May the praise be His......
as I read this,blessing it came to me that God is going to get the praise - even if the rocks have to do it for us.
I see so many people still living in their little bubbles - believing that their little cushy self-padded ways of praise and worship atuned to their own little quirks and opinions and untouchable and unaccountable to any authority here on earth ..... letting no man near enough to reveal to them their flawed perception of God's demands on our time and our devotion.....always afraid that someone might upset the delicate balance between what they believe and what really is.........
then there in Africa in a town of sixteen million people - one whole million of them drop whatever they are doing and run to one place just because someone said a "man of God was going to speak".....and they arrive there with no food, no shelter, no comfort, no complaining.........and praise God till they literally drop......
and I wonder that there are still any "bubbles" left at all.......How can a person in this plush, spoiled, gluttonous country even believe that God hears them when they wimp out a little "praise Jesus" between their trips to "lunch out" and "movies" and "marathon t.v." and other pamperings and personal preferences?????? How? Yet, each Sunday and at least one midweek service......trillions of churches preach this watered-down, unbiblical, "good" doctrine.......and the "bubblers" swallow it down like pablum.............to their destruction. Singing "I did it my way.........it reminds me of the people in the movie "Wall-E" as they waited out in space for earth to flower again......
Some of us are fortunate enough to have to deal with our own mortality along the way. and in doing so we learn to give ourselves a "check up from the neck up" and see ourselves for what we really are. I have just been thusly fortunate, and learned during this time of reflection that God is not pleased or interested in anything mediocre.....anything "personal"........that He is a God who will be worshipped and praised whether we do it or not.
Yet, there are still those who believe in the hype.....instead of the Word. The Word says Luke 19:
37And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
the hype says "Just make Jesus your Personal Savior....and you will be saved."
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
SEPTEMBER 11
Dear Loved One's -
8 years ago today - our "world" was shaken. You will all remember where you were - I had taken Willie to school and was going to have coffee when Marty called me from Oklahoma to tell me to turn on the t.v. and I saw both towers burning....then watched them fall down in perfect demolition pattern.
It was like the beginning of the end. No one I knew of then could believe it had happened to us.....If we could have known then where we would be now........would we have believed that?????
"Christian America" elected George Bush then went to sleep - content. When it woke up from it's long nap - it found that during his watch somehow our country was deflated and stuffed with cotton so as to appear that it was alright....THEN those who call themselves "christian" were furious, and wanted "change".....and didn't trust anyone who agreed with Bush.....now, we have a new president - duly elected by the American People - and those same "christians" are shaking in their boots realizing that we have given away our rights and privileges......and soon, our democracy.
God warned us with 911.....He did, but we didn't listen - we only heard what we wanted to hear - and now we will live with the end results of our willful ignorance.
What are you going to do when you realize that the true architects of the destruction of the World Trade Centers were the power brokers of our own U.S.A.? Don't worry, by the time you realize it - it will already be too late.
God is faithful. He never does anything without warning first His prophets......and those prophets are faithful to tell the people what He has said.....but the people - don't listen. We. the people, are constantly trying to get more for ourselves and protecting our own precious "privacy". We just want to do what we want to do and we don't want anyone telling us we cannot. Meanwhile - in the other countries, people just like us are suffering hunger, devastation, communism, abuse, no privacy at all.....and needing our help.....in our OWN country, right beside our churches.....we have people who are suffering the very same things......they are bereft.
The church? Where is the church????? Instead of "church: we have social organizations which "play" church on Sundays and Wednesdays then hide behind their tax exempt status to wheel and deal....someone gets rich - that's for sure. The "church" today doesn't preach the Bible - it teaches whatever the people need to hear to get them to continue in their sin and leave the "pastoring" to the "church".
What did we learn from 911????? Really!!! What did we learn????
God's church is still alive, but people don't want to go there because it teaches Truth, Responsibility, Sinlessness, Righteousness,......all the things the people want to avoid in order to feel good about their sin and comfortable in their privacy.........that's okay - only 8 people survived the great flood in Noah's time.....and only 2 people of the original tribe of Israel were permitted to enter the Promised Land.....God is not impressed with numbers......He even said that if we don't praise Him, the rocks will cry out.
In Jesus Name I pray that we all hear His voice by humbling ourselves before Him and allowing Him to create in us clean new hearts that will obey Him......amen.
p.s. unforgiveness will keep you out of heaven.
8 years ago today - our "world" was shaken. You will all remember where you were - I had taken Willie to school and was going to have coffee when Marty called me from Oklahoma to tell me to turn on the t.v. and I saw both towers burning....then watched them fall down in perfect demolition pattern.
It was like the beginning of the end. No one I knew of then could believe it had happened to us.....If we could have known then where we would be now........would we have believed that?????
"Christian America" elected George Bush then went to sleep - content. When it woke up from it's long nap - it found that during his watch somehow our country was deflated and stuffed with cotton so as to appear that it was alright....THEN those who call themselves "christian" were furious, and wanted "change".....and didn't trust anyone who agreed with Bush.....now, we have a new president - duly elected by the American People - and those same "christians" are shaking in their boots realizing that we have given away our rights and privileges......and soon, our democracy.
God warned us with 911.....He did, but we didn't listen - we only heard what we wanted to hear - and now we will live with the end results of our willful ignorance.
What are you going to do when you realize that the true architects of the destruction of the World Trade Centers were the power brokers of our own U.S.A.? Don't worry, by the time you realize it - it will already be too late.
God is faithful. He never does anything without warning first His prophets......and those prophets are faithful to tell the people what He has said.....but the people - don't listen. We. the people, are constantly trying to get more for ourselves and protecting our own precious "privacy". We just want to do what we want to do and we don't want anyone telling us we cannot. Meanwhile - in the other countries, people just like us are suffering hunger, devastation, communism, abuse, no privacy at all.....and needing our help.....in our OWN country, right beside our churches.....we have people who are suffering the very same things......they are bereft.
The church? Where is the church????? Instead of "church: we have social organizations which "play" church on Sundays and Wednesdays then hide behind their tax exempt status to wheel and deal....someone gets rich - that's for sure. The "church" today doesn't preach the Bible - it teaches whatever the people need to hear to get them to continue in their sin and leave the "pastoring" to the "church".
What did we learn from 911????? Really!!! What did we learn????
God's church is still alive, but people don't want to go there because it teaches Truth, Responsibility, Sinlessness, Righteousness,......all the things the people want to avoid in order to feel good about their sin and comfortable in their privacy.........that's okay - only 8 people survived the great flood in Noah's time.....and only 2 people of the original tribe of Israel were permitted to enter the Promised Land.....God is not impressed with numbers......He even said that if we don't praise Him, the rocks will cry out.
In Jesus Name I pray that we all hear His voice by humbling ourselves before Him and allowing Him to create in us clean new hearts that will obey Him......amen.
p.s. unforgiveness will keep you out of heaven.
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