Daily Archives: December 12, 2014

Guilty Restraint

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It is the guilty who over react to the presence of law enforcement.  They have failed to live prepared for judgement.

I see this best when I am driving.  Car passes me doing 5 miles over the speed limit.  Then a police officer’s car comes into view, stopped along the side of the road with his lights flashing.  That same driver who passed me at 5 miles over the speed limit, now does 5 miles under the speed limit.

As I passing by in the right-hand lane I marvel at his form of obedience.  Then it occurs to me: his reaction is of fear.  While I have been obedient and have no fear.

As I see this apply on the road, it also applies to life and to God.  “It is the guilty who over react to the presence of law enforcement.  They have failed to live prepared for judgement.”

The wise prepare, in them there is no fear.  The foolish do as they please, and fear controls them.

By His Grace

Dedication

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Now is my day.

My chance to obey.

And not just to say,

“He is my lord”.

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Were I to die now,

Temptations abound!

Though I be nowhere

To be found.

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To the work then go I.

Using care what I spy.

To keep my soul’s eye

Fixed firmly on Him.

By His Grace

Profits

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The prophet of God is valuable.  Who then are they who disagree?

There is profit in the words of the prophet of God.  Who then are they who disbelieve?

It is intriguing that men prefer to ignore the messengers of God, when profit and loss are household concepts.  By this we can say that men are, by their very nature, lousy accountants.

For this they run the business of their life as if to fail.  Yet in business, they will kill to succeed.  Why does this tiny wisdom escape them?

It is impossible to correctly speak of the poverty of man.  Just as it is impossible to speak of the riches of God.

When we see Him face to face, we will understand.  Until then, profit comes by faith.  All the while poverty abides in flesh.

Do not be fooled, a man is what he believes.  Profit or loss, which do you choose?

By His Grace

How Much?

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If you want to live forever, seek out Jesus the Christ of God.

If you want to serve Him faithfully, seek out Jesus the Christ of God.

What is the fullness that God is willing to give to man?  Seek out Jesus the Christ of God.  Only then can you begin to know.

If you think you “have”, seek out Jesus the Christ of God.

By His Grace

The Birthplace of Oxymoron

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Did you know that the use of the word oxymoron has skyrocketed since 1950?  Before that, the word was hardly used at all. 

I gleaned this information from a chart you can find on Google.  I assume the chart is born from a computerized assessment of words used in the writings of men. 

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=oxymoron&direct_url=t4%3B%2Coxymoron%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Boxymoron%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOxymoron%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOXYMORON%3B%2Cc0

What is the reason for this?  I propose it can be explained.

Consider 1945.  World War 2 is ablaze.  Forced by death, men embrace science with the greatest of urgent passion.  While the men of “The Faith” established Youth for Christ.  And so the division begins in earnest.  For the sake of fleshly survival, men abandon God.

Relatively speaking, before that year, men were innocent of the hideous abandon we now see.  And so the vigorous use of the word oxymoron begins.  God calls the dead to life, but the dead desire death.

In that year a serious division between the works of man and the works of God was born.  In that year, the beginning of the end began.  In that year, technology was released by necessity.  In that year, dead men died even more.  In that year, the possibility of saving souls diminished.

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., “Science will save us”). 

(Do you know who said that, those words quoted in the e.g.?  It was the current leader of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama.)

In that year, men began to live as oxymorons; living as contradictions between life and death.  Forced by the nature of the world, to divide themselves from the Living God.  Forced, by the nature of the world around them, to prepare an army which will face The Christ.

If it began there, how established are they now?  If your grandfather’s began to separate from God in that year, where are you today?  Do you dare ask yourself, “What time is it”?

The meaning of this is clear to me, and this by the Spirit of the Living God.  If there was an urgency within the gospel, in centuries past, it is unspeakably urgent now.  For as 1945 came without fanfare, so the coming of Christ will be.

But I am forced to repeat the words of the Prophet, “Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”

By His Grace