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This week I had received an urgent call from a lady I know and she wanted to come over to give me some details of this event she had attended over the weekend. My earliest time free was of course yesterday, the middle of the week and I waited for her all morning. Was thinking she probably got on a firmer footing in God's word and did not need any encouragement and so she had skipped our meeting if they called her in to work! It was later in the day as I studied over the word for a teaching that I also prayed, not only for us, those we know, but also for those who receive this blog and the teachings we send out for God's glory that God our Father would have His way in them by His Spirit. In praying, I was also seeking that His glory would come on earth, that His will would be done in those who are called His and that they would come to that place of safety and comfort to stay out of harm's way of those seeking or jockeying for positions especially with the microphone.
I meditated on some scripture and came back to the thought of so many feasting on the false narrative today, and so many not knowing truly God's will and how He operates through men and women who devote their lives to serving Him, could most likely miss Him, being lost in the false, the fraudulent and empty talk of others.
Again I was taken back again in my thinking of the year 1973 and this movie. It would be some twenty years later when I could talk myself into watching Soylent Green. I had remembered some descriptive words that my sister spoke that alerted me to some things that might prove to be unnerving for the twentieth century. Well, we have come into the twenty-first century and I am amazed still what people consider safe to eat, and safe to participate in like "recreational marijuana". REALLY?
If you have not seen this move called Soylent Green, then please stop here at once, and see it before reading on. For if you want details of a future land where people have no food and only darkness rules the land with funky ideas of how they might create food to eat then this drama is for you. It is the year 2022 and people are still requiring food to eat!
This Heston fellow is investigating a death of the head person at this corporation and as he searches for clues into this man's death, he finds out some alarming things about this place that is producing a new foodstuff! And it is interesting how it is processed, but Soylent Green turns out to be people who have died and are now being made into a food commodity for other people to use in their diet.
The most interesting thing is the elderly, growing close to their exit time, go to this center to sign up for a specific viewing of about an hour to revisit the world they knew as a youth. And as the child who with a zest for life ran through those beautiful fields, they have a time even though short to revisit a day in the sun. They have this opportunity to remember things as they view the different scenery's as wildlife standing in that field, waterfalls cascading into rapidly moving rivers that end serenely in the lowest parts of the canyons. In this scene, the small birds and animals appear for a drink from the inviting coolness and pleasant gurgling sounds of the river that has slowed to allow safety and comfort for drinking. The scene continues where pastures are displayed and they are filled with many varied wildflowers, all blooming. As the man or woman is close to their final breath, they see the end of their day, the sunset of beauty announces that the last remnants of light are rolling away. As the ever so gentle light fades on the waves of the sea, still a unity of color and music take hand to move on the notes of climax that is heard overhead.
The movement is slowly displayed toward the shore of sand, and the sun sinks, and the dusk of an evening is presented.....the music hits a crescendo of orchestral unity, video ends, curtains close, and lights come on and assistants show up to roll away the deceased into the food processing facility. Yikes!
Some decade ago, I had come across some dog foods that were being processed from dogs and cats which had died and were being used as the meat portion used to make this dog food. Some of them had become very ill and some had died with cancer. And the processor for these dog foods sold them to people who fed bad food to healthy pets. What happened? Why would someone do that?
So have you wondered of what they might be putting in the food you purchase at that specialty store of yours? You might consider first of taking it to prayer to God the Holy Spirit and say, "show me where I have been lied to and show me what is healthy food for me and mine and including my pet!"
Peter taught us to desire the milk of the
word, but there is a time for meat! God’s word is for order in our lives! 1
Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy
& malice, all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of
the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Microwave mentality is not the best pathway when desiring to make decisions for health and safety for you and your family. No, the quickest
is not always the best!
Jesus spoke
in John 8:52 “if anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.” Tasting the
word is tasting and experiencing life God intended for us through His Son
Jesus. It is knowing the Father of lights of whom there is no variation or
shadow of turning. It is every good gift & every perfect gift from Him who
keeps His promises.
We are also
told in Hebrews 5:12-14 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you
need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God;
& you have come to need milk & not solid food. 13 For everyone who
partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a
babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those
who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
These words
were given to a group of people who had become slothful in attitude of hearing
& it resulted in a lack of spiritual growth! Advanced teachings we are told
of in this passage was for the mature believers who had the ability to
discriminate between sound doctrine & the unsound, and to discriminate
between wholesome conduct and unwholesome conduct!
