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Are You Ready

The Lord is coming soon, are you ready

are you strong, your faith steady

is your light bright or is it dim

are you living your best for Him?

what kind of witness do you give

is there a testimony by the way you live?

how many souls for God's kingdom have you won?

to bless and exalt God's beloved Son?

is your witness strong and straight

will it be able to get you through the Pearly Gate?

or is it full of doubt and made weak

has Satan lied and stole from you that which we are to seek?

have you given God your best

and kept the faith through so many a weary test?

have you spread abroad His wonderful name

or have you walked backward in fear and shame?

has all on the altar been laid

are you determined , your mind made?

are you ready for the Lord?

when He comes will He find His church in one accord?

will He find you watching and in earnest prayer

or find you sleeping in a blanket of despair ?

are you ready for that heavenly shore....

ready to meet face to face your God and Creator?

The Lord is returning, trust and obey

keep in prayer and faith, turn to Him without delay

be faithful, prayerful, content and sincere

for the Day of our redemption is drawing ever so near.

written February 1975

by CAK

Hebrews 11:1

Hebrews 11:6

Ephesians 4:5

I Timothey 6:12

2 Timothey 4: 7

this came to me via e-mail. I thought it so " tasefully" said that I wanted to pass it on. It is absolutely a grand way to reveal God's truths. hope you get a  load of joy from it as I did. God has all the answers.

 

TASTE MY JESUS

At the University of Chicago Divinity School each year they have what is called 'Baptist Day.'  On this day each one is to bring a lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area.  Every 'Baptist Day' the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center. 

One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich.  Dr.Tillich spoke for two and one-half hours proving that the resurrection of Jesus was false.  He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book.  He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection the religious tradition of the church was   groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact never rose from the dead in any literal sense.

 He then asked if there were any questions. After about 30 seconds, an old, dark skinned preacher with a head of short-cropped, woolly white hair stood up in the back of the auditorium.  'Docta Tillich, I got one question,' he said as all eyes turned toward him.  He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple and began eating it.  'Docta Tillich.. CRUNCH, MUNCH 'My question is a simple question,... CRUNCH, MUNCH... 'Now, I ain't never read them books you read..CRUNCH, MUNCH..' and I can't recite the Scriptures in the original Greek...CRUNCH, MUNCH ...' I don't know nothin' about Niebuhr and Heidegger... CRUNCH, MUNCH... He finished the apple. 'All I wanna know is: This apple I just ate, . . . . . . was it bitter or sweet?

 Dr Tillich paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion: 'I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven't tasted your apple.' The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly,  'Neither have you tasted my Jesus.'

                        
 The 1,000 plus in attendance could not contain themselves.  The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers.  Dr. Tillich thanked his audience and promptly left the platform.

 Have you tasted Jesus?  Please pass this on Saints! Jesus has risen... and He's coming back one day... Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.  If you have, rejoice in the hope of the resurrection that your faith in Him brings.  Psalm 34:8

 This is one way God does His marvelous work- God also has a great sence of Humor. just a little story here to provide a small glimps of the fact God  is Jehovah-Jirah.

 

Every morning, the little old lady stepped onto her front porch, raised her arms to the sky, and shouted, "Praise the Lord!”  One day, an atheist moved into the house next door and soon became irritated with the little old lady's morning ritual.  Every morning he would step onto his front porch after her and yell, "There is no Lord!”  Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way until one winter morning, the little old lady stepped onto her front porch and shouted, "Praise the Lord! I have no food and I am starving. Please provide for me, Lord!”  When she stepped onto her porch the next day, there sat two huge bags of groceries. "Praise the Lord!" she cried out. "God has provided!" The atheist neighbor jumped out of the hedges and shouted, "Ha! See? There is no God. I provided those groceries!” The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted, "Praise the Lord!  He has provided me with groceries and made the devil pay for them!”  God may not always provide in the way we might have chosen, but He always provides.  He is our source. 

 Praise His Wonderful Name. Selah

Just because we haven't seen them doesn't mean they never were. Read on :

 

Are there unicorns in the Bible?

Some people claim the Bible is a book of fairy tales because it mentions unicorns. However, the biblical unicorn was a real animal, not an imaginary creature. The Bible refers to the unicorn in the context of familiar animals, such as peacocks, lambs, lions, bullocks, goats, donkeys, horses, dogs, eagles, and calves (Job 39:9–12, KJV.) In Job 38–41, God reminded Job of the characteristics of a variety of impressive animals He had created, showing Job that God was far above man in power and strength.

