2020
6/15/20
How many of you would venture to say that this year has
been a weird ride so far? Would you be
surprised if some of us said that what is going on was predicted and we should
not really be wondering at all? Or,
would some of you contend that this year actually refers to a historical
pattern that God wants us to look back and to see why things are the way they
are today simply because we tried to make things work on our own? God has never abandoned His children for any
reason and He never shall in the future either; however, He does expect us to
live according to His Ways and when our hearts become darkened enough to
warrant turns, then God allows such actions to occur in order to grab our
attention. Unfortunately, it looks like
we are not realizing the TRUE reason for all of the animosity and turmoil in
the world today, but we need to recognize this folly of ours before God says
that He needs to intervene further and deeper His Way. But even then, will we be too far gone to
understand that the heavy correction was a sign of our ill choices and turn
back to God? I guess time shall only
tell.
Psalms 23:1-6
“The Lord is my
shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me
to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the
paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yeah, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou prepares a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth
over. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
for ever.”
My mother taught me a very good phrase to remember before
you have to invoke it down the road, and that phrase is this: “hindsight is
always twenty-twenty”. This small and to
the point piece of advice has come back to haunt me more than one time and oh
how I thought that things could be different if I had just taken another pathway back when. But at the same time, I am
looking back and knowing what I learned from those painful times, I can
hopefully avoid them again if I think about things before I rush into them
again. Also, I pray that somehow I can
get it through my children’s heads that they do not have to be hurt in order
for them to learn things about life, and that their parents will be glad to
offer preventative advice so that troubles and painful settings are minimized. Advice may not always immediately be accepted
or even heard properly, but the words are planted and sound advice is worth
more than money if applied adequately to your life. There are no coincidences with God and there
never shall be either, we need to stop and take a good hard inner look at what
our hearts are demanding because if we continue this path, the year 2020 shall
haunt the entire world for the remaining chaotic future.
On a more expanded note, this year has been witness to
many tragic events so far in which the first five complete months have given us
many issues to talk about, to share, and to learn from. Sadly, all that we have noticed so far is
selfishly driven results that seem popular at the moment but will eventually take
their toll on the population of this nation.
But wait, there is more, for other major cities around the world have
joined in this destruction parade in order to get needed justice for certain
causes. In no way am I saying that
things need to change for they do but as long as we lean on selfish, worldly
standards for answers not much is going to be accomplished besides words and
lack of true commitment. Answers shall
never be obtained or reached which will lead to only more anger and division;
promises to keep things in order and to be solved are just that promises which
so far have not been delivered upon. So,
why would we continue to expand upon such whimsical ideas and lies? Even the videos and representations of people
coming together and praying on one knee symbolize them bowing to humans for a
human cause through human submission, that is a lie and shall only reap hurt,
anger, and further bitterness when efforts fail.
In addition, if we believe that destroying one side of history shall
heal wounds then we are in for another pandemic but not due to any viral cause
but from a spiritual aspect. We cannot
change history but we can learn from it and if any of you have believed God
has this big eraser up in Heaven and He erases names left and right, then what
good do you believe this erasure shall result?
God has given us the ability to learn from our past, and
if we adhere to His Ways in proceeding with such a memory that reflection and
healing for the future shall be a glorious process. But if it does not proceed with God’s Wisdom
then the enemy can thwart such precious healing and unwind anything that God
has planned for our lives. However, this
past vision need not be used if our vision in completing things correctly
the first time graces our lives the first time around. I have worn glasses or contacts ever since I
was in the 4th grade and for quite a long time beforehand I could
not see correctly. But I did not mention
anything to my parents about it for a while and even though I thought I was
seeing things clearly, it was not until my glasses came in that I figured out
just how bad my eyesight had been in my recent past.
While my glasses have done a superb job in correcting my vision, my eyes
have continued their path toward ugliness, yet, through modern technological
advances humanity has kept up with my progression of blurred myopia. Do we understand that this type of process is
working freely in our societal hearts today but with one exception? That exception is that instead of putting
on the spiritual glasses that God provides, instead, we are putting on
sunglasses to keep the True Light away from showing us the way; protecting our
image instead of changing our hearts.
