Another Cause for Pain and Suffering (pt 2)

Another Cause for Pain and Suffering in the World

The last post relating to the question “what are some causes suffering in the world” we looked at one cause for suffering being the devil. We know although God is Lord over everything, satan along with his angels  rule this world thanks to the sin of Adam and Eve.  We know he will be cast out of this world at the final judgement “Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. (John 12:31)  But until then evil is very much alive and present, doing his best to fool you and me into joining him in hell by getting us to act against God. Evil reigns prevalent over the earth and over us and as you can see is doing a bang up job of getting people to embrace the smallest sins announcing them  good for the soul and persecuting those who refuse to adopt their twisted logic.

seven deadly sins

Now we move on to some ways we let evil in our life. And this is the truth everyone hates to admit, that we all sin everyday. ( 1 John 1:8) People like to believe sin is reserved for murderers and thiefs, you know only the really bad guys. What kind of person are we? Who we are, how we act, what we think and what we say absolutely has consequences to the kind of life, experiences, relationships, work and family atmosphere we exist in.

…Are you telling me if I cheat on a test or lie to my boss I’m the cause of some bad stuff in my life? …Are you telling me that although  my wife and I  are Christians but because we don’t read the Bible or celebrate God in our house bad things can happen?(well that disqualifies you as a Christian) …Are you telling me, a Christian, that because I haven’t cared that my boyfriends weren’t Christian that that’s why all my relationships have been crap?…….Yup, yup and defiantly yup!

99.8% of tv is worthless
please,
my sisters and brothers
unplug it
before it unplugs you

Slave today, Slave tomorrow

Slave today, Slave tomorrow

seduction through code
twenty first century slaves
making love all day

If You Were God

Asking humans this question, if you were a god and your people were waiting for you, how would you make your appearance? The majority of answers would be, definitely not quietly. Some would no doubt have a reality crew set up and ready to capture the theatrics of fireworks and flaming letters fanning across the sky to announce that you have  arrived. There you’d be standing dressed and draped in brilliant regalia within a glistening chariot made from billions of dazzling gems and being pulled by a winged beast with a head of a lion and body of a dragon accompanied by a universe class band. Something like that.

How very opposite of our God. How very beautiful and intimately personal did Jesus come into the world for us! First of all the Creator of the Universe, of everything past, present and future came to the world burning with an incomprehensible love and compassion for us all. He came so that we may know Him and know that He desires a personal relationship with each of us. He came to set us free and to give all an even/steven chance of receiving His gift of eternal life ruling along with Him forever in His kingdom.

He arrived by way every human could relate to and understand, human birth and chose to do so in the most humble way. He became accessible to all who yearn to know and love Him. He came so that  all can know and love Him. The kind of life our King chose here on earth announces that everyone, know mater your circumstance could become a part of His family and that all it takes is a willingness to see truth, see through the insignificance of mans world a fabricated merry go round of doctrine comprised of;   depressing,  limiting,  self serving ,oppressing,              listless, mindless, heartless callous, useless mandated redundant routine type existence………  requiring, obtaining, doing, going, being, becoming, having, needing, planning, occupying, lusting, wanting,           gathering, consuming, using, exploiting and all willing to  kill themselves following one person after the next down the escalator designated  for mere men idolizing itemized lists, ideas, definitions and rules by which they delusion themselves into believing and declaring that this is life, this is what we are born and bred for and  that this wasting of  heart and soul is worth breathing for.

Side note-that ain’t being free.

But when you see through the cyclone of bull, see there under all the debris there to what has always and will always be, the magnificent simplicity and beauty of His Word(! ) illuminating our purpose our existence and the promise that He has given to us! The awesomeness of His power, glory, grace  and promises He makes available at the insurmountable cost of free. All that He requires is our trust, belief,  faith and love as we follow and live for Him.

Who will you serve? The men of this world at the cost that always is and always will be- everything? Can you breath without anxiety? Can you sleep without worry? Is your day meaningful..to anyone? Does your work come with an uncompromising love from  caring, compassionate, considerate boss’ and co-workers who provide friendship and guidance and who are available to you 24 hours a day? Are you a valued, respected detrimental part of the company an aspect whose refined gifts and talents help keeps it together?

