It’s raining heavily in the Ozarks today, and as I have an aversion to drowning, I’m staying in to catch up on indoor things for now. Rain nowadays reminds me of how blessed we are here compared to folks out west and in the growing number of places where there is a really severe drought and where the main reservoirs that supply drinking water and the water needed for hydroelectric power to all those people. As has been the subject of posts here and here before, water supplies around the country are dwindling, and it’s getting serious. It seems that clean drinking water is becoming more and more scarce everywhere in the world.
There’s more going on than just a drought and water shortages, though. As usual something nefarious is going down which needs as much light as possible shining on it. For instance, back during the shrub Bush years, there was some rumbling about coming water shortages, and even the Bush family bought land in the South American country of Paraguay where there was abundant water. Although a lot of other reasons were given for their purchase, such as to build an escape bunker for some upcoming apocalypse, many speculated that the powers that be knew even back then that a water shortage (that the public at large did not have the resources nor the foresight to see) was imminent and there seemed to be an interest in investment in sources of water.
As for why America seems to be cursed by water shortage, I can’t help but recall those horrid videos the Israeli settlers were airing at the beginning of the Gaza genocide where they were making fun of the poor Gazans by laughingly turning on the taps and wasting water. This was just after the IOF had turned off the water to Gaza, a thirsty piece of desert land by the Mediterranean Sea crammed with people, and the Palestinians were suffering, intentionally being denied the very essence of life. Here in the US, not many folks were willing to complain about what was happening in Gaza. A few of us complained, but all in all, the United States government provided unflagging support – and still do – to the perpetrators of that man-made travesty, and now a lot of folks wonder why God has allowed our taps here in America to start running dry!
The great tribulation mentioned in prophecy won’t just come out of nowhere upon the world – the world, especially the colonial nations, for they will be guilty of all kinds of depredations upon all of their fellow men, but moreso on innocent peoples. The world of “developed” nations will have brought this devastation on themselves. Think about it. West Texas (and Oklahoma), which for years has allowed the oil companies to inject toxic chemical-laden wastewater into underground cavities in a process known as “fracking”, and now people there are all of a sudden whining about toxic wastes that have magically begun to appear in their water supplies. They don’t have all that much water out there to start with, and why the EPA would have allowed fracking in the first place is a big my$tery to me.
Another thing that might be happening is that due to the impending water disaster, millions of people who own land and properties – at least out west – will either sell out or default on their home loans and move out, so the wealthy Zionist bankers will end up holding trillions of dollars’ worth of real estate and homes for pennies on the dollar. Well, homes that will be worth trillions AFTER the rich guys get possession of the properties and then build the necessary desalination facilities and pipelines (that should be in progress right now to avert the disaster) to bring the areas back to life. As always, there is likely a nefarious plan, but if this is what’s going on, it stands to be the greatest wealth transfer in history! They get everyone’s property for pennies because there is no water, then, with their billions, make water available and reap trillions reselling. Sounds simple enough.
Another big waste of water are these damnable AI data centers that are cropping up everywhere. Most Americans don’t really care that these things are simply a big tool for the surveillance state and so just stand by ignorantly as their local water sources are being drained at a phenomenal rate for something that will eventually enslave them. To their credit, there are more and more communities starting to speak out against this travesty by the billionaires, but we ALL need to get in on the act – that is if we would like to continue to live as free Americans. I’ve said it before, and I know most folks will write me off as some kind of nutcase, but just try to connect the dots. The filthy rich Zionist billionaires are Servants of Satan who have sold their souls. If they insist on building data centers, then Data centers must, by virtue of the servants of evil who build them, be tools of evil entities, thus they are temples to false gods which Satan has ordered his chief servants to build. They steal our water – an issue the Zuckerbergs and Thiels couldn’t care less about, but which will bring about unimaginable hardships on normal people.
