It’s time to get back to our discussion on warfare strategy that I started a few posts back.  I have been busy redesigning my page and in discussion, more than normal, in the comments on the last post.  Thanks everyone for your input.   

I originally talked about how it is time for us, the Church, to reassess our warfare tactics to bring them in line with the increasingly effective tactics of the enemy.  Then we looked at seven major strategies that our enemy seems to be using in this nation at the present time. 

Then I decided to expand the thought on our response and what is needed to combat each area specifically.  I hope some of you actually got something from it.  To date there are no comments, so maybe I am way off base.  I hope not.

This brings us to the next topic in this discussion.

Entertainment.  Let me start by just reiterating what I said before.  What we need here is a return to personal introspection and Godly reflection.  These seem to be from another era for most.  I believe we must constantly look at God and to God to appreciate who He really is, and who we really are.  Then we can look at ourselves and actually begin to like ourselves.  When we actually truly like ourselves, we won’t need as much outside entertainment. 

Boredom.  We all need something to do.  We work hard in jobs we despise.  We spend time with people we do not like, for various reasons.  We go places for our loved ones that we really can’t stand.  We poke and we plod through most of life and we get bored. 

So we go for it whenever we can.  Entertainment.  Something to take away the dull pain that is existence itself.  Football, baseball, basketball, pro, college, little league, even t-ball.  Races, boxing, wrassling and wrestling.  All types of sports at all levels.  And if you think the enemy is not involved, just look at how popular women’s beach volleyball is getting. 

Let’s go on some more.  Movies, television, DVDs, music, 15 different gaming systems that we just must have.  Bowling leagues.  Game nights.  Parties.  Dancing.  Dining.  Internet.  Blogging.  And a whole lot of things that people do that I would never mention here, just to pass the time.

I could go on and I am sure you could also.  We are all just looking for something to do.  Why is life so dull and painful that almost all of us succumb to this enemy tactic that is simply designed to keep us from our God? 

The enemy wants us to be occupied with anything but the things of God.  Even when we do not have a thing to do or that we can do, where do our thoughts go?  Usually they become preoccupied with finding something to do. 

Our strategy is simple.  We need to send that demonic boredom away and make doing the work of the kingdom a constant driving force in our lives.  If we will truly grab hold of what God has done for us and the enormity of the task He trusts us with, we will see the urgency and realize how little time we have to accomplish our work.  And if doing His work does not bring joy to you, then maybe you are not where you should be.  I actually hate to say what I just said.  But it needs to be done. 

True joy comes from helping someone see the need for salvation.  True joy comes from spending time with our Father.  The angels in Heaven throw their parties every time someone gets saved.  (Luk 15:10) 

Now that’s entertainment!!

All the rest is just wasting time. 

Love you all

***Your comments are welcome***

Jonathan Wallis was born on April 4 1975.  His father was a steelworker and his mother was a waitress.  He didn’t have much when he was a child because his parents split up early in his life.  But he was a good boy and when his mother had to work at two jobs he had a lot of time alone.  He loved to read and stayed out of serious trouble and after a rough start, did very well in school.  He put himself through college and graduated with two doctorates.  At the age of thirty one in 2006 he developed a laser treatment that removed tumors in the brain without invasive surgery.

Susie Johnston was also born in 1975.  Her parents were in college when she was born and the strain on their relationship was tremendous but, they worked through it and were able to raise Susie in a good, loving, giving environment.  She became a nurse and in 2003 moved to South America to open an orphanage and medical clinic.

Josh Burroughs was born in August 1975.  He was placed in a state home immediately because his mother was in a rehab program and didn’t want him.  He was moved around for a few years and was abused.  But the Burroughs, Bill and Gloria, adopted him at 10 years of age.  With a lot of love and affirmation they motivated him to also finish college and move into research.  Just this year he announced, along with his team, that they had developed a cure for AIDS.

By this time you might be saying to yourself, “Wait a minute.  I haven’t heard of any of this.”  And you would be right.  None of the above happened.  I made it all up.  I was just wondering, what might have been. 

These three fictitious people, born thirty three years ago, might have been real.  They might just be three of the over one million casualties of war that happened in the worst battleground that existed in 1975.  That battleground was the womb of a woman that was told it was her right to kill an innocent.  An unwanted and unplanned child could be slaughtered in the womb and discarded as trash by any woman for any reason.  What an age of compassion and enlightenment we live in. 

Legislation was passed as the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), and signed into law in 1970.  This established the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality

In 1972, the United Nations held the first Human Environment conference which led to the development of special government agencies like the UN Environment Program to help regulate and set environmental standards.  This was so we could make sure and protect this earth we live on. 

In 1973 came the Endangered Species Act.  Peter Singer was also working on his book, Animal Liberation, which was published in 1975.  His main thesis is that if women can have rights, then animals should too. 

Our enemy also won a major victory in 1973.  Around the same time so many came to the defense of the planet and the animals that live on it, a few men sold out to the enemy and overturned many state laws that had protected the innocent child. 

And look at how far we have come.  We have a multitude of laws protecting the environment and animals.  We have groups out to convince us of global warming and animal species extinction.  We can go to jail for inhumane treatment of an animal.  We can’t even, by law, put a dog out of its misery in old age but instead, must let a veterinarian do it, in case we cause it to inadvertently suffer.

Peter Singer has moved on to teaching that a child is not even a person until some elusive time when it obtains, “rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness.” These are required for a child to have the “essential characteristics of personhood.” 

So it’s okay that since 1973, because of some of our most prestigious judges being sold out to the enemy, we, as a nation, have slaughtered almost forty million innocent children in the name of selfishness. 

Imagine the potential that has been wasted.  Some of the earlier casualties of this warfare would be reaching the ages of maximum contribution to society.  God had a plan and a set of abilities and gifts for each one of them.

In the fiction I wrote at the beginning of this article, Jonathan was aborted because the parents didn’t really love each other and didn’t want a kid.  Susie was aborted because her parents found her to be inconvenient and an unfair burden to come from an evening of fun.   And no one was there for Josh’s mother to tell her that she could do something different.  The center she was in just wanted the child out of the way. 

There are many reasons that some think they should murder the innocent.  And I really hate that I sound so harsh.  And I do not judge or condemn anyone that has made this decision.  God loves you no matter what you might have done.  He can forgive you for whatever you might have done. 

I just wanted to point out one thing. 

Satan told Eve a lie.  She believed it and brought all of us into a war we didn’t ask for.  He is still lying.  He is telling some that murder is okay and he is telling some that it doesn’t matter if others do it as long as they don’t.  If anyone is okay with abortion, whether a woman having one, or a politician okay with it, or a person ignoring this by their vote, they are serving the enemy.

Anyone that could be a party to the dismemberment of an innocent, helpless child is deceived by the enemy of all of our souls.

Don’t buy into his lie?

I really love you all

I do not really want to write a lot of political commentary on this blog.  But a thought came to mind that I just have to get out of me. 

The liberal Democrat will let you know in many wonderful words and beautiful sentiments how much they care for everyone.  And at the same time, if they are in politics or entertainment, they simply do not conceal their attitudes of superiority and arrogance. 

The conservative Republican, on the other hand, does not usually portray any concern for the common man.  But their actions sometimes do show they care a little bit.  But they are much better at hiding their condescending thoughts about us.

The thing that seems obvious about both sides is simply that they care mostly only about themselves and will say anything to promote what they care the most about.  I am talking about those on both sides that are in the limelight.  The prominent, important people in our world.

But my real question is, are we any better?

 Rom 3:10  … “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;

Evidently not

Love you all