What happens 5, 10,20 years after you retire? Will any of those years you gave  to that job mater? Would they even let you back in the door? Will new and future employees’ know about the work you did there?  Would your old boss or company still even exist?
How about in the nursing home, when you’re terminal, and can’t walk or care for yourself will those people or that job come to your side and keep you company?Will they write or call?

How about family? Do you think that being connected by blood means family? Why, because they’re the most positive, influential, loving, understanding, intellectually and emotionally nourishing supportive people and you can’t live without their protection and comfort? Because they are the ones who  put their arms around you and lift you up when you’re down or who hold you during the times you’ve made a mess of things? Is it because they’re the ones who’ve helped and will help guide your life? Have they raised you to be a strong, honest, selfless, resilient, virtuous person who can’t but help to positively affect people who are inspired by your genuine concern?

Who will be at your side when you die, your past or your future? Who will you give your life too? Who and what will you live for?

March on Through the Wind

“March on march on through the wind and hail
we will not be bound to the lies they tell”

as more and more technology is released unto the hounds
reality slips further and further away
days blurr into pea soup
while the masses shoot up on
influenced illnesses
gobbling down prescriptions to get them through
their own created crisis
passing down ignorance
populating a country with mutants
this is what you get for 21 century intelligence

“But I need this, I need this fix to fill in
all the empty I’ve been told needs filling, my life
is such a mess, I’m soo deep in there’s nothing of me left”
This,
humanities epitaph

the road is paved,gleaming over with pride and greed
disease and death
no mater how much fame and wealth you possess
nor how many people in the world know your name
doing anything to obtain popularity among men
is all done so in vain
none of that can give you breath
only those who give up their life
will live on after death

many will be chained to and
held back by the maddening reign of mediocrity
but a few rise above the tide and thrive
refusing to climb aboard the ship of vanities
a ship on coarse to collide with a predetermined destiny
it carries the twisted ideas of individualism and success
attached to the envy and foolishness
of souls who give up their place in the eternal kingdom
for an income fit for the dead

the strong clothe themselves in humbleness and
soar above the sky and land billowing with fumes of foolishness, arrogance, selfishness,
sickness and poverty of the soul
watching in sorrow
because
of all the possibilities a brand new world holds
chosen to bare the dream
is one that mankind’s
blacked to ash
turning their backs
trampling on the precious gift;
that of which is the meaning of our existence

here in tribulation we joyfully stand
with sight we see and a knowing we understand
our voices shout out praise and thanks to He who
gives us grace
He who delivers us from evil
He who gives us strength to defeat the great deceiver
His word is food for all believers
here in salvation seekers find the one and only truth
the one truth that severs mankind’s freedom noose

How the Power in Forgiving Enemies betters Our World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to forgive and pray for your enemies isn’t a course offered in grade school curriculum.  If we’re lucky enough to have wise parents to teach us both why and how to forgive are we able to react without hesitating.

Forgiving and praying about my enemies wasn’t something I ever thought about prior to being reborn. I got the forget part down though. I would choose not to think about those who’ve betrayed me, those who’ve caused so much damage to my life and those who have tried to kill me. I just emptied their existence from my thoughts until they ceased to be. I was good at blocking things out. That’s how I coped with the never ending cycle of psychological warfare that was afflicted upon me every single day of my life . The  fact that I wasn’t allowed to ever feel any thing about any event, traumatic or wonderful, let alone process the situation, made it easy for me to act like it was no big deal and that nothing could hurt me no matter how bullied I was. Forgiving them wasn’t even on my mind. I didn’t know about the power of forgiving and praying for enemies. I didn’t know just how important both are to the victim and the criminal.

