Thursday, October 29, 2020
The Season of Rancor
I think that Psalm 37 is one of my favorites, if not favorite. Each verse speaks to me deeply. It starts with a command: Fret Not.
In November, every four years, in the USA, there is a presidential election.
Because I do like politics (I can't help it, it's one of my interests---and lo and behold, though I've tried to steer myself toward more worthy pursuits like art, music, and education I've found myself smack dab in the middle of the poli sci department earning my masters degree in poli sci-----!)
I do like politics. I think worldview matters. I have hashed out the philosophies of this world and landed on a Biblical Worldview for myself and what I promote.
Politics are rife with fret.
I acknowledge this, so I understand my spiritual fretting, but I also recite to myself Psalm 37 during this season of rancor: FRET NOT!
It is so easy to fret when people are blinded by lies and corruption!
It is so easy to fret when they are duped by strongman powers that control the Deep State and the Media.
It is so easy to fret when they are unconcerned, nor caring about the globalist mandates from the CFR and the WEC, the CDC, and the WHO---the organizations that will demand a mark to buy or sell, a vaccine, a chip,----to be numbered in the world "reset."
It is easy to fret, because too many people think these organizations are just conspiracies.
They are real, and they have an agenda: global government.
Come on, man!
---Like Joe Biden says. Charles Schwab, the globalist on record, is gunning for an economic/currency reset. Start there, and you will find yourself in a sea of globalist goals, chief of which is population control and the preservation of earth's resources for the elite.
This is not a Biblical worldview, but it is in the Bible.
I'm sure they are well aware of the Biblical doctrine regarding the kingdom of the Antichrist. How could they be blind to it? They are implementing it.
And those of us who are aware and studying, watching, observing-----We're the ones that are called unstable, conspiracy theorists, whacko.
I read my textbooks and they are full of globalist terminology. This is the goal of government everywhere: control of the earth under a new order.
And so we read our little text books as public servants and cow tow to the bigger guys.
And this is why I like Donald J. Trump. He SAYS he isn't a globalist. He SAYS he is pro-life (which is inherently against population control), He SAYS he is pro-Israel, (and that is a Biblical doctrine from the time of Abraham in Genesis). I like him, for now.
He's a brash, uncouth, bragging personality, but he is EXACTLY WHAT THIS CORRUPT SOCIETY DESERVES. I'm voting for him with absolute support.
You see, I know what is at stake.
This whole corruption scheme with the Biden family: Joe, Jim, and Hunter; China, Russia, Ukraine---they are sitting on the top of the elitist heap and fear nothing but the true believers in Jesus Christ, Jesus, who will come, who will reign supreme and condemn them to the fires of hell. They are all in the clutches of evil, and that is why it is no surprise that the laptop of Hunter is filled with pornography and pedophilia. These people belong to the god of this world.
Because GOD IS JUST, sin will be judged.
God is merciful, too, so repent, and HE will be merciful to you.
It is possible that President Trump will lose this political race. I hope he wins. I hope he wins for the sake of the unborn, the peace in the Middle East, and the mountainous fight against the deep state within the FBI, the CIA and the layers of public administration.
Christians have given over the "little guy" positions in government for far too long. My classmates are mostly liberal harpies with anti Christian stances. I do not fit in.
Dear ones, choose to serve God in all things, but remember that we have daily choices that will affect the lives of our grandchildren. Those of you who do not have grandchildren haven't quite thought this through. Your worldview is selfishly limited to your own affairs. Think about the generations that are to come, waiting for Christ's return!
I want to believe that my grandchildren will be swept up in the Rapture, but each person must make the decision to follow Christ.
Do not follow the world. Do not follow Joe Biden. Do not risk your eternal destiny for the lies of this season of rancor.
Follow Jesus.
Maranatha!!!
Psalm 37
(A Psalm of David.) Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Revelations
As the mainstream media will not share the information about the deals with Russia, China, and Ukraine that the treasonous, sell-out Biden family has brokered we all need to band together and pass this info on.
