Do you not question why a mother in Africa who loves and serves God is weeping over her dying child just like the mother next to her who rejects a loving God?
I guess I am a questioner and I believe it is okay with God to ask, why?
I challenged him when I lost my son. As I stood beside his dying body there in the hospital I said to God, “Is everything true that I have always believed? It had better be because otherwise this just doesn’t make any sense.”
Because He is God I chose to believe and accept even though I didn’t understand and I also knew I wouldn’t get through this without Him. He had proven himself worthy of trust in the past and he would be there in my future.
Do you think that is the way it is with those in Haiti who come out from under the rubble praising Jesus because they have been saved?
I have been interested in the comments of the world as they watch these scenes. Anderson Cooper of CNN reported to Larry King that one of the Haitian pastors had preached on the Sunday following the quake that Haiti was being punished for its voodoo worship and they needed to repent. When Larry questioned that teaching, Anderson said that a lot of the people seemed to believe that was true. Larry made a sneering come back about all the little children who lost their lives who had nothing to do with the sins of the nation.
First off let me say I do not support someone like Pat Robertson. We are not to judge and we are not God. In the Bible when someone asked Jesus why (they dared question then too) the man had been born blind Jesus said, “neither this man nor his parents sinned … this has happened that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” Jn. 9 Wow!! Is that fair?
I have always questioned the fairness of corporate punishment for the sins of leaders. If you read through the Bible you will see many many cases where whole nations, whole churches even whole families suffered because of the decisions of one person (Moses, David, Samson, new testament churches) and then of course we have the terrible troubles of Job who was a pawn in a sense between God and the devil.
It began right in the beginning. Adam sinned and condemnation fell on the whole human race!! Is that fair?
Can you think of leaders in our world who have done great injustices and sins which has caused huge suffering on their people?
It makes me see how important good and Godly leadership is and that leadership can be as kings, presidents, prime ministers, preachers, teachers and parents. What a huge responsibility we have as leaders in whatever area of our lives we are giving leadership.
I feel like I am preaching a sermon so I will quit but before I do I must proclaim that “Just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, So also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.!!”
Friday, January 22, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
THE YEAR OF THE DOG
Ke, my young Chinese friend told me it is the year of the Tiger in China.
It made me wonder what could be my symbol this year.
The Skunk? It stinks.
- I could certainly identify being this is my 70th year on this earth
The Bear? Cranky. Cuddly.
- not me
The Lion? Roaring around seeing whom it can devour?
- nope, don’t relate
The Moose? Big, ugly, clumsy
- not what I am aiming for
The Coyote? Sly and sneaky?
- no, my life is an open book
The wolf? Howling at the moon?
- sometimes I howl at things that cannot be changed
The Dog? Sometimes restless, sometimes content
- yep, that’s more like me
It is THE YEAR OF THE DOG for me
What is it that makes a good Dog?
Being present, near
Obedience
Serving
Adoring
A Companion
THE YEAR OF THE DOG!
I will lie down in peace at my masters feet
- content just to be
I will run back and forth and pace
- restless, wanting to be more , do more
- unhappy in my circumstances
- not happy with the status quo
I will be faithful
- my master is always faithful to me
I will be needy at times
- needing to sit on my masters lap, be held, loved and comforted
I will yelp
- I will be hurt at times
I will growl and maybe even bite
- I will need restraining
I will need discipline
- I know this from past years
- it will be painful, but necessary
I will protect my master
- this is a given because he is the ultimate master
- how can I do less
I will serve my master
- will bring his slippers
- will feed, comfort and clothe his subjects
I will walk with my master
- be a companion
It made me wonder what could be my symbol this year.
The Skunk? It stinks.
- I could certainly identify being this is my 70th year on this earth
The Bear? Cranky. Cuddly.
- not me
The Lion? Roaring around seeing whom it can devour?
- nope, don’t relate
The Moose? Big, ugly, clumsy
- not what I am aiming for
The Coyote? Sly and sneaky?
- no, my life is an open book
The wolf? Howling at the moon?