Maybe – just maybe – God has decided to step in and check the expansion of the surveillance state by shutting off the water needed to run these insidious institutions of Satan, but a lot of people will suffer meanwhile. Get involved in your community. We have to stop this huge waste of water and electricity. Pray that God will take these servants of Satan out of our midst!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
It’s a warm and very humid morning here in this part of the Ozarks and I’m finally feeling well enough to try and catch up on my garden. Due to a nagging ailment for the past couple of weeks, I’ve not really felt like getting out there and with all the rain we’ve had lately it has grown into a jungle, but I’m slowly coming back around and have decided to tackle it. Even though it takes a lot of work, I’m nevertheless grateful that God has given me a garden, but moreso because He has given me an interest in such mundane things as raising vegetables and flowers. I’m working on some projects right now in which I find old rotting stumps out in the woods and if they have hollowed-out cores, they make really neat planters.
I realize they probably won’t last very long, but instead of allowing that to dissuade me from using rotten stumps, I sort of rationalize it by recognition of everything else in this world that is so temporary – nothing lasts forever on this old earth so if you can find and enjoy something for just a little while, why not just do it? I’m an old man now and looking at those old decaying chunks of wood and moss, I’m reminded of how little time we have here, so by planting some pretty flowers in them, maybe I can serve to liven up and beautify something a little bit before it completely goes away.
Now as you’ve probably already guessed, this metaphor of something old and rotting getting a sort of makeover could be the basis for a post, and if you have, then treat yourself to a banana, because it does have a lot to do with this story.
The FFA kids at the local high school sell flowers in the spring every year before summer recess, and I usually buy some garden plants and flowers, but this year I decided to try something different with the flowers, hence the rotten tree planters. Some of the projects are actually hollowed-out chunks of what would have been split into firewood, but some of them were a bit punky in the centers, so even though these pieces are not actually rotting, I just took the chain saw and made some cavities for soil and plants. Like these:
Tricolored wax begonias found a home in this piece of red oak.
Maroon and purple petunias and orange impatiens in a chunk of hardwood
I attached a hollow limb across the top of a forked white oak piece and planted nasturtiums and pink impatiens in the hollow on the left. Those are wax begonias in the top limb in three places, pink, white, and red. In the middle of the fork is a wandering Jew, and at the bottom left is a sweet potato. The moss here and there makes it look a little more natural.
Coleus and pink impatiens in hollows of a real rotten stump with a pitchfork embedded in it. I’m kind of a neophyte with flowers and can’t remember the name of the light purple flower in the lower part – if you recognize what it is, please tell me in a comment.
I’ve raised vegetables for many years and as I mentioned earlier, I’m always thankful to God for His grace in giving me an interest in such things. I’d be dishonest if I didn’t also recognize His grace in allowing me to post articles of encouragement to Christian believers and to urge those who might be considering becoming a member of the Kingdom. This is God’s way of allowing me to work in His garden and I’m humbled to the core to be allowed to do so. I personally don’t feel like I deserve the honor, but I am nevertheless enthusiastic about it, because He didn’t make any distinctions about who He invited to help out, Jesus just said the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few [Matthew 9:37]: “Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” So this old geezer is joining in the harvest to help any way I can – so the consummation of this particular metaphor is to say that no matter how old and decrepit something – or in this case, someone – is, something beautiful can be implanted to make it nice before the end – especially something to make it pleasing to the Lord’s eye, and that implanted beauty is Jesus Christ in the heart! All you old-timers – hang in there! And it’s never too early to start for y’all young’uns too. Learn about Jesus while you still have time! It’s looking like this old world’s not going to last a lot longer.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
It’s coming down the turnpike right now, and since it has been a long way off until now the densest among us have been able to at least claim they didn’t know it was it coming, but as it emerges into plain sight for everyone to see, even the most stalwart head-buried-in-the-sand proponents of the status quo can no longer deny it’s approach. What I’m describing is a big dump truck full of trouble for us all, and it’s not one of those short bobtails, no it is a big semi with a huge dump-trailer chock-full of the most dreadful and frightening threats to humanity we could have ever imagined and many we couldn’t have. Satan himself is the driver and he will soon be backing that trailer up to dump it on our very survivability. In the US, this fearsome truckload of misery left the loading dock on a journey called capitalism and is now reaching it’s inevitable end, a great human warehouse where the vast majority must suffer immensely, and soon impossibly, for the profit of the microscopic few. This journey could end no other way.
