Xmas

It’s nearly December, so it’s nearly Christmas.

But unfortunately this World celebrates this day very differently from Christians.

The World has invented other things to make this a more world like holiday which does not require faith. Therefore things like Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, the elves, Santa’s home, Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, songs and the like have been invented by humans for humans and they have been quite successful.

There is a commercial for Kmart layaway and one that shows elves & says “we’re shopping for Santa but our bonuses don’t come until December.”

But Christmas is totally different from things that we can do or buy. We can’t make Christmas happen! God made Christmas happen. And it’s not about what we get or if we are happy! It’s about God loving us, more than we can know and giving us the ultimate gifts: His family, His prescience and eternal life with Him!

So the next time you see a commercial for Christmas (there are no commercials for Salvation) or see a picture or hear a song about the World’s Christmas, remember that there is really much much more to Christmas than you can create, so think about God & make sure that children know the truth.

Today I realized that I’ve been tested to see if I’ll walk with God.

This morning I got an email from my estranged wife telling me that beyond being a horrible husband I was also a horrible father to my children and it upset me.

But I still went to Church and class and right away I remembered how one time Jesus said who is my family? Then He said (pointing to those who were with Him) you are.

Then the pastor was quoting some scripture that said that hard times would come to those who believed. And I thought I believe and while remembering all of the rejection that I have had and at the same time much acceptance from those at Church, I thought these are hard times and the scriptures warned that these would occur, I began to feel much better.

And all of the sudden I thought I’m glad that I’m back here cuz when what’s happening agrees with what the scriptures say, so something is correct!

Society says that God does only proper things thus if something is wrong it’s because you are wrong.

But then why does The Word of God say that bad things will happen to those who believe?

Because God is not running this World, Satan is and Satan thinks he’s better than God so he wants to screw God believers up!

So it’s much better to just view things as God says and avoid the unnecessary anger & emotion.

At least that’s what I believe.

Has God been good to me?

Let me take a moment to tell you some things and you can answer that.

I was relentlessly abused when I was growing up.

I was at one time diagnosed as having Fibromyalgia, but I don’t have it.

When I went to Malaysia I was bitten many times by Monkeys, got extremely ill and was diagnosed to have Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), but I don’t have it.

I was attacked and beaten up, robbed, my car stolen and my brain stem broken and all of the educated medical adult humans said that I would die or be a vegetable 9 years ago and counting and I’m neither one.

My parents won’t talk to me but so what.

My sister and her husband severely neglected me, abused me and sued me for more than $10,000.00 and won.

My wife and 2 of my 3 sons have abandoned me.

I have had a rough life but I’m happy. Why? Because God has been good to me. I could complain, but why should I? I have had BIG things come at me again and again but regardless of what it was God has never left me. He has always carried me through everything.

I see many things today that DO NOT MAKE SENSE to me at all. For example, I watched HGTV exclusively because I thought that is was clean. I thought it was. But what I have been shown by the Lord is that it is all about the world and very contrary to God.

At first I was offended by the name of a show called Divine Design. It had nothing to do with God only the designer. Then I began to realize that people always said “I love this or that”.

And I thought love? Why do they say “love”? Love doesn’t mean Like or that makes me happy and it’s not what the Bible says!

In John 3:16 it says:

16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
NIV


This didn’t mean that God felt good about the world or that the world made Him happy. No. We were ALL sinners but He loved us. God does not sin but we do. God does not allow sin to be in His prescience but He adopted us into His family.

So clearly Love means much more that something that is felt about things!

And society is misusing Love today!

What goes on when I am asleep? I honestly have absolutely no idea. But, ever morning something that I think is new comes to my mind and I think about writing to you.

So, what goes on when I am asleep? I don’t know but I do know what I always do…I think things through and do some research and then write them down, read it over and then send it to you.

This morning was no exception.

As I was eating breakfast I was thinking.

When Jesus was born He was called Immanuel which means God with us. In Matthew 8 when the Apostles were in the boat with Jesus and the storm came up and scared them didn’t they know that they were with Immanuel? Evidentially not.

So I should be more understanding of those who get upset over things because the Apostles were human and God put that in His word and people are human too and they can read.

And sometimes life on Earth can be very upsetting to us, but God made us that way!

I am extremely blessed because I see things in a completely different light, but God made me that way too!

I just don’t get it. I have tried and tried but I can’t.

So often people (who know that they were created by God) look only at what is going on right now in their lives in this world and they are unhappy. They never just look at their creator for satisfaction.

Believe me, I have been through some extremely bad times. But I know who created everything that I know and I know why I’m here and there I’m going and I believe it so I am happy.

I also know that this is my personal and individual choice. But to me it seems so obvious that I simply do not understand why others do not see it and why they’re not happy.

God is the same yesterday, today and forever and you can see evidence of this over and over in the Bible. So I just don’t understand why people don’t see it and believe it and they seem to fixate on their lives here on this earth and they’re not happy.

If you think that your life on this Earth is very long just think about how long forever will be…

Overcome

I know, I’m weird. This morning while eating breakfast I thought about this and wanted to share it with you so I had to do some research and write it all down. So it took some time because I want to always be sure that what I share is correct (at least according to me) and complete.

The word overcome according to my dictionary means:
Overcome: to conquer, to make helpless or exhausted.

In the scriptures one of the verses says:
1 John 4:4

4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
NIV

So, according to my research, overcome means to conquer and we have overcome the World because of the One who is in us.

Now, think about that. It’s pretty astounding! As humans everything that we can see or think or do is of this World but because of the One who lives in us WE HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD!

So now nothing that we see or think or do is just a normal thing, it’s a God thing! We’re not of this World, we have overcome it!

Finally, so much makes sense to me!

Why am I alive?

I have gone through 8 months with no pneumonia. How is that possible?

And several other things that I won’t name.

Why?

Because the One who is in me has overcome the World. So what I can see and think and do is not of this World. Things are on His terms now not my terms.

And that explains why this World is not my home. I’m just passing through. On His terms not mine and the World doesn’t see things that way.

Nope.

If the World can’t see it then it isn’t real. And because of that it can be difficult at times for us to imagine.

That’s why I view my human life as such a blessing from God.

Because continually according to this World I should be humanly dead but I’m not.