How to overcome the coronavirus

In my last post I said that God in His mercy told us in 2 Chronicles 7:14 what we should do when the events of 2 Chronicles 7:13 began to happen like they are now. 2 Chronicles 7:14 states "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." I know some of you are thinking will that work? The answer is yes. Have you heard of Jonah? Yes, the guy who was swallowed by the whale. Some of you may not know WHY he got swallowed by the whale.  So, as Paul Harvey liked to say here is the rest of the story. Jonah was told by God to go to Nineveh and prophesy its destruction but he hates the people of Nineveh and tries to escape the mission by running away and heading for Tarshish instead. To do this he went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port and after paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. However, the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. The sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. They asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?” And Jonah tells them pick me up and throw me into the sea, and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.” So, they threw him overboard and the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. When Jonah repented and said he would do what God had told him to do God has the whale let him out onto dry land and Jonah goes to Nineveh where he begins by proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” The Ninevites believed in God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.  But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” When God saw what they did and how they had humbled themselves and turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. So that is what this country and the world needs to do if we want to survive the judgement that has befallen us. We need to humble ourselves, and pray, and seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways;

Coronavirus and its ilk

For those of you who don't believe in God. For those of you who can go outside and see all the glory all around you and still believe we went from a rock floating through space to one that magically had life on it and the ability to sustain that life. For those of you who believe that the Bible is nothing more than just a collection of stories that could not possibly be true tell me why is it that what we are living in now is directly from the Bible. Go to your Bible and look up  2 Chronicles 7:13 which says (and this is from the Lord) "

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (NIV)

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, (emphasis mine)
 "Maybe you are saying: OK, I can see that pestilence is a epidemic disease meaning the Coronavirus but I have not seen any droughts or locusts. Well, just because God has so far protected us in Texas from drought and locusts there are places in our country and/or the world where it is happening. Here are just some of the recent articles relating to the droughts.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/photos/2020/01/07/photos-of-fires-in-australia-sparked-from-climate-change-and-heat-waves

https://www.buzzfeed.com/annmariealcantara/facts-everyone-should-know-about-the-california-drought

https://watchers.news/2020/03/21/yucatan-peninsula-heading-into-worst-drought-since-1986-mexico/

https://watchers.news/2020/03/04/parts-of-north-island-experience-worst-drought-on-record-new-zealand/

https://watchers.news/2020/01/17/worst-drought-in-40-years-turns-tap-water-saline-impacts-health-and-agriculture-thailand/

https://watchers.news/2019/12/26/drought-kills-over-72000-heads-of-cattle-in-cunene-province-angola/

And here are the articles concerning the locusts.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Speak-Of-The-Bible-Locust-Swarms-Imminent-In-Egypt-Saudi-Arabia-581377

https://www.foxnews.com/world/africa-locust-plague-worst-infestation

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2019/january/plague-of-tens-of-thousands-of-locusts-descends-on-mecca-islams-sacred-city

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/east-africa-faces-dual-shock-from-coronavirus-and-locust-swarms.html

https://news.yahoo.com/massive-locust-swarm-africa-middle-144211394.html?_guc_consent_skip=1584853988

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/pink-locusts-from-pak-swarmdesert-districts-hit-rabi-crops/articleshow/73236059.cms

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/pesticides-ineffective-make-insects-only-drowsy/articleshow/73341880.cms

You'll notice I did not have to go years back to find these. Most of them are this year with a couple of them being last year. And as far as the Coronavirus goes... Well, on Dec. 31, 2019 the government in Wuhan, China, confirmed that health authorities were treating dozens of cases. And on Jan. 11th (my birthday go figure) China reported its first death. So, we have all of this from just one verse in the Bible happening all at the same time. Fortunately God in His mercy told us in the very next verse what to do when we see this happen.

Footnote: This all was brought about by a wonderful sermon that my Pastor gave. A link to it (and I highly suggest you  watch it is --- https://www.facebook.com/chad.kirk.357/videos/10221459804715718/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDk0OTA0NTgxNjozNjM0Mjc5NTEzMjgwMzE0/

1st attempted Beer run

                                                  This was back at an old job I had. Yes that is really me behind the counter. I really hated thieves. I put a bunch of these on my YouTube page including when someone attempted an armed robbery. Please click the like buttons for each of my videos and be sure to subscribe for more videos.