There are people who claim to be believing Christians who are voting for this crook. I can only believe that they are deceived, because I do not want to believe that they support such criminal activity.
These new laptop revelations have only enforced the foundation of the corrupt left. The left is corrupt.
And this article isn't about Trump.
(But I will defend him. He's been attacked relentlessly since before he took office, attacked by the evil people who love to sacrifice human life. Even if he is corrupt, he has surrounded himself with the very ones the evil left hates: Pence, Pompeo, DeVoss, Carter... ... This is telling, revealing, and an absolute nail in the coffin for the evil leftist worldview.)
Leftists are evil. They are fascist liars, bent on destroying free speech, freedom of conscience, liberty, and freedom of religion. They hate Biblical Christianity.
Namby-pamby Christianity in Name Only is just fine for the left.
I once had a talk (about 20 years ago) with someone who claimed to be a believer. He calmly argued against legislating Christian morals.
"But you can't do that," he repeated.
I said, "Why not?"
Christian morality is the most tolerant policy any country has ever tried.
We adopt God's moral code: (See the Ten Commandments, especially the last 5 for secular legislation) The first five are for Christians, especially, but they bless nonbelievers as well)
Christianity birthed a tolerant constitutional republic with maximum personal liberty, America.
And the Left hates that. The left is a movement of destruction, tearing down, hate.
I have been hated by the left for quite some time. I'm used to it. Being hated is par for the course for any Bible Believer.
It took getting used to, but now I run with it.
Now that my husband is with Jesus I have no desire to be anywhere else but with Jesus, too.
Are you ready for persecution?
If Trump can hold off the immoral, antichrist globalists for four more years----then another conservative president after that...perhaps we can keep our tolerant freedoms for some time.
But I don't think so. I think that the horse has left the barn, and we have one hope: Jesus.
The Rapture of the church is what I am looking for, waiting for, and anticipating.
Until then we serve Christ, love others, (particularly our enemies), watch for wolves in sheep's clothing, and focus on Scripture and what it teaches us about the last days. Tell the Gospel. Evangelize. Watch. Stand firm. Wait. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Compromise leads to destruction, so don't compromise.
You have moral failures (as everyone on earth does). Stop making excuses for them and repent. Turn from your prideful attitudes against God.
Jesus died for those very sins that you think God cannot overcome. Humble yourself.
Stop confusing the issues!
I believe there are some people who just cannot bring themselves to commit to Christ or Biblical Christianity. They just don't like parts of Scripture! They debate and argue and make excuses, they compromise God's truth.
You needn't answer to anyone but God.
You are accountable to Him. And don't argue with someone who has a blinded mind, just preach. It's useless to try and convince a spiritually blind soul. Only the Holy Spirit can open spiritual eyes.
LIVE FOR JESUS
MARANATHA!
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Thursday, October 22, 2020
John Piper Sold Out
I read an article today that said John Piper no longer thinks abortion is as big an issue as the moral failings of our president.
I'm not surprised. John Piper would probably dismiss King David for his shenanigans with women, adultery, and murder, so of course, Donald Trump, even though Donald Trump has done more for more people than David.
David was the ruler over a small kingdom in the Middle East. We know and love David, because of his insignificant beginnings and his sweetness toward Saul and God. God loved him. God said that David was a man after His own heart.
Donald Trump is the leader of a country with over 300 million souls. He rose through the ranks of celebrity and wealth, played the game, and got elected president. He wasn't my choice, but we didn't have a choice back in 2016. The crooked Hillary Clinton was not a choice, just as the crooked Joe Biden isn't one now.
But more than that Trump has fingered the global powers that want us to unite under Antichrist and thumbed his nose at them. He has staunchly defended the unborn. He has helped Israel.
For these three things alone he deserves our admiration and our respect, and our Christian support.
