Fairy Tale

There are those who are called "Agnostics".  These are people who wonder if there is a God or not.  Mark Twain was one was of those people.  He was a brilliant writer when it came to writing stories, but one who enjoyed making jokes about God.  He lived a hard life and was ahead of his time in many of his writings. 

What kind of life is lived without Christ?  I call it a "fairy tale" life that ends in sorrow for all eternity.  There are troubles in this world, but I would rather go through them with Jesus than to go it alone on my way to hell.  Hell is a real place and so is heaven, which do you prefer?  Like Mark Twain everyone would want heaven or else he would not have wondered about the existence of the Creator.

"human existence is a cosmic joke perpetrated by a chuckling God".  Mark Twain.

                                                                           

Positive Peale

Went into a bathroom today at Walmart.  There was a wheelchair in the special stall.  My heart breaks for people living in such sorrow.  It made me realize that my problems were very small.  I walked out of there!  What does this have to do with Norman Vincent Peale?  He was the first to preach about "Positive Thinking"...he was the very first Joel Olsteen.

Positive Thinking is a lie from the devil just as was "confess it and posess it" by Charles Capps back in the 1980's!  Why is it a lie?  You cannot tell God what to do!  He is not a bell boy in the sky who we hand our Santa Claus list to in prayer!  Some of these positive thinkers are very good with words.  They have always been around because there is nothing new under the Sun, only in different forms.  The bottom line is we cannot think our way into a better life.  Try convincing this to the woman in the wheel chair.  I dare you to think daily that you will be a millionaire in one month!  Our lives are only blessed from the Lord if we belong to Him and then He does the choosing of when and where.

You cannot think yourself "well".  Enough said.  

   

Charity

This might sound hard nosed, but it seems to me that "charity" has gotten out of control these days.  Growing up in the 1950's if we didn't have school supplies we did the best we could with what our parents could afford.  Aren't we called to help the "household of God" before the world?  Sure seems to me things have gotten reversed.  Having very little charity back then taught us that if we had no money we were not to expect anything!  It also taught us that even though we didn't have money, we still had our dignity!

The law of Vagrancy was enforced, so you did not see homeless people.  Due to drugs on the street and the divorce rate, we now see shelters.  We are closer to the coming of the Lord and society is now in the state of an empire who just might fall.  We give to kids clubs in Ukraine who teach them the Gospel, so I'm not saying that we should not give.  It has gone to the extreme here in the states.

II Thessalonians 3:6-9:



^6-9 Our orders—backed up by the Master, Jesus—are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you. Don’t permit them to freeload on the rest. We showed you how to pull your weight when we were with you, so get on with it. We didn’t sit around on our hands expecting others to take care of us. In fact, we worked our fingers to the bone, up half the night moonlighting so you wouldn’t be burdened with taking care of us. And it wasn’t because we didn’t have a right to your support; we did. We simply wanted to provide an example of diligence, hoping it would prove contagious.