Trump was right Corona Virus

Here is what democRATS also don't seem to understand. If they had followed President Trump the way they are supposed to when he wanted to keep the foreigners out then none of this Corona Virus would have happened here. The one who brought it over was a man from China. And for those who say we still would have gotten it because of Americans who go to other countries would have brought it back. That is only partially true. First off as soon as the first case came out then President Trump would have pulled every American home. And when they did come they would have been quarantined and tested for the virus before being sent home so instead of the more than 30,000 we currently have we might have had 5 that were already under quarantine thereby protecting the rest of the population. I hope you are smart enough to vote for President Trump in this next election. Because if not we will end up with joe biden with all his bidenisms. Such as when he gave away the location of their formerly secret bunker. LOL You might have to copy and paste the link. or on your computer you can right click and click on open link in new tab (depending on your OS and browser)  https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bidenisims&qpvt=bidenisims&FORM=VDRE

The last days

It really amazes me how people can look around and not see that we are in the last days. The signs are everywhere. Get right with God before it it too late.

I'd Love to Change the World

There was a song from the early 70's "I'd Love To Change The World" by the band "Ten Years After". Some of the lyrics are --- "Tax the rich/ feed the poor /Till there are no rich no more/". This demonstrates perfectly the way democRATS think.  All they think about is now without thinking of the ---and then what? If you tax the rich to feed the poor till there are no rich no more it forgets the ---and then what? I guess then we all starve together. That is the problem with democRAT thinking. Instead of wanting to bring the poor up to where everyone is rich they continually attempt to bring the rich down to where everyone is poor.  The problem with that is --- then what? Then everybody would be too poor to feed themselves much less anyone else. OK, now let's say we decide not do it the democRAT way. Let's say that instead we try the Republican way where instead of tearing down the rich to poor levels we instead bring the poor up to rich levels so that EVERYONE is rich. Now, which way sounds better to you?
Donald Trump / straight Republican ticket 2020 (except for the Rhinos who forgot which side they are supposed to be on)

2020 Election

As we get closer to the elections I will write more political posts. To be honest in 2016 I did not vote for Donald Trump. I and my friends instead chose to write in Ted Cruz who in my mind was by far the better choice. Since I am not stupid I was not going to vote for a democRAT. The only reason Trump won the primaries over Ted Cruz was because of all the democRATS who voted for Trump in the primaries figuring that even hillary could beat him. They were wrong. This year assuming Ted Cruz is not going to run I am going to vote for President Trump with pride and the reason is simple. President Trump has kept all of his campaign promises with the exception of the wall. And the only reason that he has not kept the wall is due to pelosi and the rest of her ilk fighting him tooth and nail on it.
All of his other promises have been kept. Trump kept his promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to their actual capital in Jerusalem, something his three immediate predecessors also promised yet failed to do because of fear. He promised to “crush and destroy ISIS,” and he is on the verge of eliminating Islamic State’s physical caliphate. He promised to impose a travel ban on countries that are posing a terrorist threat, and the final version of his ban has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Trump pledged to nominate Supreme Court justices “in the mold of Justice (Antonin) Scalia,” and now Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh sit on the high court. Trump also pledged to fill the federal appellate courts with young, conservative judges, and so far the Senate has confirmed 29 — more than any recent president at this point in his administration.
Trump promised to cancel Obama’s Clean Power Plan which because of it being poorly structured had been met with both Congressional and Court challenges and instead implemented the Affordable Clean Energy rule. The changes were hailed by industry representatives. He also promised to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, approve the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration. He has fulfilled all of those pledges.
On trade, he kept his promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. He also committed to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement — and recently signed new deals with Mexico, Canada and South Korea. He committed to imposing tariffs on China to force it to open its markets and stop its theft of intellectual property — and is following through on that pledge. Whatever one thinks of Trump’s trade policies, he is doing exactly what he said he was going to do and is in fact one of the few presidents since Ronald Regan to do so.
Unlike obama, he did not pass his signature legislative achievement on the basis of a lie (“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it”) — which is clearly worse than falsely bragging that your tax cut is the biggest ever. Also unlike obama who apparently has no idea how supply and demand works he did not implement something ruinous to the economy like obama's cash for clunkers.
If you appreciate a politician who actually does what he says he is going to do and not want to see this country further weakened then you will also vote for President Trump.

