The Devil Is A Liar

Oh, to lie to yourself, dear reader, is one of the scariest things you could possibly do! You are with yourself day and night, night and day. The only person you cannot hide from is you and yet, if you are a liar, you are playing hide and seek with your own soul. Behold, as a fraud betraying yourself continually, you simply cannot make sense of the world you live in. With those silly multicoloured tinted glasses you look through, you are a walking talking ball of confusion, and others will know you as deceptive and difficult to associate with, because you shift from leg to leg on sifting sand.  

How can you stand yourself as a liar? and what makes you think anyone else can for any length of time? I heard a newer friend say just the other day, The devil is self-deceived... this comment floored me. I know the devil is a liar, that he is the father of lies and misleads others to their own demise, but I never really thought of him as self-deceived, which now that I think of it, is so crystal clear as to make me feel foolish in not considering it before. Of course he is self-deceived, a liar of the first degree and order, preferring his own version of 'truth' over reality, his own way over The Way... and isn't that precisely what he tries to sell as a slick purveyor of all things perverted? Isn't he first and foremost in suggesting that a little white lie doesn't hurt anyone, and yet, the white lie tarnishes many a soul and blackens many a relationship, and requires the liar to commit to deception, once, then twice, then trice, then... you get the picture. 

You don't have to lie. You don't have to lie, I said. Did you hear that? If you choose to lie, then expect the person that is lying to be your biggest enemy. Think about what you just read... when you open your mouth, you cannot trust the you that is talking. When you stop talking, you must run over those words and flatten them out in your mind, kill them so that they cannot rise up and speak against you; if they live on and you have to address them, they will accuse you and call you all manner of names. 

Liar, hypocrite, deceiver, fibber, falsifier, perjurer, false witness, fabricator, equivocator, prevaricator, spinner of yarns, fake, fraud, untrustworthy, unworthy, ruthless, self-serving, troublemaker, coward, deceptive, destroyer, shameful

It would be some kind of wonderful if truth didn't require bravery. It would be so fantastical if honesty was the norm and not the exception. But dear reader, so many just plain old love to lie, that it is a way of life, and why not, I ask you? Why shouldn't people act exactly like their parents? If your daddy is a liar, then you, bad fruit with the outward bruising and inward rotting, will speak and behave accordingly, if you do not forsake his wicked demonic ways. 

God cannot lie, it is an impossibility. With his strength, we are emboldened to speak the truth not only to others, but more importantly to ourselves when alone. Are there things a person, that belongs to God, would prefer to sugar coat, avoid, not think about and look at? Of course, and yet before God we know we are naked, vulnerable, and incapable of hiding, because he is God for goodness sakes, and he hears and sees all we say and do! So in due course, we must self-assess and ask, Am I an honest person, or a downright cowardly deceptive liar? 

As created by God beings, we all sense that we are being watched, and I don't mean by the thought and behaviour police that want so much to control our every word and deed. God knows what is going on in our lives, and that is precisely why conscience must be overridden in order to sin against him. You and I both know that when we do wrong, there is a pang of guilt followed by the sting of shame. Eventually, if you lie often enough for an extended period of time, your conscience will be seared, you will no longer feel guilt or shame, and you will be left to your own deceptive and lonely devices. Lonely, dear one, because you will no longer feel a pull toward heaven. Turn your back on God, and he will after long-suffering your disobedience and ingratitude toward him, turn his back on you. 

The devil is a liar, and my questions to you are:

• Are you a liar too? or;
• Do you value truth over lies, with honesty working as the cementing agent between you and others?

I could, if I felt energy surging through me in this moment pick-up once more, the theme that Satan is self-deceived, but that is a moot point. God has established the fallen angels future, and they know it. But what about your future, dear reader? What about your relationships and interactions with God and others? The goal in living this life is to love, and there's just no room for deception when love is present. Love God, and then love others the way he loves you... is this too difficult an idea to grasp? 

If it is, too difficult an idea to grasp, too much to ask of you that is, then I am concerned for your soul. Truth in love is powerful, but when people cling to lies as a way of life, it weakens the fabric of society, and opens the door to diabolical forces that threaten dastardly destruction. And that, dear reader, describes the state we find ourselves in in the year 2024. 

What are you willing to do to turn things around, if that is possible this late in the game of life?