It has become evident that we do not see anything wrong
with our eyesight, that everything around us is for real and the only way to
fix the issues we have is to rely upon the younger generations’ options. Remember, these options come from
undisciplined and flippant individuals that cannot see past their own sunglass
vision, blurred as it may be. Instead of
teaching them responsibility and truth about survival while everyone has been
in “lockdown”, we have ignored such time and have allowed them to run amuck
without any borders present. Do not
become haughty adults; you have not been the most attentive citizens either to
look at the responses we have demonstrated over these past few months. We have had plenty of time to get back to the
basics of our lives and even had plenty of opportunities to return to God, yet we
have squandered this time by continuing our selfish practices and increasing
our worldly manners. All we have done is
to speed up the prophecies that have been forewarned against our nation,
proving once again that when humans decide to move our hearts on our own we
fail eternally.
Now, we have another suggestion presenting itself in a
national basis and that is to change names of teams, schools, cities, and
nations all because it may offend someone.
Changing the names of every individual or every town, city, state, or nation
shall not change one thing or bring any peace to any community. One can force others to change what clothes
they wear too, but it shall not touch what goes on inside their hearts, for it
is the heart that needs to change, not the physical. Police brutality, health care issues, retirement, and job quotas seem to grace our lives and worry us each day forcing us to
reason if we shall have the necessary means to provide for our families or
not. Then, we have the recurring
accounts of those who do not care to work but demand that they have everything
modern within their grasps, and if not, their grasps become personal on other
people’s lives. I could go on and on and
still not cover every aspect that our eyes see each day just in our nation
alone. Does this sound like a one-sided
affair to be blamed? Be honest, does it?
NO way!! Yet, it is, it is a human
blamed result, and a human result alone.
Also, as I watch these events unfold, I cannot help but
hear the silences of the Church and how she is not taking the Word to the
streets during this time. I have only
watched a few street preachers being filmed in the areas of unrest; this is a
telling spot and one that grieves my heart because all of these acts of protest
and violence ongoing deem us a lost nation who no longer has a direction in
which to follow. Sadly, my heart feels
the laughter that Satan projects in our supervision and custodial duties as
leaders of the world. We fail to see
what our sinful ways have created within our hearts and the onion’s blackness
now seeps with the foul stench of decay, we can no longer hide its devastating
condition inside. One day, our entire
land’s body (onion) shall be sliced open by God exposing exactly what we have
done to ourselves in such a manner that will be so devastating that this nation
shall never recover from its wounds or be restored as she has stood so proudly
from the moment her existence began.
The twenty-twenty vision does not have to come as hindsight;
it can be obtained now if we put on the vision of God within our hearts. How evident are we finding out that we have
just been going through the motions as leaders of the world, both spiritually
and physically for our hearts are rooted so deeply into ourselves that we
cannot see past our own noses? We have
failed to look back on our historical setting and to recognize the
responsibility that was placed upon us by the Founding Fathers and even the
colonists before them we have just continued to play games with the blessings
that was given to us and while doing so taking advantage of every situation
that was presented before us. Which
brings us back to the present conditions and the scenarios that we witness
today, once again we are not taking up the truly responsible quest that
challenges us, we face these conditions in the same manner as before while
screaming for changes all around with absolutely no mention of God at all;
except in curse words of course.
Also, in this current vision set of ours, how are we
faring with our current vision status Church?
Are we noticing that we no longer have any power or authority to make the true difference in most people’s lives today?
Do we even recognize this sin of ours?
Do we sit back, look out over our valleys and upon our hills, place our
fingers over our mouths and stare out in wonder of how we lost our mission and
our faith or why our actions and words mean nothing to people today? Even worse, we mainly apply this type of
staring and wondering to the physical and totally not think about the spiritual
aspect and this is because we have allowed the world to infiltrate our minds
and hearts deep enough that we cannot see that we have become the epitome of
blindness.
