Is it important who we are? Do we know who we are ...it appears some people go on and on, not appearing to know who they really are. They appear to want to be acknowledged for something.
Let it be known that I am not one of them. I use these avenues mostly as a log of my thoughts ...as I have so many of them, and I'd like to refer back to them and see what I thought. I believe our world is progressing so fast, I sometimes feel I can't keep pace ...with what is pertinent and important, and I don't want to lose what is important to me.
But I don't just want to refer back to what I thought during any particular time ....I like to refer to what God has said during certain times of history, or His story. And I am not arrogantly saying this, but I feel God influences my thoughts many times, and touches me personally ...and that means a lot to me. I don't want to lose that, so I write it down. I can look at it later, discern, and make changes ...and allow Him to again guide my thoughts, and mature me.
So this is mostly for me ....perhaps my children can glean something from it, someday. It is really secondary, whether you find interest in it. If you do, then that makes me happy that we are perhaps thinking of similar things that are important to us ...but if you don't, then I am not offended nor discouraged.
Back to the mention of His story ....do we get to feeling that the Bible is of too much content, too much of who God is? Would we feel more content if we could just believe God is love, and let our own feelings work out the rest?
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With 'twitter', such profound things are tweeted ...like saying "The sky is blue." Now, I do prefer that to telling me that you just trimmed your toenails. Then there are emotional outbursts, with no thought for substance. But, there are those who try to join ...and add something of significance. Many of you prefer Facebook ...which often seems like Twitter, with visuals. Facebook serves a great purpose when sharing personal things with others, but when those personal things include politics ...that is another thing. Some would say they really hate it.
Let's look at that: Politics guides and dictates ideologies. When it dictates too much, you have an actual dictator. And it is not within their interests to include God in the picture.
We can view government like a relationship between parents and children ...where children become adults with supposed rights and responsibilities, but still want their parents to treat them like children ...but when confronted with responsibility, they protest that they don't like being treated like a child.
So Twitter is like sitting at the family table, and no one listens to what you say, so instead of just twittering away ...you tweet anything you want & everyone can see it. Like Facebook, caring and sharing are very important. There seems to be a real need for dialogue though, when the main perspective offered in nothing more than propaganda that leads us further from God. It is then that I believe a different perspective is very much needed. And it is then that the requirement of separation of church and state, really seems important. But it seems to have been violated.
Our government, which should be limited to the extent of not dictating ...has infringed upon our faith, while at the same time saying those who are for limited government are uncaring and don't want you to be happy.
Often an even more unpopular subject than politics, is being honest about God ...which requires dialogue. Those who disregard God, say those of faith have radical ideas that border on cruelty. Yet, it appears to me that what we see in the Middle East, and in our own States ---supported by unions, slanted by the media, and not addressed seriously by our government ---is all too familiar to those trying to do the informing, and too much like those who were trying to break down the door in Sodom.
I think police officers, firemen, EMS crews ---are all so valuable to us as rescue crews. I was wondering ---do people actually prefer to be rescued, than be warned?
You'd think that warnings would minimize the need to be rescued. But it seems we are a people who don't like to be warned, yet do like to be rescued.
I would think warning people would be a good thing. People are warned not to drive fast on icy roads, not to swim in shark infected waters, not to jump out of an airplane without a parachute ---you may follow 2 out of 3 of those, but how many other warnings do you ignore?
For a time, it may seem exciting to warn people ---it kind of makes you feel like some sort of hero ---but not if they laugh at you!! But, why would they do that? Isn't a warning, an important message that may help prevent future unpleasantries?
Our main concern should be with the validity of the warning. If I were to get the message from God, I would say it is an important message I'd want to deliver.
I ask myself, why didn't Jonah want to deliver the message? I wouldn't want them to suffer; I'd like to warn them ...why didn't he desire to? Was he picked on, laughed at, and ridiculed? We know nothing of his youth ...yet, we know what he should have done as an adult, irregardless of his past.
I have no claim to be a prophet, yet, what if I recognized signs ---inclusive of also understanding past (history) events, and the tendency of repetitiveness of our mistakes ---and when I tried talking about it, few people would listen.
Well, that has happened ---the second part, anyway. I still contend that I'm not a prophet, nor does it profit me much to say what I say ...but I don't say it out of counting my listeners. Many of us may feel that few people did listen ...as we re-elected someone unlike Martin Luther King Jr., who said that no man (or woman) should be judged by race or color ---only by his (her) character.
Well, how about one who is lacking in 'good' character ...and the characteristic things are used solely for a divisive purpose? Remember what the Bible says, that is, if you believe in it and have read it ---that only God is good, and all good comes from God. So, if we try to promote something the Bible clearly states as wrong ...that is not 'good'. How self-destructive is it to try to redefine 'good', and even redefine God??