One of the most imminent of the troubles being brought to us is that there is a growing threat to our nation’s fresh water supply and if the reader happens to already be in one of the expanding areas of drought in the US – actually in the whole world – if the threat of water shortage isn’t already upon you as is the case for many, you are nevertheless coming up on a situation in which you may be about to be without water, or at least fighting desperately to keep your own. There are still places in the country that are not under immediate threat, but due to the upcoming environmental migrations that are about to send hosts of thirsty people into these refuges, they will soon be inundated. This is about as serious as it gets folks, and it’s not one of those things that will just go away, rainfall patterns of the last several decades and global climate changes have brought some of the most populated places in the country to absolute desertification – even US aquifers are being pumped dry.
Instead of a Chicken Little post of only gloom and despair, this article will also identify some levels of respite if we are brave enough to take the appropriate actions and do them quickly. One of the most obvious things that should be considered is desalination of ocean water. While acknowledging that this technology might create new problems, it’s an undeniable fact that it can be done and making drinking water available would seem to be the highest priority for the immediate future. The problems that may or may not arise from desalination are not as pressing as running out of water will be and will no doubt need to be addressed, but for now we need water – and lots of it. There just happens to be lots of it in the world’s oceans. Many pundits and “experts” claim that large-scale desalination is cost prohibitive, but we should look at the costs of desalination through the same lens the “authorities” use when they need to run a pipeline or power line through someone’s private property and consider the concept of eminent domain, where the “greater good” is served by appropriating someone’s property to serve public needs. Got it? There are several multi-billionaires with much “private property” in their bank accounts and stock portfolios that might need to be “appropriated” to finance giant water projects for the good of the whole country. Inarguably socialism, but socialism for everyone and not just the wealthy.
When we take an honest look at some of the contributing factors to the hydration loss dilemma we are increasingly experiencing, the very first thing we ought to consider are the huge volumes of water required to keep the billionaires’ pet projects, data centers, up and running. These demonic temples are the single worst advents of misery for mass populations in every respect. Data centers are the very last things our country needs to be installing as our nation faces these water shortages. Local leaders claim they provide jobs and they initially do, but so would desalination plants, especially in the numbers needed to stave off a national water crisis. The irony of the claim of jobs provided is that the very purpose of the data centers is to reduce jobs everywhere. Data centers ultimately will be used for exactly the most unwanted purpose and one that is antithetical to the concept of freedom – total surveillance. American patriots have died for our freedom over the centuries, and we should be putting up more of a fight against them before they completely enslave us and use up all of our water. Only a few ultra-wealthy Epstein class oligarchs who are in the primary business of serving Satan are building, and stand to benefit from them, and those insidious benefits for billionaires contravene everything we have fought and died for as a country. Their wealth should be appropriated and applied to the huge job creating installation of something crucial to public survival – desalination. Keep in mind that these billionaires couldn’t care less if the country runs out of water – by installing the water-wasting temples to attain to their planned immortality, they are showing it right now!
Another issue that is coming to fore which will likely be the greatest threat to American sovereignty in our history is the bill being pushed through congress by the likes of the execrable senator Tom Cotton which will eventually legally relegate total control of our military to the genocidal state of Israel, a country populated by interlopers from Europe who call themselves Jews but are not [Revelation 3:9]. Thanks to false prophets like John Hagee, many people in the US who like to think of themselves as Christians actually believe we should continue to support this evil Israeli government, and they have already essentially taken over our government, but we have heroes like Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna who are fighting a desperate battle to keep our country in American hands. We must support them – and all who denounce Israeli control of the US – for it is also predominately Zionist oligarchs who are installing the aforementioned Satanic temples innocently being called data centers. They could not care less if Americans run out of water – what they want is complete control – and enslavement of – Americans who they consider to be among the world’s animals. If you think this is preposterous nonsense, look again for the (total lack of) “benefit” of data centers to the American public. I fully expect the American (Gentile) people to be ordered to come to worship billionaires at the data centers someday soon. You can no longer water your flowers, in some places now you can’t even do your laundry, but the AI center must be kept running!