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight

Abomination or delight to the LORD: you chose.

Toxic Positivism

I heard the phrase toxic positivism just yesterday, from a new friend I met not that long ago. I asked her what it meant and if she had coined the phrase, and she answered, It is a real thing, and proceeded to gave me some examples that sound something like this: Sure, your dryer element stayed on all night and you have to replace the whole unit, but at least your house didn't burn down. Or, Sorry that happened to you, but aren't you glad it wasn't worse? Here is one that we are all familiar with, spoken far to often at funeral gatherings, It is sad so-and-so died, but at least they aren't suffering anymore... hmmm? Yup, the deceased may not be suffering anymore, but the person hearing these words may very well be. Consider with me that while some prefer to silver line everything, others may need some time, and space to actually feel, then process, and eventually, perhaps after an extended period of time, learn to live with what happened, if possible. NOTE: Some circumstances are so horrendous that heartache may be a perpetual state of being, despite the passing of time. 

Grief, sadness, joy, anger etc, are real emotions and when we feel rushed or pushed in and or out of them, we are getting the message that somehow what we are experiencing is either too much, off base, inappropriate, sucky, self-serving and somehow making others uncomfortable. 

This attack on the emotions others are feeling can also work in reverse, as in being positively toxic! For instance: I am having a great day, with bubbling joy overflowing from a heart that is grateful and appreciative, only to have someone come along and point out to me what needs to be fixed, replaced, taken care of, removed. Whether the approach is toxic positivism or positively toxic, the imposer steals the emotional thunder from the person they impose upon, and that, dear reader, drives a wedge in relationship.

My point, you ask? It is to pay attention to the person in front of you, and encourage them to share what is on their mind and in their heart without trying to change what they are feeling or spin things around, when that is the last thing they want. Sometimes miserable is what we need to wade through before we get to the good stuff that feels more upbeat and joyful. 

There is a famous song that has Biblical lyrics therein:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time to war, and a time of peace (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)

Jesus wept, dear reader. I have often pondered these words taken from John 11:35. He did this publicly without restraint, displaying sorrow and grief openly, and this is our prerogative. We get to feel and not hide or even care, if it makes others uncomfortable. We get to emote and express, like king David when he danced before the Lord joyfully in the streets (2 Samuel 6:14-22).

We get to be us, all the time, and that might mean we get to say, Hey, this is how I feel, and you don't have to make it better for me, I can handle that myself (Jill), when I am good and ready! 

A time for every thing in its season... 

So, dear reader, if you happen to be one of those toxic people that insist no one around you is entitled to their emotions, maybe you need to explore some of your own. I know a great coach that can help you with that: Linda Grace Byers is her name, give her a call!

Thanks for the writing inspiration Sam I am, xo friend. 

Highly Annoying People

NOTE: Bear with me, my plan is to deliver some humour, despite my opening paragraphs. 

Recall the days of old, when motivational books flew freely, and seemingly of their own accord, off shelves and into the held up high and waiting hands of sales people of all shapes and sizes. To be motivated and establish your very own elevator speech, that captured the imagination and cash of your captive short-trip-up-or-down audience, meant you could get rich! Crowds of humans spent countless dollars on seminars, conferences, audio and in-print books, and on pre-recorded tapes and courses, to learn how the masters did it, meaning, made their millions. 

Gone are those big old anyone can be recruited to prosper days, only to be replaced with shell events, where the spirit has gone out of the thing, and it is a hollowed out shadow of its former self. Superfluous comes to mind as the word to describe how business is now conducted. Customer care and service are becoming has-beens, almost forgotten friends from an era marked with the old fashioned idea that relationship matters, with work excellence being marred, while everyone is treated as just one more. 

With my rather depressing opening, I grin at what I plan on sharing next! I discovered a little book in a used book store that promised to tickle my sardonic fancy, and I tell you dear reader, it did not disappoint! As a comical spin-off from the book that became a massive series phenomena, namely The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, written in 1989 by Steven Covey, BAD DOG PRESS published The Habits of 7 Seven Highly Annoying People, in 1996. If you are anything like me, you have some people in your life that can be described as ranging from being irksome, to down right vexatious. Trying to figure out what bothers us about their behaviours can be an arduous endeavour, so when writers hit the nail on the human head, describing perfectly what we might have seen, heard, or experienced, it can be a relief for the soul to be set free from believing that we aren't the only ones that have suffered from having to relate to Mr or Ms/Mrs, annoying! I will not go into all the 7 types of people outlined in the book, but will relate the one that grabbed my attention most recently, and had me saying, YES, that's IT!

