Yes, Remember, Yes, Anticipate, But Live In The Now

Living in the here and now

In the midst of the storm ... today's seas allow
Staring astern ... at my ship's past plough
Or into tomorrow ... way out past times bow
Is foolish to my steps on the deck here and now
Rayburn Blair

File away your past, put your dreams in a frame,
Ask God for grace, and live your life for a change.
RB

"Now" by Robert Browning

All of your life that has gone on before, 

All to come after it, you simply ignore

Ah, Sweet –

The moment eternal – just that and no more 

When ecstasy is utmost .... we clutch at its core 

The Illusion Of Time By Alan Watts

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion
of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as
nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all
powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important
future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost
completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do
not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other
experience than present experience. We are therefore out of
touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about,
described, and measured with the world which actually is. We
are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and
numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.” 

If Not Now.... When

If you have kind words to say, 

Say them now. Tomorrow may

not come your way, 

Do a kindness while you may, 

Loved ones will not always stay; 

Say them now. If you have smile to show, 

Show it now. Make hearts happy, roses grow, 

Let the friends around you know 

The love you have before they go;

Show it now. - Anon.

"Be wise now...." Psm.2:10.

"Now shall mine head be lifted up ...." Psm.27:6.

"Now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee." Psm.39:7. 

"I will pay my vows unto the Lord now ...." Psm.116:14.

"Remember now thy Creator ...." Ecc.12:1.

"Behold, now is the accepted time." 2 Cor.6:2.  

"And Jesus answering said ... Suffer it to be so now: 

for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness ...." 

Matt.3:15.

Grown-up, Adults, who are still children, just haven't grown
out of their juvenile "ME" pity pits either.  Since self centeredness can't make them happy, and several mates
didn't satisfy, and precious children didn't either, the last
possibility, which is the only one, is seeking our Creator. He had a plan and purpose for letting you be the only one, of 100 million spermatozoa, clustered around you, to be conceived, and then survive to be born. Of one in a 100 million, He chose only you to have a place in this world. You were that special to God. Now, you had better make the most of yourself and show Him you were worth the opportunity. Otherwise, He can certainly put an end to a miserable life, wasted and blinded to its value. But, what then? So stay tuned in to your Creator.  He is there to help you. RB 
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The NOW Generation - What Is Wrong?

By Roderick Meredith

Why do the "good times" sought by young people often turn sour?

   I JUST want to have fun like all the other kids. I want to be free. I want to experience life and not have to be tied down by a dull job and a dull marriage." 
Sound familiar? 
It ought to. For a whole generation millions of teenagers and young 20s have wanted fun and fulfillment. And they want it NOW and they each want it for ME. 
   A genuine cultural revolution has been in the making. In the last 20 years a literal flood of books has appeared on understanding and improving the self We have been abruptly exposed to greater acceptance of sexuality both in and out of marriage, a new preoccupation with the body and physical fitness and, above all; to a frantic search for the "good life," ripe with leisure, new experiences, fun and games. 
Where has it all been leading?
The Results
      The "now generation" has fallen far short of achieving genuine happiness and self-fulfillment. Life-experiments have not been self-fulfilling. Many are shocked to find themselves with a broken marriage, a ruined career or simply a depressed state of mind.
   For teenagers, the "now generation" philosophy has produced booming rates of suicide, new venereal diseases, raging alcohol and drug abuse. Millions of unmarried teenage girls become pregnant. Instead of rearing children they conceive, hundreds of thousands of these "me generation" girls allow life to be snuffed out by abortion!
   With unremitting emphasis on fun and on self-fulfillment, the "now" or "me generation" philosophically presupposes that economic well-being is virtually a — right, to be guaranteed by the government. This assumption has run into trouble — even in societies of relative abundance.
   According to the 1980 U.S. census, there are 1.8 million children in America alone who have no adult at home after school. And there are millions of "latchkey" children worldwide.
   Why?
   Well, the story goes, the mothers need to work.
   Or the family "needs" to have a bigger income so they can have the "good life."
   Maybe the woman has to work because she is divorced. Or, perhaps, her husband deserted her.
   Again, WHY?
   Because in the vast majority of divorce cases one or both parties to the marriage are trying to "get" all they can, and "give" as little as possible. That certainly has been my experience as one involved in hundreds of marriage counselings over the past 30 years!
   And desertion by the husband and father is an even more obvious example of total selfishness and thoughtlessness. A U.S. congressional report showed that 79 percent of divorced fathers nationwide do NOT support their own children. Pure selfishness in most cases.
   In another area where children are seriously affected, a shocking article from the April 1983 Ladies Home journal reports the horrifying facts regarding child pornography. The article quotes Bruce Ritter, founder of New York City's Covenant House, a nonprofit youth shelter: "This sickness exists," he states, "because a small segment of society wants it, another segment profits by it, and the rest aren't doing anything about it."
   It's hard to believe that that kind of mind exists! But it does.
   And, please, let's not ASSUME that all of the rapists, robbers, drug addicts, drug dealers, pornographers, child pornographers, adulterers, wife beaters, child abusers and homosexuals are out on some ill-defined fringe of society!