I failed God today

Usually when someone asks me how I am doing I tell them "I am better than I deserve". Which is true. According to the Bible what we deserve is Hell. Instead what I have been given is a vast amount of mercy. I have been given incredible health. I have not had to go to a doctor or even been sick in years. I have a excellent job, a beautiful house and an awesome car. Yet today multiple times when asked how I was I had the audacity to forget all that God has blessed me with and to begin complaining. The things I complained about weren't even big earth shattering things. When I finally realized what I was doing I felt ashamed. I felt a little like Peter must have felt when the rooster crowed and he realized that he had denied Jesus 3 times. No, I did not deny Jesus but I pretty much denied all of the awesome thing he has done for me a sinner. Tomorrow, I go back to Better than I deserve.
P.S. The better than I deserve is not something I came up with. It is something I stole from a guy by the name of Dave Ramsey. Go to his web site Daveramsey.com and in the search engine type in "Drive free" and watch the short little video that pops up. Then type in "Baby Steps". 

Where did we come from?

I was having a discussion with an atheist on the internet about the beginning of everything. His contention is that we were not just a rock floating through space with no breathable atmosphere but developed a breathable atmosphere all along. My next question to him was --- Ok, let's say you are 100% correct and that this rock developed a breathable atmosphere. So, if not from God where did the spark of life come from? Once the Earth developed this atmosphere how did we go from that to all of a sudden having all this life here? Without God it just isn't possible.

Now, this next part is going to get a little more sciencey so if science puts you to sleep I totally understand your skipping ahead. However, I will try to keep it relativity simple. A lot of people believe only one or the other, either science or religion can be right and that science proves religion false which just isn't so. As a matter of fact science proves religion correct to anybody that doesn't have blinders on. I believe everybody knows what DNA is. Otherwise known as Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses. Instructions also known as information. You can fit the entirety of an encyclopedia onto a single strand of DNA. One gram of DNA can potentially hold up to 455 exabytes of data, according to the New Scientist magazine. For reference: There are one billion gigabytes in an exabyte, and 1,000 exabytes in a zettabyte. The cloud computing company EMC estimated that there were 1.8 zettabytes of data in the world in 2011, which means we would need only about 4 grams (about a teaspoon) of DNA to hold everything from Plato through the complete works of Shakespeare to Beyonce’s latest album not to mention every cat video out there. How many megabytes of genetic data are stored in the human body? For simplicity’s sake, let’s ignore the microbiome (all non-human cells that live in our body), and focus only on the cells that make up our body. Estimates for the number of cells in the human body range between 10 trillion and 100 trillion. Let us take 100 trillion cells as the generally accepted estimate. So, given that each diploid cell contains 1.5 GB of data (this is very approximate, as I am only accounting for the diploid cells and ignoring the haploid sperm and egg cells in our body), the approximate amount of data stored in the human body is:

1.5 Gbytes x 100 trillion cells = 150 trillion Gbytes or 150×10^12 x 10^9 bytes = 150 Zettabytes (10^21)!!!

Why is this so important? And how does this prove the existence of God? It is simple really. How many books just happened without the existence of an author? How many houses were built without a builder? So, if not God who made the first humans? And the amount of information involved in creating the first humans?  A

Chromosome is a condensed form of DNA. So,

1 chromosome = 1 DNA molecule

Human body has two sets of chromosomes (diploid), each set having 23 chromosomes.

Therefore in one cell there are 46 chromosomes.

46 chromosomes = 46 DNA molecules

(Remember each DNA molecule is of different size here.)

There are more than 37 trillion cells in human body.

46 DNA molecules per cell × 37 trillion cells = 1702 trillion DNA molecules

Still think there is no God? If so, you have more faith than me. 

Homeless people

I always wonder what people wanted to be when they grew up and how close they came. Especially, when I see a homeless person because as far as I know, no one grows up saying I think I want to be homeless. And hey, if I can just get a shopping cart that'd be a bonus. When I was 8 there was a take your parent to school day and one kid brought his parent who was a lawyer. He was really well dressed and very articulate. From then on I decided I wanted to be a lawyer but I didn't really know what all went into being a lawyer. I figured you just wore an Armani suit and told people you were a lawyer and bam you were a lawyer. Well, I bought an Armani suit but quickly found out that walking around telling people you are a lawyer when you work at McDonald's doesn't convince many people. Plus mustard is kinda hard to clean out of an Armani suit. ಠ_ಠ Ok, I am just kidding about the McDonalds part but I have found that a lot of people are much like that when it comes to being a Christian. They walk around and tell people that they are a Christian but their lifestyle doesn't match up to what they claim to be. As a Christian, we are a part of a heavenly, God-ruled kingdom. Things of the earth should no longer draw us (Colossians 3:2). We don’t need fear suffering on earth or the trials we face (1 Peter 3:14; 4:12–14), nor should we place importance on things the world values (1 Timothy 6:9–11). Even our bodies and our actions should reflect that our minds are no longer conformed to the world (Romans 12:1–2) but are now instruments of righteousness to God (Romans 6:13).