Mr. Aggressive caught my eye when reading about his highly annoying habits. These two sentences, did the trick for me, dear reader:

1. He's in control and he'll go to any ends to make sure they know that and, here is the how to part...

2. Mostly with contradictory behaviour and subliminal attacks at others' self-esteem 

Mr or Ms/Mrs Aggressive, is an out of control control freak, dear reader, that hasn't the self-awareness to see the damage they cause, because quite frankly, they don't care about your feelings or mine; what they care about is being rightfully in charge, as the smartest most brilliant person in the room ... or out of the room, or in the vicinity of the room... or ... anywhere near or far from a room.

I heard a line once from an aggressive type that had me laughing, almost in disbelief, because it was such a consolation to hear the person finally acknowledge what I knew to be true of them: You know, Linda, I know this isn't right, but I think I'm always right. In my head a voice yelled, You aren't crazy, you aren't CRAZY! There was a fast talking chatterbox that followed the yeller, reminding me that all those insecure feelings I felt around so and so, the ones that had me second guessing myself, were due to subliminal attacks, meant to undermine my self-esteem. They were contradictory arguments complimented by contradictory behaviours imposed on me by an aggressor, that simply cannot stand anyone else getting any sort of acknowledgement or recognition, without them being seen as the one that deserves credit, even when they have nothing at all to do with the successes of others. But I will tell you what, dear reader, they often have a lot to do with the failures of others, especially when they have influence, power, or control over those that may be vulnerable to their very adept and finely tuned subliminal, and often times obviously aggressive, attacks. 

Vainglory, dear reader, is the sulky sin that these aggressors display when they do not get their own way. Try as they might to rectify their ways when they realize it is something they are doing that repels others, they can't seem to help themselves, and simply return to what appears to be their self-satisfying factory setting. Every once in a while I feel sincerely sorry for this type of character, because while they like people, they really can't stand them, and that shows up whenever someone else threatens to shine, even if it is ever so dimly. This type of person misses out on intimacy in relationship, because no one can trust them. Believe me when I say, trusting a charming aggressor when they are feigning sweetness, leads to much irritation and disappointment, and that feeling of, dang it déjà vu, here I am again.

Remember this, if you are working with or around an Aggressive Mr/Ms/Mrs: Ya can't please 'em, even when you agree with them! They always up the anti, and will find more things when you are in a weakened state to get you to agree to that you clearly said you didn't believe in multiple times in the past, and it will give them the sick satisfaction of winning that they so savour, while you will go off in a huff muttering miserably, once again. This annoying type has endless energy for proving themselves continually correct and obviously, the wisest person in your life that deserves constant kudos. 

Once you figure this out, you will be free, dear one, not of the aggressor of course because lets face the facts, sometimes certain people are integral persons in our lives, (I am fairly confident you and I may very well be described as annoying too, probably by Mr/Ms/Mrs Aggressive of course, for pushing back all the time) but of your almost automated reactions to them. You get to decide you don't care what they think because what they think changes depending on whether or not it puts them in a position of power and being right at the expense of other. You get to say to yourself, I will stay in relationship but they will not rattle my chain.

Sure, this will take some practice, but it is worth it, dear one, AND, added bonus: Once you figure out that you simply do not care what an aggressive imposer thinks about what you do or how you think, you will find yourself thinking about and doing what you really love to do without a voice critiquing and criticizing you constantly! Making mistakes won't make you feel as badly as they once did, and recovery from them becomes much faster, when the aggressor no longer has a say in your head, or in your ear for that matter.

Remember, God gave you a brain, talents, ability, and the heart of a lion. You get to roar without rationalizing if you so choose, or purr like a cuddly kitten if that is your inclination, but you don't have to get out those claws of yours and scratch someone else's itch when they want to engage you in a battle of wits. 

Mr/Ms/Mrs Aggressive can go play by themselves, and you get to say, I just don't care what they think, and mean it. 

