It is no shame to be ignorant. Education is a simple remedy. The shame is choosing to remain ignorant. When God is so willing to teach.
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Times of Sobriety
Food for thought:
When life goes well, people feel strong. But such strength always leads us to a false illusion. For the bad times do come. What right then did we have to feel secure?
The wise man remains sober even while he laughs with joy. The bad times then have no effect on such a man’s perceptions.
But see how the bad times devastate those who live for pleasure and joy. As if such people have a right be at peace in this world.
Perfect strength is sobriety in Christ, it will not be found anywhere else.
Interpret This
It is impossible that anyone should write the book of another one’s life, either before it begins or as it is in full swing (not even their own). The only accurate substance of that book might be that the individual was born and died. Everything else in between is beyond our understanding. Vastly distant from our grasp. Thus beyond our ability to quantify and lay in order. Who can even say, with certain clarity, why he has done what he just did?
John Forbes Nash went crazy trying to predict Human Nature. We can’t even come close to predicting the next 5 seconds of our lives, let alone the injected will of God among men.
I didn’t want to become the man I am. When I was a child, I was just like everyone else, full of fantasies to be a good man and perfect. But my personal history is so fraught with folly; tossed about as it was, in the frothing wake caused by Humanity’s struggle. Ignorance appeared to be my best friend. The wisdom of God was to me nothing more then falling and glowing embers raining all about me. And righteousness seemed to hide just behind every coming corner. Still Jesus is King and able to save. He is the singular reason this fool has hope.
But who can predict where chaos will go? Who can deny that man is loaded to the Grave with chaos? And why would we waste time with tears of remorse, when we are fully destined as food for destruction without Him? It is useless to pine away and cry for the things that cannot be changed. Far better to seek the perfect place. Far better to seek with all the strength we own!
It is awesome how we are misunderstood. It is as if every man is an entirely different language all his own. If I could summon a string of pure and perfect words, deliver them with absolute integrity, and sit to wait for the response, no doubt I would be blown away by what came back to me. “Oh, now I see what you mean.” And they would deliver to me a perfectly wrong interpretation. The words of Man, by himself, are uselessly full of fault.
Salvation belongs to God and to the worthy lamb, Jesus the Christ. Man does not own truth, because our ways are so very full of chaos and destruction. If a man wants help, it is impossible that he should turn to anything man-made. It is only through the power of God in Christ that we affect any eternal good at all.
In the way of religions: if you want to know the truth about the object of unfailing faith, I advise you not to fall for the things that make human sense. God is utterly unlike us. His ways and his salvation will, by His very nature, be more than we can imagine. There is no chaos in God. There is no unfaithfulness in Jesus. Death has no place in the personnage of God and His Holy Son. The power of God’s Holy Spirit among us is the only source of Truth.
I say these words: Christianity is the only means to eternal life. But I know these simple words will be interpreted in such a variety that no one could possibly count the variations. I shrug my shoulders. What is that to me?
You don’t have to believe me. Simply do what God has said, “Humble yourself before me, seek my face, and I will be found by you. But keep your pride and your desire for autonomy and you will die. Sacrifice and offerings I have not desired. But I prepared a body to be sacrificed on your behalf I have delivered among you. He has appeared among you and done my perfect will. My salvation stands ready to receive you. Therefore come and let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall become white as wool.”
God has loved us with a perfect love. He is not a man that he should change his mind. He has written his promised salvation in the very blood of his Holy and Righteous Son. God’s promise you can predict, because he makes no mistake and he cannot lie. Man you should suspect.
How this is received by anyone is not my responsibility. But to have spoken these things is a distinct privilege. It is forever right to offer hope to my brothers and sisters of flesh. It is also forever right that every man, woman and child should consider such things as these as indelible truth.
Value-Driven Truth
I have not yet parsed the following truth into an edible format. So please forgive me if it isn’t a cute little saying. I’ll try to keep this very short, but it’s packed with volumes of understanding.
Pride and education are firmly bound together.
If I try to give free advice to someone, they are not likely to consider it very valuable. It doesn’t matter how priceless the advice may be. If it cost them nothing they equate free advice with trivia. Or perhaps worse, that I’m meddling in their affairs.
On the other hand. If I make someone pay tuition to sit in a classroom and receive that same advice, they are likely to consider it priceless. Having said that, I could make someone pay tuition and feed them nothing but lies and they would think it is priceless truth. Oh wait, that’s what most modern colleges are doing.
If I speak the truth to a stranger, he thinks I am proudly wielding wisdom. He considers me to full of myself. If I put that same information in a fortune cookie, the receiver thinks he has found gold.
I’ll say it again and let the reader stew over this. Pride and education are firmly bound together.
Consider:
The message of Jesus is free to any man who will listen. He has come to us from heaven and given us heavenly words. What he gave us is beyond any possible price. But the world treats his words as if they are useless. Or at best, they are useful for children only.
If he had charged admission, I suspect the world would treat his words greatly different. And if the church would charge admission on Sunday mornings, I would guess the pews would be packed full.
You think that’s too much to say? I don’t.
Freedom Fighters?
I see people fighting for freedom (so to speak).
So to speak of fighting; the fight Americans are putting up is more akin to complaining.
So to speak of freedom; the great majority of Americans have never lived under a totalitarian regime. They have no idea what it’s like to live without freedom. And they would be seriously hard pressed if you ask them to define what freedom is.
Passion is born of experience.
The same is true with the Gospel of Christ. Happy is the average person who calls himself a Christian:
.To go to Church (when he wants to)
.To be accepted in his social situation (as if saying you’re a Christian makes it so)
.To stay out of trouble and to stay out of jail
.To have some future unknown hope (leaving the entirety of heaven in the hands of those who are there; preferring ignorance over understanding)
And
.To live his life as he pleases “knowing” that the forgiveness of Christ will cover him in the end (such a man has absolutely no reason to fight for anything)
A man fights for what he knows. The one who knows how precariously he stands as a free man, fights with all he has to keep his freedom. The one who does not understand freedom, does not fight. And such a man will not understand what I have just written.
The offer of Christ is free. Accepting his offer will cost you everything you have.
Hope and Change
“To the stars and beyond!”
How the worthless is praised.
On display before all –
With mindless eyes glazed.
Prayers by the billions
To the singers of song.
Certainly,
To these ones,
Prayer belongs?
The one who offers
Profitless words
Receives the greatest praise.
While the profit of Men
Is spent . . .
Futilely filling their days
Where is understanding?
Did wisdom go and hide?
Perhaps
A thrashing in the night,
Was missed,
As …………………
Wisdom died.
Did the Morning Sun change color?
Does the grass grow from the sky?
Does the wind secrete from below the ground?
Then why is wisdom not to be found?
The Knowledge of ancient ones,
Lay abandoned
On the ground.
Lifeless words have
Taken “PLACE”
There!:
Gilded chants surround.
What gives them right
To change “What Is”
To an empty promise of Man?
What gives them right
To praise the ones
Who despise
THE GREAT
“I AM”?
Words From There 