It wasn’t until I receive the Holy Spirit did I learn what prayer and forgiveness can achieve.  This is just one aspect of truth that He makes known to you that helps raise us out from the lies of the human world. In mans world their idea of rehabilitation hasn’t yet advanced out from the dark ages. You can put criminals in jail for punishment and forget about them but evil abounds where evil exists.  What difference is it when an evil person serves decades in jail only to be released as he was or worse? That punishment serves no purpose. It allows the crimes to be repeated upon others. What justice is there if the criminal repeats the crimes? Over 40% of convicts released are jailed again for the same crime or worse. A spouse that cheats will cheat again or they will live in denial. The verbally abusive boyfriend doesn’t stop with the next person. The lazy worker, the mean boss the delusional selfish politician believe only in their cause and can see nothing wrong with it. Killers and sex criminals claim to have no control over their urges and  no amount of punishment will cure them.

Until the day when Americans finally realize violence begets violence and humans when treated like animals will act like such, prayer and forgiveness is a power we all possess and the best weapon against evil .

God works in people and one way I believe He decides to impart the Holy Spirit within people is by the prayers of others requesting it. Philippians 4:6 says to make your requests known to God and James 5:16 says to pray for one another that you may be healed. Anything is possible through prayer. God takes the impossible and makes it possible. He sees promise where we see hopelessness.  The Holy Spirit has given me answers and insight to areas where my mind was  closed too before.
I understand what blindness  does to unbelievers and those who are fake Christians, I know because I used to be one. But when they’re reborn some of the  worst kinds of souls make the best hero’s in history. And when there is tremendous change there is such strength and dedication and passion that even a lot of average life long Christians haven’t yet matured into. Look at Paul of tarsus. An evil and most hateful man. What a transformation to the  apostle responsible for most of the new testament writings and along with the other apostles, for changing the world and bringing hope, life and salvation to us through the words of Jesus Christ.

C.S Lewis became one of the most influential contemporary Christian apologetics after rejecting God for over  half of his life. “”Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.”

 Charles Colson who during the Nixon administration was labeled by Slate magazine writer David Plotz as “the evil genius of an evil administration” and Nixons hard man. He did a lot of bad/dirty stuff in politics. But after reading Mere Christianity by C.S Lewis his whole life changed and in 1973 became a Christian and then become a leading evangelical Christian leader  dedicating  his life to the Lord.  In 1974 he went to jail and in 1976 after prison he created  Prison Fellowship , which today is “the nation’s largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.” He received 15 honorary doctorates, wrote 30 books and was the recipient of some of the Salvation Armies top civic award and the worlds largest cash prize award the Templeton.

Colson was famously quoted in contemporary Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapmans song Heaven  in the real world as saying;

“Where is the hope? I meet millions of people who feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what laws we pass, or what great things we do as a nation. Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people. And that’s where our hope is in this country. And that’s where our hope is in life.”

These men whose hearts were once black came to know Christ and went on to make the world a better place in the name of God.I want all enemies to have a radical transformation and go on to better our world. I want to be a part of praying for that chance. Do I forgive my enemies? Do I pray for them and that God will work in them? Absolutely! I don’t forget about them and act like nothing happened anymore. I do the best thing I can for them and the best most powerful thing that I can do for all of us , I hope and pray for their salvation not for their downfall.  It is that simple.

Courage

                                                                                     (photographer   Patrizio Pacitti)

                                 Stand against the Tide…..

                                Because You Are  Beautiful!

Why do People blame God for Human Negligence

2014 Landslide Oso Washington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Why would God do this, why would He allow this happen?” An Oso women resident asked in  the news camera.

It is a question asked too often after tragedies. And the question that follows is always ” We couldn’t have foreseen this.”

The answers to both;  He doesn’t and you did. God sends us warnings all the time through people or nature itself. Sadly history is full of tragedies that have ignored both.

If we look closely we can find the root cause for everything. We’ve pushed nature so far out of reality, arrogantly believing something as small as We  can bend it to fit our needs. We continue to live in la la land thinking we can live without respecting it.  We’ve become a sobriety that under values life and accepts greed and crapiness in productivity as normal.
The Landslide in Washington  is incredible to imagine. A town gone. Going to bed expecting to wake. It’s something we all do. We go to bed unprepared for our death which could happen just like that. The horrible thing about it is the town should never have been built. Everyone including residents knew its history of landslides. One took place in 2008. In fact 4 new home had been built since then. How was God involved? By way of Danial Miller a gemologist working for the army corp wrote a report telling how dangerous mudlsides in the area were inevitable.

