This news story is fresh - but it caught my eye because I am being dealt with by God about how impossible it is to "do right" without the power of the Holy Ghost in us.....I was taught in my religion as a child that the Holy Ghost was something I received when I was baptized in the titles I was left with my disappointment that I was capable of still doing the things that were supposed to have gone under that water.....forever. I wanted to be holy - but my flesh warred with me constantly to not be holy. I was taught at church that if I went up and "rededicated" my life to Christ then things would be better - but they were not. I would do the accursed thing - then cry my eyes out from shame and disgust and longing to erase it altogether.....but, it lingered there, always being Satan's tool to whip me with - to make me believe that the reason I did it was because God had rejected me because I couldn't obey. When I looked to my church for a solution - I was assured that I was "all right" and shouldn't worry about it - that "no one is perfect"......and that God forgives ALL my sin because I was baptized.......never, ever did they tell me that I had to live holy of I could lose my salvation----they left that out of it completely - they just told me to "try" to do good, but that I was saved and safe even if I was sinning..
Some people are not as fortunate as me - to be able to see their sin and discern that it IS sin.....some people are plagued by subtle sin - so subtle that they don't even know they are committing it....till it's too late. For instance - have you ever been lonely? Did you watch t.v. shows about relationships, read romantic novels, entertain the loneliness? Did you find yourself looking for "love" in all the wrong places instead of throwing yourself into the Word of God and being of service to Him? Did you find that the relationship(s) you gained through this method were not lasting relationships which edified you and helped you walk closer with God? or, did you find that the relationship(s) you formed were godly and to the building up of your spirit and your service to God? 'Nuff said. A girlfriend of mine was single and longing to be married. She went to her pastor's wife crying and saying God had abandoned her and was not answering her prayers for a husband. The wife asked her what was she watching. She told her the names of the Soap Operas and shows she was watching - and the wife told her "there's your problem- those relationships are nothing godly - and they make you think that if you don't have that kind of relationship then something is wrong - when the truth is that if you shut off the t.v. and got into God's Word, things would change for you.....she did, they did....she's now married happily to a very godly man and God gave her a little girl to raise as her own - and gave her back a daughter she lost when she went to prison years before she knew Jesus.....God answers prayer - God does not tolerate disobedience.

Here's a man who obviously, out rightly hated - and if you will read the highlights I have noted here, you will see that the "law" itself is responsible for the deaths of the 4 officers - the "law" had this criminal where he belonged, but they let him go time and time again because of their confusion - that's what we do when we entertain sin and don't put aside our flesh and put in under submission to God's commands.....we bring confusion into our lives and we let the demons have their way when we go by the law of our flesh...- and it leads to our own spiritual death.....our own assassination
Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.Proverbs 14:11-13 (in Context) Proverbs 14 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 16:25There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.Proverbs 16:24-26 (in Context) Proverbs 16 (Whole Chapter)
SEATTLE — A man suspected of fatally shooting four uniformed police officers was shot and killed by the police early Tuesday, after a manhunt that fanned out through Seattle and beyond, according to news reports.
In 2000, Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas
· granted clemency to Mr. Clemmons after he had served 11 years of a 95-year sentence for robbery and burglary convictions on charges prosecuted when he was 17. That history continued to play a role in his prosecution in Washington this year, Pierce County prosecutors said.
After Mr. Clemmons was arrested in Pierce County in May on charges of assaulting officers who were investigating claims that he had broken neighbors’ windows with rocks,
· Arkansas issued a warrant for his arrest for violating conditions of his parole, said Stephen Penner, a deputy prosecuting attorney in Pierce County.
Mr. Clemmons was initially held without bail on the Arkansas warrant. In July, an Arkansas
· corrections official sent a letter revoking the hold and saying “appropriate action will be taken once the pending charges have been adjudicated.”
Without the hold from Arkansas, Mr. Penner said, the State Constitution
· allowed Mr. Clemmons the right to bail while the rape and assault charges were pending. He was released on $190,000 bail on Nov. 23, Mr. Penner said.
The officers who were killed were
Tina Griswold, 40;
Ronald Owens, 37;
Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; and
Greg Richards, 42.
All left behind children and families, and they were mourned at makeshift memorials at the Lakewood Police Department, at a church vigil in Tacoma and on various Web sites, including Facebook.
We must wake up from our complacency and put our flesh under control to God - we must turn our backs on "Egypt" and walk away from it - run as fast as our little legs can carry us.....NOT LOOKING BACK.....lest we wind up like Lot's wife.....amen.