In the book of Genesis, Chapters 6 – 10 is “The Story of Noah” but what is the backstory?
Have you ever wondered who Noah was, where he lived before and after the great flood? Who was Noah’s wife, where was she from? How about Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth? Where were they born? How and where did they meet their wives? Where were their wives from?
We read that God called Noah the only blameless person living on the earth at the time and that he walked in close fellowship with God.
The reason Noah and his family were spared from the flood was because of Noah’s relationship with God.
God told Noah to build a large boat according to the specifications of God – Noah obeyed.
Nothing is recorded about whether anyone else in Noah’s family had a relationship, close or otherwise, with God, or whether they contributed to the construction of the boat or did Noah do it singlehandedly.
When God told Noah what type and number of animals to bring into the boat and insure there was food for Noah’s family and the animals – Noah obeyed.
It’s interesting to note that Noah’s relationship with God was such that he never strayed away from God.
After the flood when it was recorded that when God told Noah to take his family and all the animals and leave the boat – Noah obeyed.
God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.
After Noah grew a vineyard and became drunk of the fruit of the vine, it was his son Ham (the father of Canaan) that saw his father naked and sinned against his father by telling his brothers.
Noah cursed his son and said he and his descendants would be the servant of his brothers and their descendants.
So what is the backstory?
Corny as it may seem, like it or not we are the descendants of Noah and if we can’t get along now we should all go back to the top of Mount Ararat or further back in time, like to the Garden of Eden? If we could just get past the Angel guarding the garden we’d finally have a shot at the Tree of Life and break the first commandment God gave Adam, so that we could become immortal?
The heart of man became evil in the days of Noah and God brought forth the flood. Afterwards God gave a rainbow as a sign that he would never again flood the earth with water.
Now because the heart of man has once again become evil in all his ways, a minuet few flaunt the rainbow as a means of legitimizing their individual and corporate sin against God.
This time God has promised to consume this earth and all of its evil with fire.
But first, the rapture of those who have secured their relationship with God by the saving Blood of Jesus. Salvation comes by no other name. What is the nature of your relationship with God? Do you know him? Read John 3:16 and repent of your sins and then ask God to save you, in the name of Jesus Christ. – RTM
I know you’d expect from this heading it to be about getting married or getting buried. Well I hate to disappoint you but it can’t get much worse, or so I thought.
I’m writing about Presidents (#33 – #46) of the United States during my lifetime. I hadn’t given much thought about the office of the President during my early years until #35 came along and then I wanted to be a Democrat just like him. That was also long before I knew what Democrats and Republicans actually stood for. If I only knew back then what I know now I’d have to have said “Not Much”.
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Let me take the President in the order they served.
33rd POTUS – Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) Democrat (Farmer, Captain Army WWI, businessman, judge, (writer). 34th VP
Harry was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s VP and when FDR died, he inherited getting WWII finished. And then just when everyone thought the really bad stuff was over, along came the Chinese invasion of Korea, called the Korean War. Almost overnight it became clear that some serious stuff was happening. Although the fighting was bloody, there has never been a declaration of peace, since the North Korean aim is to unite Korea under the banner of communism.
34th POTUS – Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Republican (General SACDR Europe WWII), (writer)
The next hurdle for America was two-fold: Cuba and Vietnam. Nobody noticed when the motorcade of Eisenhower’s VP was attacked in Central America. At this time Richard Nixon was an unknown political entity.
35th POTUS – John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Democrat (LCDR WWII, Journalist, Sen MA) – Assassinated in Office
It was this newly elected President who had toured Southeast Asia and authorized Army SF advisors in Laos and Vietnam in order not to send combat troops into Vietnam. While he issued instructions to his advisors that would insure no deployment would happen, those instructions were not followed and he was assassinated before he found that out, or was able to take action.
November 22, 1963 was a pivotal date in my life as it was for most Americans. I was a student at South Junior High School in Boise, Idaho when we got the news about the assassination of President Kennedy, and school was let out early that day.
