“It is good for thought development. At first, our knowledge of God was like blurry lines; we’ll never get the full picture, but the 182 has helped us to find clearer lines.”
– Gwen
Category Archives: Walk with Jesus
A Letter to the President
Yesterday, I learned of Ramaswamy leaving DOGE. I knew the team sounded like it had too many alphas together, but maybe President Trump could help them to see beyond their own visions for the difficult journey from America’s liberal madness to ‘common sense’. Personally, I’ve witnessed a company of alphas divide before and it was heartbreaking: lost potential strong enough to rewrite destiny itself. Maybe that is close to America’s core, or maybe youthful pride played a role? Is there a place for people to just breathe? If you’ve ever tried to lead a prayer walk for an army of ‘high D’ preachers (from the DISC personality profile), you’d understand.
We have been witnesses of a greater wave of change in the last 10 days that has shaken the world. As we watched, captured hostages have been set free, Luke 4:18-21 kind of stuff. Will we join in or will we go back to watching it burn? From my perspective, we began to see the Church stand up on her own two legs during France’s nonsense on last year’s Olympics. Finally, a voice said, “Stop it.” Now, today, we have a chance to continue beyond the bribe lead protests on our college campuses to Bride lead revivals that can and are changing communities around the world. Even the media will notice and the ‘victim’ mentality of the LGBT will fade away.
Of course, do as God leads you. For me, when I look to the future I want to know I tried to help my great-grandkids find solid ground beneath their feet. Jesus is coming back soon. What will He find? Look at the once strong Methodist church. How quickly she has fallen. Sin crouches at everyone’s door/computer/phone. Of course it would, never before have we had such an opportunity to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
America is the greatest nation of the world. Yes, its sins are many, but don’t be like king Hezekiah, 2 Kings 20:19, and let apathy be one of them. Write an encouraging letter to our President. Give support to your local pastor. Say something kind and beneficial to your spouse and kids. They say a butterfly’s flight can cause thunderstorms, I wonder what love can do?
Spiritfire, Proverbs 26:18 “The Dark Proverbs”
“Like a madman shooting
firebrands or deadly arrows
is a man who deceives his neighbor
and says, “I was only joking!”
Many of the proverbs in chapter 26, and maybe on a closer look all of them, reveal a bit of the other side. I feel it must be noted with a title, ‘the dark proverbs’. They show how one works to bring power, of a kind, into their own life by use of tools that bring about a fool’s inheritance, ‘chaos.’ No one is blessed by this power, and like a villain who blames the victim for their own misfortune, a madman deceives others in the ‘light’ of his fiery arrows with sarcasm. Through it, a person places the blame on the other who doesn’t get it. It was a joke, “You’re supposed to laugh, not take me seriously,” says the comedian. The audience member who doesn’t join with the crowd and laugh at the flames now burning up their fields is the one with the problem. With thinking like this, the virgin who has kept themselves pure for their spouse, or those who abstain from loose living, are seen as less than those that don’t. After all, as I have heard said by many ‘madmen’ preachers, “Hell is full of the virtuous.”
Then we brought the true Light by asking the question, “How did Jesus fulfill this proverb?” The One who truly brings blessings to the hearer, Who doesn’t shoot deadly arrows with His words, but Life. He took the madman’s arrows and their power to end life and, though innocent, died a sinner’s death. On the third day He was raised, 1 Corinthians 15:4-8. Then everyone enflamed with the Holy Spirit’s light burns with the Light of revival purging away the dross and is like a city set on a hill, Matthew 5:14.
Spiritfire Proverbs 26:17, “Nunya Bizness”
“Like the one who seizes a dog by the ears
is a passer-by who meddles in a
quarrel not his own.”
After we prayed, said our declarations of, “I’m a child of God! He loves me so I love me!”, and recited our intro, my kids jumped in right away with this proverb. Between the three of them, they knew and sited a time when one stepped over the line and got involved in a conflict that they had no part in. We found out the dog’s name: “Nunya Bizness.”
We also talked about the “passer-by”, who we previously saw in v. 10, as a new character in the book of Proverbs. One who is ignorant of discernment and has no interest in either house, Wisdom’s or Folly’s. We spent a moment talking about their fate. “Are they better off not knowing what lies ahead?” I asked. Is that true in any case of life? Consider a path that contains signs along each side warning of falling rocks, or steep cliffs. What happens to those who ignore them? Or those who take the ‘blue pill’ in the movie, The Matrix? Are they protected somehow if they are obedient to the machine? Much like an eclipse that happens regardless of will or emotion, the fate of the ignorant is an early grave.
Then we came to the ‘REAL’ question: “How did Jesus fulfill this proverb?” We then talked about the difference between ‘fulfilling’ and ‘obeying’ the proverbs. We then saw how it was Jesus who grabbed that dog’s ears and gave it a shake. The ‘quarrel not His own’ was the one between God and man, for Jesus was innocent, as in Hebrews 4:15. But unlike a passer-by or a Baha’i teacher, He didn’t detach Himself from this world but saved us from ‘Sin’, the dog’s REAL name, and faced its danger to that early grave. God raised Him from the dead and opened a Way for us and the passer-by to be saved, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21.
We thanked God that Jesus, like in His parable of ‘the Good Samaritan”, Luke 10:25-37, was no passer-by, and made our salvation His business.