Those that have been tainted by the teachings of Augustine just cannot bring themselves to see these issues as important. Ya, sure, the Roman Catholic Church held to a pretty good view of marriage and raising families for a long time. The Pope has reneged on that now, so Augustine wins again.
When you cease to believe in the Bible you get the trouble of compromised theology.
Enter John Piper, who is wishy-washy on marriage and now, on abortion.
I know David repented. It's written in the Bible. I don't know IF Donald Trump has repented. There's talk. He is probably a baby New Yorker Christian, and that looks really different from a Minneapolis, Minnesota mature Christian. I guess being a Christian for 50 years makes me sort of mature, and I'm from the Bibletown of Bethel University, University of Northwestern, Concordia College St Paul, North Central Bible College, Bethlehem Baptist (!) etc., etc.,,,
My Christianity certainly looks different from Donald Trump's. I don't smoke, drink, or dance. I eschew those who do. Am I proud of my legalism? No, but that is what my Christianity looks like. I don't approve of alcohol or tobacco, nor lewd behavior.
I'm so old-fashioned.
But I know there is ONE WATERSHED issue, politically, and that is ABORTION.
Abortion is murder.
Roe vs. Wade was a travesty enacted by a leftist supreme court. The country has gone downhill ever since, and God's patience with the United States will come to an end. (Prophecy---the world is going up in flames) God has made it plain in Scripture that he HATES the taking of innocent life.
There is nothing more innocent than a little genetic code in the womb. Life.
It was the sacrifice of this innocent life in the Word of God that God meted out judgment upon. The infant sacrifice to Baal is no worse nor awful than what happens at Planned Parenthood across the nation.
Abortion is evil. Our country should not follow godless regimes that demand it like China.
America has certainly lost her soul. Donald Trump is giving it a fighting chance to repent.
To not vote for that is sin, and I will say it: if you vote for Joe Biden and I find out about it you need Jesus. I need to preach Christ Jesus, lover of your soul, to you, because you have lost your moral way.
I lay all this at the feet of Augustine, that immoral wretch who chose to disbelieve the Word of God. And so began anti-semitism, factions and disunity.
Those who love him have drifted- they have a form of faith, but it isn't true. The only faith that you can ever be sure of is faith in God's Word.
The exciting thing is its absolute authority and its veracity as it stands up to the knowledge we are acquiring even in this age of the leafing fig tree that Jesus told us about.
We have no need to add to Scripture. Scripture is enough. It is God's Word TO US.
Don't let the cool kids that went to seminary talk you out of its inerrancy, nor its authority.
Follow the One who knows all, who leads you like a Shepherd, who guides you and gives you wisdom for the day until HE CALLS YOU HOME!
Read about William Tyndale. Read about John Wycliffe. Read about those sweet Reformers who started READING THE BIBLE and look what it did to the world ever since!
Dear fellow American: vote for Trump. Vote out the demon-o-crats. The Democrats have lost their moral compass. WE are supposed to be for the common good!
Voting for a democrat will erase any common good, and slip us onto the slide of immorality.
John Piper, I call you to repent. You are not of God. You have lost your moral compass.
Those of you who still have any connection with me, vote for Trump. Time is short, and Jesus is coming soon! Do you really want to stand before Him with your head hanging in shame that you voted for the murder of innocent life?
God forgives, but we will still stand before the Bema seat. We want to cast our crowns before the throne!
May God be glorified!
May corruption be exposed.
May our great and beautiful country, the USA, still stand for MORAL GOOD.
Thank the Lord for Donald Trump who is trying to rip the web of elite powers and the "Swamp" to shreds. It's hard work and the web has covered the eyes of too many "evangelicals." The character Grima Wormtongue has evidenced himself in your lives. Repent.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Four Months
Brian has been with Jesus four months.
These four months have been excruciating. Even now my heart beats irregularly, my breath comes hard, and I feel like just giving up daily.
Is this depression, or "just" grief? I'm guessing the latter.