   The "me generation" concentrates so sharply on personal desires that instead of achieving the intimate relationships they yearn for, they grow further apart from others. In focusing on their own needs, they discover that their inner journey brings loneliness and depression. They want to expand their lives, but the strategy they use constricts them — drawing them inward toward the ever — narrowing, closed off "ME." 
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A Newer Green Deal. Yes, Trump, Buy Greenland Make -0.5% Mtg. Loans

I think Trump really does want to buy Greenland from Denmark and ride the high tide to the other side of that world, monetary,  storm on the horizon.

You've heard of negative interest rates, (charged) depositors, by banks, for holding their money, in several nations. But negative (minus) 0.05 % on mortgage loans to home buyers? That's paying the borrower instead of the borrower paying the Bank to borrow their money. 
Socialist Denmark, who is in deep economic trouble and can't subsidize Greenland anymore, has just instituted a brand new mortgage loan deal for home buyers, with a (negative) minus 0.5% interest rate. Now what on earth could that be about? How could the lender banks ever survive such outrageous nonsense, losing money on every mortgage loan made? let me give you my opinion on such a ridiculous sounding arrangement. How can those Danes who have most of the money in Denmark, highly educated, above average in intelligence and quite sane, make such mortgage loans? What do they stand to gain … and not lose all their assets and go broke?  The only way I can see they will come out better, in the end, is …. Located, as big banks are, on the pinnacle point of the global, financial world, at the intersection of the future of world finance, inflation, unpayable debt, loss of confidence in fiat money (currency with no backing) and the runaway train wreck ahead, is to do exactly what they are doing. We will probably soon see the same thing here in the U.S.  My answer is, they prefer to hold people's homes or business's equity and title, which will rise as money's buying power continues to drop,  than to keep their no account money which they can print with abandon anyway. In effect they will own people's homes and businesses when everything goes south in the financial world, and home owners can't pay their monthly payments. They may not foreclose on all those homes, and businesses, but they will have the upper hand, and can set all the terms on a new deal in a "world currency". So, while Denmark is bankrupting, its money useless, and our own debt can never be repaid anyway, I'm in favor of buying Greenland with a boatload of freshly printed or quickly created digital U.S. dollars. Greenland is loaded with all kinds of minable minerals, metals, gold, silver, rare earths, not to mention abundance of sea fish, and its a strategic international air and sea intersection with hardly any people in it.  Now that's a Real Green Land New Deal and Trump sees it. With a new global currency, just around the corner, what Greenland would cost right now, in trillions of weak greenbacks, doesn't really matter. Greenland is bigger than Alaska and three times larger than Texas, but only has about 56,000 people living there.  That's 10,000 fewer than live in my town of Mansfield, Tx. which you never heard of. We could give each of the 11,000 families, in Greenland, US citizenship, medical care, social security, a good paying job, a great hospital or two, several schools, and pay off Denmark's debts for a small fraction of our GDP, gross domestic product. That is $trillions less than what illegal aliens are costing us now, and we would be buying a new place for them to live out the American Dream. 

I'm only half serious, but I'm not yet half witted. God's not making any more land or mineral resources and nations are printing money 24/7. Land's value is going up and the value of money is going down.  And remember, it is Socialism which is destroying Denmark. RB    

The Underlying Phantom Philosophy Of Unbelief

Nihilism, the religion of Satan, is doubt and denial of the inescapable truth of God

I approximate that half of the world's people suspect there is a Creator and the other half suspect there is not, regardless of whatever they profess to believe. I also suspect that the number of true believers, in Jesus Christ and Jehovah God as Creator, may be as many as 10% of the of the total population. This estimate is not based upon global, religious, professions of faith or the numbers which religions' claims, but upon global visible action, inaction, and attitudes. Things like what people do, or don't do, the entertainment they prefer, where they spend their money, and the leaders they choose. 