Psalms 119:11 says Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You. That means that having God's word in your heart will help keep sin out. After all, in order to know what a Christian life should look like you need to study the Bible and let it show you. Some verses I like to read that help me in my endeavors to live a Christian lifestyle are: 1 John 2:15-16
James 1:12
James 1:21
Hebrews 13:5
Colossians 3:5
John 8:34
Galatians 5:16
Ephesians 5:3-4
Corinthians 10:13
Chronicles 7:14
John 14:21

Making Changes

I love to read and learn. Always have since the time I was a little kid. I read voraciously. So, a few years ago I read a study published by some think tank that said that when men take a shower they start with their feet and work their way up but when women take a shower they start with their head and work their way down. That struck me as smart on the part of the women because that way you do not have dirty water going down over the parts you have already cleaned. So, I switched and from then on also started with my head first. Realizing that if there is a more intelligent way to do things it would be pretty stupid to keep doing it the same old way. That's the way it is with Jesus. For most of my life, I counted on my own strength and my own intelligence to get me through life. But why should I do that when the obviously more intelligent thing to do would be to instead trust in Jesus. To trust in His strength rather than my weakness. To trust in his wisdom and all-seeing knowledge rather than my ignorance and limited understanding? Happy Easter everybody!!! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick."

"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick."

     I heard someone the other day who said that they did not think that God would send them to Hell because they always tried to do the right thing and thought there were a lot of people who were worse than them. They also said that God would not really send them to Hell because after all, God is love. 

They are right about God being love. He is love. However, that is only one part of God. God is also Justice. Look at it this way. Do you not love your kids? But if they do wrong isn't it because of that very love that you also punish them? After all, if you did not love them you wouldn't really care what they did. You wouldn't care if they disobeyed you and went out and partied till all hours of the night. You may want to display nothing but love for them but sometimes you find that because of that very love you have to hold them to the rules and laws of the house. A judge sitting on a bench may love everyone but how would it go if that is all he was? He could run on a slogan of ---"Vote for me and all will go free." It wouldn't go very well, would it? People would start breaking all manner of laws because they would know that they could get away with it. At some point, the judge would have to also demonstrate justice to go with the compassion. That is the way it is with God. He has SO much love for you and me that He sent His Son to take our punishment so that we wouldn't have to go to Hell  "Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is never quenched" Now it is up to you to decide whether you are going to accept His sacrifice or keep thinking "I think I am good enough" all the way into Hell.

      Growing up I never knew about God. When I was a kid occasionally I was taken to a church but I spent all of that time collecting new girlfriends. I paid absolutely no attention to what was being said. Later in my life, after the end of my marriage, :-( when I did finally hear about God  I did not believe. I thought "How could there be someone greater than me. (I found out later that this wasn't near as hard as I thought but back then I unrealistically felt that I was near perfect) I laugh and cry about it now. My parents sent me to a pastor who was supposed to convince me that God was real and that I should turn my life over to Him but the pastor could not answer my questions. When he said I should believe because what if it was true then I would be saved and go to Heaven and if it wasn't true then it wouldn't matter. My question to him was. Well then, shouldn't I also believe in Budda and Thor and all of the other thousand of gods out there just in case they are also real? He said no so I asked why not and he had no answer. So, I continued to not believe. At this point (to my eternal regret) I went around convincing other Christians that there was no God. It was surprisingly easy considering that  In 1 Pet. 3:15 the apostle Peter admonished believers to "always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,." and only by meeting honest objections with biblical answers can Christians "demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." as it says in 2 Cor. 10:5. It wasn't until I was in my late 30's that God decided to reveal Himself to me. I had worked all day and half of the night putting out claw machines in a bunch of different cities in Texas. When I finally got home in Victoria, TX I was exhausted. It seemed that I had just laid down when I got a call from my boss saying one of the machines was down so I needed to take the Uhaul they had rented for me to place the machines back to Beaumont where I would get my car a little Subaru Justy and drive it back to Victoria where I would then pick up the company car they were providing me and go fix the machine. So, I made it to Houston and started towards Beaumont but was still really tired. I had not yet gotten my first paycheck and was broke but I had a Target credit card on me so when I spotted a Target on the other side of the freeway I decided to stop and get me something to drink. When I pulled into the Target parking lot I did not notice the crossbar over the entrance. They do not have one at the Target in Victoria. The bar took off the top couple of inches of the U-haul. I started thinking --- "Well...maybe when I turn it in they won't notice the new sunroof"  but of course that is the first thing they saw. Fortunately, when I had signed the paper while picking up the U-haul I had checked the insurance box so it was covered. I then picked up my Subaru Justy. I set the cruise control at 77 and was heading back along I-10 towards Houston when I fell asleep at the wheel. I ran into the back of a bus that had stopped for road construction. I was lifelighted to a hospital in Houston but, other than some bruises I was fine. My Mom came and picked me up. We headed over to the junkyard to see what was left of my car. The owner of the junkyard was amazed that I was alive and after seeing what was left of my car I was too. We started heading back to Victoria when there was some breaking news on the radio of a guy in a truck who had ran into a bus and died instantly. My Mom turned to me and said God must really have some big plans for you and it was just like a spotlight went on in my head. I cannot describe it any better than that but it does not even begin to do it justice. All of a sudden I saw my life and all of the evil I had done in it. I also just knew that God was very real and that without Jesus I was going to Hell. God in His mercy had chosen to give me another chance. He also gave me two more chances after that but I digress. At this point, I set about researching God and whether He was real or not. After all it was fine that I knew that I knew but I wanted to have answers for when others questioned me. The more I researched the more I was convinced and amazed that I had not seen all of this before. After all, I considered myself a highly intelligent man how could I have missed this but, miss it I did. Besides if I had truly been that intelligent I would still have my ex. 

