Houses

We are all just living inside a house. When you see someone you are only seeing the house. But there is someone living inside that house and no matter how the outside may appear, there could be a real gem living inside. Take John Chapter 8:3-11 for instance. Here was a woman, an adulterous, and yet after given such love, forgiveness, compassion, and mercy, what a gem came forth. The house was made clean and she became something beautiful. All out of one persons act of love to her, not her actions but her, the person.

I wish we lived in a world where we were more blind to the outside of the house and more loving and compassionate to the inside of the house. I'm so glad God looked past the outside of my house and came in with His love otherwise my house would be in complete ruins today.

How many houses are we responsible for completely ruining  or even damaging just because of our treatment of them? So many walking around hurting, lost, without hope. Our actions towards them can make a difference in their life for the good and improvement of them or even for the total destruction of them. Even a look or gesture can have profound impacts on a persons life. I can't begin to tell of all the times a stranger just smiled at me or spoke a kind word and it just lifted me up and then there were times that a person just ignored me or spoke something unkind and it just tore me. Well I can have the same impact on others as well, and we don't have to know them either.

So if you see someone with chipped paint, or a rotting roof, or a broken window, see what you can do to help repair the house rather than add further damage to it. And if you see a house that is all pretty and looking good, see what you can do to keep it nice.

And remember, even if the person has brought it on them themselves who are we to judge? Just read John 8: 3-11, she brought it on herself but unconditional love made the difference.

Unconditional love...something very rare and almost impossible to find today. How sad and how many would be made well if more of that kind of love was going around.

The Deception of what is Seen

Today I woke up to the first day of spring, or was it? What I felt was cold and when I looked outside snow was all there was to be seen. A cold wind blew and snowflakes were falling from the sky. How could this possibly be spring? Everything around me was saying something different. Was it a dream? Had I just simply been confused about the time of year? I needed to know the truth and it was at this precise moment that I knew I had to go to the source of truth, what I knew to be true in spite of everything going on all around me. I went to my calendar. I am always very careful to mark off each day so I always know what day it is and sure enough it was not the first day of winter like it appeared but was truly the first day of spring. No matter what I saw or felt the truth was clear. This was simply a last blast from old man winter. (I hope) It really was the first day of spring.

You see many times we look around at what we see and feel and we believe it to be true, but it is not. What we see and feel can many times be very deceptive and if we do not stay connected to the truth we become very deceived and go the wrong way and often get into situations beyond our control becoming trapped in something we thought was real but was false, a lie.

Looks can often be very deceiving; sometimes we need to look past what we ‘see’ into what we know to be true.

I was given a very good example of this truth this morning and so am passing it on to others.

This Day In History

The Boston red Sox traded the beloved Babe (the Bambino) Ruth to the New York Yankees, enraging the fans. The curse of  the Bambino began, and lasted a very long 86 years. The Red Sox did not win another World Series until 2004.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Prayer starts the year on the best footing!  Love, God  "Thou wilt show me the path of life" Psalm 16:11

That was something I read on a little daily calendar I found. But you know what? Not only does it start the year out on the best footing but also your day. Why not start each day of this New Year out with prayer. Your day will go better, your week will go better and most importantly it will greatly improve your life. But don't just start your day with prayer, end it with prayer also. That makes for a very well rounded day and it keeps your nights covered too.
Well, that is my first thought of the New Year. If you are thinking of investing in any type of securities this coming year, I suggest that the first one you invest in is prayer, spending a little time with God. That my friend is the best and surest security you can find and best of all its completely FREE.
Have a safe and blessed New Year.

Since posting this way back when I have learned and unlearned so much; like the New Year does not begin in January, but that doesn't change this post, just the date of it.

The Sabbath Day

The Lamsa Bible says in Hebrews 4:9: It is therefore the duty of the people of God to keep the sabbath.

The King James Version reads like this: There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

If we do not keep the sabbath we cannot enter into that rest.  Jesus Christ is the Sabbath.

Independence Day… is it?

Today we celebrate our freedoms, but how many of those do we really have left? I guess that depends deeply on whose side you are on.

We are no longer free to pray in schools, praying in Jesus name is becoming more and more forbidden, even mentioning that name is not allowed, we are no longer free to post the Ten Commandments. It seems people of this country are free to do and say just about anything unless it comes from a conservative Christian. Freedom of Christian religion is slowly being stripped away from us here in the very country where freedom was established and founded on religion; Bible based religion.