36th POTUS – Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) Democrat (Teacher, LTJG WWII, politician), (rancher, writer), 37th VP
It was LBJ’s goal to get the US involved in Vietnam and oh boy howdy he accomplished that.
Soon after graduating from Kuna High School (Class of 1967) in Kuna, Idaho I made the decision that forever changed my life – I joined the Army in September 1967. After completing Basic and Individual Training my first duty station was in Southeast Asia (February 1968 – July 1970).
I had been in Thailand for 11 months when Nixon took office. I remember writing a letter to President Nixon about moving all of our troops out of Vietnam and nuking the place. Little did I know or realize just how close I actually was to Vietnam (less than 100 miles). Had he read my letter and done what I suggested I and millions of other people wouldn’t even be here.
It was during this time that I met and married my wife of now 52 years in Thailand and started a family when our first daughter was born in Nampa Idaho during my break from military service.
I rejoined the Army and continued building my military career without giving any more thought to the office of the President or about politics. I wasn’t a Republican or Democrat per say but I do remember voting absentee a few times.
I spent most of these years (74 – 77) stationed in the Canal Zone of Panama. I had enough to keep me occupied and didn’t think about politics.
39th POTUS – Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) Democrat (LCDR WWII, Peanut farmer), (writer, humanitarian), 76th governor GA
I remember bits and pieces of political debate speeches, especially the one made by then candidate Reagan who wanted to give the canal back to Panama the same way we got it (filled in).
40th POTUS – Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) Republican (Actor, Captain Army WWII, 33rd governor CA), (writer)
I had no political persuasion at this time and was questioned about politics not long before President Reagan sent bombers from England to bomb the Libyan President Kaddafi hoping to erase him from the face of the earth (They missed their intended target).
I guess the world saw Reagan as a cowboy when he told Russia’s Gorbachev to take down the Berlin Wall.
41st POTUS – George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) Republican (LT JG WWII, Businessman, politician), (ambassador), (Dir CIA), 43rd VP
The first 2 years of President Bush’s administration I was stationed in Japan. I retired from the army when I came back from duty in Japan and watched my first presidential debate on TV. I was sorely disappointed over the outcome and began to take a bit more interest in politics since I was no longer in uniform, having served six “Commander and Chief’s” during my military career.
42nd POTUS – Bill Clinton (1993-2001) Democrat (Lawyer, politician), (writer, 40th & 42nd governor AR)
Who can forget the Oval Office escapades of “Wild Bill”, but alas he was not the first. Those honors belong to #35 & #36.
I was pretty happy to see the political change in the White House and began to see (what was reported) about the condition the West Wing offices and equipment were left in – computer keyboards super glued and much more and even the unauthorized removal of presidential china when packing up household belongings of the outgoing President.
43rd POTUS – George W. Bush (2001-2009) Republican (Captain TX ANG, Businessman, 46th governor TX)
When 9/11 happened I was shocked as I watched the planes hit the towers. Then I went to work where our company was handling conference calls from offices in the towers. I watched as the President, Vice President and key members of congress were whisked away to undisclosed locations. It was unexpected that the media began to call the president a coward who ran away, when they either didn’t know or didn’t care about protocol during an attack on the United States.
I was proud as the President launched the War on Terrorism and began attacking our enemies abroad. I knew then that he was the right person for the job at that time in history.
I watched as the DNC conducted debates and saw how the Democratic nomination went a political unknown, as it had been expected to go to Hillary Clinton.
44th POTUS – Barack Obama (2009-2017) Democrat (community organizer, Lawyer, State Senator & US Sen IL)
The world was thrilled that the first black American had taken the White House and he was awarded the Noble Prize as great things were expected from him. What America got, was quite the opposite. The most disastrous was Benghazi. Then there was Obama Care, financial bailouts, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, and Acorn just to name a few.
I was asked by a young black man, “Who is the greatest president?”
I answered, “It depends on who you ask. Some will say the greatest was the last president, while others will say he’s the worst president.”
The political world was turned on its head when a real political outsider went into the White House.