         I consider myself blessed that I have sinned so much in my life --- that I treated others so horribly. Even those I professed to love like my Ex I did not treat as I should. I consider myself blessed because I KNOW that there is absolutely no way I could get to Heaven without Jesus taking my sins on him. I am not one of those people who can say ---I have lived a pretty sin free life. I think I can make it into Heaven on my own merits. I personally have to throw myself on God's mercy and accept the sacrifice of Jesus in order to avoid Hell. I have no other option. The thing is though neither do any of you. John 14:6 states "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." What this means is it does not matter how good a life you have think you have led. At some point, you have sinned and at The Day of Judgement you will held  accountable for those sins. It is if a murderer was taken to court he may try to tell the judge: Yes, I murdered someone but look how good I have been besides that. The judge is still going to send him to prison. In the same way when you come before God you may try to say yes I broke one of your Commandments but other than that I have led a good life. God will come back with: The word of God says James 2:10
 For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God's laws. Someone else might try to say sure I got angry at people and looked at women with lust but I didn't murder anyone and I didn't commit aduldry to which God would say: The word of God says in Matthew 5:21-22: 

21 “You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment. 22 But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell. and Matthew 5:27-28 states
27 “You have heard the commandment that says, ‘You must not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 

        Now at this point, I am hoping that you are beginning to realize that if everyone is going to be judged by these standards on The Day of Judgement then ALL based solely on their own lives will not get into Heaven and will surely be sent to Hell. Because that is true. By yourself and by myself none of us can get to Heaven. Fortunately we have a Savior. Someone willing to take the punishment for all of our sins if we only accept His sacrifice. Someone who died for us so that we may live. My Mom once told me that God doesn't send people to Hell they volunteer and when she first said it I thought that was a weird statement to make. After all who would volunteer to go to Hell but she was right. Every day by not accepting the sacrifice of Jesus people are dying and going to Hell. You do not need to volunteer. Please accept Christ into your life like I did. Accept His sacrifice for your sin so that you do not have to go to Hell "Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is never quenched"That person that said God is Love is right. God is love. He does not want to see ANYONE volunteer to go to Hell. He loved us so much that He allowed his own Son to be the neccessary sacrifice for your sins. Will you accept His sacrifice? Or are you going to keep thinking ---Nah, I'm good enough.

 

The buffet of the Bible

I have not been as faithful to writing on here as I should be. Once I regurgitated the loss of my wife because I wasn't what she needed or deserved I just kind of died out. I intended to move this in more of a Christian direction but I kept trying for some long sermon. I have finally decided that unless I just start writing off the top of my head and from the bottom of my heart I will never get another post done. So, here goes...I have noticed how people who are either not Christian or have not taken the time to actually read the Bible change verses or cut off part of a verse either because they need it to fit their viewpoint or they do not want to follow all of what God says. Probably the best example is all of those people who say things like: The rich are all bad people because the Bible says that "Money is the root of all evil". That is NOT in fact what it says. It actually say "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil" (emphasis mine) As a matter of fact in Proverbs 21:20 it states: There is desirable treasure, And oil in the dwelling of the wise, But a foolish man squanders it. This simply means that if you are wise you will endeavor to make sure you have enough and not spend it all on stupid things. A newer translation might read...Go forth and read the book "The Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey so that you do not have to keep being poor all your life and making up your own biblical truths like money is the root of all evil. 