In the midst of all of this Covid-19 has made its mark on all of us, for worse, and we are just plain tired. As the next wave of positive tests begins to incite fear and trembling in the populace we expect more death, more posturing by the Globalists. Covid-19 is the perfect foil for world domination. The grand experiment is on, and the sheeple obey their puppeteers.
School is hard for all of us. Work is a chore. The skies are gray today, and the snow is coming.
And there's this election coming up.
I've given up on ever seeing eye to eye with those that vote for abortion. I just cannot understand, nor do I want to understand their callous disregard for life.
God hates human sacrifice, the shedding of innocent blood.
This is a mockery of Christ's death on the cross, his blood for our sins.
Pagans are good at copying God. They turn every ritual into a mockery of God's ways, even the sacrifice part. Their rituals have limited power (Satan does have power) and they persist in denying the Creator of the Universe through them.
Those who vote for this monstrous practice must answer to God. WE are all accountable to God, for how we think, how we act, even how we vote.
There is only one option on the ballot for Americans this year, and it is Donald Trump. To vote for Joe Biden is to vote for corruption and murder.
Biden is not fit to serve. He is a crook.
As we are offended by those who mock God and persist in wrong-think it became clear to me that I was offensive in my own stance. We all offend. Some of us want to be kindly convincing, but we end up just offending. Truth can be very offensive, according to Scripture. The one that doesn't care for the Truth will inevitably be offended.
And we have to accept that. We must love our enemies, love each other, forgive, and keep on.
Keep calm and carry on...
The truth, for me, about deep grief, is that the silliness of pretentious desires and superficial relationships comes into sharp focus. They don't matter. They never did, but grief makes us starkly aware of who and what REALLY matters.
The flitting butterfly has risen to the jet stream.
People who do not see eye-to-eye cannot appease the soul.
I like to think of the phrase "kindred spirits" made popular by "Anne of Green Gables." Kindred spirits matter when life on earth comes undone.
And others really don't.
It sounds harsh, but it's the truth. Every soul matters to God, but it becomes clear that those who do not seek after God's own heart can offer little comfort, little sustenance for a shocked and grief torn heart.
So those who matter will give the deepest help and comfort, those who never did fade out of focus.
Grief does that.
It is the lens of truth in relationship and meaning.
So, if you seek depth of relationship, depth of meaning---seek the deepest friendships in Christ. He is the only one who can give a lasting, loving friendship.
Politics will divide. Satan will divide. Sin will divide.
Only Jesus will unite hearts that are broken. Only relationships that are firmly anchored in faith in Christ can give the deepest comfort.
The hope that is in Christ Jesus is the only hope. When you have it, you have everything you need. You can withstand the darkest nights and the deepest pain.
But it costs.
The Holy Spirit is the One who convicts. Can you ask Him to open your heart and soul to absolute truth and the deepest joy? He alone can initiate that transaction, but you need to humble yourself before God, repent, and ask Him for His forgiveness for your sin.
Enter into the life eternal. Don't wait!
Rapture comes soon!
MARANATHA!
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020
Thank You!!!
A huge thank you to everyone for all you did for Corgi Hollows on Saturday. The celebration of life for my husband, Brian, was exactly what we all had envisioned: God gave the weather, you all gave the support and sweetness that we so appreciate.
) and I felt that the LORD'S presence was with us comforting and holding us close. Monday, October 5, 2020
Moral Compass
In my studies as a public administrator I am struck with the philosophy behind organization and its premises. One thing that crops up in my reading is morality and the common good.
Since my textbooks are all about administration on the global scale I am always amazed to find reference to the morality of governance and the "common good."
We are asked to navigate situational ethics, the best of the situation, the greater good.
How fascinating.
When humans try to mimic God's moral absolutes with their superior manifestos ("I'm better!") there is bound to be failure.
And that is also acknowledged by the authors of my textbooks. Failure seems to be an acknowledged given.
When we criticize God and His mandates we are putting ourselves above Him. Many think that they have a higher moral ground than God Himself. The moral compass that is seated in the conscience by the Creator.