- sometimes I howl at things that cannot be changed
The Dog? Sometimes restless, sometimes content
- yep, that’s more like me
It is THE YEAR OF THE DOG for me
What is it that makes a good Dog?
Being present, near
Obedience
Serving
Adoring
A Companion
THE YEAR OF THE DOG!
I will lie down in peace at my masters feet
- content just to be
I will run back and forth and pace
- restless, wanting to be more , do more
- unhappy in my circumstances
- not happy with the status quo
I will be faithful
- my master is always faithful to me
I will be needy at times
- needing to sit on my masters lap, be held, loved and comforted
I will yelp
- I will be hurt at times
I will growl and maybe even bite
- I will need restraining
I will need discipline
- I know this from past years
- it will be painful, but necessary
I will protect my master
- this is a given because he is the ultimate master
- how can I do less
I will serve my master
- will bring his slippers
- will feed, comfort and clothe his subjects
I will walk with my master
- be a companion
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Okay, I am on my soap box about H1N1. It is just disgusting and scary that we in this society can be so totally controlled by the media or some leader!! Reminds me of another time and another place. It is scary that we cannot think for ourselves.
Do you think there is a reason the seniors are the group of people that are not getting the H1N1. Probably because they had it in one of the many flus they had as children when one or two times each year the school was half empty but carried on anyway. In a day when parents were considered smart enough to watch over their children and take them to the doctor when they couldn't breathe or had a fever for too many days and didn't have to be informed of that on TV or by pamphlets.
Do you really think shaking hands stops the movement of the flu?? The H2N1 flu is an airborne virus! AIRBORNE! So while you aren't shaking someone's hand you are accepting their germs from their mouth to your nose. If you were to get the flu from touching hands you would have to put your hand in your mouth and the other person would have had to have had their hand in their mouth shortly before you touched hands.
I really think it is sad that we are discouraging the "touching" element from our society which is already becoming more and more isolated from each other.
Do you notice that the media dwells on a death where the young person was healthy and died from the H1N1 ( a very sad event) and fails to mention the few that have died right here in our city at all. Is that because they had underlying conditions and it wouldn't be as effective at scaring us and making us all panic and rush off to the vaccination sites and emergency rooms which can't process all of us so the media then has some more sensational, tragic news to report about the terrible state the health care system and the government who are all at fault.
Behind every story there is a story that is not told (partly because of privacy) which means we never really have the whole picture and yet we just take what we get and never THINK for ourselves and do our own research.
Really people it is time we stopped this madness. It is time we stopped acting like a bunch of sheep who would jump over a cliff it the shepherd led them there or the first sheep jumped. We need to watch what shepherd we are following.
Do you think there is a reason the seniors are the group of people that are not getting the H1N1. Probably because they had it in one of the many flus they had as children when one or two times each year the school was half empty but carried on anyway. In a day when parents were considered smart enough to watch over their children and take them to the doctor when they couldn't breathe or had a fever for too many days and didn't have to be informed of that on TV or by pamphlets.
Do you really think shaking hands stops the movement of the flu?? The H2N1 flu is an airborne virus! AIRBORNE! So while you aren't shaking someone's hand you are accepting their germs from their mouth to your nose. If you were to get the flu from touching hands you would have to put your hand in your mouth and the other person would have had to have had their hand in their mouth shortly before you touched hands.
I really think it is sad that we are discouraging the "touching" element from our society which is already becoming more and more isolated from each other.
Do you notice that the media dwells on a death where the young person was healthy and died from the H1N1 ( a very sad event) and fails to mention the few that have died right here in our city at all. Is that because they had underlying conditions and it wouldn't be as effective at scaring us and making us all panic and rush off to the vaccination sites and emergency rooms which can't process all of us so the media then has some more sensational, tragic news to report about the terrible state the health care system and the government who are all at fault.
Behind every story there is a story that is not told (partly because of privacy) which means we never really have the whole picture and yet we just take what we get and never THINK for ourselves and do our own research.
Really people it is time we stopped this madness. It is time we stopped acting like a bunch of sheep who would jump over a cliff it the shepherd led them there or the first sheep jumped. We need to watch what shepherd we are following.
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