Job had to be familiar with the animals on God’s list for the illustration to be effective. God points out in Job 39:9–12 that the unicorn, “whose strength is great,” is useless for agricultural work, refusing to serve man or “harrow (plow) the valley.” This visual aid gave Job a glimpse of God’s greatness. An imaginary fantasy animal would have defeated the purpose of God’s illustration.

Modern readers have trouble with the Bible’s unicorns because we forget that a single-horned feature is not uncommon on God’s menu for animal design. (Consider the rhinoceros and narwhal.) The Bible describes unicorns skipping like calves (Psalm 29:6), traveling like bullocks, and bleeding when they die (Isaiah 34:7). The presence of a very strong horn on this powerful, independent-minded creature is intended to make readers think of strength.

The absence of a unicorn in the modern world should not cause us to doubt its past existence. (Think of the dodo bird. It does not exist today, but we do not doubt that it existed in the past.). Eighteenth century reports from southern Africa described rock drawings and eyewitness accounts of fierce, single-horned, equine-like animals. One such report describes “a single horn, directly in front, about as long as one’s arm, and at the base about as thick . . . . [It] had a sharp point; it was not attached to the bone of the forehead, but fixed only in the skin.”

The elasmotherium, an extinct giant rhinoceros, provides another possibility for the unicorn’s identity. The elasmotherium’s 33-inch-long skull has a huge bony protuberance on the frontal bone consistent with the support structure for a massive horn.4 In fact, archaeologist Austen Henry Layard, in his 1849 book Nineveh and Its Remains, sketched a single-horned creature from an obelisk in company with two-horned bovine animals; he identified the single-horned animal as an Indian rhinoceros.5 The biblical unicorn could have been the elasmotherium.6

Assyrian archaeology provides one other possible solution to the unicorn identity crisis. The biblical unicorn could have been an aurochs (a kind of wild ox known to the Assyrians as rimu).7 The aurochs’s horns were very symmetrical and often appeared as one in profile, as can be seen on Ashurnasirpal II’s palace relief and Esarhaddon’s stone prism.8 Fighting rimu was a popular sport for Assyrian kings. On a broken obelisk, for instance, Tiglath-Pileser I boasted of slaying them in the Lebanon mountains.9

Extinct since about 1627, aurochs, Bos primigenius, were huge bovine creatures.10 Julius Caesar described them in his Gallic Wars as:

“a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied . . . . Not even when taken very young can they be rendered familiar to men and tamed. The size, shape, and appearance of their horns differ much from the horns of our oxen. These they anxiously seek after, and bind at the tips with silver, and use as cups at their most sumptuous entertainments.”11

The aurochs’ highly prized horns would have been a symbol of great strength to the ancient Bible reader.

One scholarly urge to identify the biblical unicorn with the Assyrian aurochs springs from a similarity between the Assyrian word rimu and the Hebrew word re’em. We must be very careful when dealing with anglicized transliterated words from languages that do not share the English alphabet and phonetic structure.12 However, similar words in Ugaritic and Akkadian (other languages of the ancient Middle East) as well as Aramaic mean “wild bull” or “buffalo,” and an Arabic cognate means “white antelope.”

However, the linguistics of the text cannot conclusively prove how many horns the biblical unicorn had. While modern translations typically translate re’em as “wild ox,” the King James Version (1611), Luther’s German Bible (1534), the Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate translated this Hebrew word with words meaning “one-horned animal.”13

The importance of the biblical unicorn is not so much its specific identity—much as we would like to know—but its reality. The Bible is clearly describing a real animal. The unicorn mentioned in the Bible was a powerful animal possessing one or two strong horns—not the fantasy animal that has been popularized in movies and books. Whatever it was, it is now likely extinct like many other animals. To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God’s Word, which is true in every detail.

Footnotes In addition to Job 39:9–10, the unicorn is mentioned in Numbers 23:22, 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalm 22:21, 29:6, 92:10; Isaiah 34:7

well it's me....wow its been a long while since I wrote a blog. been busy. a bunch of us have gotten great friendships going and so been  e-mailing with them. then there has been some " difficulties' and job hunting.... which brings me to writing this blog.