45th POTUS – Donald J. Trump (2017-2021) Republican (Real Estate Developer and entertainer)
The “War on Trump” began in earnest with allegations, investigations, Impeachment 1, the Chinese Virus, Impeachment 2 and casting forth allegations of election interference, followed by the events of J6 (with investigation still ongoing).
The accomplishments of the Trump Administration (Abraham Accord, Funding Traditional Black Colleges, and more) didn’t matter as the “last man standing” announced, from the “Office of the President-Elect” (basement in Delaware), before the Electoral College had even cast their ballots on January 6th, that Trump should concede. Every vestige of political protocol was ignored as the election was finally called and contested for a Biden Administration.
46th POTUS – Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (2021 – Present) Democrat (Lawyer, US Sen DE)
Even as J6 continued to be investigated, Americans hunted down, arrested and imprisoned, the single most dramatic event was the capitulation debacle of exiting Afghanistan (turning and running while leaving American’s and our allies to fend for themselves).
Stopping Trump approved drilling and oil production, opening the US borders (Southern and Northern) to unvetted migration, ignoring existing immigration laws and transporting illegal migrants to various parts of the US have severely crippled national security and migration control.
The biggest problem facing the United States is not enemy states, nor is it White Supremacy as we are told, but it is American Politicians and their back door, dirty dealings that tear apart the very fabric of America. The campaign season of a presidential election year (2024) is upon us and it remains to be seen if there are any patriots of any political persuasion with the political/business savvy and/or common sense to put the interests of the nation ahead of their own political agenda.
I guess the way to gauge a president is by his record. Is/was he a man of his word? Did he do what he said he would?
Did he put his money where his mouth is? By that I mean did he suffer great financial loss or did he gain financially during his term in office?
Did he put America first?
I really hate to say it but the President of the United States is my (and your) president for better or for worse! – RTM
Here we are in 2023 and everyone knows or believes that Trumps a crook, Hillary’s a saint and Biden is the greatest president since…..well since Barack Obama.
If you believe that, you’ve bought into the biggest lie since the serpent conned Eve in the garden.
As I began reading the unedited, un-redacted and full Durham Report I heard that the media is calling it a “Nothing Burger”. I agree on one thing, linking Trump to Russia had no basis and was in fact nothing there.
The fact remains that so many “operatives” of the DNC, Clinton Foundation, DOJ, FBI and NSA-like agencies going all out to destroy the credibility and sully the name of then Candidate and later sitting President Donald J. Trump was and still is unbelievable.
One could hardly believe the talking “parrots” of the mainstream media, (fake news as Trump so accurately called it). Everyone and anyone who called themselves journalists, reporters, and anchors and up to organizational CEOs kept saying what they were told to say and “we the people” were supposed to believe it was true and really happened.
Saul (Alinsky) must have been rolling over in his grave – laughing hysterically!
It was like a never ending “April Fool’s Joke”.
To treat the president with utter distain and total disrespect said more about those who said and did it than the one individual of whom they spoke about – a total disconnect from reality. Really!
Hillary and her peeps were in total shock (again) when Trump beat her at the polls in 2016. It shouldn’t have been that much of a shock. Could she so soon forget that happened in 2008 when that senator from Illinois swooped in and took (stole is too strong a word) the DNC nomination right from under her nose and then went on to take the election using the same tactics that her party used on Trump in 2016?
That’s right.
Why do you think she was appointed Obama’s Secretary of State? Not for the good of the nation, just to keep her under his thumb (so to speak). She couldn’t very well blab about him when she was his representative at the State Department.
Democratic loyalty is a one-way street.
The machinery had been “greased” so to speak and it worked well in 2008, but not so well in 2016. In order for it not to be too obvious there had to be distractions, so blatant and in your face that 2020 would be a piece of cake, only Hillary no longer fit the bill. Her credibility and ego had taken a big hit and needed time to heal.