Not all people living today operate out of a wholesome conduct. They only have room for the greenback, that which some think of as the almighty dollar, but truly wholesome conduct is that which is found in the kingdom of God, where the Lord rules our hearts in making decisions for life and health. We are to grow up in His kingdom, to mature
in the knowledge of Him and by the practice of the Scriptures in what is living by
faith in Christ Who died to bring to us life and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.
The
continual teaching and hearing gives way to growth in us. Our being equipped in
them is preparing us to be stable in chaotic times, to stand firm speaking what
God gave us through His Son Jesus Christ and teach others.
God
purposed us to be grown-up to see potential revealed in us and through us and not
to remain as infants or in that state of infancy!
Man's way always crumbles beneath his feet. Unless we heed the Lord's guidance and teaching we fall headlong into disaster much like Judas Iscariot did! With so much about to occur on earth and in the heavens, should we not be alert to that which is warning from God, to know Jesus is returning soon for those who are His?
Back to Hebrews 5, the writer Paul, tells us that these congregations were not equipped to feed themselves. They were not equipped to discern the sacred or spiritual from the profane or carnal. These in that independent state really need to seek, and to be about learning God's truth, learning of the kingdom of God to ultimately be weaned from that "bottle" fed mentality! And it appears that some of us over the years have seemingly lost our appetite for that solid,
spiritual food and need to be fed intravenously.
If you have ever had to be fed intravenously or been given blood you might wonder what is in that blood and whose was it before it was put in that bag and hooked up with a hose and needle to be transferred into another human being! Prayer is certainly important, and a prayer team is a benefit when you are facing such things. You want healthy blood put into your blood system and the same works for good doctrine and that which is for "meat" eaters! We cannot remain as the little bird, with a syndrome of "feed me" when there is so much out there available in the way of bringing light into our existence on earth. We are to be fed with our Father's ever-strengthening truth and see that supernatural Light fill every area of our being.
Exertion is found being done for the "good spiritual food". Again from :1 Peter 2:1-2 NKJV Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,
Following 1 Peter 2:1, in which he admonishes us to rid
ourselves of the fruits of spiritual junk food, Peter lists evidence of a mind
afflicted with a poor spiritual diet! This specific diet included Malice which is ill will, the desire to inflict
pain. It included Deceit and is listed as lying or crafty, seductive, and slanderous activity of a person. Another is Hypocrisy that pretending to be what one is not. Envy is the strong desire to possess what
belongs to another and Evil
speaking is using the tongue to gossip, deceiving others, or destroying reputations. All of these things lead to an unhealthy life and unhealthy situations that are seriously problematic!
And Peter proceeds to encourage us to crave God's Word just as a
baby craves milk. He is not encouraging us to desire elementary spiritual food
but emphasizing the energy we should exert to get good spiritual food. Babies
demand milk as if their very life hangs in the balance at each feeding. And then after they get to it, watch their behavior as they have gotten that food in their mouth. Just a weekly feeding is never enough and we certainly should be about getting that which is purposed for us to grow and become what God our Father desires for His children.
It is the the apostle that calls God's Word pure, meaning uncontaminated,
unpolluted by fraud or deceit. God's Word is truth: John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
It is in Psalm 12:6 that David says God's Word is refined seven times: The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Words of the Lord are morally pure! So here, we see that truly, Peter is teaching us that God's word promotes spiritual growth and that good health just a good food can do for us physically!
Milk is tasty especially if you have no allergic reactions to it! But when we consider Paul's teaching from Hebrews 5, we really should see it is not about the desire but more about the depth. If we rely on others, heed their lies and do not seek out real truth, then where else is it possible that we are being fed something like soylent green that is not good for you? Seriously speaking in this day and time when so many are drug users, pot smokers and possible alcohol abusers, all that could put a profound effect on one's body for ill health, to appear weak, the gaunt if someone decided to start using those types of body of a "green thing" to be fed to you!
May we not slip into that baby bird mentality of feed me when so much vast wealth of God our Father has been presented and available at our fingertips. Truly God is for us, but we must be found with Him and not against Him!
WE must know truth to recognize when truth is not given to us.....it starts in the kingdom of God that has come! Amen.
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