Things have gotten , uncomfortable at my place of employement- & very stressful, and harassing....so I began to look and pray for something better.....I realize it wouldn't be an easy transition, but one that had to be made. so I signed up with Monster.com, and applied for various jobs in my field of experience .  This was an on going situation for months. So far nothing right came along. I also went to several places close to home  in person to apply for jobs in my field.  one place gave me an interview, would be great to get it- 40 hours a week- but they just wouldn't pay what I needed. Face it - who can support themslves on $7.00 an hour? I know I can't on a single income- later down the road this same employer had a part time position open- so I applied again- thinking I could work both jobs. Again they gave me an interview- ....again they didn't want to pay me what I was worth ( not being arrogant here- just realistic) . by now it was April ...things at work have not improoved...in fact they have gotten worse. it is a must to leave...although this was not my original plan when  I took this job many years earlier. I am disappointed and  dismayed at the turn of events in my employement. In earnestness I turn to the One who knows me best, who knows the things I am undergoing here at work, and why... He alone can move the mountain , or give me the grace I need if I am to stay.  So on Sunday May 25th I was leaving work -I had worked  my shift plus worked over in another department ( stinky, foul and  dirty- for 3 hrs plus. When I got in my car , started to drive on home I prayed this simple prayer to my Lord God-

"So I got into my car, tired, dirty, smelly, and over wrought, and I prayed to my Lord saying " Lord, I need to get out of here. I hate this job anymore.please help me find a better job that pays well. Lord I don't know what I want or what to look for, all I know is that I am sick of the  ( human) poop , urine and puke. Even you find it offensive. Please find me a job." Thank you Lord". 

and I reached home. got in the house and took care of the critters, my bath , ate supper, watched a little tv- and went to bed. The next 3 days I would be off-  hallalujah!  Monday morning . i got up feeling quite good and refreshed. Did my morning stuff, then  got to my pc to read emails-..... there was only about 2 or 3- the one that caught my eye was.... yes ...Monster.com. i thought to myself- oh self, might as well do that one first...so I did- there was only one job listed....one heaven sent job!  I couldn't believe what I was looking at .... I said to God- " oh Jesus, when you do something - you do it right- only you could have thought of this and sent it to me- You are truly awesome". If you read  my bio- and check out my pet pics- & blogs- you will get a clear pic that I love animals- well this job opening was of all things  " in my field of work -housekeeping- in a Vetinarian Animal Hospital"! Now does my God know me or what!  I was so in awe of Him all I could do is sit and laugh as I applied on-line. then the Lord spoke to my heart and said you need to go apply in person, as it was memorial day , I would go do that on Tuesday at 9am. I called after that 3 times to the H.R manager and left 3 messages. All the while continually praying and asking friends to pray also. I asked the Lord to turn this H.R. person to look my resume' over, to open doors no man could shut, and to shut doors no man could open. A couple days went by- nothing- THEN ON JUNE 4TH I was working, cleaning a room - I so  NEEDED THIS AND WANTED THIS JOB- IT WAS JUST SO RIGHT FOR ME AND I WAS RIGHT FOR IT- I  JUST KNEW it. I stopped working, lifted my head up to heaven and bowed my heart to my Lord Jesus and prayed , asking for this job, then I claimed it in faith and just started giving thanks to the Lord for the job. I felt His spirit over me and began to cry in being blessed by Him and being thankful .  Then  I brushed the tears away - and was filled with joy and started to clean once again- in my heart I laid out before the Lord a fleece- if you want me to have this job , then there will be a message on my answering machine when I get home. Finished my day- on to home I went- not really thinking of what took place before I left work. Got home, let the dogs out, fed them, ran my bath, put supper on, went to turn the tv on- ( answering machine sits there too) ........yes it was... it was flashing with  2 messages!!!! Let me tell you - GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS!  God has a sence of humor too! the first message was a bill collector, the 2nd message was....YES IT WAS.... the H. R person from the Vetanarian Hospital asking me to call  to set up an interview. I lost it! Laughing , praising  God, trying to get the phone number, collect myself so as to sound " normal" to this wonderful man who wanted to interview me for the job.. well, ... we got connected, set the interview for june 5...had the interview- it went very well.... they wanted me to come in a do a " shadow" work clean on my day  off- no problem did that June 10, the wonderful H. R manager said he was pleased and would call me tomorrow( that would be June 11) I was off that day...I was so excited but I had to keep myself busy or I would start doing flips- so I turned the phone up on high , went out to put in a post... yep ...you guessed it- I missed the call !  He had called and left a message...he was prepared to make me an offer ...would I please call him back, but he would be in a meeting till 11:00.... the waiting was unbearable, so I prayed yet one more time.... please Lord...put it upon their  heart to offer me $ 10.00 p hr. ( I really need that wage) not being greedy here. Honest.  well he called me back- he said " I tried to get you  $ 9.75.. but they told me to offer you ....are you all ready? YES GOD did it AGAIN ! they offered me $ 10.00p hr.! Now is my Lord God and Saviour AWESOME! I said  with much eagerness and holding back the shout " praise the Lord"  " yes, I'll take it".  We talked for a few more seconds then he had to get ready for another meeting. I wrote out my resignation and took it to my employer.  My God has set a table before me in the presence of mine enemies, He has taken me and set my feet upon solid ground, what I could not do  He has done. blessed be the Name of my Lord Jesus. He has blessed me herewith and has done great things for me.

