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Do You Worship Chaos?

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Thought process:  Warning, the following may be tough on your brain.  

Sitting all night in Chicago. Yeah in Chicago. The O’Hare oasis as a matter fact. The Lord brought me to a parking spot just before rush-hour. Unless you’ve tried to do that with a 53ft trailer, you have no idea what a miracle it is. Thank you Lord Jesus.  


Why would anyone seriously choose to live here. I break it down to the elemental things, it has to do with distractions. They prefer a busily entertained life to following cows around in the pasture.  

Warning leap of thought:

God is not a distraction.  


(That would be the reason why most of the billboards around Chicago have to do with sex, luxury, gambling or alcohol. Oh yeah, there is the occasional “make you feel guilty” billboard. Hospitals, oh yeah, hospitals are a Big thing. And I can’t leave out the governmental mandates to be happy. Apparently God’s not allowed to be the God of Chicago. It beats me to death to figure out how a city, that has to be so well organized, can worship chaos.)


He himself, in Jesus, is life. Religions are distractions. But Jesus is the center of every religion.  (just leaping from one rock of thought to another.  Following me this morning takes a little bit of agility.)


This is not to say that every religion recognizes or worships the living God’s holy son. But Jesus provides life. Man’s interpretation of Christ’s sustaining is called religion.  


A thought I had earlier:


You can tell someone that Jesus is the son of the living God. They might nod, meaning they understand. But learn to spend quality and dedicated time in prayer with him and the meaing changes exponentially.  He is no longer just an invisible figurehead, he becomes the source of your very life. Gladly our personal religion gets tossed out the window. In its place comes a living faith.  


(here’s a bit of a rub for you: The living faith I’m talking about is not based on opinion. It is based on the words of the Bible and constantly compared to those holy words. If it weren’t, it would be no different than any other religion; filled with opinions of Man.)


There are fanatics of every distraction, from religions about God to football 🏈 🙃, and every conceivable aspect of life in between. But the true fanatics of Jesus know what I’m talking about. Once he touches your soul personally, you never forget it. You don’t have to memorize a personal religion anymore. You’ve arrived at the place that surpasses them all.  


Sorry if this is disjointed. I didn’t intend to write a 300 page book. But to explain all this would surely take at least 300 pages. The mind can put things together in a much smaller space.  


Happy assembling.  

What Time is it?

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The group, “Chicago”  sang, “Does anybody know what time it is”, in 1969.  The world didn’t know what time it was in 1969.  I would doubt the world is any closer to figuring it out now, 45 years later.  To be honest, even Christians won’t know what time it is till the Lord returns.  But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t check the “errant” clock from time to time.

I call it an errant clock.  It’s not errant because it’s always wrong.  It’s errant because it is written in the language of The Most High God.  It doesn’t signify hours or minutes.  It signifies the end of this age.  The current time is expressed in “happenings” on earth. It’s errant because we perceive with the flesh, and are not privy to the activity of heaven.  It’s errant because it is written by a spiritual hand, in a spiritual manner.  If we could see it, we couldn’t perceive its meaning, form, or message.

Certain aspects of our world can help us unravel the “hour”.  The praise of wickedness, for example, can denote nearness to the end of this age.  Yep, we see that.

A subjection of Christianity to the status of non-relevant by the entire world.  Yep, that can be witnessed.

Protection for world religions; elevation of man’s interpretation of the meaning of holiness.  Yep, we can point clearly to the rise of Islam.

A means of subjection for all Peoples of the world under one leader.  Yep, technology is running ahead of that plan.

All things point to a really late hour on that spiritual clock.  Nobody has heard a chime out of it.  No one has even seen it, that they might describe it.  The clock is in the mind of God.

But look around.  Read the Bible.  Pray earnestly and see how God answers you; pay attention to what is.  There is a stress upon the world.  Like an orange being squeezed, it will “Pop” when the time is just right.