A thing called nihilism grows out of unbelief's cynicism and rejection of the obviousness of the truths of God. It is the opposite of faith, and commitment to that same inescapable obviousness seen in nature and recorded in the Bible. All things have a positive resisted by a negative, light and darkness, good and bad, up and down, in and out, hot and cold, true and false, belief and unbelief, God and Satan. Every person is on one side or the other of the truths of God, seen in nature, verified in God's word and convinced of by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said, in John 1:9, that He "enlightens every man that comes into the world", but some will deny and oppose Him anyway. That is what Nihilists do.

God's word illustrates the Nihilist in Romans 1:19-21.    " Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse;  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."

Webster's definition of Nihilism is short and simple:  
A viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless.

Wikipedia expands upon the subject:
Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial of, or lack of belief in, the reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Moral nihilists assert that there is no inherent morality, and that accepted moral values are abstractly contrived.

If all that were true, and there were no Creator God, and we were evolved from nothing into a speck of life, then, after billions of years …. into humans, the conclusion of that premise is plain. Humanity would have the same pointless value and destiny of flees, lice and chiggers …. sucking the blood of others to stay alive a few more days before descending back into eternal nothingness.

The underlying, phantom philosophy of Nihilism, I think, was Satan's claim to Eve, in the Garden of Eden, that you cannot trust God. That seed of doubt and denial, planted that day right next to God's two trees of Knowledge and Life, has grown into many global religions of falsehood and thus spiritual negativity. Every religion, without Jehovah God and Jesus Christ at its center, is false and a negative force for Nihilism, in the final analysis .... at the Great White Throne of God.

"Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them .... Be it known unto you all .... that by the name of Jesus Christ ... whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead .... doth this man stand here before you whole. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:8-12.

Where God is, there is hope. Where He is not, there is hopelessness. Life only has meaning in the light of that truth. The hope that comes with faith in God and His remedy for sin, Jesus Christ, brings with it the only real reason to live and be at peace. Nothing else is meaningful enough, and permanent enough, to inspire and motivate a life into worthy pursuits. What power can possibly remedy the spiritual sickness of Nihilism plaguing the youth of today? Seeking, living for, and serving God and His purpose for us all ... Faith, worship, love, obedience, peace, life , in a word, Christlikeness.

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POLL: 89 PER CENT OF UK 

GEN-Z-ERS SAY THEIR LIVES 

ARE “MEANINGLESS”

From InfoWars Newsletter

Societal malaise of nihilism evident in survey results.

A new poll out of the UK reveals that a staggering 89 per cent of young people aged 18-29 feel their lives are meaningless and without purpose.

30 per cent of youngsters complain about being “stuck in a rut,” while 84 per cent say they are failing to “live their best life.”

One of the primary reasons cited for failing to achieve happiness and purpose is a lack of finances, according to 45 per cent of respondents.

The survey, conducted by Yakult UK, found that 80 per cent of people across all age ranges felt they were living without purpose, but that number drops to 55 per cent for people over the age of 60.

More than a third of Brits would completely start their lives over given the chance.

While by no means the only reason, many have argued that the emergence of mass shootings in the west by young men can partly be attributed to the nihilistic malaise that many teenagers grow up experiencing.

Open Borders + Socialism = Unavoidable Devastation

Rapid Ruin With No Remedy

FOX News Reported Today, 8-13-2019

Above the Law executive editor Elie Mystal told MSNBC viewers Sunday.... Concerning U.S. Conservative Partiots who voted for Trump....

"You don't communicate it to them -- you beat them. Beat them. They are not a majority of this country. The majority of white people in this country are not a majority of the country," Mystal said while appearing on MSNBC's "AM Joy." "And all the people who are not fooled by this need to come together, go to the polls, go to the protests, do whatever you have to do. You do not negotiate with these people -- you destroy them."   
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So exactly where is all the hate, racism and violence coming from, the left or the right. If you have watched both left and right media, you know that it is the left-wing Democrats who have been on the attack for the past 33 months, spewing out all that hate, racism and violence. Yes, FOX News and FOX Talk Show Hosts are retorting loudly, on the defense, but have not been the ones using hateful words and racism. 95% of the violence is being inspired and carried out by the Left wingers ... and any honest person knows it.  For every racist you can show me on TV, I can show you 35-40 Liberal Left-wing Democrat liars and false accusers  

Mr. Mystal is right about one thing. White people are now in the minority and becoming more so with every day of open borders, illegal and legal immigrants.