Truly this job came as a gift from God , who knows my heart and my needs and what I am best suited to do. He knew exactly what was best for me. I  am most humbled before Him amd ever thankful to Him and greatful to this new employer.

 

the Bible is full of wisdom, truths and answers. one must have perseverance, and patience. here is some of that :

First, the Bible was written by about 40 different human writers who lived over a period of about 1500 years (50 generations). Many of these writers had no opportunity to collaborate with each other and yet, there are no contradictions in their writings! Like no other book, the writers all agreed on such themes as morality (which certainly has changed drastically in a few generations in our society), child rearing (likewise a changing philosophy), husband and wife relationships (which have been altered in a single generation), the character of God, the way of salvation and the birth, life, death and resurrection of the Saviour of mankind, in minute details.

Scientifically Correct Hundreds of Years in Advance

Second, where the Bible speaks on scientific subjects, it is accurate centuries ahead of its time. For example, in a book entitled "None of These Diseases" by S.I. McMillen, M.D. 1, the doctor cites various hygiene laws God gave to Israel. These were far ahead of the knowledge of the scientific world of that time. Here are a few examples.

Deut. 23:12-13. Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee.

We may be prone to laugh at something like this in our day. However, in the eighteenth century in Europe, human excrement was cast into the streets of cities in ignorance, giving rise to epidemics of typhoid, cholera and dysentery.

Gen. 17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy seed.

The command to circumcise Jewish boys on the eighth day was no accident. The important blood clotting vitamin K2 in blood is not manufactured in a baby's intestinal tract in normal amounts until the 5th to 7th day of their lives. A second element necessary for blood clotting is prothrombin 3. The presence of this element decreases in an infant for the first 3 days of its life, then suddenly spurts to a maximum level on the eighth day, after which it settles to its norm for the rest of the child's life.

We will cite just one more example. In relatively recent years the medical professions have been warning against the build up of cholesterol in our veins since it may cause clogging and a heart attack. A large source of cholesterol is animal fat. Hear what God told Moses centuries ago 4.

Lev 3:17. [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Relative to other areas of scientific fact centuries ahead of scientists, see

Isa 40:22. [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Eccl 1:7. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

1Cor 6:18. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Job 26:7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

gorbash - please read this and for further info look to ; www.bibletruths.org-

Science vs. God

"Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ." The atheist
professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new
students to stand.

"You're a Christian, aren't you, son?"

"Yes sir," the student says.

"So you believe in God?"

"Absolutely."

 

 

"Is God good?"

 

 

"Sure! God's good."

"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"

"Yes."

 

 

"Are you good or evil?"

"The Bible says I'm evil."

The professor grins knowingly. "Aha! The Bible!" He considers for a moment.

 

 

"Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can
cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?"

"Yes sir, I would."

 

 

"So you're good...!"

 

 

"I wouldn't say that."

 

 

"But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could.
Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't."

 

 

The student does not answer, so the professor continues. "He doesn't, does
he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to
Jesus to heal him How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"

 

 

The student remains silent.

 

 

"No, you can't, can you?" the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a
glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.

 

 

"Let's start again, young fella Is God good?"

 

 

"Er...yes," the student says.