The King's Decree

It was to punish us for our sins that we were, for a time, put out of the possession of this house; not because the gods of the nations have prevailed against our God, but because we had provoked him for which he delivered us and our temple into the hands of the king of Babylon, but never intended thereby to put a final period to our religion. We were only suspended for time, not deprived forever, an excerpt from Matthew Henry's Commentary On The Whole Bible, page 493

Canadians held captive by the king of Babylon. This would be a laughable concept a mere seventy years ago. Seventy is one of those numbers that holds mystical power Biblically. Seventy years of captivity, seventy years before the temple was destroyed, seventy years of life for you and me? My father was an immigrant to Canada in his twenties. He had escaped communist Albania and built a life for himself and his family on foreign soil, the land of the free. As his daughter, I fight the good fight with God as my strength, against the invisible enemy that threatens enslavement. My dad was Mr. No Nonsense, and I am very grateful for his earthly example. My Father in heaven commands the universe, and I daily wonder at his magnificence and power. 

Are you a heathen, dear reader? I laugh a little as I type, considering myself a former heathen. As punishment for my sins, for a time, I was put out of possession of my place in the heavenly kingdom. There can be no peace on earth when rebelling against God; only stolen pleasure, that fades into a sense of shame, can be experienced. Thankfully, God corrects and chastens his children, and I have been given the gift of renewal, the opportunity to worship in his temple without censure; I fear not the enemy, and trust only in the Lord, the King of kings. As pointed at above, provoking God puts humanity in peril, as individual's and in groups or nations. Can you see how the enemy of our souls has managed effectively, to put many in shackles, as only a wicked Babylonian king can do? 

Cumulative sin, outrageous and egregious unspeakable sin, amassed and grotesquely on display for all of heaven to see, has brought about the demise of nations. Forsaking the one true living God for idol demon worship, the worlds population now suffers in the throes of death, since we have been delivered into the temple of Babylon, after forsaking true religion, which is living the will of God Almighty. 

But not all is lost, in fact, all is as prophesied. Christians have always been aliens/foreigners while walking the earth. Christ followers stand out as heavenly ambassadors, walking talking living temples, priests among the populace. Currently many a professing Christian has waxed cold, while the enemies of God have run hot with hell fire giving them burning ambition to do damage to the Kingdom of God... alas, they know they are already lost, and while they have momentum now, they will soon run out of fuel. With the question of freedom on the tip of many a tongue, perhaps cool Christians will be ignited, as the godly of old were when God called them back into service, to set the captives free. 

If you feel like a foreigner in your own country, perhaps you recognize the seismic shifts in the spiritual realm. God is allowing us to collectively suffer the consequences of denying him as Sovereign: imagine what he sees every moment of the day, dear reader. Does the thought make you cringe?, as it does me.

In the book of Ezra, the king of Babylon decreed that the Jews rebuild their temple in their own Holy city, Jerusalem. They had been put out of it, taken captive, been displaced and subjected to governance in foreign lands. God purposed a temporary suspension, but not permanent depravation. Is this, dear Christian, not the very same situation we find ourselves in? Is it not time, to rebuild the temple of God, otherwise known as the church?

You, dear one, if you belong to Jesus, the King of kings, Saviour of the world, are called to be a walking talking living stone of the temple of God. Your purpose is to firstly, live the commands of God, and secondly without hesitation, preach the Gospel for the salvation of souls! We are God's ambassadors; is this not marvellous to know? 

Read the Bible, and delight in seeing our brethren harken to us of the hardships they endured that heightened their faith in God as their King. God decrees, we obey... and let not your heart be faint in the doing of his will, his way. 

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29)

Blood Splatter

Nothing brings ruin on a people sooner than persecution, Matthew Henry, page 490 from his Commentary On The Whole Bible. 

A re-enactment of our most mutual and recent past...

Voice # 1

Listen, and listen good. Something bad is happening, and I want to warn you. I don't know all the details, and that doesn't matter too much. What matters most is the vile scent of evil wafting on the air waves. I feel sick at the thought of what awaits if you don't pay attention and catch the drift. You are in danger, physically and spiritually, if you refuse to absorb emotionally and mentally, what I am trying desperately to get through to your mind, your heart, your very soul.

Voice #2

No no, YOU listen to ME. Yes, there is danger, and you are it. You are the obnoxious scent, the annoying voice, the repugnant and vile odour that I cannot rid myself of fast enough. GET AWAY FROM ME, you are despicable. You repulse me!

