Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Ever consider how the Ten Commandments are one more, great act of mercy by God?
Think about what He did through this gift. Having created the Universe – the unified essence of everything made seen and UNSEEN - He knows exactly how it works. He knows the precise distance that electrons must keep in each orbit in order to maintain attraction to the nucleus, but not crash into it. He knows how the mass of Jupiter serves as a great gravitational screen for the Earth to keep asteroids from destroying it.
Equally complex are the laws that He instituted in the moral and spiritual realm. There is a reaction to every action in the spiritual and moral world like there is in the physical. Spew fire and heat from the back of a rocket motor, and there is force that pushes the rocket in the opposite direction.Before God made the secrets of the spiritual world known, we had to guess what the secrets were push our lives around.
In His kind grace ad mercy, he told us the secrets. If we would but apply the secrets to our lives, we would get the reaction from the universe that would be grand and glorious. The secrets insure our success and contentment. The secrets proffer our closeness to this creator God:
Have no other God before Him (including the one you think He is)
Make no images
Don’t misuse God’s name
Remember Sabbath
Honor your Father and your Mother
No murder
No adultery
No stealing
No false witness
Do not covet
If we could live this way our relationship with God and mankind would be peaceful and joyful.
But, no. We think we know better – thus violating #1 right off. We think, "It will be better this time if I do not tell the whole truth. If no one asks me, I am off the hook and no one will be the wiser.”
What we are actually saying is that God does not know best. He either did not think of this situation when He created the laws governing moral behavior, or he lied. Either way, I know better so I can withhold a little of the truth – not lie – just withhold a little truth and it will be OK.
No it won’t. Two of the tenets fall with such a decision – the Whole Law is broken and I am my own god.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

BIG Change Needed

BIG Change?
BIG media makes BIG announcements of BIG lead by Mr. "BIG taxes for BIG business" and BIG money pulls out. BIG needs for capital leads to BIG layoffs and BIG dispair. BIG media ignores BIG correlation with BIG silence.
No BIG surprises here.
Just Listen.