       Other times they simply take the part of a verse they can live with and ignore the rest of it. An example of this is Hebrews 13:5. Most people have heard that God said "I will never leave you nor forsake you". Unfortunately, they leave by the wayside the first part of it because it is a lot harder to live by. The first part states: Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have." How many people can easily do that? Not many---so they leave it out. The problem with that is that the Bible is NOT a smorgasbord. You are not to pick and choose which words you want left in it and which ones you are not ok with. Read the whole Bible. By the way those who are going to come back with well it says about stoning in the Bible. Does that mean we need to be stoning people? Stoning was like our capital punishment. And it was never practiced by Christians. So if you are going to live as a Christian then No, you should not be stoning people.  And the "Eye for a eye and a tooth for a tooth" from Exodus 21:24 was their law and was actually more just than what some would have you believe. It was put into place so that people would not go overboard with their punishments. How many times have you heard someone say "I am going to kill him" after they feel some one has wronged them. This law simply stated that you can get justice but not revenge. Then in Matthew 5:38-39 Jesus says: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Ok, I am going to stop here. I am going to do something more on stoning later but there is so much to it I am going to give it its own post because I want to try to do it justice.

1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version (KJV)

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

 Hebrews 13:5 King James Version (KJV)

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

As it states on End Times radio..."Politics decide how we live here on earth and religion decides how we will live forever. I think we should talk about it.

Write in Ted Cruz 2016

I fully expect Ted Cruz to win the nomination. However, as the saying goes it is ok to hope for the best as long as you are prepared for the worst. So, if Ted Cruz does not win the nomination then I and the vast majority of my friends are going to be writing in the name "Ted Cruz". If you are a Christian you should also because of what it says in the Bible. Exodus 18:21 states 21 But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. That is a perfect description of Ted Cruz and as everybody knows does not in any way describe trump. If you are not a Christian then you should follow what Mark Twain wrote since atheists think that Mark Twain was an atheist. (He wasn't but that is for another day) Anyways, Mark Twain wrote (and if you want to get down to the meat of it skip to the last two paragraphs) --'In a republic, who is the country?
    Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the government is merely a temporary servant: it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. It's function is to obey orders, not originate them.
    Who, then is the country? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it, they have not command, they have only their little share in the command.
    In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country: In a republic it is the common voice of the people each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
    It is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians.
    Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
    To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
    If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of'."
  "Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. 
    This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world--
    --No,you move."

Someone wrote to me...

U try to fix it if your so judgmental!!"

Ignoring her lack of grammar, I decided to take her up on the challenge. Here was my response to her.
What we need to start with is to implement a national sales tax. This would take the place of the income tax. This would help by getting rid of most of the IRS which would save untold amounts of money. It would also automatically tax more from the wealthy who buy more. Also it would allow us to collect taxes from those who do not currently pay taxes (drug dealers, prostitutes, illegals, and anyone else who currently gets their money under the table).
Next to fix the obamacare mess we just need to get rid of it and in it's place we allow health insurance companies to sell insurance interstate rather than limiting them to only intrastate. This will bring the cost of healthcare way down and allow you to get just what you need for your family not what big government decides they want you to have.
I have quite a few other ideas so "Remember to Vote for me" <(*_*)>

I am going to start today’s blog with a story...

  There was an 3rd grade class and the Presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. So, the teacher decided they would have an election for a class president. They would choose the nominees. Each of whom would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. Candidates were nominated by other class members. The class discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. Many were nominated and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make their class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat down. Now it was Olivia's turn to speak. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." Surely she would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. But no one pursued that question. They took her at her word. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it...She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream...

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 51.4 % of the people reacted like nine year old's.

They want ice cream.

The other 48.6% percent know they're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess."

obamacare — Most of you do not even know what is in obamacare. You just hear “free healthcare” and think it is a great idea. Didn’t your Mom ever tell you there is no such thing as a free lunch? Somebody has to pay for this “FREE” healthcare. And unfortunately because the government is involved the cost will be higher than if they just opened health care up to the free enterprise system (more on this in a bit). So far attached to obamacare is 21 new taxes. It only gets worse from here. Because of the requirement that they have to pay only for their full timers a lot of companies are doing away with full time positions instead choosing to have mainly part timers.
http://newstalk870.am/some-dennys-restaurants-bump-prices-5-due-to-obamacare-cut-workers-hours/

The ones that do keep full timers will be raising prices to cover
the cost.
http://www.inquisitr.com/295782/obamacare-casualty-papa-johns-pizza-to-raise-prices-to-cover-costs-of-health-care/