Dear reader, which voice do you relate to? If you are Voice #1, you and I spoke loudly while trying to beseech the vulnerable to steer clear of what we discerned and perceived early on as a dangerous situation brewing. You and I warned, and in some cases pleaded with perfect strangers to heed, but alas, we heard in reply, Voice #2 over and over again.

If you happen to relate to Voice #2, then I am firstly surprised you are reading my writing, and secondly, grateful you are here, because it may be that you have come to terms with what happened, and what continues to occur, regarding the demise of the human race via masterful manipulation and murder. I have a few questions for you:

■ Do you regret your neglectfulness in being duly diligent when you were confronted with the possibility that something was desperately wrong; and that you had been warned? 

■ Do you wish you had taken some time to consider what friends, family, neighbours, and colleagues were trying to alert you to, concerning the pending disaster we are now commonly living? 

Dear reader, blood is splattered everywhere, and it coats and covers messengers, the prophetic, the ones that tried, and tried again to sound the alarm in whatever way they could to let EVERYONE know, that death was the stench in their nostrils and they/we, could not stand the idea of humanity being wiped out in one fell swoop by the enemy of our souls, Satan. Blood is also splattered all over those that refused to heed, and it is with great sorrow that many of us watch the suffering and with heavy hearts plead almost without ceasing, with God to please make people well, take away their pain, heal their brokenness and more importantly, that they come to saving grace knowledge of Jesus Christ as Saviour. 

Satan is a persecutor but he is legless, he is voiceless, has no arms nor any strength without humans doing his bidding. Voice #2 was his when it came from beings created in God's image directed at other beings also created in his image. Don't you see, dear one, how persecution brought our global society down? Don't you now know that if you used Voice #2 and justified separating yourself from anyone that had the authoritative #1 Voice, that you need to repent and make amends with those you dragged with you into this mess? 

The blood of prophets and messengers of the Lord has been splattered throughout the history of mankind, only to have said prophets and messengers vindicated after death. Satan hates us and dividing and conquering is his modus operandi. It saddens me greatly that so many bought into his death plan so readily, at the expense of self, and relationship with other. If you relate to Voice #2, you are guilty of injuring many by way of persecution, and it is your duty to hold yourself accountable for blood shed, and also to make recompense, by way of apology firstly to God for not trusting in his Sovereign and perfect will, and secondly to all those you treated as pariahs that went against the wicked grain and tried to alert, alarm, warn, beseech you to not go toward a fire that threatened to burn out of control. 

Holding others at arms length is unhealthy and unholy. The masses were willing to do so when ordered to, and this begs the question: From whom do you, take your orders, dear reader? 

While you have breath, you have time. Perhaps now is the time for you to write some emails, texts, messages, letters, or pick up the phone and make calls to those you maligned and thought of as malicious, when all they wanted for you was to have the peace that surpasses all understanding through Christ our Lord. If you spoke anything like Voice #2, you have some work to do, because you thought it okay to carry on enjoying life, while condemning anyone that did not think or respond as you had done when decision time arrived. 

It is decision time, once more. Will you be part of the blood splatter clean up crew, or continue to believe that while you have been dead wrong, you remain steadfast in justifying yourself and pretending you were righteously right? Pride is an ugly character trait, and stubbornness is akin to stupidity. We all have options, and the best one of all, is humility before God and man, when we have deviated from the path he has carved for his people. 

What's it gonna be, dear reader? 

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your cares upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world (1Peter 5:6-9)

NOTE: You have been warned

Post NOTE: If you didn't have a voice at all and remained silent to avoid and evade conflict in the past four plus years, you have contributed to the destructive cause significantly. It does not bode well for you to be passive, while the world around you is being raised to the ground in hell fire flames. 

You will be fodder for the fire if you continue to remain disengaged from the spiritual battle that rages all around us. You, voice number three, have also been warned. 

LASTLY... if you were a poison pusher and insisted that others get injected, while threatening that if they did not, you would disassociate from them, you are culpable. You desperately need to go down on your knees, and beg with tears and snot flowing freely, for forgiveness from those you have wounded mortally, that either listened and did your bidding, or had to walk away in sadness, knowing you were temporarily (or perhaps permanently if you have not come to terms yet with reality) insane for believing the biggest lie of our mutual life time. 

