How's your god been feeling recently?

How's life been looking?

If you keep up with the news and find yourself worrying about the future and what calamities may be lurking just around the corner, is it because the thing you worship, whether it's career, money, power, success, prestige, social status or whatever, has been taking a beating in the headlines ... and suddenly your god doesn't seem as permanent and secure and safe as you'd hoped and expected and believed?

Are you so surprised?

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

- Isaiah 40:28-29

a new look

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Worldly Priorities on another earth day

Ever noticed how often we're told burning fossil fuels is dangerous? Just like we're admonished that wearing animal skins for clothes is wrong?

The earth must be protected ... and animals have rights, you see. And because animals and the earth are co-dependent, they're both deserving of dignity and protection.

That's why, we're told, showing disrespect for the environment and killing animals for food is disgusting and reprehensible.

Disgusting and reprehensible?

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What about suctioning human embryos from their mother's uterus or injecting 8 month old fetuses with saline solution to induce abortion?

Doesn't a living human being merit a greater measure of respect and protection than a swamp marmot or an orange tailed flying squirrel or a snoot-nosed summer salmon?

Ooops no, we're told. That's different, because God's law can't be allowed to interfere with man's politics, schedules and agendas.

But man didn't separate light from dark, nor did he create the earth nor breath his life upon it

They encourage each other in evil plans,
they talk about hiding their snares;
they say, “Who will see it?”

- Psalm 64:5

Does it please you to oppress me,
to spurn the work of your hands,
while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

- Job 10:3

The LORD foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

-Psalms 33:10

John 3:17

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

"I don't think God knows what I'm going through"

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”

- Hebrews 13:5