Water shortages and data centers, which go hand in hand, are some of the heaviest items of the load on that big dump truck, but the one I fear the most is the absolute Godlessness being thrust upon us. It’s everywhere. Ther are a lot of people and organizations which purport to be against the evil we are all seeing, but when they liberally season their narratives with vulgar expletives, they give themselves away as being on the side of the same enemy – just trying to gain public support and to get you to “like and subscribe” to the same Godlessness, just in a different form. I’m an old man now, but I’ve never seen a time when there are so many F bombs being dropped – even by the creature who purports to be our president! Think about it for a second – can you even imagine truly great men the likes of George Washington or James Madison (men to whom this imposter likes to compare himself) standing in front of women and children and using the despicable language this man uses? And I’ve heard people who claim to be Christians (MAGA, of course) swearing Trump was sent from God! Apparently, he even thinks he’s God! At least he wants his MAGA people to think so.
Of course there will not be a revolutionary building of water plants, though that would be a very practical way to avoid the desertification of our land. Rich men who have a pact with Satan and who own our politicians won’t allow it to happen. Right now they have all the power. There is however, a way to circumvent the arrival of the truckload of tribulation – at least for the individual – and that is to start by being perceptive enough to see that this had to happen and get right with Jesus Christ. We still may see some hard times, but we can take comfort in the absolute truth that when it’s over, when the last few drops of water sizzle away on the hot earth, we have a permanent Home to rely on where the River of Life runs eternally for our everlasting benefit and we will never thirst again! There is ample prophecy in the Scriptures to inform us that times on this old planet will get awful as Satan comes upon the end of his tenure as the god of this world, so we must expect that he will create some intolerable conditions as his time ends, but Jesus Christ offers something immensely better to those who choose to serve Him. Jesus is the only Way, and He has no tolerance for wealthy men who make life miserable for their fellow travelers and theirs will be a fearsome sentence at what (at least from this side) we might consider the end, but it will only be the beginning of a horrific eternity of torment for them. Their water-guzzling data centers will have burned to ashes and everyone who bowed to the evil one in this life – almost all for wealth – will burn in the fires of hell forever.
It’s a choice we all have to make, but as that big truckload of trouble keeps barreling toward us, we don’t have a lot of time left. Water’s running short and so is our time to decide.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
This might just be one of the most important posts on the condition of American affairs to appear on Folkpotpourri. I have, as have many others, been one of the staunchest critics of our current president, but I will not abandon my principles and criticize him further when he actually does something beneficial. This post is intended to get people to espouse the benefit of his recent decision to enter into a peace agreement with Iran and to explain as best I can – as a Christian and a patriotic American veteran – why we must support this effort.
It seems like everyone has jumped on the Zionist-fueled bandwagon of bemoaning Trump’s “surrender” to Iran. In addition to rejecting this false claim, this is a good opportunity to recognize whether or not media outlets are Zionist controlled opposition. When we hear an outlet decry the peace effort as a surrender, we can easily see that, because Israel is so vehemently against any peace effort at all, whatever outlet from which we hear about “Trump’s surrender”, the basis for the claim stems from a Zionist seed planted in Zionist soil and is fed with the propaganda of Zionist fertilizer, which by now we should all recognize as the bovine excrement it is. Leftist and progressive institutions need to be very careful of climbing aboard the “surrender” wagon just as a way to get at Trump – this is a bigger issue than simply an opportunity to bash Trump, and it must be regarded as such.
The fact is, whatever the basis for a peace agreement, as long as it holds, innocent people are not dying. This alone should encourage those of us who claim righteous opposition to (any) war to support it. Another fact that might be slipping under the radar is that almost the entire Zionist-controlled congress (and media) has gone up in arms against the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) which is supposed to be a precursor to talks on a permanent peace arrangement. When a congress creature stands up and screams about this “surrender”, they are simply making such noise to attract the attention of their AIPAC donors, nothing more. This is a perfect opportunity to see the vast chasm that separates true American progressives from those Democrat Zionists who wear blue only as an outward sign of opposition to red, not a demonstration of actual progressive opposition to some stupid war.
