by admin | May 25, 2017 | Articles
The other day I had to pick up something at the post office. As I entered the main lobby, I took my place in line waiting patiently as there were several people in front of me, mailing and picking up packages. Soon the line behind me stretched all the way to the door and as more people started to approach some became frustrated and stated that they would have to come back later. That day the line was long and slow. It seemed to take nearly 20 minutes for me to finally get to the counter to conduct business, but alas it happened. On my way home I was pondering how many of those who were waiting would have liked to have been able to cut to the front, to be first in line. I thought of this in regards to the final Judgment where each individual man and woman stand before God Almighty, one at a time, waiting for their turn. “And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. And books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, out of the things which were written in the books. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one,...
by admin | May 23, 2017 | Articles
There is a very dangerous trend that has happened in the past and will surely happen in the future. Man looking for man to solve man’s problems. While societies could look at their ills that need to be addressed, such as jobs, infrastructure, health care, etc., often times for many people, not only in the United States, but around the world, the are truly focused on their own household. While there are certainly things that leaders, whether elected, celebrities with their foundations, political movement figures, etc., can certainly do, such as donate a large amount of food or clothing, give money, help create jobs, the bottom line is people are looking towards man to not only fix the ills of society, but those of their own household. There certainly can be merit in some of the efforts that man does to provide help, but too often the problems they intend to fix create other problems or their public intentions are not their private intentions. Even if man was able to begin to provide some sort of utopia, what would be a utopia for one segment of society would be a dystopia to another segment. Families around the world are concerned about a job to make enough income to provide the necessities of life. Then those who have such an amount of income are often focused on making more to provide for the desires and pleasures of life. A healthy family who supposedly remains so through access to proper medical care, is another focus, then there are the concerns that some focus on regarding their imagined rights,...