 

 

"Is Satan good?"

 

 

The student doesn't hesitate on this one. "No."

 

 

"Then where does Satan come from?"

 

 

The student : "From...God..."

 

 

"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in
this world?"

 

 

"Yes, sir."

 

 

"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?"

 

 

"Yes."

 

 

"So who created evil?" The professor continued, "If God created everything,
then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle
that our works define who we are, then God is evil."

 

 

Without allowing the student to answer, the professor continues: "Is there
sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they
exist in this world?"

 

 

The student: "Yes."

 

 

"So who created them?"

 

 

The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question.

"Who created them? There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks
away to pace in front of the classroom... The class is mesmerized.

 

 

"Tell me," he continues onto another student. "Do you believe in Jesus
Christ, son?"

 

 

The student's voice is confident : "Yes, professor, I do."

 

 

The old man stops pacing. "Science says you have five senses you use to
identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?"

 

 

"No sir. I've never seen Him"

 

 

"Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?"

 

 

"No, sir, I have not."

 

 

"Have you ever actually felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your
Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for
that matter?"

 

 

"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."

 

 

"Yet you still believe in him?"

 

 

"Yes."

 

 

"According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,
science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?"

 

 

"Nothing," the student replies. "I only have my faith."

 

 

"Yes, faith," the professor repeats. "And that is the problem science has
with God. There is no evidence, only faith."

 

 

The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his
own. "Professor, is there such thing as heat?"

 

 

"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."

 

 

"And is there such a thing as cold?"

 

 

"Yes, son, there's cold too."

 

 

"No sir, there isn't."

 

 

The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room
suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.

 

 

"You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited
heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything
called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat,
but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold;
otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every
body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and
heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero
(-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is onl y a word we
use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can
measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of
heat, sir, just the absence of it."

 

 

Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding
like a hammer.

 

 

"What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?"

 

 

"Yes," the professor replies without hesitation. "What is night if it isn't
darkness?"

 

 

"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of
something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light,
flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and
it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the
word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make
darkness darker, wouldn't you?"

 

 

The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a
good semester. "So what point are you making, young man?"

 

 

"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start
with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed."

 

 

The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. "Flawed? Can you
explain how?"

 

 

"You are working on the premise of duality," the student explains. "You
argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God.
You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can
measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and
magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To
view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death
cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just
the absence of it."

 

 

"Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
monkey?"

 

 

"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes,
of course I do"

 

 

"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"

 

 

The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where
the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.

 

 

"Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot
even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching
your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?"

 

 

The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has
subsided.

 

 

"To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me
give you an example of what I mean."

 

 

The student looks around the room. "Is there anyone in the class who has
ever seen the professor's brain?" The class breaks out into laughter.

 

 

"Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the
professor's brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain? No one appears
to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical,
stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all
due respect, sir. So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust
your lectures, sir?"

 

 

Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face
unreadable.

 

 

Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. "I guess you'll
have to take them on faith."

 

 

"Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,"
the student continues. "Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?"

 

 

Now uncertain, the professor responds, "Of course, there is. We see it
everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in
the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These
manifestations are nothing else but evil."

 

 

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does
not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just
like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence
of God.

 

 

God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does
not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when
there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

 

 

The professor sat down.

 

 when the doubter knocks on my door- I send Faith to answer it.

In todays America and for the world for that matter todays youth has run a muck ! We are forbidden to spank, control, quide , discipline our own children - and look at the price it has cost us- more children die at the hands of their own peers,  drug  abuse, girls gone wild on scandleous videos,  guns and weapons at easy gotten  by gangs,  pregnancy on an all time up scale, disobdient to parents, school Administrators and teachers, even the police . Why? what really gets my " goat" ( sorry gyro) is we aren't permitted to teach " about creation and God" in the public schools, yet they have no problem taking my taxs or increasing them in my property tax and continue teaching those pathetic lies of evolution which I am dead set against! The school systems stink! they have gotten to much authority over what they teach- yet they saddly lost control of proper and necessary discipline, and the most important teaching of all that is being pushed aside more and more is Jesus- both by parents, and the schools . I remember we had prayer in school before class began, it didn't hurt anyone, if anything it caused a contentment, the pledge of alligance- where's that at in the schools that my taxs pay for? We need to return to the old school.  well here is why I wrote this post:

Friend of Little Children

The children watched him suffer and die

and on their faces was the question -why-

for they remembered how He said " bring the little children unto me...'

and how he loved to hold them upon His knee

but now they watched this friend of little children suffering upon the hill called Calvary

tears flow down each tiny face

as they remember His gentle loving embrace

they couldn't think of any wrong He's done

they only knew of His kindness, His words of love

surely He was God's Son

they watched the ' Friend of little children '-

die at the cruel hearts and hands of men

the children knew Him, He'd done no harm

they remembered being loved while held in his arms

they remembered how He with gentleness would wipe away each tear

and make a man born deaf to hear

they remembered how He made a fevered brow to cool

and when He fed the multitudes till all were full

they remembered too the words He spoke on how to give

and how to foregive, love and live

and what they cherished best of all

was how He would hold them close to His breast

and while in His arms felt the peace and quite rest

but now...on their faces one could see their tiny hearts were broke

as the soldiers gambled for His cloak

and as they heard Him moan and cry

and finally watched the " Friend of little children ' die

little faces and tiny hearts began to weep and cry

as they beheld Him still wandering -why-?

written by CAK

October 11, 1974

dedicated to my son Joshua

Deuteronomy 6:7

Deuteronomy 11:19

psalms 34:11

 

Just read this and thought ...Wow... this has so  much truth, love, caring...God ...in it.. and as " off-springs " of Our Creator , what a wonderful  way to show our love for God and others. I hope it touches you as it did me.

Just Stay
A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

'Your son is here,' she said to the old man.

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
He was heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed.   All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength.  Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile.
He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.

'Who was that man?' he asked.
The nurse was startled, 'He was your father,' she answered.
'No, he wasn't,' the Marine replied. 'I never saw him before in my life.'

'Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?'

'I knew right away there had been a mistake,
but I also knew he needed his son, and his
son just wasn't here.
When I realized that he was too sick to tell
whether or not I was his son,
knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.'

The next time someone needs you ... just be there.  Stay.
**************
WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A
TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY
HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
(love this line)

PLEASE PASS THIS ONE ON AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU!
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO ANYWAY.  RIGHT ?
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE IN SOME LITTLE WAY TODAY!
GOD IS SO GOOD.

What Love means to a 4-8 year old . . .   Slow down for three minutes to read this.  It is so worth it. Touching words from the mouth of babes. A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?"
The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:  

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"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."

Rebecca- age 8  

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"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."

Billy - age 4
"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

Karl - age 5

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"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."

Chrissy - age 6

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"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

Terri - age 4

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"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."

Danny - age 7

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"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss"

Emily - age 8

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"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

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"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"

Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

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"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."

Noelle - age 7

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"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."

Tommy - age 6

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"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore."

Cindy - age 8

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"My mommy loves me more than anybody
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."

Clare - age 6

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"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."

Elaine-age 5

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"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford."

Chris - age 7

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"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."

Mary Ann - age 4

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"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."

Lauren - age 4

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"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." (what an image)

Karen - age 7

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"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross."

Mark - age 6

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"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."

Jessica - age 8

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And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

"Nothing, I just helped him cry"

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When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this.

Heavenly Father, please bless all my friends in whatever it is that You know they may be needing this day! And may their life be full of Your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with You. Amen.

all through our lives we will fail, get angry, do or say something we shouldn't, think things we know are wrong. We are sinners who need forgiveness and  often we will need to forgive those who wrong or hurt us. So He came to show us how to become " forgiven and how to become  foregivers". read  on........

One day a while back, a man, his heart heavy with grief, was walking in the woods.  As he
thought about his life this day, he knew many things were not right.  He thought about those
who had lied about him back when he had a job. 