Prior to February of this year, Iran had not attacked any other nation. Nevertheless, the Zionists have for decades warned Americans of Iran’s impending threat to the world, and since they own all American media, that message has gotten through to the less informed, but mass sectors of the public sufficiently to create public opposition to a nation that has not threatened belligerence to anyone. Iran does, however, possess a significant military capability which potentially stands as an impediment to Israel’s planned takeover of the middle east, and truth be told, that’s the core issue of this whole mess. Note that Netanyahu continues to attack civilians in Lebanon in order to get Iran to respond and thereby destroy the agreement between the US and Iran. In addition to – and in support of – the usual land theft by Israel, it’s American force against Iran he’s always after. What it amounts to is the fact that Iran is the only country in the Middle East that will not bow to the domination of Israeli Zionists and they are enraged about it. They aren’t sufficiently powerful to defeat Iran militarily so they must rely on their Zionist dominated government in the US to do it for them. They are gambling that Zionist power in the halls of the US congress is powerful enough to get this done. It is therefore, our duty as patriotic Americans and voters to pressure congress to ensure that another conflict with Iran does not ensue at the Zionist’s behest.
Since Iran has courageously opted to include and protect Lebanon in the agreement in effort to prohibit Israeli aggression against the Lebanese people, Israel is finally showing why they so desperately needed America to go to war with Iran – because Iran is the only Middle Eastern nation with the willingness and the wherewithal to protect also Israel’s neighbors – from Israel! It’s very important for American proles to understand what’s going on – Israel has been working for decades on their Satanic “greater Israel project” which requires them to steal and occupy land from several nations, including the cowardly Egypt and Turkey, either or both of which could be of immense support for the protection of themselves and other Arab nations in the Israeli crosshairs, especially at a time as critical as the present, but Sisi and Erdogan are apparently on the Mossad (or CIA, same difference) payroll and do nothing but bluster right now and Iran is the only one brave enough to stand up against the Zionists. These countries’ turn will come eventually, and when it does, they will be flummoxed and perplexed at why their own neighbors stand by, watch and do nothing (like they did during the Iran war). It’s what ultimately happens to anyone who chooses to be “friends” with a state that, by it’s very Satanic nature can have no friends. Ask Trump right now.
The whole purpose of this article is to get the attention of the reader to what’s going on right now, so they are not fooled by these AIPAC-controlled politicians and Zionist-controlled media who are screaming about Trump’s “surrender”. It’s not a surrender – it’s an attempt to correct a major blunder by incompetent leaders who allowed themselves to be sucked in to a conflict they were convinced would be a slam dunk. In this agreement, whatever money will be committed to Iran is money of their own that has been in the hands of Zionist bankers in the US since the Iranian revolution. Said Zionist bankers do not want to give it up even though it belongs to Iran. That’s their way – they lie and steal to gain their prominence and leverage and always insist on their God-given right to keep it. Any deal with Iran by the US threatens to circumvent, or at least to delay a Zionist takeover of the Middle East, and eventually the whole world. Such a peace deal would be a golden opportunity to prevent their planned takeover.
The agreement must be between the US and Iran with Israel having no say in it – Israel sees any peace agreement or cease fire they agree to as an agreement from an adversary to stop firing at Israel, but one that always gives Israel impunity to keep firing at them. That’s the norm for a cease fire with the evil Zionists, and anyone gullible enough to sign a peace agreement with them is always in for more bloodshed. The only thing different in that regard is that Israel has to come up with some flimsy justification for why they must keep killing. They ALWAYS do! But what invariably follows is Western global condemnation to any enemy who “violates” the cease fire and shoots back! This feature of a cease fire with Israel will come back to bite them some day when an adversary, aware of the deceptiveness of the Zionist cease fire, finally understands that instead of a peace agreement, dissolution of the whole country might be the only way to ensure the Zionist doesn’t break it.