A better idea to this would have been to allow interstate insurance. Interstate insurance refers to the selling of health insurance across state lines. Currently residents have to purchase health insurance from a company that offers policies in the state they are residents of. Allowing companies to sell insurance across state lines through interstate insurance would open up competition and reduce overall health insurance costs.
Here is an example: Dale is a healthy lad but still wanted health insurance just in case he had an emergency. The state he lives in highly regulates insurance and therefore the insurance companies are required by the state to offer extensive benefits. These extensive benefits raised the price of the health insurance beyond Dales ability to pay. Dale just wants a basic policy to cover him if he has a major expense. He found out that if he was able to purchase insurance across state lines that he could buy a policy from another state that did not regulate insurance and that basic policy would carry much less of a premium than the state that he lives in.
Dale is sad.  (I will refine today's blog later)

Prices of everything will skyrocket

When last we left off I was explaining to you why the cost of everything is going to go up. Now before I start this one I find I need to explain how the law of supply and demand works.  This is going to be a much miniaturized example. Let’s say there are five families and each needs to buy a house if there are 100 houses available then prices on average will be low low low. however if there are only 3 houses available then the average price is going to be quite a bit higher. The same thing would happen in the case of clothes, cars, food, etc.. Also in the case of food it can only be obtained at a certain rate since it takes time to grow it. So when obama fulfills his campaign promise to make all illegals new citizens without so much as a background check we are going to have a flood of new people. All of whom will need food and places to live. The problem is ---There is only so much of everything. So much food, so many houses, etc. So, when obama opens up our borders we will be in serious trouble. Again I quote Revelation 6:6 which says ..."A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,...” Thanks to all of you who voted for obama it is coming quickly.Next up obamacare...

obamanation strikes again

Well, the election is over and almost half the population is upset and the other half are idiots. Let me explain why 100 % of the LEGAL population should be upset and what I believe is going to happen over the next four years.

Let’s start with gas prices — obama stopped the building of the Keystone pipeline which wiped out the creation of close to 20,000 jobs and would have supplied the United States with up to 830,000 barrels of oil thereby easing US reliance on less stable sources. Next obama signed a drilling moratorium on new oil wells in the Gulf. Finally, after first telling his buddy George Soros (who heavily invested in obama campaign)  his plans obama went and gave Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras $2 billion of taxpayer money to finance oil exploration off Brazil. This was done after first giving George Soros enough time to invest $800 million in Petrobras and without obama being smart enough to at least get a guarantee that we would get any of the oil acquired. So then obama has to go back hat in hand to the Brazilian government and tell them that we would like to buy the oil that we spent $2 billion helping them pump. Less than a month after obama visited Brazil to make a pitch for oil, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was off to Beijing to sign oil contracts with two huge state-owned Chinese companies.

The effect all of this is going to have on America is huge. Since obama was sworn in the first time gas prices were at $1.84 and now they are over $3. When gas prices go up it in turn drives up the prices of everything else. In Revelation 6:6 it says ..."A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,...”  In terms even an obama supporter can understand the prices of everything is going to be super-high. This is what I believe we are coming to.

When I first heard that obama was elected again I got upset but the more I thought about it --- if this brings Jesus back sooner I am all for it. God allowed Judas as one of the disciples so that he could betray Jesus so that we might all be saved. I guess he is going to use obama or hillary after him to bring about the end of America as we know it. After all, even though America’s beginning is shown in the Bible we are not listed as being around for the end.

obamacare and the 5 idiots on the supreme court

Well, it looks like we have 5 idiots on the supreme court <more to follow>

Another sleepless night....

This---this is when it is the hardest. The long nights. Just tossing and turning. Never able to get comfortable because she is not beside me. Finally getting up because I know sleep is not coming. I know you are thinking "Well, just get someone else then." And sure---I could do that but in reality--- I can't...Nobody else can fill this hole in my life---in my heart---except her. Only she fits. There will never be anybody else for me. That is just one of the things I wish I had told her while I still had the chance.

