BREAKER 1 9

 

BREAKER  1 9

Heard a teaching today and I had remembered living in a wilderness area of Wyoming. Our daughter had taken a name when using the radio to check in on the CB we used. She had a call name which matched her own name. (Candy Cane) And she would open with “Breaker 1-9 (assuming you were in the right place for that check), come in radio check"!  We had a CB radio in our truck and our family members each had one in their trucks, so if out hunting, or else, we had a check that radio was working to keep in touch. But do we check our heart? Would we say yes or would we say: rarely????

David asked for a radio check: Psalm 139:23-24 when he prayed, “Search my, O God and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.” When was there a radio check with the Lord God that you had?

David wanted to be searched on his heart matter. He asked God to know him and if he had anxious thoughts.

In having love for others is the spiritual test. As we grow in that love, we will be tested on that love we have within our own heart. Yes, the acid test of spiritual maturity is a growing love for God and people. If it is not growing for God and people, you are not growing in your Christian life!!!

Jesus made it crystal clear that the most important commandments are (1) loving God with all you are, and (2) loving people as you love yourself. If I am to grow as a Christian, the proof of spiritual growth is not how much I know, it is how much I care. It is not how often I go to church … or how many Bible studies I am involved in … or how many people consider me a strong Christian … or how many verses I have memorized. The real proof is how much my heart and your heart is growing with love. Paul said that love is the goal of our instruction.

If you will do a “radio check” with God, He will question back to you:

“Do you love Me more today? Do you love Me more that what is before you?
Are you growing in your love and appreciation for Me?
Do you love what I love … people for whom I died?” Will you stand with Me in the purpose I have set before you???

If love is truly the acid test of spiritual maturity (and it no doubt is), how are you doing with this thing called love?  If you are really growing in your love for the Lord, your life will show it in obedience to His commands. Jesus said, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me” (John 14:21). If you are really growing in your love for others, your life will show it in the way you treat people, in the way you pray for people. Christians who are really growing are praying daily for unsaved family, friends, neighbors and associates. They have a burden for lost people who are one heartbeat from an eternal hell.

I had a fellow Christian send me a teaching they had this last Sunday. I thought of Esau who shed tears for the moment, wanted soup in a moment and cared nothing of his patriarchal leadership among his Jewish family. He wanted soup and do his own thing as in hunting!

As I write this line I am remembering the one who saw writing on the wall and was found wanting! God writing like He did to Belshazzar, your kingdom is numbered and finished. You are found wanting and divided and slain…Found in Daniel 5:13-30… ..Belshazzar knew how God dealt with his father, Nebuchadnezzar, but  he refused to be humbled by it!

Belshazzar, used all the instruments of God’s house for his own glory. He desired to take and use that which belonged to another in property.  What Belshazzar did was for Belshazzar’s own performance. He was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. He had a great feast using the sacred gold and silver vessels which grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had stolen from the temple in Jerusalem. The king with his entourage drank themselves drunk on wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. Fingers appeared to write on the wall. The king terrified by what he saw offered up his purple robe, a chain of gold and would promote anyone who could interpret the meaning written on the wall before him, the king!

Daniel would be called in. The queen suggested his being summoned to interpret. He is of excellent wisdom and spiritually leaned on God. Daniel brought before the king also rebuked him, the king, boldly for desecrating the vessels of the temple by using them for a drunken party as in the idolatrous feast. For this king, Daniel read Mene, Mene, tekel, upharsin, Mene. Daniel told the king God had numbered the Babylonian Empire and finished it. He was told it was weighed in the balances and was found wanting.

The king would be die. He was found wanting and he was found divided. He chose to party with the world and not hear God! Should his heart been checked to find such going on? I believe most people will know they are going the wrong way indeed. YOU do not and should not use God’s things to comfort the world. The world is made of those who choose no rule nor boundaries. They despise the things of God!

 Will you do a “radio check” today?  And will you ask God to show you where you are with Him? Is He with you in the trial or did you not call on Him before that “trial” began?

Ask Him to change you, to grow you, to help understand His love for you better … so that you can love Him back . 1 John 4:19…. “We love, because He first loved us”

In reading the Ten Commandments we find this requirement that we are love God and neighbor. But the law could not produce this love in people. And we can do this today because of the wonderful love that God gave in sending His Son Jesus to die for us who were in sin! Is it possible to love God and have some less love for our neighbor? Jesus loved the people who came to save. But not all will be saved for they will not see their sin nor their darkness. We are told if they slap you on the cheek, turn your face and let them slap you again. YOU can see that today indeed. We love by praying for them. I do not understand their breaking rules to suit their agenda, but God has His kingdom and to reside there, we forgive others!

