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Armpits!

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Armpits!

Ladies, thanks to today’s advertising media we can now have perfect armpits. I kid you not! Frankly, I do not remember the product that will deliver this beauty but I do recall the model. Her skin was flawless; even skin tone, smooth and velvety texture, and nary a hint of stubble! Her armpits!

Can you believe it?! Is it any wonder we are obsessed with how we look?

Perfect hair
Perfect face
Perfect body
Perfect armpits!

Yes! Ten years ago I could comfortably wear a size 2 jeans; today, some days, I can barely zip a size; well, you don’t need to know that!  :) What happened?

LIFE!

Something the advertising media misses conveying by a country mile! Real life. Real people with real lives – no airbrushing available!

It’s all about you don’t have enough. Not enough car. Not enough house. Not the right shampoo. Not the right clothes. Not the right mascara and your lips aren’t red enough or shiny enough either! Your cell phone cover is plain. Here, eat this hamburger and you’ll be sexy. Here, spend 15 minutes on our machine and you can work off that hamburger effortlessly. And it goes on and on endlessly – sitting on your comfortable, well-loved couch, you are told you need a new one; on your way to a party in your flattering best on a great hair day in your paid-for vehicle, you are told your clothes are inferior, your hair is flat and fly-away and your car is nothing less than an embarrassment!

And I am sick of feeding on their steady diet of dis-contentment!

Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

via Ps 139 KJV – O lord, thou hast searched me, and – Bible Gateway.

Isaiah 43:4 Because I regard you as valued and honored, and because I love you.  . . . 

via Isaiah 43:4 KJV;CJB – Since thou wast precious in my sight, – Bible Gateway.

Ladies, (Guys too) that is GOD talking! To you and me!!

Philippians 4:19 Moreover, my God will fill every need of yours according to his glorious wealth, in union with the Messiah Yeshua.

via Philippians 4:19 KJV;CJB – But my God shall supply all your need – Bible Gateway.

Psalm 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

via Psalm 84:10-12 KJ21;CJB – For a day in Thy courts is better than – Bible Gateway.

Psalm 27:4 Just one thing have I asked of Adonai; only this will I seek: to live in the house of Adonai all the days of my life, to see the beauty of Adonai and visit in his temple.

via Psalm 27 KJV;CJB – The LORD is my light and my salvation; – Bible Gateway.

When this is true of me, the advertisers can digitally correct their models and paint their products any way they choose and I still won’t come up short! :)

I like this! on this 29th day of 2014,

Kathie

Christian Living, Political awareness

Strange Danger

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Never let anyone tell you that ABBA does not have a sense of humor! Never believe the lie that GOD cannot speak through you and touch others through you. In Scripture He spoke through a donkey. In my life here of late He has delivered a message to me through a barking dog! She’s our very own Sara Elizabeth.

When Sara arrived at our home I was overwhelmingly fond of her. Not surprising. We all love cute and cuddly, right?  But cute and cuddly grows to big and loud with bad habits. Natural habits, but nonetheless bad; at least in my estimation.

Sara’s bad habit? Barking. She barks at a falling leaf. Well, not really; but close. And I have hated her for it.

One memory in particular: sick as a dog myself :) head covered in bed with a headache and bathroom conditions and what is Sara doing? Sitting outside my bedroom window barking — for hours! And this disenchantment went on with me for our little Sara for a long time – longer that you probably need to know.

However, ABBA does not give us permission to hate anything, except sin, and He was not about to let me get away with my extreme dislike our little barking dog; nor was He of a mind to teach her to shut up. Although I am certain He could! We tried. An electronic collar. It curtailed her initially but she figured out how to move the collar to the side or she determined that barking was worth this discomfort. We tried vinegar and water spray. She learned the reason for it but again determined that barking was worth the discomfort.

Sara is a living illustration to me. It is her nature to bark. It is my nature to be annoyed, distracted, irritated and want her to shut up now!

To the message!

Sara teaches me both sides of the coin.

When Sara barks she is sounding an alarm. She is letting me know that something not right or at the least something out of the norm has come into view and she cannot be silent about it. She will brave discomfort and even my disapproval to keep sounding the alarm. Neither does she tire easily; she barks till the view is clear, taking a brief respite only when necessary to rejuvenate. She is faithful. She is consistent. And it is obvious to me that she is as extremely fond of me as I have been not fond of her.

I want to be like Sara.

Willing to brave discomfort, disapproval, even vinegar in the face, in order to keep sounding the alarm of things not right that present themselves in my world. To be faithful. To be consistent. To be extremely fond of those who are extremely not fond of me.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. via John 3:16 KJV – For God so loved the world, that he – Bible Gateway.