How do we know that Creator?
We must accept Him at His word: the Bible.
When I finally accepted that the Bible was indeed truth my worldview shifted. Before I just believed God was wishy-washy on lots of things. He's just a nice guy. I loved Jesus. I loved "good." I liked everyone to be saved, everyone to be happy, I wanted everyone to have a Coca-cola.
Actually, the current Age of Re-enchantment, (See Carl Teichrib's book, "Game of Gods") really touched on that worldview. I was a product of post-modernism, and the next philosophical age is the age of re-enchantment.
I believed more philosophically in line with this current age.
That moral compass is a shifting organism that never finds Truth.
The only moral compass that has any validity is the one held in God's hands.
The only moral compass that describes God's ways is the Bible. None other.
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by Me." Here Jesus is claiming to be God (I am) and the exclusive path to Truth.
It is interesting to see the current artwork that features "I am" in it. The pagans like to chant it. Many recognize it from Moses' encounter at the burning bush, but it has become a thumbing in the nose of God.
God is "I am." We are not "I am." We are other. We are not God.
God is the rule setter, the provider, the one who defines. Satan will trip us up daily on this, helping us to question God, but ultimately we are simply creation, not Creator. Who are we to argue?
Does the clay argue with the potter?
Let God set the moral compass, and follow His ways, His truth, His mandates. God commands. When we break His commands we seek to justify our bad behavior and set up our new moral compasses.
They don't work, and they lead to idolatry and despair.
God is pro-life. God is pro-marriage (as Jesus defines it in Matthew). God is against theft and lying. He is against evil. God is love. That is how he defines Himself.
Throw out your moral compasses and get the one that is from the Creator.
Let's stop putting ourselves above God.
List
Here is a list of COVID things:
Lab created
mutation
Covid-19 (for 2019?)
November
China
Wuhan
Frightening video clips Dec through February
Herd immunity
Sweden
death
SARS
flu
nursing homes
New York
Seattle
Choirs
corona virus
masks:effective against spreading body fluids
masks: ineffective in filtering the virus particle
Covid 19 cases in the USA: December through present
Positive cases
Active cases
Antibodies
testing negative
False positives
vaccines
cures
Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc
Tonic water
Vitamins C and D
Sunshine
Warmth
friends testing positive, getting sick
friends testing positive, no symptoms
Friends afraid to interact with others
school policies
antibiotics
ventilators
blood
coughing
toes
sense of smell
pains up and down the legs
bad cold symptoms
organs shutting down
quarantines for 14 days
six feet (not five, not seven)
old people susceptible, dying
celebrities getting positive test results
celebrities dying (Herman Cain)
Trump admin getting it
Economic fall-out, shut down, lock down, election year, voting
Democrat Party hatred, fear
Republican wonder----what is going on?
Media hype, fear mongering
UNKNOWN OUTCOME
statistics
Global repercussions, statistics
Sweden
Death statistics: troughs and peaks (Irish doctor YouTube)
Fear.
Fear and trembling
Ridiculous fear and trembling
funerals, gatherings
policy implementation, state government versus federal
Minnesota/Michigan/California
South Dakota/Iowa
Contrasts
Church
Casinos
Abortion Centers
Doctor appointments
Intensive Care Units
Morgues
Amazon/Ebay/Online shopping
small business disaster
door to door testing
sports
comparison to the Bubonic Plague and the Spanish Flu
Quarantine rules
Constitutional rights
Freedom of religion
Numbers
Figures
Stats
Testimonies
Epidemiologists, Medical Doctors, Virus Experts, Nanotechnology
99.8% recovery rate
10,000 deaths (alone) from Covid-19 (alone)
Is this not enough of a list of the subjects we have all become familiar with and wonder about? I have concluded that Covid 19 has mutated to a much less virulent strain here in the USA and although cases are on the rise there is much more knowledge and experience in treating the disease. It appears many, many people actually recover from the disease.