Ask God: Ask Him to give you a heart for people, especially lost people who desperately need to know about a Savior who can forgive all their sins and change their lives if they will just surrender to Him.

Ask Him to help you pray for your neighbor’s children. Ask Him for their safety if they are not of the saved.

Proverbs 3:3-24 has much to speak about wisdom, about the word bound to our neck to find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.

5 Trust in the LORD with all  your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths ( concerning life, spouse or marriage)or something else here______________  Do not be wise in your own eyes;  Fear the LORD and depart from evil. 8 It will be health to your flesh, And strength to  your bones. 9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the first-fruits of all your increase;

10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. 11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor detest His correction; 12 For whom the LORD loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding;

14 For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold.  15 She is more precious than rubies, And all the things  you may desire cannot compare with her.  16 Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.

17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.   18 She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her.

19 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens; 20 By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And clouds drop down the dew. 21 My son let them not depart from your eyes-  Keep sound wisdom and discretion;  22 So they will be life to your soul  And grace to your neck.  23 Then  you will walk safely in your way, And your foot will not stumble.  24 When  you lie down, you will not be afraid.......

I saw something written by William MacDonald ( he wrote commentaries on the Bible) : Discipline is a proof of love, not anger. Correction is proof of son-ship.

Are we known as sons? Does not love look like our Father who created us? If we put Christ Jesus in our hearts: then Jesus far surpassed any profit of man who has silver and gold, any wealth, any song, anything indeed.

Jesus is the treasure inexhaustible, He is the source of true delight. YOU might gain the world’s applause, but it is only Jesus who can bring joy to our heart and a smile to our face that will never stop being produced. He offers long life, gives eternal life with spiritual riches and honor. He is pleasantness and His paths are peace. He provides sound wisdom and discretion to give vitality to our souls. They allow us to walk safely in our way free from danger of tripping and slipping. You and I have a guarantee of good sleep tonight for we carry no guilt on the conscience and no fear on our minds.

We had a “heart check” with God! Disciplined in Him, we have no anger. God is our justice and He is the judgment. And what He speaks determines the outcome of my life and yours. His will is being done and He wins. That is communicating with Him indeed.  Amen and Amen.

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Health Wealth

Have you ever wondered how some people out live their children or grandchildren? Have you noticed those who seem to be agile and strong in their seventies and eighties and then you come upon those who are only in their fifties and sixties and they seem to creak, releasing weird sounds from  their bodies and they move like a snail on the ground?

 

Psalm 90: 10-12 The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow. For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.  11 Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

In generations past ( some 60 years), maturity was found among the seventeen to twenty-one year range of age. People lived in harder environments, they lived in harsh weather without special coverings and protection. They traveled great distances to get from the place of their birth to the place they would have land, to plant, to work for a harvest and to build in that place. The life they expected, where they were responsible people to grow their food, make a place as a home of safety for family, to ward off any adversity from wild animals to outlaws in a vast wilderness, with no trains, planes or automobiles.

Those becoming of age, either educated or taught the life of a farmer or what some call too, the blue collar worker regarded a trade that would cater the farming industry as well as to the community in need of repairs requiring engine repair, welding relating to fencing for cattle or any livestock or to those like the garbage collector, firefighters, and police service. Men or women at or considered of age to work had capability to be responsible and those living in the early days of television, each had a maturity without television, that onslaught of commercials or television programs or movies that teach drinking parties, good times, fun in the sun with an ale or beer, sporting events, to take one into the night to knows what, and then you see those tropical beaches, revealing a tropical breezes, dark tans and the people there are not you!

What I know as my generation, we grew up knowing God in our school with prayer. We knew God at home, at work and within family get-togethers. We grew up knowing how to plant seeds to grow food and see our parents and grand-parents canned suchs food to keep a family well fed in the cold of winter to stay healthy indeed!  It is a known truth that television came on the scene in the mid-fifties of the last century. 

