WHERE DOES TROUBLE COME FROM ?

May 14, 2025 By Leave a Comment

To be more specific—the real question—
WHERE DOES YOUR TROUBLE COME FROM ?

I’ll give you a simple test question about trouble—not general in the world, but in your life experience, like now.

When trouble comes your way (big trouble, little trouble, any trouble), does it make you turn to God ?

Does every trouble bring this Bible verse to your mind, to do it on the spot ?
“Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.”

If trouble serves that purpose, then you can know the trouble comes from God, to bring you closer to Him.
“When You said, ‘Seek My Face‘, my heart said, “Your Face, Lord, I will seek.’ “
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The mystifying, sometimes maddening feelings that often come with trouble, still happen (we’re still human), but even that is subject to Almighty God ruling from above, watching over all His dear ones through it all.
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Then the rest of Biblical principles apply and come true–
“Tribulation (trouble) works patience, and patience works experience, and experience works hope, and hope makes us not ashamed.”
“We know that all things (good things, bad things, ugly things) work together for good to those who love God, those who are called according to His purpose.”

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If you don’t have trouble in your life, if you say you don’t have trouble, then you don’t need to read this, or you’ll say you don’t need to read this . . . . . . yet.

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Do we love Jesus ?
How much ?
How close to Jesus do we want to get ?
Do we want Jesus to use everything—everything—everything in our life to get us closer to Him ?
Do I want Jesus to use everything—everything—everything in my life to get me closer to Him ?

Is it not true that troubled times bring us closer to Jesus more than good times ?
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I just want to know You more.

“I want to know You,
I want to hear Your Voice,
I want to know You more.
I want to touch You,
I want to see Your face,
I want to know You more.”

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ESSENTIAL MINUTIA

May 14, 2025 By Leave a Comment

This is an assortment of the minor details of life, some with explanation, some without.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – ‘Minor Detail’—we’ve often heard or used that phrase to highlight how a particular matter is anything but minor.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Billy Graham emphasized three things essential to success in his ministry—Prayer, Prayer, Prayer.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – James Dobson emphasized three things essential to success in his ministry—Detail, Detail, Detail.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – The Bible verse that tells the creation of the big lights, ends with a simple mention of “and He made the stars also.”
— In all 6000 years of history, who ever knew how big that little phrase at the end of making the big lights (sun, moon) that order our days “. . . the stars also”—how big that would be.
— We always knew there were too many stars to count.
— Who ever knew how big each one of them is ?
— Who ever knew how many there are, until now ?
— And now, with advanced science exploring ‘out there’ and counting, we have a better idea how many stars there are.
— So, how many stars are there, really ?
— We have no idea, there are so many, and so many more ! ! !

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – If God took care in creating all the extravagant detail of the universe, the monumental and the minutia—and then topped it all by creating us—most surely He cares about taking care of us, in every detail.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – This includes daily routines in our personal lives, our families, our children, our health, our fitness, and challenging changes in details for seniors.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Consider the VERY FIRST thought, word, action of your day.
— God, spouse, bathroom.
— Pattern, to habit, to auto-routine.
— Must not be automatic, not just a routine.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Is each morning, each new day a routine ?
— Not on your life.
— Your life, you’re given another day—why ?—what for ?—from God.
— What will you do with this non-guaranteed gift ?
— THANK THE GIVER, for starters.
— Find what He has for you, why He gave you another day.
— Commit to giving it back to Him.
— Faithfulness, service, sacrifice, PRAISE.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Covid mandates.
— Essentials open, others closed.
— Says who ?
— ESSENTIAL CHURCH, watch the movie.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Jesus fed over 5000 people, with plenty of free food, and then He told them to gather the leftovers, the crumbs, so nothing is wasted.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.”

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Jesus often got up a great while before day and departed to a solitary place and prayed, and sometimes he prayed all night.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Details for seniors.
— Little things that were/should be automatic routine, now take most of your time, and all of your concentration.
— ‘Important Things’ become MOST IMPORTANT.

