“Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who...
“Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his...
“For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, ‘This is My...
Mass confusion with illusion
In our lives is an intrusion.
What’s before us is delusion
Of the masters of confusion.
Pit us now against each other,
Father, mother, sister, brother,
Make us hate one or the other,
For it serves as their own cover.
Do you get it? All’s deceiving,
Hoping we their...
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Went now on a spending spree.
One went this way, one went that,
But in truth they have one pact.
Two in one with different stories
Stepping on their territories,
But the same with different colors,
One is small, the other fuller.
Two in one, they look the same,
Yet...
I am reading in Psalms 73, which has 28 verses, so I will not quote them all, but the whole Psalm is one continuous story, so I will summarize much of it and then quote other parts of it. And I do believe that at least some of this is relevant to what is going on in the world today and in my...
Proverbs 14 Select Verses NASB1995
2 He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,
But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.
5 A trustworthy witness will not lie,
But a false witness utters lies.
8 The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of fools is...
There’s two sides, right and left.
Which is true, which bereft?
Who's to say? Do you know?
Both sides put on a good show.
Ins and outs, whereabouts,
Both sides instill many doubts.
Who is right? Who is wrong?
Is it written in a song?
What if not be two sides?
What if two coincide?
Two makes...
“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children...
Proverbs 21 Select Verses ESV
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,
because they refuse to do what is just.
8 The way of the guilty is crooked,
but the conduct of the pure is upright...
The enemy attacks
in many different ways.
And some of his attacks
are meant for us to sway.
He targets the naïve,
For them, he can deceive.
But he stops not with them,
But those in Christ believe.
His goal is to confuse,
As well as to abuse
The followers of Christ,
And their words to misuse...
Chapter Seven
Majority Versus Minority
May 28, 2023
I am still reading in the book of Acts. And Paul had just finished giving his defense to King Agrippa. Then the king rose, and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them. And when they had withdrawn, they said to one...
“I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on his horns, and blasphemous names on his heads. The beast which I saw was like a leopard. His feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The...
Chapter Two
Be Aware
May 26, 2023
“When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, ‘We have strictly bound...
The world is changing as enemies advance
Things that are happening not by happenstance
All is in the order just as they have planned
Prophecy fulfilling, liars they have fanned
This is not for our good, what they have in mind
Truth in the messages difficult to find
So much is deception...
In the previous chapter of Ephesians, chapter 4, we read that, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are no longer to live (in conduct) as the ungodly, giving ourselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. That is not the way we should have learned Christ. We...
So Satan’s attacks
Are now his angry whacks
Which he presses on
Those from him been long gone
Thus he testifies
Against those who love God
Now tries to get them
To bow only to him.
He nags and he picks
And he picks up his sticks
He tries convince them
Message is not from him
He wants us...