Do we change our hair and our skin and our bodies because we are dreaming of fitness? Am I black? Am I heavy? Am I fit or unfit for...heaven? Only Jesus will make us all fit for heaven. There is no optimum color or hairtexture in heaven. Just one face, the face of Christ. Bodily exercise will fit my body and heart for my labors, but there is no exercise to fit my soul for heaven, but to truly meet the Lord of Glory and allow him to pardon and see the real me cleansing my sins.
I wanted to see that Disney princess movie because I remember being in the second grade and writing a story about a black princess because I hadn't seen one. I am proud, still to be Black. I am proud of the humility that God has kneaded into the race of people forgotten, even in their own country. I am proud to be American, where we can with different skin and different cultures find a common ground to work and worship. This is as close to what John saw in Revelation than I can imagine. He saw different people groups worshipping God and being one people. How can that be, but in America. Remember, me last, if you will. I remembered you first. God knows!
Sifting through the rubble of rudiments of the thoughts come to bear in the foundations of our juris prudense and our form of democracy...
some thoughts on the founding thoughts in the light of Biblical preservatives of our culture
notes from Aug 11, 2009
It is clear that America has placed its original claims upon the everlasting consolation in Christ and the Everlasting Judgement of the Father in Christ and the consolation of Daniel by using the word President. They have identified with the dearness of Daniel. It is sad that we are so blind to that which our heritage privileges us to. Praying for the Lord to bring about His will on earth as it is in heaven was a clear part of the placing together of this form of government. We have clearly been blinded by our prosperity and peace. God has given us so much and we don’t see His hand. It’s as though it is surprise party for us and the angels have put the blindfold on and spun us around and we keep saying God is not good. He is punishing us. He is good and merciful and has given us so much. We are not happy with that. We want what “he or she” has. If it is riches we want their peace and if it is mental ability we want theirs. We can’t be content no matter how much God showers upon us, we always want more. No we are not in the promised land. If the children of Israel had been blessed with such a land, they would have thought they were in heaven.
We keep our eyes closed to what God is saying trying to lord it over one another through our culture wars. We are blind to the image of God in the reflection of the many people groups. We keep feeling that God has instructed us to take dominion over one another we have a Nebby complex the lot of us.
When the angels take the blindfold of mercy off, where will we be? Instead of trusting that God is good will we be sticking our finger in His face, saying why have You treated me this way? The darkness is not dark if God is lighting through His Word and His Providences. But, we don’t study either His Word or History in the light of His Word. The founders of the constitution had one thing right about this is that if we follow the light of the Word we will be blessed and be brought out of our grossest of sins! In spite of the devil’s wiles, maybe that is the blindfold.
If insurance is the pillars that our society sits upon and this is the grindstone we want to shore up the pillars as much as possible, to protect the pillars and cause them to glorify God. He will bless when we are diligent to seek to acknowledge Him in all our ways. God this is Yours and we are not worthy of the least of Your blessing, but we honor our parents', or forefathers, putting this system together and pray that You will use it for Your glory and help us to give You the glory in the outworking of the system.
There should be a major in the histories of insurances. We should be looking at how to sharpen the system that we not imitate the Phillistines, but God’s people, in spite of ourselves. The young people, if they don’t have a vision, they will fall into the sin of “every man for himself” mentality.
Computers can take us to that point. We could fall into a complete dark ages again. Because people are set up to that kind of thing. It would be a shame with the light that we have inherited. The proper use of the litigation and the insurance system should be taught in school and the children need to see how we pledge our troth’s to eachother so that people won’t take advantage of one another or the system and will know the consequences if we do.
Ben Franklin said, if we don’t hang together, we truly would hang the economy separately. It is important to carry the consciences of the young people on the idea of democracy and on the idea of insurance and on the idea of a free market system, or the structures of our civilization is at stake.
Dewey and many of the forefathers of the doctrinal persuasion were true to form that we were beginning to educate down to the lowest denominator, instead of to the higher denominator.
When we keep reinventing the wheel of religion, every generation a lot is lost to the children. They need to study history. They need to know what is condemned by scripture and the judgments that have come about because of ignorance. Lack of knowledge. They don’t hear me as I am like Lot?
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