After the 2020 elections had cooled down why is it that Hillary wasn’t offered a job in the new administration? Saving her strength for a run in 2024 or a run at Biden during his administration? I saw something the other day where Hillary says Biden’s age is an issue…… WOW
Really, isn’t that like the pot calling the kettle black (pc = anti-white)?
Back to the Durham Report which seems to shout out the misconduct of a number of folks but not have been prosecuted for their wrong doings, not yet anyway.
Democrats keep calling Trump a threat to their democracy.
Yes that’s right, a threat to THEIR democracy.
And they are right.
Trump has consistently stood up for our Constitutional-Republic which is not a democracy.
Perception is everything.
Democrats are promoting the idea of changing our nation into a Constitutional-Democracy and people are cheering wildly thinking it’s got to be better than we have now. Well it is not. Remember the “cattle-car” trains in Germany taking the Jews to the gas chambers while the people cheered them on or stood by and did nothing at all?
The Constitution of the United States does not promote democracy, any way, shape or form.
The Constitution is about freedom.
Freedom to worship God,
Freedom of ideas,
Freedom to choose
In every democratic nation in the world individual freedom does not exist, only freedom to obey – or else.
Who would vote for a dogcatcher devoted to putting dogs down after being elected unless it was someone who didn’t like or have dogs?
We as a nation reap what we sow (it’s in the bible) when we continue to vote the way we have always voted, the way our fathers and forefathers have voted, because that’s the way we vote.
It’s time for a change. I mean a real change.
It’s time not to vote for those political dinosaurs in congress (state or federal) because they’ve always been there or any such nonsense. Look at their track record – what have they done for you personally? Vote for the politician who best thinks the way you do. Vote for the politician who holds the same religious views as you. Vote for the politician who values what God values – you!
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
It is important that we understand that man was created in the image of God and man became a creator as well. We can see how over time man has created modes of transportation, homes, businesses, and advances in medicine, governments and technology.
Computers, in one form or another, have been around for more than 70 years and systems like the Cray Computer were massive in size and completely unaffordable for household or small business usage. It wasn’t until the advent of more affordable home based computers with operating systems like Windows and Apple that anyone could afford to purchase.
My first computer was a home built windows-based desktop on which I learned to search the internet using a dialup modem and began building (from scratch) my first webpage using html code. Today some 23 years later I use a windows based desktops, laptops and my smartphone has more computing power than my first desktop.
After earning my BA degree in Information Systems Programming and Internet Development I used to think I was on the cutting edge of information technology. I couldn’t have been more wrong after watching this episode of 60 Minutes
60Minutes: Exploring the human-like side of AI at Google – Full show on CBS Back to video Exploring the human-like side of artificial intelligence at Google | 60Minutes 27min Competitive pressure among tech giants is propelling society into the future of artificial intelligence, ready or not.
What I saw happening was various computers using AI were given basic tasks and over the course of hours, days, weeks or years were able to produce results that would have taken humans thousands of years to replicate.
One such computer was designed to “read” all the information available on the internet and when queried or given a few words or sentences over a matter of seconds could write believable stories with complete sentences and paragraphs. Other robotic computers using AI were placed on a simulated soccer field and within hours developed tactics and teams competing with each other. One such AI computer was asked questions and did not search the internet for answers, but obtained answers from articles and stories that it had read previously. Oh there were and are possibly errors being made, but overall the creators of these AI computers see a future where every job, industry and people are changed by their use. They can translate thousands of documents into thousands of languages in such a short span of time that I could see the history of the world being rewritten by AI being in the wrong hands or in no human hands at all.
I wondered if in the book of Revelations, Chapter 13 where it talks about the first beast and second beast causing all mankind to receive the mark of the beast so that they cannot buy or sell without it or they die. Could those beasts in fact be computer systems using Artificial Intelligence?
Watch the video link above (it’s only 26 minutes) and what do you see in the future of civilization or mankind? – RTM
Has America has lost her soul? Our founding fathers founded our nation under the presupposition that Almighty God was our rock, our fortress and our guiding light. They knew the pitfalls of creating a democracy and chose a Constitutional Republic unlike any other nation on earth.