One of the most important negative points about today's open borders is this. It is bad enough to have millions of illegal aliens, who have broken our laws to get into the U.S., and more pouring in every day.  But the really calamitous thing about open borders today, and the main difference in immigrants flooding into this country in the past century, compared with now, is plain to see. That first flood of immigrants came from countries with little opportunity to the U.S., with great opportunity. They came to work and live free. There was no free food, no free housing, free medical treatment, free education and large amounts of free money to be had here. There was no welfare money and medicaid. They came to work so they could pay for all those things themselves. But, today, our politicians have not only left our border doors wide open, but are paying, and want to pay more to literally hundreds of thousands of alien illegal immigrants. Socialism will destroy this country soon enough, but Socialism plus Open Borders is recipe for the quick destruction of even a rich nation. Millions of people, from around the world are making their plans to come here right now and tens of thousands are on their way.

It is impossible to maintain a free country which is Socialist and with Open Borders. A single moment of rational thought will turn a working, tax paying citizen against Socialism as well as Open Borders. Those who are promoting that are either gullible, uninformed, fantasizing idealists, political power seekers, or brainwashed students.  IT WILL DESTROY OUR BELOVED NATION. PERIOD.

Patriots... don't give up your Bibles, your guns or your Common Sense. RB

Tribute To M.L. King's Marvelous, Christian Niece

Here is one of the most honest, courageous women in America, Dr. Alveda King. Alveda has all the signs of a true Christian. Her commitment to the President is based on his solid stand on the issues, not on his moral values. She recognizes the right side of the issues, as do all true Christians, because she is one.  What  may be political or even moral issues with the President, are Christian, issues with Alveda. She is a kind and gentle woman who appears to pay no mind to the opposition she undoubtedly gets, for her solid stand and spiritual convictions, from the side-lines all around her.
Such honesty, faith, and courage deserve recognition. RB

Washington Times Report... (No Fake News here. RB) 

Alveda King: Donald Trump is compassionate, brilliant man

Fox News contributor Alveda King, the niece of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., called President Trump a “compassionate” and “brilliant” man who cares about the civil rights of all Americans, including the unborn.

Ms. King, appearing on “Fox & Friends” Sunday, defended Mr. Trump against recent comments by Democratic Rep. John Lewis, who alleged that the president is “uncaring” and “knows very, very little” about the Civil Rights Movement.

Ms. King said Mr. Trump was very knowledgeable about black history during their visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in February, and that the president has surrounded himself with many knowledgeable black leaders in order to keep the country on the right track.

“The president, of course, is leading the charge for civil rights today for the little unborn persons in the womb who have a right to live,” Ms. King, who directs the anti-abortion group Civil Rights for the Unborn, told Fox News. “We don’t have to defend the president. I believe, and President Trump might agree, that we are defending America. He’s leading the charge, and we are supporting him.”

“Trump himself is a brilliant man. I believe he’s compassionate,” she said. “If you go and look at all of the executive orders, the things for women and science, for African American education, for moving into our communities with Dr. Ben Carson at HUD — there are so many things that he’s doing and he’s working with African American leaders.”

Ms. King later added, “Everybody in America needs to do homework and stop playing the race card.”
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My Comment: Those cautious words, totally true but few, are powerful. This fine lady is a thinking, sensitive Christian who lives and shares her faith. God keep her safe and healthy. RB

Mixed Emotions In The Valley Of Decision: The Cucu Contradiction

They kill innocence and defend guilt

The same Dems who defend aborting innocent babies, 
oppose executing serial murderers. But ask them today
if they are still against execution for the El Paso Killer.

Since its not just murder but the killer's politics, now, they may just
change their minds about Capital Punishment for that racist Kook who hated Hispanics. But, of the 22 dead, he managed to kill far more non-Hispanics.  So he was using Hispanic hatred as an excuse, but really hated people in general, no matter their race. He was more a cowardly, cold-blooded serial killer than a racist. But he wasn't the only killer last week-end. 

A second killer, with opposite political leanings, hated Republicans … but killed nine, mostly black, non Republicans, in Ohio that day. Strangely, though he was a Democrat, he probably killed more Democrats than Republicans. His hatred was obviously against humanity itself. He too was a cowardly, cold blooded serial killer.

