Evil Is As Evil Does!

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” Romans 13:1-4 (KJV)

God says that government is ordained of God, and we should honor and respect the government, and not rebel against it. God will severely punish those Christians who rebel against the government. However, God did not say he would punish rebellious Christians if the government is evil and goes against the word of God.

In Exodus 18:21a, we read, “Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness…” as rulers and servants of the people. God fearing, truthful, hating covetousness (wanting what everyone else has)…leaders, not people with evil ways.

Let us examine if OUR government is evil, and must be protested. The Bible says, thou shall not kill, yet the government authorizes abortions, and fights mightily and secretively those who protest this government sanctioned murder.

We have a president so inept that he is dangerous. This country has lost its honor and integrity overseas due to presidential priorities. Untold vacations, golf matches, and White House parties while civil wars ferment in the Middle East, the earthquake in Japan, subsequent tsunami, and possible nuclear melt down have about destroyed this island nation, but Mr. O spends his time playing golf, picking basketball teams, celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, and leaves for Brazil for yet another vacation—sorry, he’s putting in a little work by discussing ways Brazil can help us (US) increase our manufacturing, and reduce unemployment.

We have navy ships in Bahrain, but when the civil war unrest started, did we reply? No, Saudi Arabia sent in forces to quell the unrest—will they quell this unrest like Libya has by dropping bombs and shooting with live ammunition, and making news correspondents disappear? Tunisia and Egypt have erupted and changed hands, and what does Mr. O say? “You (heads of countries) better stop fighting or, or, or….?” Yemen is erupting, and the government is shooting its people, and Mr. O says…nothing.

We have a president who promised change. Well, he has kept his promise.

When he took office in 2009, unemployment was 7.3%, it rose to over 10.1%, and now hovers at about 9.5%, not counting those who ran out of unemployment checks, or those who got so discouraged they quit looking.

In January, 2009 gasoline sold for $1.81, and how hovers around $3.60.

Mr. O promised to help people with their mortgages. Now 5.7 million people don’t have to worry about their mortgages. They have lost their homes and don’t have to pay them.

We now have a president against oil, gas, and nuclear energy for America. He has shown this by shutting down oil drilling, and blocking new areas where oil could be drilled. He refuses to allow new nuclear power plants licensed, and he is against coal energy, even though it is cleaner than it has been in the past. He sells American oil and coal to Japan and China. He has not pursued the precious metals needed to go forward. He has carried out draconian decrees to take away our choices in light bulbs, cars, and even what we feed our children.

Mr. O is for electric cars, but fails to connect the dots of where this electricity will come from. We can’t just plug our Volt into a tree. It must be connected to the grid somehow, Mr. O.

There was a story on TV this week about “food police” stopping people in grocery stores to go through their carts and expose the wrong foods they were about to buy and feed their families (all in the guise of educating them). Food prices are increasing dramatically, but by presidential decree, there will be no COLAs for folks on Social Security for the second straight year.

The president blames Congress for not passing a budget, but it was HIS party in office when the fiscal year ended October, 2010. His lack of leadership has the appearance of being almost deliberate. DOES HE REALLY WANT AMERICA TO FAIL—FALL?

Is this the motive for his dithering? Or is he just so incompetent?

In the book, The 5,000 Year Leap, A Miracle That Changed the World, by W. Cleon Skousen, Samuel Adams, one of the fathers of the American Revolution, is quoted saying, “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise virtuous man.” (Subsequent quote taken from Wells’, Life of Samuel Adams.)

I have stopped feeling guilty about protesting the current state of affairs in our country. I now know it is my God given right and duty to protest, and to write, and to make noise. Please dear readers, don’t just believe everything you see and hear on mainstream media. What you don’t see or hear could fill volumes. Educate yourself. Search other web sites. Read conservative writers, both in print and on-line.

It is our duty and right to hold America accountable.

In God We Trust!! Verify everyone else!!!

"Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep"

My entry today is a little different, and a short trip down memory lane. Please read. I will put my political hat back on at a later day.

When I was a kid my parents and grandparents taught us kids to say our prayers at night. The one I remember, and subsequently taught my kids went like this:

“Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” Then we would ask God to bless a number of people, our parents, grandparents, and others.

Some folk told me I shouldn't teach my kids that they might die in their sleep, that I should teach them a “more peaceful” bedtime prayer. I'm not sure where the original prayer came from. And I know as an adult that “rote prayer” isn't the best way to pray. We should pray from our hearts whatever is on our mind and in our needs at the time we pray. However, this bedtime ritual was an “introduction” to God, and to a prayer life.

I got saved at about age five, as a result of Sunday School classes and my grandmother's teaching. We prayed in Sunday School, and learned at an early age about Jesus, and His saving power. Today, as an adult, I try to ave daily Bible reading, sometimes morning and night. I use the faithful King James Version Bible, and have read it cover to cover. I will admit I don't get there every day, but most every day. In the last few years I have kept a reading journal to show where I read. What it shows is when I didn't read.