Stop falling for the “Trump surrender” scam – it’s just the latest Zionist trick to fool Americans. Getting out of this conflict just might be the only thing Trump has done at this point in two terms that we all should fully support as America-first Americans. It’s time we throw off the yoke of Zionism in the US government, and Democrats and Republicans alike should get behind it. Iran is not, nor has it ever been any threat to the US, it only stands as a courageous impediment to Zionist control of the Middle East, and eventually even the world. We must stand against this Zionist plan, even if it does require us to support Russia and China. If any of our adversaries overcome us, I’d much rather be under the control of Putin of Xi than Netanyahu, whose country routinely uses brutality, starvation, rape and torture as common practices on unfortunate people they dominate. Zionist rabbis reinforce their execrable behavior by assuring their soldiers they are allowed to brutalize and/or rape their Gentile victims on claims of God’s permission to do so.
The same Zionists who are now opposing Donald Trump are the ones installing all the water-guzzling data centers in order to consummate their control over American citizens through the creation of a total surveillance state. The Ellison demon said as much in a discourse on total surveillance of Americans. When they get complete control using such nefarious devices as MAGA and Christian Zionism (whatever that is), the Zionist authorities will then be in control of American citizens and treat everyone here with the same mendacious contempt and brutality they treat the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. They do not plan to stop until they have complete control over the whole world, and if they can secure their domination of America, they will get there, so plan on some tough times ahead for the Gentile citizenry. (At least the Europeans, especially Spain, are catching on and rejecting Zionist influence in their nations.) With all their wealth they already control the US government and law enforcement (think ICE), and they have no plans to stop. This is Satan’s plan to get the beast system implemented and wealthy Zionists are his tools.
Give credit where it’s due, and do not allow the bad guys to paint Trump as having “surrendered”. This war needs to be over no matter what it takes short of ceding our country, but isn’t that what we’re already doing by giving up control of our government to the Zionists? We already know who the congressional traitors to America are by their congressional positions and votes. We must keep and reference all of their votes – past and present – on Zionist issues as well as the amounts of money they take from AIPAC and other Zionist institutions. They all are “advised” by AIPAC and only vote for issues that benefit Israel or wealthy Zionists in America. They are traitors to God and America, and if you are a regular Folkpotpourri reader, you’ll know this writer doesn’t reference God lightly. Many American congressmen and women are entertaining demons and supporting demonic efforts, because fighting against something that has opportunity to stop a war and killing of innocent people by disparaging it as a “surrender” is a page right out of the Zionist playbook.
Don’t think of it as a surrender – it’s nothing close – as Christians (and moral people of other persuasions) we must think of it as an agreement that will save innocent lives. Also, we have to be thinking of ways we can rid our nation of the Satanic temples they call data centers. If those things get installed the way they want them, Americans – especially Christians – are in big trouble.
The best way for Trump to begin to gain back his flagging support in today’s America would be to break with Israel, and his support would start happening at the grass roots because we are all tired of our leaders licking the boots of the Synagogue of Satan!
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
When we are long gone will there be folks around who remember us? What kinds of things will our families and friends reminisce and speak about us after we’re gone? Will they remember at least some of the good aspects of our time here, or will they rather ignore and forget their time with us? In my own experience, I’m quite sure there are many whose lives I’ve impacted who will remember a lot of negative things and even though I wish there was some way I could go back knowing what I know now and avoid those conflicts, those errors of judgement, and prevent behaviors that have scarred my years here, but alas, that’s not possible. I must hope in the forgiveness of those who I have wronged, or at least the forgetfulness.
We’d like to think there are also positive interactions that some folks will remember about us, for we typically believe there are some who we have helped along the way down this road we consider to be our lives, but only the Lord will be able to judge whether or not those actions merit His providential approval. I also understand enough about God’s plan of salvation to know those good deeds are not sufficient in themselves to provide for access to His kingdom, but they are nevertheless expected of any who would like to get there.