There is one more section of this twenty-twenty vision
status that needs to be explained and for the most part I have never had the
ability to do this until a few years ago after God got a hold of my heart and
began to show me things about the human and they are controlled. The phrase that my mother told me so many
times previously can be used not only for past experiences but when used
Correctly, it can project the future as well.
If we put on the corrective lenses of the world then we shall only be
able to focus our sight on what is currently occurring around us for that is
all the world wants you to understand at your point in life. As the verse for this article describes God
should be the One who leads our hearts during times of trouble. The 23rd Psalms has always been
looked upon as a peaceful passage of Scripture, and it is but at the same time, we cannot ignore that while walking through the valley of the shadow of death,
that means war is ongoing and we are in the midst of it. It also means that when God is our vision our
sight is 20/20 not only for past experiences, current events but for the future
as well. God’s Ways and Laws are the
only ones that a person can learn from that includes the past, present, and
future for all human laws are reactionary and cannot predict the future or
truly correct the past.
So, Church, we should be excited about the year of 2020
for we should be able to comfort those who are truly looking for answers to the
issues that afflict us today. We should
be actively witnessing not only from the doorsteps of our church parking lots
and flag poles, but we should be on multiple corners of our towns and cities
waiting to provide such helpful information to people. We should see the hurt in their eyes and hear
their hearts’ cry as they come close to our presence. People are in tremendous pain and whether or
not they realize it they are searching for true answers to the vile tricks that
we all have fallen for, yet no one is calling out to them with the Good News of
the Gospel of Christ. We do not need to
be afraid of what this year has brought us so far, we do not need to be afraid
of what this year is currently throwing at our faces, nor do we have to be
afraid of what is yet to arrive, but Church we need to step up and to what
Jesus commanded us to do; it is for this reason and condition today that God’s
Word said for such a time as this.
It is difficult for me to believe in coincidences, while
I understand that sometimes they occur I cannot imagine that many coincidences
in a certain time frame do not mean anything specific. I cannot help but notice all of the turmoil
that has been gaining over the past few decades or so. While most blame a political party or the ideology of certain people we fail to recognize that our “2020” vision is
blurred. The blame game that is
currently present is nothing new to this nation and to the values of freedom,
for freedom has always been fought for throughout history, the only problem is,
is that most of the time we fight for it in the wrong manner or in the
incorrect Name and method. As God as
opened my eyes to all of the mess that humans face, He has done so in such a
spiritual manner that it totally overrides the mannerisms of the physical. Even though the physical is being touched our
spiritual lives are dead and we are only acting out with a smelly spiritual
heart, the only way we know how to in the condition we are in; thus, the
actions we are displaying are not coincidences but the result of decaying
hearts that are now physically appearing.
Church, you smell just as bad, so do not begin to believe
that you are above what is transpiring right before our eyes. YOU are the
reason the world has such a hold over countless lives for you have not
completed the work that Jesus commanded us to do. I include myself in this part of the equation
for I am part of the Church as well, all of us have come short of the glory of
God but less are actively doing something about it. I do not know if God has begun the process of
weeding out this nation due to its continued sin against Him or not, but with
the way things look, I do not think conditions shall change much any time
soon. If this type of life is
transpiring, how can we hope to change the lives of those who are lost or who
shall lose loved ones during today’s events and those that are to come? You have heard this next sentence from God
over and over and you shall continue to hear it as long as God gives me topics
to write about, it is strictly up to us, our choice, to complete what we have
started, so in whose direction are we going to follow?
It is simple, First off we need to repent as in totally
and completely repent. Next, we do what
Jesus commands us to do, get our hearts back into the Word of God, drop all of
the individual, petty, and selfish garbage we hang on to, and then most
importantly go into the world and preach the Gospel to those who are willing to
listen. Until that moment we choose to
do what Jesus tells us to do, we are sunk in every way, shape, and manner. God loves you so very much and it pains His
heart to send His hand in such a manner before us, but we have ignored His
20/20 vision He has given us to use, its fruits are ripe and are being
harvested today, but we still have the opportunity to put on His glasses and
see 20/20 vision for our future. Talk
about a switch in the phrase that many of us have heard most of our lives, we
can actually see into the true future if we change our vision today and turn
back to God.
DLB
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