In the days of the Spanish Flu, which had a much higher death rate, the world did not shut down. Sick people were quarantined. Healthy people kept living. This pattern was repeated with any disease outbreak. Semmelweiss is one of my heroes. He actually asked doctors to wash their hands after being with sick patients (an unheard of practice up until then!) The rates of infection plummeted. Good hygiene and reasonable health practices go far in eliminating disease.
Either we all die of Covid-19 or we, as a human race, overcome it and go on with further Genetic Entropy.
We do not live in fear. We understand that political powers are waging war and the disease of fear is very effective as a political weapon. Covid -19 is a convenient ruse.
I have come to my own conclusions about Covid-19. My faith dictates that if I am to die of it that is in God's hands alone. He is the one who appoints our times. Nothing can shorten that appointment, nor lengthen it-----no exceptions.
Take it up with God.
Masks are ineffective, and we've all come into contact with the virus if we walked into a grocery store. To live with a "rule" of social distancing is nothing but posturing for the political hacks of our day.
Give your fear to God. Don't use it as an excuse to eliminate people from your life. (Although I admit it is very convenient!!)
Your true friends will show their true colors. This "pandemic" has been the great divider.
I know mine, and I thank the LORD for this revelation. God has blessed me with some excellent and true friends who were willing to be there for me in my life crisis. Fear of Covid-19 was minimal for these stalwarts. The consensus among us is that GOD IS IN CONTROL, death or life.
No one has learned that more than I have this devastating year of 2020.
For Us, a Big Week
Closure is an interesting word. I think it means different things for each person.
There is closure of a day, a week, a month or year---an era.
Closure of a life.
I cannot close something in my mind, at least I am trying to figure out a new type of outlook with the past at the forefront. The past is just a part of me, and my husband is still that, daily. I do not forget. I do not see a future without him.
I am so thankful for the hope of the Rapture. Blessed hope. I look around as a prophecy watchman and I see that our time on earth is inevitably short. Jesus is coming for the church, and soon.
Israel has been a nation (fulfilling prophecy) since 1948. The generation that sees this nation will not pass away before SOMETHING happens.
Are God's words true?
Oh, yes.
So, I do not grieve as those without hope. I will see my dear husband very soon.
And yet closure--(not the crazy COVID-19 pro-forma that was dictated in June)--is a part of life and death on earth.
I still needed to pause and reflect, you know, like a funeral?
So we are having a celebration of Brian's life on Saturday. This is a type of closure ---for me, and I hope, for our children who can be present in spirit.
Those who would like to be a part (and are not terrified of getting Covid-19) are welcome to attend.
I would like to remind you that our days are appointed, as Brian's were, and we are all living the days appointed by God. Nothing will snuff out a life before God's appointment. Nothing will keep a life on earth after God's appointment. His sovereign times are set in the meta-timeline and there is absolutely nothing we can do to change that----cancer, disease, accidents, heart attacks.
These are God's appointments.
It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment.
I do pray and request everyday to be raptured. I can bring my requests before the Most High. That is His will to answer my wish, yes or no, but I can bring my desires before Him. He knows them already, but I affirm them.
Prayer changes things: specifically my own attitudes and heart cries.
For I know the plans I have for you: plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans for a hope and a future.
Brian is rejoicing with Jesus and our two children who are already with the Lord, Sera and Jean. Brian is having fellowship with all the believers who have passed from this earthly tent and are now in the dimension of spirit and TRUTH.
He is whole, perfect, and truly rewarded.
I celebrate his life. I celebrate that God gave us 30 years together. I celebrate that God gave us seven children, five of whom are still with us.
So celebrate his life with me on Saturday, October 10. Park across the road in the hay field. We are going to sit around the fire (temps are predicted in the 70's for Saturday) and roast hot dogs and s'mores. We will share memories and thoughts and think of how Brian loved life.