Let me see if I can pull this together.

Lets say that my barking Sara represents a Christian sounding the alarm of sin and God’s Judgement to the world’s people. And the world’s people are represented by me – annoyed, irritated, some filled with hate, even to the point of obsession to silence her.  Do you get the picture? Do you get the message?

Now I had some choices, since it was obvious Sara was not going to shut up — like I said oh to be like Sara!! I could pray; I could make peace with Sara; I could come to understand why she barks; I could even with GOD’s help come to appreciate Sara’s faithfulness and her love for me to keep me safe from the not right. Or I could continue in my hatred for her and her message, and work myself into a crazed frenzy seeking a way to shut her up. Do you get the picture? Do you get the message?

Now to the other side of the coin.

This message came closely on the heels of it registering with me that I was no longer  as annoyed with or as distracted by Sara’s barking as I had been. She was still barking but I was going about with my business and turning a dull ear to her. I was becoming sort of apathetic about it. She was still barking but I paid little attention to it.

Lets say now that Sara represents people; people hurt, wounded, hungry, cold, sick with disease, both physically and spiritually; people ‘barking’ their cries for help along with those ‘barking’ their defiance that they are not sinners in need of a Savior. And me? Who do I represent? The Christian Church who has been going about Her business, turning a dull ear; live and let live; keep your sins to yourself and go to hell if that’s what you want to do – I don’t really care, as long as you aren’t bothering me.  Get the picture? Got the message?

Sara is quiet as I type now. The commotion next door has moved on; but I know my little sweetheart, she’s watching and when strange danger comes she will not shut up until it’s gone! 

So, humor me. There are other analogies in this lengthy post that I am certain I have not fleshed out for us – do you see any? And will you share them with me on this 10th day of 2014?

Kathie

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A Recommendation

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I finished book 2 today! It is this one:

The HarbingerThere is a companion DVD entitled The Harbinger Decoded. I viewed that again today with a group of Sister-Friends. They want to see it again next week. They want others to see it. It is important. This book is important. This DVD is important. But more important here is the MESSAGE. The Message to you, the message to me; the message to America. I invite you to hear.

To give you a taste, hear and see:

Please consider investing your time to hear this Message on this 10th day of 2014 ~~~

Kathie

Christian Living, Holy Soap Box, Political awareness

Chasing Rabbits

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While preparing for tomorrow’s Sunday School class, I chased a rabbit. Here’s the rabbit:

Society is permeated with a ‘don’t judge me’ attitude; we hear those words again and again.  I recently heard Bill O’Reilly using the ‘judge not’ Scripture.  Bill readily quoted verse 1 of Matthew 7 as many do but what does verse 5 in context say?

Matthew 7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.  (source)

Does it not make sense to read the text before chapter 7 to understand Chapter 7? This section of scripture is the Sermon on the Mount; many people had gathered around Jesus and He was teaching them. It starts in chapter 5. We are well familiar with it, aren’t we? Chapter 6 is specifically addressing the heart of man, why we do what we do. Jesus taught them to do their good deeds for the right reason, not to make themselves look good; obviously some were doing that. From that He went directly to talking about prayer and how to pray; giving them the disciples’ prayer, often called the Lord’s Prayer; and from there He began talking about fasting and their motives for fasting; He talked about materialism and those things that we value so highly; He talked about how we view matters; about who or what we serve and that we cannot serve Him and money; and then He finished up the chapter instructing them about worry; something He told us to NOT do and immediately from worry He went to Judge Not.

The thing that comes to my mind is MOTIVES. So could Jesus be saying to us that we cannot judge the motives of people; we cannot judge their hearts, for sure we can hardly judge our own hearts, right? So – GOD is the judge of hearts; we are the inspectors of deeds, not motives. And we only get to inspect their deeds IF our own motives are pure in doing so and if we have allowed Him to clean our own hearts and lives. THEN we are in a position to lead others to getting their hearts and lives clean of those wrong deeds He has already JUDGED.

In summary, Matthew 7:1 is NOT teaching we are to be closed mouthed, live and let live, saying nothing about sin flaunted in our society.  Verse 5 is clear, there are splinters in the eyes of brothers/sisters that they need help with, but until we have CLEAN eyes ourselves, we are in no position to help them.

Judge not does NOT teach that sins in society must not be named; it does mean that I do not know what motivated you to commit those sins; therefore I will not condemn you for getting to the place you are in them, but neither will I refuse to offer you a way to escape the Judgment that GOD has already decreed for those sins.

And based upon the WORD of GOD and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, that’s the way it is and I’m on the record with it. :)

Blessings my Friends on this 4th day of 2014.

Kathie