It is also a known truth that commercials declared you could see the U.S. A. in your new Chevrolet for America was asking you to come and call on America. By the mid-sixties there were soap operas that sold more porn than soap. By the seventies, it was roller skating parties, boogie nights, pet rocks, and Atari games that were coveted. And it was at this time we saw little of the growing food for home and family, little family time together, unless you have four wheels on each foot, and speed cream in those bearings within your wheels on fancy skates to move you faster down the roller rink floor. In the seventies, words heard a lot were oil embargoes, OPEC, and many like us saw long-lines at the gas stations and people on strike: like the meat butchers and the milk industry.

 

THE Eighties brought greater party times: for there were now floating floors to skate on as the concrete floors would wear you down. You had musicians with hair longer than yours. ( and looked much nicer than our own hair) Most of their songs made no sense unless as a youth you had watched many soaps like that world was turning, secret storms, and days of our lives operas. At this time a greater defiance appeared in many. That is when one took an ugly way and tried to assassinate the President of the United States. Movies depicting going back to fix something to somehow correct yesterday that was affecting today,  to those movies of living far away removed places like on other planets and yes Death star..  What was wrong with the planet we live on? The songs sung pointed to being physical,  and yes, with Betty Davis eyes, and the importance of every breath you take!

The eighties seen in 1982  presented "The Computer"  named Time Magazine's Man of the Year. Microsoft released "Word" their word processing program. ( now how can a computer be a man of the year, I ask you that)

1984 Band Aid records "Do They Know It's Christmas?" a charity single to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Are they not still suffering famine in that country?

1986 The Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes in the USSR..( and people cannot live there today) ( latest report we heard over the winter was that soldiers went there on a military patrol and got radiation poisoning! Yikes!

1988 Two years after the Challenger Disaster, NASA's Space Shuttle program resumes..

1989 The Berlin Wall is torn down at the end of the Cold War.

The eighties marked the start of the computer AGE! 

In the nineties we saw the Gulf War begin.The nineties have been viewed as that of peace, prosperity and order. But we know of novels which came to light that produced the illusion and work of witchcraft.  It was the first three released to be read in America.

The quality of television was raved about as the “improved”: but it was far and away from the things of God. It was about me, me and me! New channels added to T.V. those premiere channels which add a hefty amount to the price of cable and the such, well they included soft-core porn too and then suddenly they went further! NO fences now, the ambition was a brilliant idea to ushering that cable thing and bring in more of the world right to your lazy comfort chair.

THE digital age, of course, got fully underway in the ’90s. At the beginning of the decade almost none of us had heard of the web!  In the nineties my thoughts were not on browsers, search engines,  nor that of digital cell phone networks!  By the end of the decade we had them all.  Yes, the end of the nineties decade marked people had cell phones, but not smart-phones!  

Such technology at your fingertips indeed yet  it mostly heaped distress and work on you to the greater degree. It brings the things of the world into your hearing and you’re seeing. It does not show the area of responsibility to work and live with that attitude.

In the generation we live in today, the mature come to being the responsible around thirty or so years not as in the earlier generations where the normal was 17-21 years of age some 65-75 years ago. Many graduating from college return to live at home with mom and dad and remain footloose and fancy free to live as a child. They are fashionable extroverts, the carefree daredevils or the clueless pleasure seeker or junkies referring to what degree they have evolved to in that pleasure seeking. Their highlights include a late morning rise at noon, make it out of the door by late afternoon and seek the night life where everything is hidden in the cover of dark. Tomorrow you will hear of their sudden death from taking something they thought it was medicine like Oxycodone but it was not. It was a drug dressed like Oxycodone and yes dressed in something appearing as death. It is a look alike but not the same created to help in pain and the such, no this is inserting a death pill that is created  by those who desire to put death in people. The devil has done a work indeed.

Yes, the times have changed. People have changed their attitudes and minds for a culture and left God out of it. They choose night over day, they choose sleep over work and at night they choose play over a good night’s rest. They dress different and choose to find drugs dressed as they are dressed. They choose to lose themselves in something that is fake much like our news today.

Back to Psalm 90: 10-12 The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow. For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.  11 Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12 so teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

By length of strength they are eighty years: Message Bible We live for seventy years of so ( with luck we might make it to eighty), and what do we have to show for it? Trouble. Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard. Who can make such anger against the very ones who fear you?

Written by Moses, he sought to pray. He understands God is always in His role as Creator and Almighty Father.  Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And he is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

In this Psalm man relates to man’s frailty. He uses grass, the favorite of O.T, metaphor for that of mankind or human life, he speaks to God’s awareness. He speaks of His omniscience. 

Acts 15:18 — "Known to God from all eternity are all His works."