  His thoughts turned to those who had stolen his things and cheated him.  He remembered
family that had passed on.  His mind turned to the illness he had, that no one could cure.
His very soul was filled with anger, resentment, and frustration.    Standing there this day, searching for answers he could not find, knowing all else had failed
him, he knelt at the base of an old oak tree to seek the one he knew would always be there.
And with tears in his eyes, he prayed:   "Lord- You have done wonderful things for me in this life.  You have told me to do many things for you, and I happily obeyed.  Today, you have told me to forgive.  I am sad, Lord, because I cannot, I don't know how.  It is not fair Lord, I didn't deserve these wrongs that were done against me, and I shouldn't have to forgive.  As perfect as your way is Lord, this one thing I cannot do, for I don't know how to forgive.  My anger is so deep Lord, I fear I may not hear you, but I pray you teach me to do the one thing I cannot do: Teach me to forgive."   As he knelt there in the quiet shade of that old oak tree, he felt something fall onto his shoulder. He opened his eyes.  Out of the corner of one eye, he saw something red on his shirt.  He could not turn to see what it was because where the oak tree had been was a large square piece of wood in the ground.  He raised his head and saw two feet held to the wood with a large spike through them.    He raised his head more, and tears came to his eyes as he saw Jesus hanging on a cross.
He saw spikes in His hands, a gash in His side, a torn and battered body, deep thorns sunk
into His head.  Finally he saw the suffering and pain on His precious face.  As their eyes met,
the man's tears turned to sobbing, and Jesus began to speak.    "Have you ever told a lie?" He asked?    The man answered - "Yes, Lord."   "Have you ever been given too much change and kept it?"   The man answered - "Yes, Lord." And the man sobbed more and more.    "Have you ever taken something from work that wasn't yours?" Jesus asked    And the man answered, "Yes, Lord."   "Have you ever sworn, using my Father's name in vain?"   The man, crying now, answered - "Yes, Lord."   As Jesus asked many more times, "Have you ever?" The man's crying became uncontrollable, for he could only answer- "Yes, Lord."   Then Jesus turned His head from one side to the other, and the man felt something fall on his
other shoulder.  He looked and saw that it was the blood of Jesus.  When he looked back up,
his eyes met those of Jesus, and there was a look of love the man had never seen or known before.    Jesus said, "I didn't deserve this either, but I forgive you."

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FORREST GUMP GOES TO HEAVEN The day finally arrived. Forrest Gump dies and goes to Heaven. He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter himself. However, the gates are closed, and Forrest approaches the gatekeeper. St. Peter said, "Well, Forrest, it is certainly good to see you. We have heard a lot about you. I must tell you, though, that the place is filling up fast, and we have been administering an entrance examination for everyone. The test is short, but you have to pass it before you can get into Heaven." Forrest responds, "It sure is good to be here, St. Peter, sir. But nobody ever told me about any entrance exam. I sure hope that the test ain't too hard. Life was a big enough test as it was." St. Peter continued, "Yes, I know, Forre st, but the test is only three questions. First: What two days of the week begin with the letter T? Second: How many seconds are there in a year? Third: What is God's first name?" Forrest leaves to think the questions over. He returns the next day and sees St. Peter, who waves him up, and says, "Now that you have had a chance to think the questions over, tell me your answers." Forrest replied, "Well, the first one -- which two days in the week begins with the letter "T"? Shucks, that one is easy. That would be Today and Tomorrow." The Saint's eyes opened wide and he exclaimed, "Forrest, that is not what I was thinking, but you do have a point, and I guess I did not specify, so I will give you credit for that answer. How about the next one?" asked St. Peter. "How many seconds in a year? Now that one is harder," replied Forrest, "but I thunk and thunk about that, and I guess the only answer can be twelve." Astounded, St. Peter said, "Twelve? Twelve? Forrest, how in Heaven's name could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?" Forrest replied, "Shucks, there's got to be twelve: January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd... " "Hold it," interrupts St. Peter. "I see where you are going with this, and I see your point, though that was not quite what I had in mind....but I will have to give you credit for that one, too. Let us go on with the third and final question. Can you tell me God's first name"? "Sure," Forrest replied, "it's Andy." "Andy?" exclaimed an exasperated and frustrated St Peter. "Ok, I can understand how you came up with your answers to my first two questions, but just how in the world did you come up with the name Andy as the first name of God?" "Shucks, that was the easiest one of all," Forrest replied. "I learnt it from the song, ANDY WALKS WITH ME, ANDY TALKS WITH ME, ANDY TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN." St. Peter opened the Pearly Gates, and said: "Run, Forrest, run." Give me a sense of humor, Lord. Give me the ability to understand a clean joke, To get some humor out of life, And to pass it on to other folks.