The Bible is not allowed in schools and yet the Koran is welcomed. Let us not offend the Muslims and homosexuals but if offends you Christians it is because you are not tolerant, you are haters and are a threat to the ‘common good’ of all men; That my friend is a very sad state to be in. When prayer was in schools, when the Bible was in schools, when the Ten Commandments were posted in schools we did not have the crime and corruption we have today. We did not have the divorce rate we have today and children had a mother and a father and grew up to be good citizens of this country.

Malachi 3:6 says, “For I am the LORD, I change not:” so since God does not change how is it that man thinks it is okay to change God and God’s laws and commands?

Independence Day has certainly changed from what it was in the beginning; today it is more like a celebration of our independence from Almighty God. That to me is a very fearful thing, and this nation is about to find out how fearful and dreadful it can be.

It is very sad that we have become a nation that is very ‘tolerant’ of sin and intolerant of what is Godly, righteous, and holy.

I am going to post now a portion from President Obama’s recent celebration of Gay Pride month he and his wife held in the White House. If you want to know why I do this it is because I want you to WAKE UP and see where this nation is going. Look who is changing laws, look at who and what is bringing this nation down and who is ushering in the wrath and judgment of God. If you were a wise person you would get down on your face before God and repent not only of your sins but the sins of this nation. Then I would watch and pray because the coming of the LORD is very near.

Here is the article:

Obama Laments 'Worn Arguments and Old Attitudes' Holding Back Gay Liberation

By Tim Graham
July 1, 2009 - 08:37 ET

The Washington Post put the first White House celebration of Gay Pride Month on the front page Tuesday, but reporter Michael Shear left out some of the president’s most liberal and most supportive lines from the transcript. Obama pledged to be "an ally and a champion" of the gay left’s agenda and hailed gay activists "who have refused to accept anything less than full and equal citizenship."

He implied there was still work to do with all those fuddy-duddies who still followed the "worn arguments and old attitudes" from old sources like the Bible:

There are unjust laws to overturn and unfair practices to stop. And though we've made progress, there are still fellow citizens -- perhaps neighbors or even family members and loved ones -- who still hold fast to worn arguments and old attitudes, who fail to see your families like their families and who would deny you the rights that most Americans take for granted. And I know this is painful. And I know it can be heartbreaking.

And yet all of you continue, leading by the force of the arguments you make, but also by the power of the example that you set in your own lives, as parents and friends, as PTA members and leaders in the community, and that's important. And I'm glad that so many LGBT families could join us today for... (APPLAUSE) ... for we know that progress depends not only on changing laws, but also changing hearts and that real, transformative change never begins in Washington.

Shear's account in the Post didn't note this was the first-ever White House Gay Pride Month event, but suggested it was an event "marking the 40th anniversary of the riots surrounding New York's Stonewall Inn." (But Shear did acknowledge that on the Post's Obama blog, 44.)

It might seem amazing -- and yet amazingly ordinary -- that Shear and the Post never found terms like "liberal" or "left-wing" worth using in the entire piece, even for radical activists and bloggers who didn't get invited to the White House because they've been too fierce.

Shear even let Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs claim that the even was "not designed as a way to mollify the gay community or reward its support during the campaign." Gibbs said: "We didn't play a lot of interest-group-based politics in the presidential race." You might even believe Obama didn't show up at interest-group events like the

When a Republican president or primary candidates court the religious right, the media constantly suggest that they're courting the extreme at the expense of the mainstream. But reporters like Shear obviously avoid the notion that there's political danger for Obama in "mollifying" his ideological base on the libertine left.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.

You can find the entire Obama speech on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1QieeGmGo&feature=PlayList&p=C9B601452F9C7E82&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10

Love

How can one grow up with Love, real Love, and know not love?

Could it be that they soak it all in through the years, and eventually become a lover of themselves?

Love was meant to be shared and given to others, not to be kept to ones own self; but first, one must truly love God before this can happen. We can only love when we have His Love inside our hearts.

Let us pray and ask the Lord to replace our selfish love for His selfless love.

1 Corinthians Chapter13: (Taken from the Lamsa Bible)

¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love in my heart, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love in my heart, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love in my heart, I gain nothing.

¶ Love is long-suffering, and  kind; love does not envy; love does not make a vain display of  itself, and does not boast,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not  provoked, thinks no evil;

Rejoices not over iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

¶ Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is imperfect shall come to an end.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these three is love.