Over the past 246 years it would appear that the guiding light has been all but snuffed out ever so slowly and replaced through a gradual desensitizing and washing of her collective brain trust until “In God We Trust” is no longer in fashion. Honoring the flag “Old Glory” and what it stands for has become offensive.
Publicly through our elected officials we have expressed openly that we wish to be left alone by each other and by the God who created us. It is evident that democracy is not an American value, but leads to political division, death and ultimate destruction.
It has been said thatfor evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing. I say it is more damaging when good men do the wrong thing for seemingly good reasons.
There is no right or acceptable way to do wrong.
Have we not learned the lessons of history where evil men have consciously sought to remove God from the home or private and public affairs? Do we not remember the Old Testament stories where those seemed to prosper without God didn’t prosper at all and were overtaken by their own greed?
We have allowed the torch of the Statue of Liberty to be covered or taken out. We’ve gone from welcoming the weary, the poor and the downtrodden and those who come seeking a better life to allowing and actively pursuing those who seek our nation’s destruction. We further disallowing the self-defense and protection of our neighbors because of purely political reasons?
Let me state clearly so there is no misunderstanding “IN GOD ALONE DO I TRUST” and “THIS IS MY COUNTRY” which I have sworn to defend against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. I will not stand idly by as the tenants of our nation are torn asunder.
Stand for what is right every time or you will fall for anything and be left with nothing.
“This Is My Country” an American patriotic song composed in 1940. The lyrics are by Don Raye and the music is by Al Jacobs.[1]Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians were the first to record the song, in 1942.
My soul is rooted deeply in the soil on which I stand,
for these are mine,
my own United States!
It then swings into a march tempo for the chorus:
The song is made notable by the fact that it honors both Americans by birth and choice.
The first chorus reads:
This is my country
Land of my birth
This is my country
Grandest on Earth
While the second chorus (sung on a repeat, as the introduction is usually not repeated) instead reads:
This is my country
Land of my choice
This is my country
Hear my proud voice.
Both versions join together at the ending:
I pledge thee my allegiance
America the bold
For this is my country
To have and to hold
This is my country
To have and to hold
I pledgeallegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
My prayer is that Almighty God will give me (us) the patience, determination, strength and wisdom to stand firm during these trying times so that all honor and glory be to Him, for He alone is worthy. – RTM
There is a lot of “fluff” over President Trump’s use of Title 42 as a public health rule during the COVID-19 pandemic and President Biden’s fight to end the emergency health declaration that enabled Title 42.
It would appear that all the illegal migration coming from both the Southern and Northern Borders with Mexico and Canada are being classified by the media and government officials as “Asylum” seekers coming primarily from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Let me tell you nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact there are two types of migration – legal and illegal.
There are several classes of migrants those seeking to relocate into the United States, those coming as tourists, those with work permits and those who leave their country who are or fear persecution on ethnic or religious grounds or gang warfare being conducted in their home countries.
U.S. Immigration Code provides consideration for entry in every case. Not everyone who wants to come into the U.S. is required to be admitted. Admission is a privilege, not a right of passage.
What has been happening is not being shown for what it really is – a purposeful invasion of citizens from nations around the globe who have not sought refuge for purpose of asylum in the first country they have entered leaving their home country.
I call it a purposeful invasion because every country has their own immigration laws and violating those laws normally leads to refusal of entry, imprisonment or deportation. So how do they get through so many countries in order to get to the US border without being stopped and turned around or given refuge?
What about safeguards are in place to prevent persecutors from entering the U.S. to continue bringing terror to those who fled to get away?
It has been estimated that roughly 10,000+ migrants PER DAY are ending up coming into the US illegally prior to the end of Title 42?
Title 8 of U.S. Code will allow for the speedy removal of those who do not have legal standing to remain in the U.S., but when they come illegally and/or under false pretenses they do not have any legal recourse under the Constitution which was written to protect U.S. citizens.