Some of my favorite parts of the Bible are the Psalms and Proverbs. I was reading there in Psalms today, and came across the following verses:

“I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.” Ps. 3:5; and “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.” Ps. 4:8.

These verses are very close to my childhood prayer. When I am ready to go to bed, my childhood prayer can still be my night time adult prayer. As a Christian, I know that when I lay me down to sleep, God will protect my soul and spirit. Should I die before I wake, I know Jesus will be there to take me to Heaven. Should I make it through the night, I will awake refreshed, and in peace, for Jesus has kept me safe through the night.

Can you relate to this simple prayer? Do you feel the peace and safety when you lay your head on your pillow? You can if you have Jesus in your heart, and go to bed with a prayer on your lips.

Outrage Fatigue

I haven’t written for my blog for quite sometime. A lot is going on, both locally, and around the world. I have been having difficulty forming my thoughts that could be uplifting, and not completely negative. However, with the world, national, and local headlines so bleak.

Like I said at the beginning, it’s been frustrating lately. It’s almost enough to make a person lose hope. But, then, you have to ask yourself, where is your hope? What foundation is your hope? In the government? Fat chance. (No, thin chance, sorry Mrs. O.) In your job? Hold onto it. In a political party? I haven’t seen any brilliance in the local winners of the past election, nor any brilliance in Columbia, nor any brilliance in the US House of Representatives or US Senate.

I have felt compelled to write using only the top keys of the keyboard. If you don’t know what I mean by this, I will give you an example. But I don’t like that feeling I get when I get so outraged.

The @#$$ stock market goes down, but the ##%$ oil prices go up. It makes it ##%&*ing hard to fill up the tank in my car. This will surely help in the economic recovery!

Mrs. O continues her assault on personal freedoms and families by passing the @#47*&^@ food restriction rules, counting salt grams and fat grams, outlawing fundraising bake sales at schools, all the while eating baked lobsters on yet another #@#%*ing vacation.

The president and his #@#$$%ing CZARS rule the roost on what type light bulbs we can use, and how many watts we can have in our kitchen, what type refrigerators we can buy, and what type toilet we can put in our house.

The @#$#@ TSA’s pervert tactics of x-ray scans and “pat downs” would get any man arrested if conducted in the public square, surely encourages people to want to fly. Flying may or may not save oil, but, I for one will not fly until such tactics are changed.

The number one ranked Christian leader in India and also in Pakistan were murdered by Islam extremist for insulting Allah, and no outrage or response by our Christian president, but Washington was outrage when Rep. Peter King holds hearings to find out if Muslims in America are assisting in notifying agencies when they suspect their children are being recruited by Islam extremists to become terrorists. The claim was that there are other groups who are extremists. Maybe so, but let’s hold hearings on the ones we know about. If other groups are becoming terrorists, let’s study them also. Just don’t paint every dissenter as an extremist!

Wisconsin’s battle with @#@$@ unions and striking teachers and missing senators brings the state government to a standstill, but the outrage by protesters is for the ones trying to pay the bills.

In South Carolina, the Senate works days and weeks in trying to pass an immigration bill that will satisfy Washington, DC and the U S Supreme Court. What happened to states’ rights? What happened to: if you are here illegally (per Federal Law) you are also here illegally per S.C. law!?

Social Security and Medicare are “elephants in the room.” Obamacare is a @#$#ing poison pill with more tax law in it than medicine. While some folks out of work have found jobs, most are receiving 75% less pay than they were before. The upper-income jobs, the ones needed to be able to tax these folks enough to pay for all the government programs, will not return. Everyone needs to be retooled to something new to be able to work.

Like I said at the beginning, it’s been frustrating lately. It’s almost enough to make a person lose hope. But, then, you have to ask yourself, where is your hope? What foundation is your hope?

My hope is not on earthly things or people.

"But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation”. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 (KJV);

1"Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," 2 Thessalonians 2:16 (KJV)

"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19 (KJV).

Does my faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ promise that I will never run out of gas? No. But He promises, if I have faith, I will not run out of spiritual gas. When the world is in a whirl around me, I remember that we Christians win this race. Read the last Book in the Bible. Satan, and his demons, are overcome and literally thrown into the lake of fire.

I try to read my Bible daily. This gives me a daily walk and talk with God. I pray for my friends and family, my church, my town, state and country. I pray for patience so I can write and type without using only the top keys on the keyboard. The more I do this, the less sick and frustrated I feel about world events.

I can’t change or control anything that is going on. But, my God is in control, yesterday, today and forever. He holds the world in his hands, and He will mete out justice to all those who scorn Him and His Word.

Have YOU walked and talked with God today?