We are dressing up as characters from history, celebrating the past with Corgi Hollows History day. We will make a timeline of history photograph, with everyone standing in chronological order. I'm dressing as a character from the 1100's (AD), which is an interesting era for me.
We will encourage each other to watch for the Rapture of the church.
I have many assignments this week for my schoolwork, so I will be busy. When you come there will be general mayhem and leaves on the ground from this season. But come if you can. At 2:00 to 2:45 we will have a gathering to share a few thoughts. The event is from 12 to 5. Come at any time from 12 to 5.
No, this isn't a funeral. COVID dictated that. This is celebration of life for those who want a type of closure----
For me, at least.
Life isn't fair. God never said it would be. Life is hard. Life is precious.
Isn't is wonderful to have perfection to anticipate with the One who paid the price for our sin?
See you Saturday.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Current Cults
I didn't watch the debate. Ed and I went to a pipe organ concert that evening. We went to Northrup Auditorium to hear Katelyn Emerson play the big Skinner organ.
It was a very nice concert, and the first time Northrup had an event in 213 days. Covid.
Ed and I enjoyed the evening, remarked at the strangeness of only about a dozen people in our balcony, the emptiness and eeriness of a performer playing to a massive hall with only a few in the audience.
These are strange times.
The concert hostess began the program with an acknowledgement to the Dakota people, on whose land we were sitting. That set the tone of the concert for us. "Random" was the word that came to mind.
If you have known me for any time you know that Native Americans have always been close to my heart. I may be the stock of Scandinavia, but I just LOVE the native peoples of North America. I don't know where that love and interest began, but it's been there from my childhood.
White supremacy is a concept that I cannot understand and I loathe.
With all this talk of systemic racism I am appalled that such a view even still exists, and I assert that only in Jesus Christ is that racism defeated.
If you are a racist you must confess that sin before Jesus Christ and ask forgiveness, then, if it is a habitual sin for you, you must bring it before the cross daily.
On the other hand, if you think everyone is guilty of racism (systemically) you had better be sure of your salvation in Jesus Christ, work it out with fear and trembling, because you are creating a New Gospel that demands a work of perpetual subjection.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is this: God saves sinners. Salvation is the gift of God, not of works.
You cannot do ANYTHING to earn or merit your salvation. It is a gift.
Your guilt is before God alone, and HE paid the price for it. You are whole in Jesus Christ alone.
In Christ alone, our hope is found.
So there is an insidious movement within the entity known as the church which is seeking to add guilt and works to salvation. The Gospel Coalition is one of the organizations associated with this heresy. Be wise. Don't get sucked into the new "evangelical cult" of racist ideologies.
Racism is sin. Adding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is heresy, and also wrong. This is the age of apostasy, and we need to be aware of it on every level.
Be wise, be correctable, be aware, be humble, be forgiving.
Be a Berean, and check everything with Scripture. Don't let the elite set of authors, radio preachers, denominational administrators, christian celebrities sway your faith. You are accountable to God and Him alone, and the ONLY way you can know God is to read His Word.
Your experiences are yours, and you can share them. You can listen to others and their experiences, but take it to the WORD, and check it out. That is the only way to know truth.
God does not contradict Himself. If one thinks He does, he must go deeper into studies of the Word. There are also great books out there explaining apparent contradictions. Find one and work out your doubts on your own.
One truth: the Gospel is not of works, lest any man should boast. That is from Scripture.
Since the Critical Theory age began the church has fallen. Only those that cling to God's Word have the absolute truth. God works in every generation, in a "remnant," which most of the time is quite small. God chose to reveal Himself in the Word, and that was His choice.
It's God's way, His rules, His paradigm------or yours.
You have a choice, and it is before you.
Repent. God's Word commands it. Humble yourself. God's Word commands it.
Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. When you seek to define God in your own comfortable framework you are guilty of idolatry----rebellion----and you are not a follower of Jesus Christ.
Time is short, dear ones. Get right with God. Get the victory in Jesus.
Don't miss the Rapture of the Bride.