Romans 11:33 — Oh the depth of His riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

1 John 3:20 — For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Hebrews 4:13 — And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Romans 2:16 — God will judge the secret things of men by Jesus Christ, according to [Paul's] gospel.

Then he gets to what we see as the number of years in verse 10. And we must know that this applies to what dietary restrictions and purity life one would live out. But we have seen that even what seems to be the best at the time can be bad to the temporal body in a length of time. ( Like finding out that mercury fillings in teeth from the mid twentieth century can kill you later in life) That is why being born again and allowing Holy Spirit to lead us, we will not end up in the place of not only the bad but also the ugly place. No Holy Spirit leads us to the wealthy place in the Lord!

If you have a generation not actually starting to be mature till their thirties in this day, they only have a half life to live out. The psalmist asked the Lord to teach us to take advantage of short lives. And in my estimation, I considered my life short when I was eighteen. Always hearing my father to speak to remember that life was short and we had to make the most of every moment of it God had given us. So the Lord has given us Jesus, and He wisdom is made unto us to become alive unto the kingdom of God. It is spiritual and active. It is alive unto God and His power and might. It is life God meant for us.

But sad to write, only a remnant will truly know the fullness of this. The Bible speaks of that remnant. We can be directed by God’s word, see Him now, always recognizing His voice, His walk and leading. But for others, they will know the voice of mom or dad, know when to leave the house for party city and return in the dark of night to start over again, unless they make the trip for that pill or that next drag on a smoke, for they find that pill dressed for death. And if death pill finds its way into their mouth to end the life that truly God had purposed for victory to live for valor, then how sad one did not live for the Lord and to His praise. How sad so many have died not knowing what true living was. How sad to never know the loving God who sent His Son to save us: those who would put their trust in Him!

Health Wealth: Philippians 4:6-9 MKJV  6  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8  Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9  The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

 

We need to pay careful attention to this sequence of instructions because it contains much that can help us attain both good spiritual and physical health.

 In the past fifty years, men have come to understand how deteriorating and destructive stress is to life. Paul's counsel, written nearly two thousand years ago, tells us not to be driven by anxiety or fearfulness about life.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus admonishes us to "take no anxious thought." The stress of anxiety is wearying, setting us up for multiple afflictions. If we really "see" God, we should know that He is with us. Should we not feel great assurance in His promise never to allow us to be tempted above what we can bear? Faith is a prime solution for anxiety.

Urged by Paul , we are to let God know our needs in every matter of life. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, He already knows our needs, but He wants us to recognize, evaluate, and communicate them to Him, accompanied by thoughtful expressions of thanksgiving for what He has already given, as well as His promises of blessings in the future. Do we see what this process achieves? It disciplines us to think within certain well-defined parameters that have Him and His way at the center of our life and our focus.

Paul then asserts that one benefit of this is tranquility of mind, respite from the restlessness so common to the carnal mind, which is constantly searching for new stimulation to satisfy its insatiable longings. This peace of God will stand guard over our minds like a sentinel, allowing us to meet and cope with the problems of life.

In the peace of God, we see God’s way for coping with the problems of life. Our minds occupied with God and with the things God speaks as the true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy. Through this discipline, we program our minds with the right things; what goes into the mind determines what comes out in words, actions, and attitudes.

If we would only stay out of America’s dump ground found in television, you know that  "garbage in, garbage out, we should adhere to the wholesome in, wholesome out". Jesus' statement, "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34). We could take this further and say that out of the abundance of the heart the mind thinks and feels, and the body acts.

Are we putting our best foot toward a health wealth or a garbage holding lot for that which culture dictates? As what Paul defines what is wholesome specifically as what they had learned, received, heard, and seen in him, as he was indirectly telling them to eat Jesus Christ because he, Paul, as His apostle to the Gentiles, was His agent to them and their teacher of His way of life.

May we stay clear of that which steals, kills and destroys. Our Father desires to give us a long life indeed. 

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Too much Cheese draws Too many Rats

 

Too much cheese can put weight on a person, make that person feel sluggish and draw rats to themselves! Was hearing a new teaching over the weekend and there was a word that captured my attention in the pastor’s speaking: He said “too much cheese”. As he continued, he spoke of “too many rats”!

In the definition of cheese: a food consisting of the coagulated, compressed, and usually ripened curd of milk separated from the whey; b: an often cylindrical cake of this food ;is something resembling cheese in shape or consistency

And another meaning is something cheap or shabby : cheesy material cinematic

As a transitive verb: to put an end to STOP……….cheese it!