Some Past  Disasters Involving Human Neglect

Mount St. Helen

      In 1847 after visiting Mount St. Helen, Canadian artist Paul Kane painted a scene depicting its eruption as Indians looked on. For Hundreds of years Pacific Northwest Indians have called St. Helen the Smokey Mountain. 1800 saw a major eruption and inbetween 1831 and 1857 there were smaller incidents. Even in the early 1900s there had been activity. In 1968 an article in the Christian Science Monitor stated it was “worried” over its snow covering. In 1975 3 geologists who had been studying the volcano sine the 1950s reported “Mount St. Helen “the one volcano in the continuous USA most likely to erupt before the end of this century” Dwight Crandall.

Missouri Kansas Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1981 newly opened Kansas City Hyatt Regency collapsed from structural defects injuring 216 people and killing 114. It was the worst engineering disaster in the US before 911. Even though they had many set backs including disputed communications between the Steel Co and contractors even when a 2,700 square foot roof of the atrium collapsed and even when on-site project representation during the construction phase was requested, none were not acted on by the owner (Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation because they refused to spend the money) the Hotel opened.

Hurricane Katrina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Since 1718 ,176 Hurricanes have been documented of Louisiana’s coast from then until Katrina. New Orleans was wiped out by one in 1722. After facing more Hurricanes over the next century the town continues to build and in 1922 another Hurricanes flooding killed 275. And in 1947, 51 people were killed. But this wasn’t enough information for modern Americans to move away from what is and will always be an absolute danger zone.

Mount Tambora in Sumatra

 

In 1815 Mount Tambora one of the tallest peaks in the Indonesian archipelago at the time erupts eradicating a whole Island culture. Over 100,000 people were killed. Three years prior rumblings could be felt and a black smokey cloud appeared. Britain had gained control of the island 4 years earlier. Not recognizing what volcanic activity sounded like, they dismissed it as cannon fire. Since its been inhabited since 500 B.C you can bet the natives knew.

Disaster upon disaster spanning over millenniums occur. A recent few-
1847-51: One million Russians die from cholera
1969: 20 million Chinese die of famine after 9 million deaths by the same in 1847-51
1984 -now

 1984-In Bhopal India 40 tons of toxic chemical soup fell over the million sleeping residents. The horrific mind blowing effects of Worlds Worst Industrial Disaster by american majority owned pesticide plant, Union Carbide (used to own Energizer and Everready and now is owned by DOW Chemical Company) in Bhopal India was caused by faulty and non functioning materials which owners and senior officials refused to update even cutting back on employee benefits and making them read english manuals, all so they could fill more of their own pockets. Prior reports and 4 reported accidents since 1974, one involving 24 +deaths but deafness falls on greedy ears. Over 500,000 people were affected, 15,000 bodies and 1,000s of animal carcasses  filled the streets the morning after  dying  torturous deaths. 18,000 suffered the same fate within two weeks. Three generations later children are still being born with grotesque abnormalities, limbless, speechless and having deformation in brain and other horrendous disabilitis.  Many are left alone to rot. The toxicity of the water and ground today are 1000 x higher than the World Health Organization allows. In 2013 the India courts decision required DOW chemical to explain its continual absconding from serious criminal charges (CEO Warren Anderson fled back to America and the Supreme Court refused to extradite him) from the chemical disaster and from helping with the ongoing medical treatment of victims. No One served Jail time.

 God doesn’t cause disasters, HE lets us know they are coming.

The mind blowing, devastating, residual consequences of human arrogance, ignorance and greed will forever be a cause of death. Until compassion and integrity are instilled within humans and we start demanding as mandatory teaching in schools and communities so that it becomes an inescapable human characteristic, the bottom line will always be selfishness and death.