Watch Out

Don’t worship in prosperity and disbelieve in adversity.

Darkness

Darkness can put grooves in your face. Evil people can wrinkle up like a fig drying. Some will start to look like a dried prune or fig.

Suffering

Suffering is caused by the misuse of one’s own free will.

A Twisted Knife

One can be bad because he sticks a knife in your back. But far worse is one who not only sticks the knife in your back but took both hands and twisted it as well.

Keep Your Promises

I know of a father who called his runaway daughter and said he had cancer. The daughter had run away because he always made promises and didn’t keep them, because he didn’t want to part with the money.
He tried to get her back with sympathy. He tried to hold a possession that wasn’t his. He failed.

Crooked Man

I know a man so crooked they had to screw him in the ground.

Obituary

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
* From bondage to spiritual faith;
* From spiritual faith to great courage;
* From courage to liberty;
* From liberty to abundance;
* From abundance to complacency;
* From complacency to apathy;
* From apathy to dependence;
* From dependence back into bondage.”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase. Everyone must realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to freedom. Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.
(Taken from an email I received)

Policeman

I would not want to be a policeman today. When I was young, the police were very much respected. I still cringe if I’m driving and a policeman in a patrol car pulls me over to the side of a road. Yesteryear you knew it was a policeman. Today you don’t. What happened in between yesterday and today? Drugs. Long ago everyone knew and abided by the rules. The police were the good guys, the criminals were the bad guys. Each played by a certain set of “understood” rules in our society. Then came drugs and all the previous rules went out the window. Today, whenever a policeman pulls someone over to the side of the road, if it really is a policeman, or any time a policeman confronts someone, there is always the chance that the policeman will be murdered. Not killed; murdered.

Words To Live By

Unlock the fetters of wickedness
Untie the cords of lawlessness
Let the oppressed go free
Break off every yoke.
Share your bread with the hungry
Take the poor into your home
Give clothing to the naked
Do not ignore your own kin.

An Eye for An Eye

When someone commits a heinous crime, let what he did to another be done to him. For the person who shoots a police officer in the stomach, the one who shot the pistol should placed up against a wall, on TV, and shot in the stomach. For the father who poured gasoline on his son and lit him on fire, they should pour gasoline on the father, on TV, and light him up. When someone murders others, as was done at Fort Hood, he should be placed up against a wall, on TV, and executed. No trial. No judge. No plea bargaining. No prison. Why are we spending time, energy and money on a known murderer? When someone murders another he should get what he gave. An eye for an eye. If you think this is too extreme, wait until God returns.