Now before you get all hot and bothered about me being a racist or anything else, let me tell you that my family member came to this country after following US Immigration Laws and spent many years applying and following the rules and laws of the US before finally getting US citizenship the right way.
There is no right way to get here the wrong way.
Immigration has been a political can of worms for quite some time, at least since the end of World War II. Congress has known the problems associated with immigration, yet has willfully chosen NOT to take corrective action, even when asked by the public or the President.
Since Congress is the law making body of our government and the President signs bills into law, it should be very easy for a president who has spent his adult life in Congress to accomplish a comprehensive immigration reform bill that corrects the injustices, loopholes and inequities that make the citizens of the United States less safe by simply being ignored over time.
I remember one president who asked congress to do exactly that – reform immigration and instead congress chose to do nothing, except to ride him like a wild and uncontrollable bronco.
There is an awful lot of pressure on Americans, through advertisements, to buy all sorts “smart” devices, like microwaves, telephones, computers and a host of power tools and eVehicles all guaranteed to make our lives easier, simpler while saving the planet from ourselves yet giving us more time for the important things in life. There are eRobots that will vacuum your house, mow your lawn, and in select environments deliver your food to your table and process your credit card.
Flashy cars and trucks that do everything except think for you and somebody’s working on that and it’s called Artificial Intelligence (AI), now isn’t that a real slap in the face of even the most dimwitted homo-sapien.
Artificial is used for describing a number of things – turf, insemination, milk, meats made out of plants, but intelligence? Nobody buys for a second that Military Intelligence is actually intelligent, unless of course you’ve been assigned to it, and then it’s questionable.
AI that learns from itself should be seen as a very scary thing. Remember that 0 X 100 still equals 0.
Self-driving cars, trucks, airplanes or any other mode of transportation sets the stage for mass casualties galore and I don’t want to be anywhere around it, especially as a passenger. If I’m waiting to get on an airplane and the pilot is R2D2 or in a bus with a driver who resembles a Cyborg or a smart watch – I’m hitting the exit and fast.
Did I tell you my little corner of the world was without power for 3 1/2 hours the first time this morning due to rain and trees being blown into power lines (and our lines are underground). We’ve had multiple power outages and who’s to say the real culprit is the guy in our neighborhood plugging his Tesla or other eVehicle in that causes our power grid to shut off?
I guess we won’t have more problems like these after everyone is pressured to voluntarily give up the family car and buy these eVehicles by a date determined by legislators in our state and National Assemblies, and nobody sees this coming?
So tell me one more thing. How is banning mining, production and development of fossil fuels going to make anything better? It will take us all back to the stone age where rock tires and foot power are our modes of transportation and we will be sitting in our darkened structures (until they deteriorate around us) while mom is cooking over a coal fire once again.
Don’t worry about having a phone, TV, microwave, most shoes, lots of clothes or certain foods or anything made of plastic or rubber because like it or not – their components are almost exclusively from fossil fuels.
Remember we’ll be back to the primitive state where it really will be “IN GOD WE TRUST” because man will continue to fail us EVERYTIME! – RTM
I recently received a package via Fed Ex. It had an address from Home Depot in Phoenix. I opened it up and there was no document, invoice or letter explaining the content – a white single light switch.
I pondered this for several minutes as I sought to determine why I had received this $0.97 product which I did not order or request.
I looked up the store online and found that it was a legitimate store that was permanently closed.
So what do I do? Should I go to a local Home Depot store and try to return it without proof that I purchased it? At best I would obtain store credit, at worst I could just leave it there – Irregardless of whether they’d accept it.
Or do I look for and purchase a white single light switch cover just in case I need one?
Oh the dilemma I find myself contemplating………..RTM
In the movie Forest Gump he said, “Life is like a box of chocolates” and Lynn Anderson’s song, “I never promised you a rose garden”. The Bible tells us that everything we need has already been provided to us by the God who created us.
So what are we to do in this crazy mixed up, woke-world we live in?