As slang:  someone important

Synonyms for cheese : crapola,  junk, muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop,  slush,  trash, tripe

Yes, cheese can take a whole different meaning and look when you consider the words like sleaze, or trash, or how about crapola? And then you have that “rat thing” to contend with!

I always knew “rats” as rodents. I always knew at least since school days that they can transmit disease. And as I got older, I found people who would curse using the word “oh rats”! Now, I am not certain why anyone would call on rats to come to them, but they did. I really liked this lady and I am not certain that she still lives, but if she lives, she is a great teacher of the word of God. She could tell you all the names of God and what each spoke of His characteristics! She knew historical events of Israel, of the scrolls found in the desert and how the Hebrew nation grew to become what it is today. She always glowed with the love she had for God and His people! And yet this lady would screech loudly in dismay at times: "oh rats!"

As I was reading some on the definition of rat in a dictionary today, I was amazed that even my dear grandmother who passed many decades ago would curse using this derivative from yes, the word “rat”. Her word was “oh shoot” or “oh shoots”!  So as I continued to read on this three lettered word, I think back to my grandmother who would not be happy to find out that she was cursing!

As I looked again at the meanings given of rat, one called informal ….listed rat as one who will desert one’s party, and gave the sentence of: “ those siding with him giving him support and others rattied on him and joined a King’s forces.

That word “ rat” given as a “person” is a contemptible person: such as one who betrays or deserts friends or associates. That rat can also be known as a “scab”. Now that name “scab” I know when coal miner’s went on strike back in the 1980’s in the Montana area. And when some of the men who were not happy about some crossing that picket line, the men and women who really needed the work to feed their families, many of those crossing got called that name of “scab” a lot! And that those same who would choose certain names to shame and bring hostile action to another could be seen using metal things thrown in the roadway to cause flat tires, to cause blow out of tires and damaging such possessions required to get to work.

Another definition I noticed too, was the one of a “mall rat”…one who spends too much time at some place choosing not to leave for home.

 It is interesting to me to this day, that many are choosing to love others and forget what God’s word speaks about loving others. They will bend down as to worship to allow someone’s feelings to not get hurt, not give them truth of  their requiring a Savior and never give them truth as they cross each other’s paths each day till said person has either moved away or died!

That loving is where peace of God rules and is that place of safety for all in that space. If we are choosing to walk with a sign in hand or picket in a “space” are we doing that act as the rat or one who loves God and loves people to see people live and not die? Is that picketing with others for the right thing in God or is it putting people in harm’s way to destroy others on the way to finding answers that is given only by the flesh creature? Is that only creating more chaos and disorder and not laying hands on a true solution to end the problem or situation at hand? Is that picketing truly for change that is good in God or just for a 15 minute platform of fame where people die?

 2 Corinthians 10:3-6…KJV..3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

 

Imagination (KJV)( from verse 5) is that which is conscience and is of conceit!  Conscience is that motivation deriving from logic the ethical or the moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions. It is viewed as having a moral sense, or scruples. (that sense of right or wrong)  Conscience is the conformity one has to their own sense of right conduct.

 

For the Children…to….Adults…..finding out what is true……..and strongholds must come down…alignment with God and His Word of truth… ( Imaginations that is of conceit: Their speaking is a boast in themselves,  children….impress their parents and can get loud about it..) Children want their space and to have a voice. But they must not lead your family!

Adults : those who speak of themselves in great length and about the ability of being great in themselves..( their egos is that which gives way to a self-flattering oratory, and they also carry an overly positive self-regard) Are mentally active for themselves….planning more for their life, their comfort, their fun times…they do not regard their neighbor…  From this passage, our warfare is not “against flesh and blood” but in God we are God empowered against that flesh.  In God we fight against that which is “selfish”!

 Anything that is opposing God and His will is the lie. Paul is talking of the warfare in the mind, a warfare  against  arrogance, those rebellious thoughts, and ideas ….yes, those arguments against God. And we know that our God is to be prized.

Philippians 3:13……13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those thing which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.

Captivity is bringing every thought that is contrary to virtue, purity and righteousness…….(By living righteously and seeking God, He gives us more of His Spirit to help us grow in grace and overcome sin through the knowledge of God) 

2 Peter 3:17-18…NKJV….17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and forever. Amen.

We, who have received Jesus as Lord, are called righteous, not because we have the ability to accomplish good works, but because we reside in the righteousness of Christ. We abide in His obedience and learn from Him!

