Are We Becoming White Rats

Are We Becoming White Rats

God has been sending warning messages through illness, natural disasters and political upheaval in our country. Unfortunately most are not noticing, they are blaming "global warming", politicians and the increase in physical and mental illnesses, for their troubles, they think if they do something to thwart the tide of calamity, they can change or control things.

I am noticing that many people are on drugs much more so than even 20 years ago. They have drugs to thwart the side affects of other drugs they are taking. Young people are on as many as 20 drugs each day, even more.

I took a young woman into emergency one day for problems. When I saw how many drugs she was taking, my instinct told me that she was overdosing on drugs that were suppose to help her. I asked the attending emergency room doctor if he thought this was true, and he declared adamantly that it was.

It is staggering how many young adults are dependent on drugs to keep them healthy, but they never seem to get there.

We never heard of things like "Sleep Apnea" or "ADHD", when we were young adults. I know several people who are on government assistance who are using oxygen in their homes because of these things. And, these people are under 40 years of age. They live the life of an unhealthy 90 year old.

A doctor I had, once suggested that I have a "Sleep Apnea" test, when I wasn't having any trouble with my breathing. I was at the office for something totally unrelated. He suggested that I have small air passages so there might become a problem. I had to laugh, "but I have no symptoms now", was my response. He assured me that I could develop them. I laughed some more and realized at that point, that doctors are looking for test objects rather than diagnosing illness. OF course not all doctors but many.

Those on public assistance are in danger of becoming "white rats" for the sake of research rather than patients with real problems.

Either those on government assistance are being led to believe they have these illnesses or God is disciplining this nation through illnesses that never existed just 60 years ago.

Whatever the case, we are losing our ability to exercise good sense in simple matters of life. The reason is clear to those with discernment, we lack God's wisdom, are in bondage to human thinking and are becoming more and more ignorant, physically and mentally ill than ever before.

We Did It To Ourselves

These words were given to Israel, but the principles still hold true for every nation. No nation can shed innocent blood continually without the anger and wrath of the Lord.

Those who think they can get away with murder merely because the victim is little or unseen, have a very rude awakening coming. God will not be mocked nor will He be lied about, justice will be done.

Numbers 35:33-34
"33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. 34 You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the Lord am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’”

We must also remember that there is a point at which we cannot reach the hearts and minds of the wicked. They are completely void of conscience and mercy should not be extended to them. No matter how much the wicked cry out for mercy, God will not send it because their desire for their own mercy is unthinkable because of the lack of mercy they showed to others.

Isaiah 26:10-11
"10 Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness;
He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the Lord."

"11 O Lord, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, [b]fire will devour Your enemies."

1 Samuel 8:18 ""Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day."

We have chosen the leaders of our nation, the leaders that sanctioned and endorsed the murder of millions of babies, not to mention many other evils that are an abomination to God.

Too much blood and evil dominates this land, even if we repent we will still have to be judged, the babies must be avenged.

Friendship with the World Dilutes Us

Friendship with the World Dilutes Us

I am reminded what happened to Solomon because he married pagan women. He was influenced by them to do as they do. He allowed them to bring their pagan gods into the house and joined them in the proceedings. Thankfully at the end of his life he realized that all was folly.

Too many believers remain close friends with the ungodly and because of this they don't grow past infancy and even regress. I tend to think that if we are not growing we are regressing, we never stay completely stagnant. In order to keep ungodly friends we have to remain silent about many things, laugh at their foolishness and indulge in their sin, if only by our lack of response to it.

I take "come out from among them", very seriously. The only reason to be in the company of an unbeliever is to witness Christ, unless we work with them, and then we can let our light shine brightly, so that they will see Christ in us.

We Know the Voice of Our Savior

We Know the Voice of our Savior and Obey!

John 10:27 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:"

A piece I wrote back in 2011 describes vividly to me the passage in John 10:27. Knowing it was true was wonderful enough, but seeing it fleshed out in life was a special blessing.

