Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Uvalde Scool Massacre

 Once again the schools of this nation have been attacked by an evil person. In Uvalde, TX yesterday there were at least 22 people murdered by an 18-year old gunman. The politicians are already screaming for gun control, they want to take everyone's guns away, except for the one's that the criminals have stolen. They want to blame guns for the problem. The real problem, the real cause for these school shootings, is that this nation has thrown God out of the schools. He has been told that He is no longer allowed to influence the kids and that His principles are not "woke". Instead, every sexual and immoral perversion has been introduced into the schools and the children are being told to worship that, not God. 

These killings will not stop, either in the schools or in this nation until God is put back in place as the head and His principles and the Bible taught in schools. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen.

Saturday, May 14, 2022

God's Ways Are Not Our Ways

 Isaiah 55:8-9 - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your way  and my thoughts than your thoughts.

 Ending the relationship with Linda is one of the most painful things that I've ever had to do. It has torn my heart apart and I have cried buckets of tears since God had me sever our relationship. It hurts terribly! The pain has been so great that twice I have cried so intensely, so deeply that I thought I was going to pass out, even leading me to the ER one time to make sure that nothing was physically wrong with me. I hurt also because I never wanted to do anything to hurt her. She was hurt too much already. It is like grieving for someone you love who has just died. It is an horrible experience that only those who have lost a loved one can understand. Thank God the grief comes in waves and not all at once, otherwise it would kill me.

 This is certainly not the way I would have handled all this. I would have been loving, kind, understanding, compassionate and patient, like I was for the seven months she was in my life. God had bonded our hearts together like we were brother and sister from the days we were born and I loved her dearly. If it had been up to me I would never have given her that ultimatum to choose evil or good, that just isn't my way of doing things. To me that's not how you show love. But God's ways are not our ways. This is what He requires of me: Micah 3:8 - But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.

 There is a "good" side to this, if you want to call it "good". If I had not ended the relationship, then when the tragedies do come upon her - the warnings that God had given her which are going to cause her horrible pain and intense suffering - I would have been there to share in her pain, to take her pain into my heart, to carry it on my shoulders, and it would have been so heavy it would have destroyed me. It didn't matter if her disobedience to God had caused these things to come upon her, I would still have been there for her - but God would not let that happen, not let me be there for her. I told her when I began the 40-day fasting and prayer for her that when it was over that I could do nothing more for her because I was absolutely exhausted from all the battles that I had been doing for her in the last seven months. She accepted that, and the consequences. 

 Because of the unbelievable stress that the battles of the past 39 years have caused me, I could not have emotionally handled Linda's pain also.  It would have destroyed me. I would have been in a mental institution before it was all over, it would have completely broken me. I would have taken on her pain that intensely because she is my sister and I love her so dearly. I already was carrying her pain for the past seven months, the pain of her relationship with Chip for the last six years, plus all my own pain from the last 39 years, and am absolutely exhausted from it, worn out physically and emotionally. So, by God having me end my relationship with Linda before those terrible disasters come upon her, He was saving me from a complete breakdown. I guess that maybe that could be considered a "good" thing. 

 But, if after some of the horrors come upon her she sees the error of her ways and and puts the evil one out of her life, then I would take her back into my life immediately. I'm not angry with her, she is still my sister whom I love dearly, that will never change. But I cannot support her and stand with her while she is being deliberately disobedient to God. Yes, it is traumatic for me, horribly painful, but it's what God requires of me.

 So, what is all this about, what is God's purpose in all I've been through with Linda?  It is about the way that God feels about this nation. He has warned and warned and warned the USA for many years now, He has shown us what His judgment will be on this nation if we do not repent and turn from our wicked and evil ways.  He has pleaded with us time after time after time to turn around and return to Him and His ways. He has shown us the error of our ways and what He demands us to do. He has let us know far ahead of time what will happen if we do not obey Him. 

 Yet, this nation has refused to listen to Him, refused to repent of its wickedness and turn from its perverted ways. God built this nation and blessed it like no other nation in history. He showed us what His love and blessings are like. He has also shown us how compassionate and patient He is. He has waited and waited and waited for us to make the decision to turn around and return to Him. But we have refused. Like I hurt for Linda, so also does God hurt for this nation. He hurts because we have persisted in our ways and now He is going to have to destroy the USA. Yes, His heart hurts, like mine does. He is in pain as I am because He is going to have to turn His back on this nation that He loves so dearly.

 Throughout history He has used His prophets to portray what His heart is like in regard to a nation, city or individual. He is using this situation with Linda as an example of  how He cries for this country and how painful it will be for Him when He turns away from the USA and sends judgment upon us.  But judgment will surely come. ONLY when we repent and turn from our evil ways will He turn back to us. ONLY then will He begin to show His love to this nation again. Anyone who thinks that they might want to be a prophet is a fool.

 There's also another lesson to be learned from this. Matt 10:34-36 -  Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn“‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—36a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

  Those days are here, now God is demanding that we separate ourselves from the evil in this world. God told us that we would have troubles, battles, tests, affliction. He didn't tell us to make peace with everyone. He told us that we would have trouble, we would be different, that we would be hated even by our own families, by our parents, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters because of our views and lifestyles and that we could not participate with them in their sins, that we had to be separate, different. That's what is happening with me right now. Obedience to Him is the only way, no matter how much pain it costs us. Yes, it hurts terribly.

  I had a friend whose son was a homosexual, something that truly bothered her. But she and her husband invited their son and his homosexual lover to spend a few days with them "to show them love". Never once did they confront them about their sinful lifestyle. Their home is now perverted, and unclean spirits now can come and go as they please.  

 I had young friend who thought she was a Christian and thought that obama was a wonderful man, that homosexual love was a beautiful thing, that abortion was a woman's right. I tried to reason with her, to show her the evil of those things. I sent her many Bible verses to back up what I was saying. But she refused to listen. She has been seduced by the perversions of the younger generations. She no longer wants anything to do with me . That's exactly what Jesus was talking about in the verses above.

 God sends people to me who need love, compassion, understanding and kindness, and I give them those things in abundance. But far too many times when I offer them counsel and show them things that they must do to prevent bad things from happening to them again in the future , or things that they must give up, they refuse to listen - like Linda. She told me that I am a good shepherd. But a shepherd cannot force the sheep to go on the right path. If they chose the wrong path even when they've been warned otherwise, the shepherd must set them free and let them learn from their disobedience.

 God doesn't tell us to get along with the world, He tells us to be different, to be an example of holiness. We have to separate ourselves from those who refuse to listen to God's warnings about holiness and obedience. We cannot let them think that their sins are just another lifestyle.