We are told patriotism (pride in our country) is bad, but taking “free money” from our government is bad. Being a citizen of the United States is being downplayed while claiming everyone is a citizen of the world. When is the last time you received a benefit for being a citizen of the global community?
We are told that global warming causes the earth to become unstable, causing multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and flooding in various places around the globe, yet we have intense famines where food and water are either scarce or non-existent.
Masses of the world are poor and getting poorer while the elite become richer and richer. We live in a world where you either have or have not. It’s easy to spend all your time working or working to not work, so long as you get what you want and it has to be right now.
I surmise that life is not so much as what you experience or what happens to you, but how you relate or handle what comes your way in life. When you come to an obstacle, is it a doorway to/or a barrier keeping you from something new and exciting?
Is the glass half full or half empty? Is it even your glass?
There are no unimportant people. Everyone is born with a purpose.
How do we find OUR purpose?
Some people are born with a calling, while others receive their calling early on and many must ask the Creator – God. When you know what you were created for and you are obedient to the leading of the one who created you, it becomes a labor of love. Otherwise you could spend your entire life searching or wondering – what is the purpose of MY life?
So when it seems that life hands you lemons – make lemonade! – RTM
Living a Christian life isn’t always easy. We’ve never been promised that life will be a bed of roses. But life in general isn’t easy either. What are the life triggers that have you looking with distain on those around you?
What makes you say under your breath, “You’ve got to be kidding me”?
Is it a public figure saying or doing something so stupid that you think they must have missed out on the brain pool or were asleep when smarts was being handed out?
I can’t speak for anyone other than myself. What I can say is I’ve been there and didn’t even get a t-shirt.
We as humans are not basically “good” people. We want what we want and we want it now, without interference from or consideration of anyone else. We are the creators of our own universe, the masters of our kingdom and on our throne is where we create our own mess (quite literally).
We have a tendency to look down on custodians, janitors, waitresses and servers or anybody who is engaged in public service. It’s as if we are better than them. We do the same with lawyers and politicians (quite often the same thing). We see beggars and homeless as people who’ve chosen to be that way, without knowing anything about the circumstances that brought them there.
In our own cynical way we view doctors and nurses as money grabbers, overcharging for their services, living in mansions, driving expensive cars, sailing on yachts or globetrotting around the world. Look around, they live next door or on our block, drive the same cars we do and their mansion is the hospital or office setting where they spend way too much of their days just trying to help people and pay their bills – just like us.
The bible tells us that we are to love God and if it is within our power to do so – love each other, as we love ourselves. Therein lays the problem. We don’t even like ourselves.
Yet we are a people who are so full of ourselves that we make others sick of being around us. We grumble and complain and constantly say “somebody ought to…….”
We forget that WE ARE SOMEBODY and yes WE OUGHT TO do something about whatever we see wrong in our sphere of influence (our neck of the woods).
We are part of God’s creation, and there is nobody who is unimportant or more important than anybody else. We are smart and dumb at the same time. We are rich and pour and know not what we have that makes us so.
As Christians we need to tune into God, so we can ride high on life (eternal life) and wait for God to tell us the “next” thing before we move forward, or fall back.
We need to rethink how look at or treat other people. Think of the nastiest, meanest, dirtiest, most despicable person and never forget that God created him or her. We are to treat everyone the way we want to be treated, not how we are treated by them. In Matthew 25: 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me’.
Can we truly call ourselves Disciples of Christ, brothers in the faith and continue to badmouth what God has created? Do we praise God with that same mouth? Do we kiss our mothers with those same lips? Do we lift up holy hands that we used to beat another down? When we bring our requests before God, are we not to stop and square things with our brother, sister, neighbor first?
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…..
God loves you even now, just as you are, you don’t need to change a thing.
Jesus paid the price on the cross at Calvary and rose again on the third day for your sins, for my sins and for the sins of the entire world.
You need only to believe and accept what has already been bought – Salvation in the name of Jesus.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world……..” (look it up).
Like I said earlier, life is hard, yet it is much harder without God. – RTM
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