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I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late!!
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My
confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was
Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call
those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel
threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are,
Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say,
'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting
ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It
shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time
of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on
display at a key intersection
near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as
fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't
like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians
like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who
believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I
have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly
atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it
being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way:
where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we
aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a
sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are
wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we
knew went to.
In
light of the many jokes we send to
one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not
intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you
thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early
Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this
happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely
profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply
saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God
to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out
of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly
backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His
protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent
events..... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started
when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few
years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we
said OK.
Then
someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says
'Thou shalt not kill'; 'Thou shalt not steal,' and 'Love your neighbor
as yourself.' And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we
shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little
personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. We
said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
(Dr. Spock's son committed suicide.)
Now we're asking ourselves
why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from
wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their
classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long
and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do
with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to
trash God and then wonder why the
world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say,
but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through
e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending
messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how
lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through
cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and
workplace.
Are you laughing yet? Funny
how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your
address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they
will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass
it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it . . . no
one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't
sit back
and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My best regards, honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
I myself Carl Heck feel this way about our country and where it is headed to hell folks W/O Jesus we all will persih. But you tell yourself God would'nt do that to me.I give to the poor andI don't hurt anyone or anything. I respect my Mom and Dad . What culd I have done that would cause Jesus to say to me when I go to Heaven "Depart from me I knew you not!"
It boils down to these simple questions: Have you ever looked at someone male or female and thought about them in a way that should only be for your husband or wife.... then you get to burn.
Or have you ever looked at,wished,treated some object like your home,car,boat,lawn like it was the best thing on earth and you spent all your free time tending to it,waxing,cleaning,pruning it... then you burn.
or have you ever said to yourself. My company makes millions they won't miss these notebooks,pens,paper clips...etc.,etc.. or have you worked some where and eaten things from the fridge that were marked for someone else.... well you burn..
By now I hope you get the point none of us can keep the Ten Commandments and if someone says Oh yes I have then they are lying. For we are human and as humans it is impossible to please God because of the sin nature that was entered by Adam and Eve. and all the "good works" you or I do while on this earth will never erase our sins from God's books. Only by one way and by one Jesus can we be saved! By accepting Jesus Christ as Our personal SAVIOR now and living our life in complete surrender to Him and getting to know God by daily reading, learning from the bible and by the Holy Spirit indwelling in each of us will we get to hear those Blessed words spoken by Jesus Christ "Welcome my good and faithful servant come into your rest for your work on earth is done," may God bless you and shine His SON shine upon you this day. AMEN Pax CH
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