I’ve long held the notion that unless a person is of notable celebrity, the typical endurance of his/her personal legacy is somewhere around two generations. That is to say that when survivors visit the grave of a departed relative, only those who personally knew that person will be able to reflect on what kind of person they were. Maybe kids and grandkids, or if the departed was of sufficient notoriety, a cousin perhaps, or a neighbor, but in general, when a distant relative or descendant stands there reading the engraved information on the stone, the only thing they will want to know about the person underground will be some information for a genealogy project. Kids and grandkids – two generations, and the world forgets and moves on. Visitors to the resting place will have no way of knowing whether or not the long-deceased person enjoyed bluegrass music or if she was a great cook, or any other mundane characteristic of the dead person of which their close family/friends would hold cherished memories. As cruel as it may sound, we simply become a name on a granite block and an entry into a county record – both which will be eventually destroyed and forgotten somewhere down the road. After a while – typically two generations – people will stop visiting the grave – at least to pay respects – entirely.
This applies to famous people too, but in a very different way. Historians have a tendency to reflect whatever things about a president or other leader they deem to support whatever character they would like to present. If a historian who is writing on a former politician of a political party opposite to his own, they tend to emphasize the negatives about their subject, and vice versa. If a writer is doing a biography of a leader of a nation who conducted a war against his own, of course he will only write of the “atrocities” committed by that person. They will be remembered for political stances and famous (or infamous) acts they committed while in office, but the human vagaries of the person himself/herself will be forgotten in two generations. Only the most dedicated biographer would be punctual enough to research whether or not the deceased celebrity enjoyed oak trees, and even those kinds of details would eventually fade away into in the mists of time. Elvis was a famous singer, but did he know anything of wildlife or building construction? No matter their notoriety, we only know superficial things about even the most famous of persons. Nowadays, maybe some would like to send their friends a selfie standing beside the Kennedy eternal flame, but so few remember much about him, and not far down the road, no one will.
Where does that leave us as far as how we’d like to be remembered, seeing that it won’t be too many years after we’re gone that we’ll be entirely forgotten by our fellow human beings? Well, this post is being composed to inform the reader that there is a permanent record of our lives; it’s being recorded as you read. Every detail of your past behavior is indelibly etched into what might as well be eternal granite. The good, the bad and the ugly. Nothing will be forgotten, not in two generations or a thousand. We will all have to give account of every act we committed for the entirety of our short lives here, and for many it’s not going to be very comfortable, as we will be facing a glorious but vengeful Almighty God who will have complete control of the courtroom. He will have absolute authority over our eternal future, and it can be a horrible, terrifying, event, or we might have considered this confrontation during our time on earth and decided to prepare for it.
We have a counsellor Who would like to represent us at that great judgement, but we must seek Him and strive to emulate His love, for our fellow human beings and for Him. Jesus Christ has made the offer to come into and be a part – a big part – of our lives. He is willing to be our Light to show us the Way through this darkness, this valley of the shadow of death. Whatever the enemy throws at us, Jesus is willing to help us through it, but we must first seek His help. When we face the judgement at the end, Jesus will be our counsellor – and the best thing of it all is that the Judge is His Father! God has made it abundantly clear in many places of Scripture that He is willing to forgive – and forget – our past egregious behavior. [Isaiah 1:18]: “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
God is willing to forget our past if we allow Jesus Christ into our lives, so that record of malfeasance of which we are all guilty will not be presented at our judgement. It will be gone and long-forgotten as though it never happened – but only if we allow Jesus Christ to take control of our lives. It won’t matter in the least whether or not humans remember our misbehavior – Jesus has taken them on Himself at the cross, every sin we ever committed will be completely expunged from our record and our names will be in the Lamb’s book of Life which will be our permission into God’s magnificent Kingdom where Jesus, by His own words, has a place prepared for each of us.
Our trail through this maze we consider to be life won’t be completely covered up – our good deeds will still stand. They will be considered in the reward phase of our judgement. The greater the accomplishment – and great accomplishments aren’t the same according to Jesus as they are to us humans – the greater the Heavenly reward we will receive. There was a widow who put a very small amount of money into the offering and Jesus said she had given more than the offerings of the wealthy men there because it was all she had. [Mark 12:41-44]: “41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. 42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two [o]mites, which make a [p]quadrans. 43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”
Even though we will be long-forgotten by our fellow humans after we finish this race, there will be a permanent record kept through to the end, it’s our choice whether we’d like the record of good deeds to be remembered with the bad ones still painfully attached, or if we want to stand beside our Counsellor with a clean record going into eternity.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.