This contact is so vital for it proves beneficial both for God and for us! Our loving service of Him is also the same as loving ourselves. What we see in these two intimate relationships is a practical application and benefit of the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do to you".

When you have one thing go wrong, how long before the whole of your surroundings, your environment …your whole world of existence comes falling down on your head? And how long is it to when you take to voicing what is wrong with everyone else because of what is being done to you or what is touching you?

Yes, that rat and those who gather to eat that cheese will gather to chant the same thing. Somebody did them wrong and they want someone to pay! I keep thinking of all the young babies being born today into a country who will not see any debt of this nation paid off. I think of those who choose to spend, and treat others with shabby behavior and expect to be praised and have money entitlements to boot!

See, there is a great problem with self-love. For without contact with God throughout life, an individual's innate self-centeredness can easily develop into an extreme and sharply honed sinfulness and evil. An egotist gives little thought to loving others as a way of life; he shows little care for others and rarely looks for ways to serve them! Without God, life becomes all about the self and everything in its safe walls of self till someone is trying to take it, their self made world away. The world, established by and built upon selfish human nature, continues to feed its self-absorbed inclinations and cravings.  It is readily available just at the touch of a finger to a certain key on the cell phone or remote control for car or television. We know this because of the amount of movies and commercials that cater to those fleshly desires is still being made and deployed for greed in great numbers. That is harmful to the man who really needs to live in God and to see his life is done in the power of God.

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. – 1 Peter 5:2-4 NIV

We “feed” others by the love that we have for Jesus. You and I can not feed others say by the love of some man who lived hundreds of years ago, who journaled only of his life with God, not about that true, the life and light of God and then expects others to obey it! For only life is in Christ!

I was hearing an account of Billy Graham and the love he still had for giving others the love of Jesus. I heard those who followed, and one who gave a testimony to follow Jesus as Billy Graham had followed Jesus. Dr. Don Wilton gave such a glowing word about the man Billy Graham and he spoke of those Saturdays he would drive to see the elder Graham in his home. Of their conversation such a sweetness as of the Holy Spirit was present in their midst. Dr. Wilton continued to speak and tears welled up in his eyes and they welled up in my eyes as well. Will we still be speaking of the goodness of God, His love for man and the greatness to send His only Son to die for us when we turn eighty or a hundred years old?

Loving others is giving them the truth of what God has given us through His Son Jesus Christ and not any man! And many will not come to the light for in that the darkness in heart will appear. Sin is embedded in many media props, movies and even in many commercials. The things advertised today would not have been advertised sixty years. But today it is about making money and the most lazy way to do it indeed! But life in God was a high priced paid for that true life: John 3:17-21 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believes is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he Who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.

Everything that was done in Jesus was all done in God! 3 John 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

 Unless we call homelessness what it is, no one will find a solution for it! Unless you actually call abortion murder, you will only find it closer to your door. Unless you call sexual immorality, obscenity and profanity what it is, then you will only choose to embrace it and bring it into your home to be idolized. We must not choose the cheese, that every opposer to truth. We must bind the world’s word system to stop changing God into something He is not. He is always true and He is always light. Jesus did not come to condemn but save. But many are choosing to be right, to be on the side that is winning at this moment, or so it appears but for the wrong thing. Yet, God wins. I have read the book of Revelation, and sin highlighted by sin finds it final place in hell.

 Truth should be coming out of us in every conversation we have, & every deed we accomplish. We should not appear as “the rat”. Any life we touch should be of the Lord, that people who do not know Him will be drawn to faith as they see what He is really like. What is taught to others should carry the Word of God, the fear of God, & the power of God. Without these, the result is a dull, lifeless message without any life of God! No vitality nor zest of the Lord would be seen or experienced.

Psalm 96: 3 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples…..The glory of God is substantial or heavy. It is honor, splendor, power, wealth, authority, dignity, riches, to excel…in God. 

Vanity of man is futile. That to live as a rat only proves no love for a wonderful loving God our Father. We have a right in Him, to obey Him for His love to us. His generous Spirit has brought us close to His heart, to hear Him speak and abide in that presence that is warm, welcoming, and beneficial to us. May we go in that way which is of life and light where God rules our heart and songs are heard out of that heart as worship to Him and not as slurs to destroy another human being.

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