" you said you had been hurt many times, that you know He is there, you know He hears you, you try to lead a good life, you said every body sins" and you are right. God too has been hurt so many times. As you read this poem, it is God talking...keep that in mind. I pray God will use this to lift you up,  show His personal love for you to you, comfort you, and that He understands  how you feel. God bless you my friend.

 

 

   All For You

 

 

 

“ All for you did I climb the long and dreary hill

 

I told you of my Father’s will

 

I taught you how to forgive and pray

 

And how ye ought to live each day

 

I gave you light and words you longed to hear

 

And I gave you hope to relieve you from your fears

 

All for you I left my home for this perishing sod

 

To come and give to you the Love of God

 

When they spit on me and smote me, I spoke no hate

 

But still went faithfully to what they thought was my fate

 

I healed their sick and dieing, I healed their lame

 

Yet they turned and raised their voices to crucify my frame

 

I left my peace and glory in God’s Holy Place

 

Just to bring to you God’s mercy and His grace

 

I took their mockings  and scourgings while on the cross

 

They understood not my birth, nor yet the Father’s loss

 

Up the hill to Calvary, my cross I had to bear

 

All for you that you might see how much I care

 

I took the pain and sorrow of sins that were never mine

 

So that  my righteousness would be thine

 

I took the pain of each driven nail

 

So you could be delivered from death and hell

 

I brought to you God’s True Bread

 

That all you children might be fed

 

So hurt and weary, in pain was I

 

Yet they cared not that God’s true Son was on the cross about to die

 

All for you my hands and feet did bleed

 

To bring salvation and sow my Father’s Seed

 

All for you I brought salvation so strong and free

 

So you could live with God in eternity

 

With my life’s blood I bought the victory

 

Along with my Father’s love and mercy

 

All for you was I born

 

All for you was my flesh torn

 

For  You, and All mankind I died

 

And they who ask of Me forgiveness shall never be denied.”

 

               With ALL My LOVE,

 

 Jesus

 

Written by  CAK January 26, 1973

 

 

Languages captivate me. I love to learn new words in other languages.  i took spanish one year. loved it. Genesis chapter 11 has also drawn me to God's wonderful mind and wisdom, and knowledge. What a unique and wonder He is. We have heard the discovery of the " code' numbering of Hebrew letters spelling out Hitler, My Name Is Jesus in Psalm 22, and so on. but God has done wonderous things through languages and the written word. just look at this example.

For God so loVed the world,
      That He gAv e 
            His onLy
            BegottEn
                  SoN JESUS
                      That whosoever
       Believeth In Him
          Should Not perish,
       But have Everlasting life."
                                           John 3:16

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you.

I was getting ready for work this morning( Monday 21-08) the moon light was so near and so bright. I love  looking at the moon. It draws me close to my Creator, a time for prayer, sweet solitude, a fellowship so quite and peaceful. In Genesis 3: 8, it says that God likes to walk in the cool of the day. Well, I always believed this is sometime after the sun as long set, into the wee hours of the morning. I use to walk Montana in the " cool " morning hours before work. It is something I cherish and miss. Well, getting back to the purpose of writing this blog, as I watched the moon while driving down a country road, I remember looking at a picture of the moon from NASA, it was a very detaled , close up. It looked dusty, dry, and pitted, and cold  and well...dark. But then here I am driving at night/morning hours and here is that same dark, dusty, pitted moon...the only difference...it's brightly shinning, giving light to the darkness of my surroundings. Now God said in Genesis 1:16 that He made two great lights, one to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night....now I am no rocket scientist, but from what I remember learning somehow  the moon , dusty and pitted, actually reflects the sun's light ( that's another blog for someone more knoweledgable than me to write ), then as I enjoyed my morning with the moon and my Creator, this " word" came to me, as this moon God created to reflect the sun's light to give light to the earth in times of darkness, so I must in the same manner reflect the light of my Creator, to be God-like, to give Jesus, the True Light of the world, to those who walk in spiritual darkness. I was humbled by the responsiability of that calling and  and felt so inadequate. I said " Oh Jesus, do more a work of grace in me. make me more like you and less of me." and so my prayer went on. Oh I see so much fault in me. how so I need to grow more and more to be like Jesus, and wonder " will I ever get there?" And then I realize it is a day to day , life long process. Just look how far I've come since I was three years old. God truly is a patient One. And I realize I'm still " under construction". Completion...what a beautiful word...and something to look forward to. You all have a beautifully moon-light morning.