That same week-end, in Democrat Chicago, fifty nine people were shot and seven killed, but those killings have become so common-place that it hardly makes the Tribune... or any other Main Street News Media.  The loss of those lives is just as tragic as those killed in Texas and Ohio, but it happens in Chicago all the time. None of all those murders are any ones fault but those who did the killings. If you blame Trump for it, you have to give an even greater part of it to those who spew out hatred for Conservatives and Trump all day long.
  All of you know, by now, that Trump was not my first choice for President. But he got the nomination and Hilary Clinton, though more criminally cultured, and totally corrupt, was and still is a hundred times worse than Trump. At least his 300 plus major accomplishments, in two and a half years, have been phenomenal and almost unachievable. He has almost single handily corrected the radical course Obama's Left-wing Party had turned our nation, and Trump has now realigned it with our Constitution. Even most of the Republican leadership didn't help him survive the Dem's 24/7 attacks against him. Thankfully they have mostly now yielded to his leadership. And, yes, he does have an abrasive personality... but he has, quickly, accomplished what no one else could have. And yet, the Dems hate him vehemently and want any of their full blown Socialist, Communists to replace him. The Dem's foolish desires, for any one of their 22 radical candidates, reminds me of the mixed emotions of Poland in 1944. They were between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. The Germans were occupying their country, and Russia was invading from the north and driving the Germans out. The Poles didn't know whether to be thankful of more fearful. The worst of Demonic Devils was saving them from a great white Shark. It was at the end of WWII, when the Germans were in retreat and the Russians were taking over Poland.  A Polish poet, with great anxiety, wrote this satirical contradiction. "We await you, oh Red Plague, to deliver us from the Black Death".

That same sentiment appears to be the battle cry of today's Left wing, Socialist, Democrat, so called "Progressive" extremists, with this modification …. "We await you, Oh Communist, Red Plague of Death, to deliver us from this Rude, Crude, Dude, Genius, Lover Of evil America and Defender of Christians and Jews. He insults our indignities. We hate this hater, pale people and cops."

What kind of catastrophe will it take to realign this tangent of idiotic insanity?  I pray it isn't a Civil War, but I also have mixed emotions. A civil war could not be worse than America becoming a Communist slave state.

Scientists Developing Part Human/Part Beast ?

Unintended Consequences may be the real story

The Guardian, International, reports an update on scientific research creating a cross between human cells and animals. They are supposedly doing it to produce transplants for humans from monkey-humans, pig-humans or maybe rat-humans. Some people I know would argue this is nothing new since they have been entertained by Hollywood monkey-humans, see rat-humans in the news everyday, and once married a pig-human.  Whether one sees these manimal aberrations as subhuman or superhuman, may be determined by their belief in a Creator God... or not. Builders of the Tower of Babel come to mind.

I have to wonder if this research might eventually result in a rat, pig, or monkeyhuman called "The Beast" in the book of The Revelation. 

The Guardian article is long so I will reprint a snippet and a link to the article.

First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists

Researchers reprogrammed human cells before injecting them in the monkey embryo

Efforts to create human-animal chimeras have rebooted an ethical debate after reports emerged that scientists have produced monkey embryos containing human cells.

A chimera is an organism whose cells come from two or more “individuals”, with recent work looking at combinations from different species. The word comes from a beast from Greek mythology which was said to be part lion, part goat and part snake.

The latest report, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, claims a team of researchers led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte from the Salk Institute in the US have produced monkey-human chimeras. The research was conducted in China “to avoid legal issues”, according to the report.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/03/first-human-monkey-chimera-raises-concern-among-scientists

"The repairer of the breach...."

"The restorer of paths to dwell in …." Isa.58:12

Let us set the example, and train our children, to repair and restore America and our cities crumbling under Socialist leadership...
Using every beneficial utility asset to its greatest practical and productive extent. If the enemies of our God and Constitution will not allow us to restore and rebuild, other, intermediary transitional actions may be required.

The fact is, most of those particular Americans spend their time doing what is neither positive nor productive. Our families and our nation will soon realize that we can no longer afford to waste our energy, time and resources on wasteful, socialistic endeavors.  Technology has made it possible for Americans to subsist on the least amount of work in human history.  The Bretton Woods Agreement, just after WWII, which made the U.S. dollar the Reserve Currency of the world, gave us a financial advantage over other nations. Our part was that we would be, more or less, the world's police force. Now, that agreement is rapidly terminating. We can no longer maintain military bases in foreign lands, guard the high seas and protect the whole world against attack …. while loosing Reserve Currency status.