Broken Moral Compass

Today I became hot under the collar, as the saying goes. I was on LinkedIn early this morning and was greeted with a picture of a woman, sitting atop a bucket, pants and panties about her knees, looking out at the water surrounding her as she eliminated: she was on a boat. The author of the commentary gives marriage tips, and suggested that this female was a keeper, willing to stay the course and do what she had to, to remain in the fishing game. 

My question is, was her man a keeper? Someone took a picture of her in a private moment and perhaps it was a joke between them and somehow, someway, SOMEONE took a liberty and posted it for public display: with, or without her approved, this is a disgusting exhibit that demonstrates how very far away from decorum we have travelled as a people.

The man that made the post calls himself a Christian. I too, call myself a Christian, but we must ask ourselves daily, Am I following in Christ's footsteps, or have I deviated and gone off course?; in other words, Is my moral compass malfunctioning and perhaps, a little or even a lot, broken? 

As a female, I am appalled at how un-lady like women have become. Butts, boobs, and bellies hang out and over clothing. Nothing is off limits for displaying or discussing regarding bodily functions and fluids. Gross, just plain old GROSS. 

I had a lengthy back and forth with the man that thinks it okay to display a female in a compromised position, on a public forum. I asked him to ask his wife if she would pose similarly, and if she would approve of being in a post like the one we disagreed upon. Would it be okay with him if it was his daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother? He did not answer these questions, but said, I am comfortable before God ... eeeck! These are dangerous words spoken by a man that perhaps hasn't spent much time in his Bible lately. No one has EVER been comfortable before God, and his suggestion that his Christianity and faith are sound, puts him in a danger zone with his open and very public stance, that females in a vulnerable state can be used as click bait for his posts. 

We are witnessing an anything goes society devoid of elegance, and far removed from feeling shame. People justify their words and deeds, and others flood in to support reprobate behaviours, because they too, are guilty of all manner of disgustingness. Humour is now the translucent curtain people hide behind to make their demeaning jokes, directed at an already depraved populace. 

If professing Christians read the Word of God and next, measured their own words and deeds according to the commands of Scripture, perhaps they would speak a little less, and when they do speak, minus any hint of liberality. Men are not men of God when they are not protective of the weaker sex. Men of God are appalled when women are put on display, without any regard for how it might impact them. I boldly state that professing Christians that do not live like Christ, are no Christians at all: they are quite simply, hypocritical heathens that have lost their way, with their moral compass needing recalibration to Christ.

If a man declares himself a Christian, wouldn't it be wonderful to actually see this on display, rather than showing off what ought to be another persons private moment? I issue a warning to men everywhere, that they might hear and heed, that our Righteous God, does not suffer the impenitent, or trifle with fools that suggest they are not sinners: 

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off they feet, for the place whereupon thou standest is holy ground (Exodus 3:5)

And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereupon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so (Joshua 5:13-15)

Any man that thinks he can comfortably stand before God, has another thing coming to him and hey, don't be mad at me for speaking truth, go to Scripture and see if you can out-argue God Almighty.

NOTE: Our work according to Jesus is this: 

Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent (John 6:29)

Let us be fishers of men, and not fishers for followers that we may lead astray because our moral compass has spun in the wrong direction. 

Blood For Blood

Let the God to whom vengeance belongs demand blood for blood. He will do it, for he is righteous, taken from Matthew Henry's Commentary On The Whole Bible, page 478

Perhaps you have heard the phrase, vengeance is the Lord's. Yes indeed this is true, and while we watch and wait for the wicked to receive their comeuppance, it does not escape our attention that it seems they have been granted year upon year, many a reprieve. Praise be to God, isn't this so for you and me too, dear reader? 

• Are you currently living a reprieve as a deviant? 
• Are you living as though your life is your own and you can do with it whatever you please? because that doesn't bode well for future you, dear one. 

You may not be a murdering prime minister or president, or head of a human hating Satan worshipping company, but you may very well be dodging the sword for now, as a cheat, a liar, a fornicator, adulterer. Read out loud the ten commandments and check to see what sins you are guilty of, and need to come clean on before the living God, then come back here so we can finish up together! 

Back to the wicked ones that shed innocent blood...

