Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
If local law enforcement officers tell distraught mothers that a man has the right to sit naked in their daughters’ swim team dressing room,
THEN
Nobody better complain about God having the right to do anything He chooses to anybody who supports this dangerous fist in His face.
There are a lot of opportunities these days to develop outlandish ideas of what will happen next in this uncertain world.
But I have seen a definite shift in people’s reaction to the subject coming up.
Most people are not laughing anymore about making preparations for dramatic changes.
Most people acknowledge that normal life as we know it cannot continue much longer.
I am starting to see the most over-used word change from “absolutely” to “I don’t know.”
It is becoming more difficult to live the dual track of normal going to work every day, and preparing for the day when the tracks diverge and we can’t.
We Americans have trouble comprehending that our prosperity and luxury and ease are the tiny exception to the rule of human history—and to the rest of the world today.
The looming potential of that wonderful life coming to an end is simply too much, to spend time thinking about it.
But people are thinking about it—unless entertainment and biased news keep them drugged a little longer—and that will be the suicidal cool-aid.
Since the beginning of 2016 I have considered making predictions for this year.
For the better part of a year I have felt very strongly that we cannot make it past the summer of 2016 without the intruding evil making a move that dramatically disrupts our lives in America.
Today, I am reviewing this Bible verse over and over, because I have to:
“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.”
Trump’s latest affair is with American politics at the highest level.
Think about it for a moment, and see that it has many ingredients of other affairs.
—the thrill of the chase
—the lure of winning the prize
—the new experience
—the biggest rush ever
—the forbidden fruit (outsiders not allowed)
—the attention like never before
—the appreciation and worship
—the fun of reckless abandon
—the apparent absence of consequences
But, Trump is still faithful to one person through all the affairs, including this big one.
Yes, Donald Trump is still faithful to Donald Trump, with accountability to no one.
Sobering. Think about it.
On Good Friday morning I heard this story twice in one hour on American Family Radio—first by Robert Jeffres, then by Sandy Rios.
A well-known theologian named Barnhouse experienced the devastating loss of his wife.
He was struggling and asking God for something to say to their three small children, now without their mother.
As they were riding in the hearse on the way to the cemetery, a large truck passed, momentarily casting its shadow on them.
God answered the father’s prayer.
He asked his oldest child whether she would rather have them hit by the shadow of the truck or by the truck.
She answered, “The shadow, because it can’t hurt us.”
So there, “the shadow of death” cannot hurt us, if the Lord is our Shepherd.
I believe Ted Cruz is the best offer we’ve had in my lifetime.
He is the one true statesman since Ronald Reagan.
Real Americans understand what it means to “bring America back” to what our founders created with great sacrifice and dependence on the Creator.
It costs a lot to gain freedom—sacrifice, blood, lives, passion.
It costs a lot to keep freedom—sacrifice, blood, lives, passion, and vigilance (the hardest during prosperity).
It costs a lot more to lose freedom—trading a “mess of porridge” for promises of security—plus the futile sacrifices of blood, lives, and passion after it is too late.
Ted Cruz clearly understands all this.
We need American voters who understand this now.
I think we should believe everything Donald Trump says – – – and run away from him scared as far and as fast as we can.
We have no idea what we are getting our country into.
Americans were desperate for “hope and change” eight years ago.
Americans are now desperate for someone to “make America great again.”
Americans are desperate enough to believe promises without thinking.
Brings to mind a European country—20th century—4th decade.
Turn this statement of infamy into a meaningful word for thought.
What difference does it make to follow Jesus?
One, you don’t have to lie.
Two, the problems of life are not pointless.
I’m going to leave it at that, for you to think and make your own applications.
Following Jesus does make a difference—all the difference in the world, and then some—more, much more.
Urgent message to my children, your spouses, and my grandchildren:
Be sure that your names are written, or get written, in the Book of Life in heaven.
That is the absolute requirement for heaven.
“BE THERE”
I may never have been this passionate about urging everyone to see the movie, God’s Not Dead 2.
I see very few movies in theaters, but I saw this one today.
My keyboard and dictionary do not have what it takes to do justice for reviewing this movie.
Go see it right away, so you have time to tell lots of people about the experience.
And, stick around after the credits.
If you want a special blessing, go to afr.net and listen to Sandy Rios In The Morning for Good Friday.
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