We are entering what world leaders are calling a New World Order.

World changes are causing turmoil and chaos like the children of Israel's "wandering in the wilderness" looking for a new beginning.

We must not let ourselves and our children waste away waiting 40 more years for political and financial resolutions while neglecting our more desperate spiritual needs. Israel was at such a crossroads when they came out of Egypt, looking for a place to settle, and were stymied 40 years while the old guard died off and their children suffered their parents' revolt against God.     "But as for you, your carcases...shall fall in the wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness." Num.14:32-33.

Wrong turns for individuals, families and nations can result in circular, wilderness wanderings that last for many years or a lifetime.  I am not sure our 20 years war in Vietnam with 58,000 US military deaths plus 3.3 million Vietnamese deaths plus twice that many wounded, was justified, but I do not think so. Another 20 years of war in the Middle East has cost the U.S. more thousands killed and wounded. Those 40 years of war have also cost our nation many trillions of tax payer dollars which are a large part of our 22 $trillion Federal debt.
 I have to wonder if those 40 years of war were our own senseless "wilderness wanderings". If  justifiable or not, they have cost us a terrible price, especially those many thousands of a generation of our young military troops, sacrificed.      "And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted...." Deut.2:14.

Though those hot wars, especially the one resulting from the 9-11 attack, may have been with good cause, but Lyndon Johnson's pseudo "war on poverty" has proven to be totally without merit and $trillions have been eaten up by corruption and waste. The Heritage Foundation's study, of that pipe dream, has concluded that over its 55 years, has cost the American tax payers a bit more than our present, interlinked, Federal debt of 22 trillion dollars. That is three times more than the financial cost of all the hot wars in our entire history, from the Revolutionary War to the present.  And during that period of time, crooked politicians have laid waste many of our major cities with that plundered and misappropriated money ... while they have created a strong  voting constituency, in our major cities, for their socialistic, free money, policies and big salaries.       
"Hast thou not heard long ago …. of ancient times....now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defensed cities into ruinous heaps." Isa.37:26.

The answer to real poverty has proven to be, not free money, but faith, work ethic, opportunity, jobs and a good, free enterprise government. If we can use these troubled times to set the example and train up our children in the right way to go, America can not only survive but prosper in all worthy ways, as God promised the children of Israel....

"And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought ... and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in." Isa.58:11-12.

God Gave Hope To Israel; Is There Hope For America?

And for our wasted cities and wasted people?

Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco and many others.

If you would know how God deals with His people today, look at how he dealt with them in the past. RB

Ezekiel 36 King James Version (KJV)
1. Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
2. Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3. Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4. Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
5. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6. Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8. But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
10. And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
11. And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
12. Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
13. Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:
14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.
15. Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.
16. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
17. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19. And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.
21. But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. (Done! RB)
25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. (Repentance is the key. RB)
32. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33. Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.
37. Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
38. As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord. (This is the point of what is happening in America. RB)

Two Texas Centenarians, Plus, Give God The Credit

The Honor And The Glory....

"For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." 2Cor.1:20.

The year Elizabeth Francis was born, the Oval Office was built, the NAACP was formed, Cadillac joined General Motors and the life expectancy for an American woman was shy of 54 years.

This Texas grandmother  celebrated her 110th birthday on Saturday in Houston, giving credit to her faith in God for a long and healthy life.

Elizabeth Francis, born in Louisiana, was surrounded by family, friends, and community leaders as she rang in an emotional milestone.

"Blessing of the Lord," she told KTRK for the reason she's lived so long. "He's the one keeping me."

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stopped by and held her hand. Born in 1909 and remaining healthy over the years, Francis has seen six generations of her family.

“It’s really special because she’s been able to watch and see all of her grandchildren grow up and be a part of their lives,” Ethel Harrison, Francis’ granddaughter, told KTRK.

Just last month, another Texas woman, Hattie Mae Allen, turned 105 in Temple, a three-hour drive from Houston, and, like Francis, she also credited God.

“We put Jesus first," Allen, who still teaches on Sundays, said at the time.
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Jesus said it: These two women believed it, and Jesus kept his promise to them.

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matt. 6:33

Plus, it is almost certain that both of these centenarians obeyed God's admonition to "Honor thy father and mother".     

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." Eph.6:2-3

So again, as always, the law of sowing and reaping applies here.    

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal.6: