Pride

   People say and are correct in saying that we are a country divided. The latest bulletin from idiot central is that we're weird. In a general way we are a divided people, but not yet fractured. Like everything in this life there are two sides to this coin also. No matter the argument, no matter the side you choose, in the end there are only two sides. Right or wrong, up or down, to or fro. The basis of all facts are two sided at their heart. The subject at hand is either true or it is a lie, alive or dead. What draws people to embrace any falsehood is the allure of the lie being put forward. Lies will promise you the world but leave you with nothing. This is because doing things our own way strikes a nerve that we have each carried with us from the beginning. It tickles our pride. 

  Pride, it is the basis of all sin, and is at the core of all that is wrong in life. The good news in the polls they insist on telling us, is that we are divided only in half. Good news? Two choices are easier to choose from, where as had the left succeeded in fracturing us into small manageable groups, forcing us as it were, into believing that we are isolated and alone but for the ever growing number of cliques, small groups rather than one people with only two choices. The old adage from history tells us that the easiest way to defeat a foe is by dividing and conquering them. A people isolated is much more apt to allow itself to be easily led. Our current government's leaders preach falsely to us from the pulpit of propaganda. They are committed to their cause, because they know full well the only way to forward their agenda, is by dividing and conquering. It is pride that drives people from wanting to know and accept the Lordship of the living God. Our arrogance has told us from the very first sin that we have no need of God as each of us is our own god. This of course is not new as it was the original lie told to Eve in the garden of life. There is nothing new under the sun. And so the words of God were spoken to a generation of people as far back as six hundred years before the first century, and still ring clearly true in this, the twenty first century. From the holy scriptures, we read of a prophet speaking the words of God to that generation who had left the hearing of God's words, choosing instead to listen to the false prophets who spoke of the wisdom of the world, rather than the wisdom of God. But through a prophet of the most high, God has him say to the people the following; Son of man, prophecy against the prophets of Israel who prophecy from their own heart. Hear the word of God! Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! Translation: If you put your trust into the false ideology of man, and of their limited wisdom and reject the perfect existence and wisdom of Almighty God, you are a fool, and your wisdom will die with you. Remember, the eternally dead don't think. Never have, never will.    

Alone

  Financial woes had become yet another beast to fight. Alone, I spend much of my time alone. It is a hard thing to be alone, but it will also make your perspective more precise, more focused. 

 From the Lord's perspective, his view is much different from ours. His vantage point is from a place much higher. Remember, He is beyond space and time, He views all situations from a position much higher than our own. He sees it all and he knows all. But here's the best part, He is willing to share it all. God's children may be a motley looking crew, but from among them there are great scholars. Much like here, there will be teachers who will guide you and aid you on your way through a true forever land. Being eternal is not something that you will understand immediately, for in the beginning you might still find yourself looking for clocks. In a short time you will learn that there are no clocks, for there will be no need of them, time will become irrelevant. When you stop learning you are dead. 

  Eternal life, how many of you have convinced yourselves that this is all there is, and that there is no life eternal? In a nut shell that's the humanist point of view, that we are our own gods. The funny thing is that their old adage which says, Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die is true. For them there is no life, for them, the here and now is all there is, eternity they say, is foolishness? For them, this here and now is all there is, for tomorrow they will become dead, and what there was of them will become, nothing forever. For when their time is up, its over! Death is the absence of life, death is eternal darkness, alone in an isolation that no living thing need think about. 

The alternative;  

  Besides the thought of endless knowledge, of having all eternity to answer all your questions, there is a beauty beyond describing that is well lit and completely visible. Not only is it well lit, the source of this light coming from He himself who you are now with. Eternal life is fine, but where will you spend forever and a day if not in a place of solid foundation. To be eternal you must have a place to be eternal in. Heaven is that place. The place of no tears fame, a place of everlasting Peace.  Heaven, this will be your home, a place more grander than any of us can imagine. But rather than me struggle at the keyboard trying to explain it, let me give you a glimpse of what our eternal home will be like, let the Word itself speak to you through scripture. The first two verses of Revelation chapter 22. "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of the street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." America, our birthday has come round again. If our nation is to be healed, we must return to our creator God, and we must return to Him only with the Lamb Jesus. Eternity is always that, but for our nation to be healed and saved from the onslaught of evil, we, America, must return to the God of our fathers. Happy Birthday America, long may you live.