November 2011
On our recent trip to Israel, I met an actor in Nazareth village who portrayed a shepherd who was tending his goats. As we approached the coral that the shepherd was guarding, we reached in to pet the goats that were clustered as close to their shepherd as they could get. He was on the outside of the pen while they poked their noses through the slats to reach him. Some of us ladies walked up to the pen, but by then the goats were walking away from the front of the pen. One of the ladies called out to the goats to come back. She spoke several times only to be completely ignored by the goats. The Shepherd saw what was happening and spoke two words in Hebrew to the goats and they instantly responded and returned to the front of the coral where the shepherd stood. The goats appeared not to hear the strange voice at all. The voice of the woman was so unfamiliar that they didn't even lift their heads to turn and look at her in curiosity.

How often do we turn our attentions away from the voice of Christ to listen to the voices of the unsaved or wrong teachers? We look to man first and when their teaching fails, we clamor to hear from God, He is our second choice rather than our first.

This episode with the shepherd reminded me of the Words of our Lord when He said "my sheep know my voice and they obey." In this real life picture of the goats obeying their master we see not only obedience but immediate obedience and great joy in that obedience. The goats loved to be with their shepherd. We watched as the shepherd opened the coral door to let them out and walk away from the pen. The goats stayed so close to the shepherd that he could barely take a step. They stepped on his feet and jumped up on him to stay close.

I loved this real life message that God was showing me. The Lord Jesus Christ wants us to be as those goats. Clamoring for every moment with Him, following Him no matter where He goes, keeping our attentions on Him every moment. The goats did not just follow Him because He commanded, but because they loved Him. There was no hesitation in their obedience because they loved to please him.

We should be so in love with our Savior that it is His voice we listen to first and all other voices that are not familiar to His commands and directives are ignored, given no attention at all. Do we live in the confidence that we can hear His voice to the point of knowing the difference between His commands and the false prophets and teachers? Do we keep our head straight ahead, heeding not the

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unfamiliar voice of the world or those who do not understand what God has told us?

If we love Him, we take our instruction from Him and only listen to those who walk closely with Him. We listen only to those who know His Word and are obeying it. When someone comes along to divert our attention from Him by human knowledge, we should pay them no mind whatever and even correct them that they may not influence us.

The more we remain silent and do not address wrong teaching, the greater chance we have of being sucked into the lies of the evil one. We must mentally fight the deception and verbally refute it when it comes at us. The longer we ignore a problem the more likely that problem will grow into worse and worse disobedience.

If we desire to be close to our Savior, we must stay close to His Word daily and intimately in conversation with Him. As long as the goats stayed very close to the shepherd, they were safe with no chance of being deceived or harmed. We have a lot to learn from that shepherd and his goats. We can love our Shepherd as deeply and completely as those goats loved their shepherd, but to do so, we must set aside our own desires and pride, to trust Him completely.

Let's follow the Shepherd; He has all the answers to everything perfectly!!!

Faith and Works

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The Thief on the Cross had a Work

The Thief on the Cross Had a Work

Those who think the thief on the cross had no works, might have to rethink it, I did. I have always thought of the thief on the cross as having no works until I the light bulb went on this morning as I pondered it all. The thief on the cross had one very important work as he hung there, he witnessed to the other thief.

Luke 23:39-43
"39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”

40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said to Jesus, “LORD, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”

43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

Images Can Lie To Us

Images Can Lie To Us!

It is a violation of God's Word to make any artistic images of Christ, so the artists in past centuries who did this were disobeying God on two counts.

Acts 17:29 "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device."
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Since we are commanded not to make images of God, then we should never have a picture of a man pretending to be Christ.

My husband would be angry with me if I put a picture on the wall of another man, not him, and called that man by his name.

God is a jealous God, He does not want us to worship, by admiration, a picture of a man, but He wants us to worship in Spirit and in truth. If truth is important, then calling a depiction of Christ, that is not Him, is the same as lying.

John 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

If there is a picture on the wall of a man depicting Christ, all we have to do is to ask one question; "is that man in the picture really a picture of Him." If the answer is no, because no one took one of Him, then we are lying in claiming he reminds us of our Lord.

When we yearn to look at a picture, to have something we can see with our eyes, to have faith or to fall in love with Christ, then we lack faith.

2 Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"

I love my Lord, I have never seen Him, but I know of Him by His Holy Word. That is good enough for me.