Saturday, May 05, 2007

WOW, WHAT A WAKEUP!

Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at ?. ..

Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96
Bethel , Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl , Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah , Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro , Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro , Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville , Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield , Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond , Virginia 6/15/98

Littleton , Colorado 4/20/99
Taber , Alberta , Canada 5/28/99
Conyers , Georgia 5/20/99
Deming , New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson , Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee , California 3/ 5/01 and
El Cajon , California 3/22/01

Virginia Tech, Va 4/17/07

Sincerely,

Concerned Student

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Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,

God

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How did this get started?...

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Let's see,
I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained
she didn't want any prayer in our schools.

And we said, OK.

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Then, someone said you better not

read the Bible in school,
the Bible that says
"thou shalt not kill,
thou shalt not steal,
and love your neighbors as yourself,"

And we said, OK...

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Dr. Benjamin Spock said
we shouldn't spank our children
when they misbehaved
because their little personalities
would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.

And we said,
an expert should know what he's talking about
so we won't spank them anymore..

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Then someone said
teachers and principals better not
discipline our children when they misbehave.
And the school administrators said
no faculty member in this school
better touch a student when they misbehave
because we don't want any bad publicity,
and we surely don't want to be sued.

And we accepted their reasoning...

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Then someone said,
let's let our daughters have abortions if they want,
and they won't even have to tell their parents.

And we said, that's a grand idea...

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Then some wise school board member said,
since boys will be boys
and they're going to do it anyway,
let's give our sons all the condoms they want,
so they can have all the fun they desire,
and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school.

And we said, that's another great idea..

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Then some of our top elected officials said
it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.

And we said,
it doesn't matter what anybody
does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good....

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And someone else took that appreciation a step further
and published pictures of nude children
and then stepped further still by
making them available on the Internet.

And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....

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And the entertainment industry said,
let's make TV shows and movies that promote
profanity, violence and illicit sex...
And let's record music that encourages
rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes..

And we said,
it's just entertainment
and it has no adverse effect
and nobody takes it seriously anyway,
so go right ahead.

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Now we're asking ourselves
why our children have no conscience,
why they don't know right from wrong,
and why it doesn't bother them to
kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.

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Undoubtedly,
if we thought about it long and hard enough,
we could figure it out.
I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...

"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"

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A friend sent this to me via email. This is really something to think about.

Blessings to all!
CJ

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Choices

Our lives are filled with choices; where should I go to school, where should I work, should I aim for this job or that job, what house should I buy, how much should I pay, what car should I buy, how much should I pay, what woman/man should I marry. Choices are truly a large part of this life.

Our God made a choice! He made a choice to create the heaven and the earth, He chose man to care for the earth. Man made a choice to be the keeper of the earth.

For every choice there is an action, for every action there is a reaction.

Deuteronomy 30:15-19

15. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

16. In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

18. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

19. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


*** Every action has a reaction***

What we choose to do take us down one of two paths, life or death.

This Christian road isn’t easy – we’re like foreigners in a country where hardly anyone speak our languish, everyone else is just living and enjoying life all around us, they seem to have the best of everything, jobs, houses, cars, and all the other benefits.

Proverbs 30:8-9

remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. Vanity - Excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments.

9. Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

*** Every action has a reaction***
Today we need to make a choice – choose to live a life pleasing to God. How many of us know when we make that choice, life as we knew it changes.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The friends that we use to have, they down talk too us anymore, the places that we use to go we don’t go there anymore, the way we use to walk we don’t walk like that anymore, the way we use to talk we don’t talk like that anymore. I am a new creature all because of Christ Jesus.

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Romans 8:28-30

and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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Justified

1. To free (a human) of the guilt and penalty attached to grievous sin.
2. To declare free of blame.

Glorified - To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt.

1 Corinthians 1:26-29

for ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

27. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

28. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

29. That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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Confound

1. To cause to become confused or perplexed
2. Fail to distinguish; mix up: confound fiction and fact.

Choices… Its time to make a positive choice… choose life!

Blessings to all!
CJ