It is a weapon few in the flesh are able to wield. In order to wield it, to be able to conquer with it, one must possess a degree of wisdom that is given to few, and even of those rare humans who obtain to the requisite wisdom, still fewer may obtain this fearsome weapon. Wisdom alone is not the absolute constitution for a man to be entrusted with such power; one must be endowed with a rare and abiding degree of faith in the Almighty to be allowed access to – hence possession of – this mighty weapon. Through all of human history only a select few have been allowed to brandish such lethal power.
To be able to appreciate such a formidable threat, one must first understand some conditions and differing types of engagements of the battlefield. There are, as is well known, multitudes of tools in modern military arsenals with which men may be killed, deprived of mortality from the living, the breathing. Humanity has contrived an endless number of devices intended to kill, or at least harm fellow humans. If wielded properly however, the weapon of which I write is intended instead, to disarm an opponent; to take away his very desire to cause harm to his adversary. In fact, this great device when properly used, has the potential to cause a fierce enemy to become a friend and ally, and lay down his own weapon as well as his intent to harm.
This greatest weapon is of course, the Providential love of God. Think of those places in scripture where it says God is love. Thus, if one has Godly love in his heart, he will have at his disposal the very nature of the Almighty Himself. That kind of love must be bestowed upon a man (or woman) by the Lord – it is available nowhere else in all creation. [2 Thessalonians 3:5]: “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.” Our hearts are directed by Him into His love, the love that God has in His own heart – a special kind of love of a very profound nature. The same love with which we are commanded by Jesus Christ to have for the Father with all our heart, soul, and strength, but still only a hint of the profound love God has for us – but we can embrace no more.
God has fearsome abilities. He is able to create volcanoes and earthquakes. When a star out in space explodes, they call it a nova and some of them can take out half a galaxy. That would make anything mankind has devised to be puny by any measure, even the hydrogen bombs of which everyone is so terrified. God is all-powerful indeed, but we are told God is love. If we have God’s love in our hearts, then we have access to the very essence of this Being of unlimited power. We’ve learned of the powers of the prophets of old, how they could do miraculous things – because of their access to God’s power.
The mighty power of God is available to those of faith who love Him. When a man finds the love of God, he will not be a fearsome warrior out to terrorize a fellow traveler. Love can disarm the mightiest of enemies. Jesus admonishes us to pray for our enemies, and when we pray the right prayer for them, they might just find they no longer have the heart to wreak destruction and death. They might instead find compassion and empathy for those whom they once abused. God’s love is quite capable of such – look at the experience of the apostle Paul who once persecuted the church to the point that he advocated for the death of believers, but once confronted by the love of Christ, he changed and went on to be a great disciple filled with a hitherto inexplicable Spiritual love for his fellow humans.
God’s love is doubtlessly the greatest force in all creation, for God is love. [1 John 4:8]: “He who does not love does not know God, for Godislove.” We all have access to Him through Jesus Christ, thus we all have access to His mighty power. One day God will visit extreme retribution on those who have persecuted his people, and those who are creating the greatest devastation on this earth today are ultimately going to go after Christ’s followers. We are told they will prevail over the saints for a while, but this will be our opportunity to demonstrate our loyalty, our faithfulness to Him by not only enduring the hardships the enemy lays on us, but by showing Him we are willing to even pray for them, to love them – as Jesus did and as He admonished us to do. These actions will not be done out of weakness, but out of the strength of a people who understand that He whom we serve is mightier than the one who leads our enemies; a people who have come to realize the awesome power of which they may avail themselves.
It is always a mistake in warfare to underestimate the strength of the enemy. It is a far greater mistake to underestimate the power of God’s love. Embrace it – it’s the key to victory in the most critical of battles – that for the soul. In this endeavor I struggle also, it’s not an easy pursuit, but we have this task before us. Fortunately, we have His succor for this mighty endeavor. God’s love is a mighty force with which to be armed and certainly worth the effort to wield.
May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.