a game with someone who breaks the rules(cheats) to "win" the game or someone who puts forth no effort and does not care about outcome. Both make the game worthless and waste of your time.
Remember the old saying of - cheaters never win and winners never cheat -. We now have to many that believe - get ahead at any cost and winning is all that matters- as you only go around in this life once so get all you can anyway you can since no one is more important than yourself. The other group worships under banner of 'from each according to ability to pay and to each according to their need regardless of effort. This is no more than legalized stealing and leads to mutually shared poverty.
With the win at any cost mentality why do we wonder at corrupt elected officials, corporate greed, tax cheats, embezzlement, employee thief, shoplifting, insurance fraud, crooked repair shops, fraud & abuse of government service programs, etc. When combined with those who believe in legalized stealing is it any wonder that we are facing financial, moral and social collapse
Now you have an idea of why belief in evolution is so important in our society, it is a very disturbing thought that we were created by God. Since if we were we would have to answer to Him for failure to follow His law and the accepting of Jesus Christ His son's payment for our sins.
An unacceptable thought for any who have not studied the Bible to determine how to have a personal relationship with God through His son Jesus.
The stakes can get no higher than to reject the Bible as God's word and not find out until to late that wrong decision was made.

Protecting the Guilty

Laws that prohibit the execution of anybody with low IQ's, as tested by court appointed doctors or otherwise reduce punishment based on notion that crime is victims fault. Now just watch for those who are smart enough to lower their IQ score to escape justice. Elected "representatives" never cease to surprise me and amazing how we continue to find so many people lacking common sense to vote into office. My thought is that there must me a test given to those who seek elected office which test for common sense or wisdom and only those who fail are allowed to run for office. I also wonder if the same test is used when appointing judges.
If you are killed by someone who scores low on IQ test rather than by someone who scores higher must mean you are not as dead or injured to their way of thinking. What a republic to give so much opportunity to those who could not make an honest living, they are allowed to leech off of hardworking honest citizens.
It appears that there are more protections for the guilty than for the innocent and the courts have become the safe haven for child molesters, sexual deviants, murders, etc. unless of course they are not a part of PC crowd. Then amazingly the law seems to work okay. And now in the USA the blindfold has been taken off of lady justice. The government withdraws charges in voter intimation case which included video evidence, only reason dropped was skin color of the criminal. Ever notice that innocent until proven guilty works best for those with money or position. How about the tax laws where the adage changes to guilty until proven innocent. What have we allowed our Country to become?

Violation of Their Oath

Trouble ahead for USA. In recent years the 9 members of the US Supreme Court have increasingly decided important cases by 5 to 4 votes. We must ask how can this be when each was required to take an oath to uphold the US Constitution when deciding the cases that come before them. Either some of the Justices are ignorant of the Constitution and the intent of the framers of that document or they are deliberately
violating their oath in an attempt to destroy that which they swore to uphold. But regardless of the motivation of those who violate their sworn duty it is becoming clear that the end result will be the same. No nation can survive when it's foundation has been destroyed, all that remains will be distrust in the government and anarchy with civil war in the streets. Votes now being cast by 4 members of the court use current PC thought, the world court and personal biases in casting their vote to decide cases and are even so brazen as to include same in the dissenting opinion from the majority vote. At times they have been able to get the 5th vote necessary to prevail and openly listed reasons in the ruling opinion that are contrary to the Constitution that the decision was suppose to be based upon.
Once the 5th and final member needed has been added to the Court, only hope would be impeachment of the Justices for violating their sworn oath to uphold the Constitution. However this will not be likely since those voting to confirm adding these activist Justices to the court are not likely to turn around and vote for their impeachment. Therefore we will be left with no foundation for our laws and the freedoms that have made the USA a safe haven for the worlds oppressed. Then it will be hello violence and upheaval, goodbye peace and freedom. The progressives have undermined our nation and are awaiting the funeral of this Republic. Are you ready for that which is to come and the troubled dark times. The hour is late but there is a little life left. If you do not want to witness the funeral then now is the time to speak up, get involved, and pray for national repentance so that God will intervene. Wake up before it is to late!

Lighthouse

Happiness and peace will become the companion of all who refuse to follow the advice of the wicked while not allowing themselves to be followers of those who love sin while scorning those who try to live in a righteous manner. Those who delight in the things of God and reflect on His word continuity will find an oasis of calm in a sea of hopeless turmoil. God will prosper those who follow His path for their life and no matter what they face they will not be shaken nor moved like a ship at anchor. Those who will not acknowledge God are not so, but are more like dust blown about by the wind of societal change and with no anchor there is no calmness of spirit. Peace becomes a moving target for all who heed the current babble of the progressives. Those who chose to live by the selfish standards of mankind will find themselves lost in an ocean of despair with no ground for relief. God knows the way of those who seek Him in righteousness and they follow His Light so they do not fall in the trenches of this world. However God also knows the way of the ungodly and that their way leads to pain and needless sorrow of spirit. He shines His light into the darkness like a lighthouse gives warning of danger to be avoided. You are the captain of your ship and the choice to heed the light or deny its warning is yours to make. Those who will accept the warning and turn from the danger, avoid being shipwrecked and sunk for all eternity. Find Hope for your journey through this life in the Bible, it is the only way to know the Truth. May you find the anchor for your life in Jesus the Christ who paid the price for sin so we would not have to. He is the Light, may you walk in that Light.