National Sales tax

A couple of posts ago I mentioned the national sales tax. This is how it works and the benefits of such a system. The current system is where every dollar you make you have to give a percentage to government (unless of course you are rich enough to find all the loopholes). Then you get letters from the Infernal revenue service saying they STILL want more. Pretty soon they just send agents from now on known as scum suckers after you to clean out your wallet and bank account. As I sit here I now have about $3 left in my account...ladies the line to date me starts to the left LOL. Anyways, you finally end up with a guy in a plane from now on known as the hero crashing into the irs building to take out as many of them as he can.
The new way - We do away with the current income tax system. The benefits to this are numerous. When you work you get to keep ALL the money. You will not lose half of every dollar when you work overtime. And best of all --- wait for it --- no more (or at least do away with about 3/4) of the scum suckers. They would have to go out and actually find real jobs. Not scam off the rest of us who do work for a living. That alone would save the government billions. I know you are thinking, "well gee, that's just nifty-keeno but how is the government going to get the money needed to run?" The answer is ---The National Sales Tax. With this tax every purchase you make except for the food bought at the grocery would have an extra tax attached to it. Here are the benefits to that system. First off the rich who obviously buy more things outside of food would automatically be charged more tax. Secondly, all of the people who currently do not pay into the system (illegals and people who make their money illegally) would now all of a sudden be paying into the system thereby bringing in more money. Here is an example...Let us take drug dealer Joe Camel...in the old system he would not pay any tax to the system because he never claimed any income and the scum suckers turned a blind eye to the fact that he had lots of income. He would be able to keep 100% of all that money made illegally. Now, in the new Fair Tax system he would have to pay into the system. Anytime he wanted to buy a new ride or some new threads he would be paying into the system. I am going back to bed now...I will re-edit this so it all makes more sense later.

Courageous

In the movie Courageous there was a line told to the father of a little girl that dies which said you can either be angry for the time you didn't get to spend with Emily or be grateful for the time you did and it left me wondering with my missing Laura...Can't I be both? Because that is how I feel about my time with Laura. Sure I am grateful that I was blessed to have her in my life...very grateful. But, I am also very angry. Angry at the briefness of it all. Angry that she is no longer a part of my life but even angrier at myself for not showing  her that I cannot live without her. Because I can't. I exist but I am not really living. I breathe air when I would rather breathe in the scent of her. I drink water but would rather drink in her beauty.
Ok, I am going to stop for now but,,,there is so much more I wish I could write...so, until next time.

My Polar Bear...

Laurie just had some great advice . You know--- Laurie from Cougar Town...yes the secret is out. I watch Cougar Town.  <(*_*)> Anyways, after Travis got his heart broken by Kirsten he took off to Hawaii. Laurie and the rest of the gang went after him and Laurie told Travis that "You should not make life changing decisions based on a girl you are running from or a girl you are chasing." And that is kinda what I have been doing with my life. You see I did actually find my polar bear/ coyote and she loved me with a passion that I had never known before...or since. Unfortunately she met me when I was still in my kid mode...you know...me me me...but when she left it turned me into my baby mode...or wah wah wah...Now that I am finally in a Christian adult man mode I am like how did she ever put up with me for so long? But, deep down, I already know the answer. She loved me even when I was being unlovable. What a concept. You know if somebody was to offer me a magical potion that if I drank it it would give me one more week with Laura but then I would die. I would happily, greedily drink it down so that I would get another chance to show her how much she really means to me. How much I really love her. My friends (worried about me tried to set me up on a blind date) but I refused to go because the lady's name was Laura. She might have been a perfectly wonderful woman but there was no way I could go out with her. My friends thought it was because I was still mad at my ex-wife but the truth was because I was still in LOVE with my ex-wife. As I still am now over 20 years later. For me everything is either BL or aL.

The beginning...

I am new to blogging and do not really know where to begin. I do not really expect anybody is going to read it but I must admit it is strangely therapeutic. Because nobody will ever read it---and even if somebody gets on the internet drunk some night and happens to stumble across it I can be totally honest. Both with myself and the world. Anyways, I got to thinking about love today. It is kind of funny I know so much about so many topics but not much about love. I just know the only person in this whole world I love...no longer loves me. That is the extent of my knowledge on the subject. Oh yeah, that and I love football. The Minnesota Vikings to be exact but they are going to be looking a little lost this year as well. Anyways, I got to thinking about previous loves when I was watching some movie on the internet. It was a foreign flick where they all speak gobbily-gook  which of course is the official name for any language I do not speak. So there is English and... gobbily-gook. lol. Anyways in this movie which looks to be a war movie there are a bunch of Asian villagers running from people shooting at them when one of them guy gets shot and goes down. His wife turns back and throws herself down on top of him. She is wailing and carrying on so her relatives father, mother, etc. turn back and try to pull her along but she even knowing that she is going to get shot too refuses to go. And I started thinking about love that powerful and if I had ever really had anybody love me like that. Ok, here I am going to forgo the whole Christianity aspect and how God and Jesus love me. I am a Christian and do know they love me. I was just hoping for somebody I could touch. I mean you can't exactly rock the bed with Jesus.