To be sick and poor, sick and solitary, but especially to be sick and under the curse of God, sick and destitute of grace to bear the affliction, and of comfort to counter balance it - is a most deplorable case, same page as the last quote.

In his commentary, Matthew Henry speaks of causality. Many a king in God's history disavowed the Sovereign, and oddly they have done this after first obeying and benefitting from heeding his godly counsellors and prophets. It would seem it near impossible for grand men in positions of power, to not become drunk with their own heady prosperity. Alas, these very same men have gone to the grave in shame after being plagued with disease and much loss of earthly esteem. Think now with me, about the sadists that take liberties with the life and death of their fellow human beings, that currently wield Luciferian power. What do you suppose is their fate, dear one? 

Those that despise God shall be lightly esteemed, again page 478

The devil tempts and he also torments. When men agree to his conditions, they also agree to the consequences that follow immediately, or just a little further on down the chewed up and sin strewn rough road they must navigate in order to temporarily survive. Imagine Satan as task master, and all the vile things he demands of those that serve him. My guess is you don't really have to use your imagination at all, dear reader, since we are seeing the vulgarity, the violence, the strife and heinous maiming and malling of our children: a sure sign that parents have fallen face down at the feet of Baal, and turned away from the one true God of the universe. 

The suffering of children is the truest sign of abandonment by guardians entrusted to ensure their safety and well-being. Children are being sacrificed. Innocent blood is being spilled in worship of the god of this world, with mothers and fathers sending their offspring into schools where teachers open doors wide for reprobates and predators to enter in. The excuse many a parent makes is they must work to pay their bills, sending their little ones early into daycare with strangers, followed by exposing them to secular education where they are made to sit still (and if they cannot sit still and pay undivided attention to teachers, they are drugged to accomplish this goal), and absorb state approved and established propaganda. What many have learned by way of obeying the Lord, they have yet to glean from experience, which is this:

Those only prosper whom God makes to prosper for prosperity is a gift. Religion and piety are very friendly to outward prosperity as a gift. Many have found and owned this, that as long as they sought the Lord and kept close to their duty they prospered; but since they forsook God every thing has gone cross, page 479

Dear reader, have you turned away from the world and toward the God that made you, or are you one of the pride stuffed humans that thinks he can make his own way and will eventually, die diseased of mind and body, alienated from all the goodness you could have had if you had abided in him? Consider this piece of writing as a reproof that if you heed, will give you the most freedom you have ever experienced! Trust in the Lord for your food, your shelter, your well-being, your livelihood. Do right by your children, your grandchildren, your neighbours children. Speak truth and read the Word of God as your manual for life! 

Those that are deaf to reproof are ripening apace for destruction, page 479

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy (Proverbs 29:1)

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit (Proverbs 29:23)

It is to be expected, dear one, that whomever exalts himself will be abased. Those that are fond of contention will have more than they desired of it, soon enough. The wise in their own eyes often become public buffoons, mocked mercilessly because they have not the knowledge or understanding that only God can bestow, and worse yet, they have Satan as their counsellor and he hates them so much he wants them to be belittled, demeaned, and enslaved until they fall headlong into the dirty grave that will devour the body, while the soul is consumed with unquenchable fire for eternity.

NOTE: Satan does not send people to hell. He has not the power to do so. Humans turn away from God and when they do, he, with much reluctance and great persistent disobedience on the humans part, turns away from them. God determines who goes where in the afterlife, and we can deny this fact or accept it as truth, but either way, he is and always has been, in charge of life, death, and everything in-between.

You and I, dear reader, are in charge of loving like Jesus does. We are in charge of choosing wisely, prudently, and as the saints who went before us, to abide in God and in turn, he will abide in us. Prosperity and influence are fleeting opportunities to prove to whom we belong, and this means you and I have to decide... live selfishly for worldly praise, or glorify the One and Only true God, from now until eternity never  ending. 

Back to our title

Blood for blood. Jesus shed his innocent blood for the sins of the world. Yours may be required of you if you participate in satanic shedding of innocent blood, and alternatively, you may die martyred in obedience to God's commands as many a saint that went before you. If you are not a player in the game of life, you are a bench warmer, lukewarm and just one more spectator that takes up space without impact or influence. 

Do something, take a stand, make a difference. Don't just sit there, be counted as a living stone in the Kingdom of God.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ (1 Peter 2:5)