Be Content

“But godliness with contentment is great gain.  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is evident that we can carry nothing out.  And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.  But those who purpose to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge people into ruin and destruction.  For the love of money is a root of all evils, for which some being greedy, have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”  1st Timothy 6:6-10   Writing this book had been on my mind for quite some time.  Seems like that early in 2024, this book is looking to be very well likely to be useful to some.  Unlike other books about finances, even Christian books, this book doesn’t tell you how to get out of debt, how to save for retirement, pay for college, etc., in fact I would be a very poor example of providing information on some of those things and there are already those who have written such books.   What the focus of this book is, is simply this: to point the readers to understand biblical principles of finances, things that they then can use to make a decision, before God, based upon personal direction, prayer, as well as the foundations of biblical advice, avoiding the snares that come upon doing things that are contrary to the Bible’s way, which is the correct way.   As this has been on my mind for quite some time, particularly this chapter, thinking about just the basis for understanding...

Do Not Worry

“No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. It is not possible to serve God and mammon.  Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  Observe the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?   Which of you by being anxious is able to add one cubit to his stature?  So why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we wear?  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry...

Birds of the Heavens

“And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field!”  1st Samuel 17:44   Here is David about ready to begin the battle against Goliath.  Please read about it in 1st Samuel 17:19-58.   This story was well known by most adults until the past generation or so.  Nearly every child was taught about David verses Goliath and there are still references made to this day regarding this famous passage of the Holy Scriptures, where David slew Goliath by faith, trusting in the Lord.  Yet how many of those churches that do still proclaim these things, as factual, actually believe it in their heart or even understand it?   Now one problem is many who are professing Christians are indeed not truly Saved, some are deceived (Romans 9:6), others are simply pretenders (Acts 20:29).  In fact, even those who do believe such things, how many really understand it?   Oh…they can ‘sing’ about David, as the others sung about him after his victorious battle (1 Samuel 18:6-7); (the battle was truly Jehovah’s (1 Samuel 17:47)).  The reality is most so-called professing Christians would turn tail and run, most likely never allowing themselves to be in that position.   Was not Goliath taunting Israel, who proclaimed to serve God Almighty, for forty days (1 Samuel 17:16), yet not a professing Believer would dare to take a stand?   “When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.”  1st Samuel 17:11   So too God has...

Email to a Patriotic News Outlet

—Simply posting this here as well, just something to ponder, something that anyone digesting a lot of internet news will run across frequently —   Where is the balance for a Christian, patriot and simply citizen of the United States of America trying to raise a family in these times?  While I subscribed years ago, this fall I unsubscribed from everthing everywhere as I pondered going forward what to do.  So recently I decided that you were one of two email news that I would sign up, the most respectful and honest, in my opinion.   Yet the week in review that had 4 articles relating to topics of sexual perversion, three of them about transgenders, is simply too much for me.  This is exactly the problem, our enemy, let’s for the sake of argument call them the ‘left’ are still FORCING us to have these thoughts in our heads, conversations with our mouths and defend CONSISTENTLY that what we know is true.   For God has stated that He created them male and female and God has stated that we are to avoid sexual perversions (Taylor Swift article).  However He has also stated to ‘think on these things’, which are those things which are opposite of these articles, as well as to avoid evil communication.  So how then can we do both?   Can we just not have a stand, as this is not a pulpit pounding news outlet, but rather a patriotic news outlet, where we simply stand on the truth, rather than falling prey to constantly having to have that what we alreadly know discussed over...

Tomorrow Never Comes

“For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”  2nd Corinthians 6:2   I have just a couple of pounds that I have put on during this South Dakotan winter, nothing too big of a deal, but I have been meaning to take care of it, suffer a bit, eat a little bit more restricted and then lose that extra weight.  If I continued on the weight gain trajectory, eventually it would become a problem.    So today I have been doing fairly well, a few extra potato chips, but nothing major.  Yesterday, I decided to postpone what I am doing today, I am the usual chef of the house and had made some buckwheat blueberry pancakes, hadn’t had those in quite some time, so I enjoyed a stack as well.    A couple of days before I had whipped up some spaghetti and before that it was some pesto, hamburger, noodle mix.  Each of those times, no big deal, I’ll just ‘deal with it tomorrow’.  Well the problem is tomorrow never comes if we don’t take a stand to say, ‘this is what I am going to accomplish, I am no longer going to put it off’.  Unfortunately just how many people who are unsaved postpone Salvation?  How many people who are Saved continue in lukewarm rebellion towards Christ, essentially unable to effectively preach Christ to a lost and dying world, due to their carnality?    So where does that ‘little voice’ come...