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Does God have everything covered when we don’t, when we start losing it ?

ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Time alone with Jesus, every day, often.
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Read SENIOR YEAR(S) on this site (type in search bar).

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Family, Health, Political---Cultural, Time

D.O.S.E

May 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

(Just to think about, until I tackle another area of serious inefficiency, waste, fraud, theft that robs humanity of the truth and the life and freedom we could have.)

Department
Of
Spiritual
Efficiency

See also D.O.M.E.

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D.O.T.E.

May 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

(Just to think about, until I tackle another area of serious inefficiency, waste, fraud, theft that robs humanity of the truth and the life and freedom we could have.)

DEPARTMENT
OF
THEOLOGICAL
EFFICIENCY

See also D.O.M.E.

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VERBAL HIDING – – – JUST LIKE LATIN

May 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

“Trust me”—just as dangerous from theologians as from politicians.

Quoting/Trusting/Revering early church fathers set the stage for the church developing exclusive standing on “understanding God”, and hiding the Bible in Latin, so people depended on what church leaders said rather than reading/studying/understanding the Bible directly, for themselves.

One example:
This has persisted to this day through holding onto and revering trinity and all its gobbledygook ‘explanations’—or lack thereof because the impossibility thereof.

Why can’t anyone see the theological “emperors have no clothes” ?

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Political---Cultural, Time

COMPLAIN LESS – – – EXPLAIN LESS

April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment

“It is not your job to explain what God is doing in your life.”
—–James Dobson

Apply the above to your life.

+ Is it not true that all complaining and all explaining is based on our concern about what others think of us ?
+ Is it not true that our life should be based on our concern about what God thinks of us ?
+ And what does God think of us—what does He expect of us ?

Faithfulness is what God expects.
“Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.”

“The fear of man brings a snare.”

“Whoever trusts in the Lord will be safe.”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational, Political---Cultural, Time

FROM NOTHING to SOMETHING

April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment

“God takes nothings, and overcomes somethings.”
—–Tony Evans on afr

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational

EATING WRONG – – – EATING RIGHT

April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment

For Our Body
For Now

For Our Soul
For Forever

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I could leave it at that, for your reflection.
Or I could add this, to direct your reflection:

Most everyone knows how eating wrong or eating right has consequences for our bodies—maybe not immediate, but long-term for sure.

Most people don’t stop to consider how the ‘long-term’ concerning our body is really, really the short-term for our soul.
No matter how we take care of our body, or don’t take care of it, it is all just for now.
The effect of what we consume for our soul is indeed forever, whether we stop to think about it and evaluate the health of our soul, or not.
Not taking in ‘bad stuff’, or taking in ‘good stuff’, may not secure the future well-being of our soul.
Only one thing guarantees the health, the very life of our soul forever—

Eating Right for our soul comes only from the Bible—taking in Jesus and His food for eternal life—

“Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain.
He washed it white as snow.”

Eat and Drink and get your name written in heaven, now.

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GROWING CLOSER ? – or – DRIFTING AWAY

April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment

For everyone who is married . . .
You are either growing closer or drifting away from the one you love.
The secret, the solution, the guarantee—spend time with the one you love.

For everyone who is a Jesus follower . . .
You are either growing closer or drifting away from the One you love.
The secret, the solution, the guarantee—spend time with the One you love.

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EVERY PERSON KNOWS TWO THINGS

April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment

Everyone who ever lived—everyone alive now—everybody knows two things automatically—

One – – – We all know there is God, The One True God, no matter what we say, no matter what we claim, no matter what we invent to substitute for God.

Two – – – We all know there is more to us after this life.
We know there is LIFE after life – or – there is DEATH after death.
We know there is HEAVEN after this life – or – there is HELL after death.

We all know this, regardless of . . .

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