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Tropical_Man 67M
6573 posts
5/12/2009 6:11 am
There is no middle ground if you believe in truth


Some people seem to want to think that it is the "smart" thing to do to be sitting in what they consider the middle of the road in life's beliefs. Well, I happen to know if you stand in the middle of the road long enough, you will get run over by someone.

Do you want to be a follower? Do you want to be a person who hears God's inner voice and adheres to that? If it is the latter, it is a much more radical life because it is one that leads you to unpopular path's. God's thoughts are not the thoughts of man and neither are his ways. It has always been that way. Who persecuted Jesus more than anyone? It was the Jewish Priests that supposedly served his Father God.

What is the so called far right? It is the basic belief in mans ability to be free to use their own talents to either succeed or fail based on their own abilities. It is the belief that we all are responsible for ourselves to choose an education and follow our dreams without a governing body deciding what our job,dreams should be. It is also the belief that its not harmful to fail but rather a springboard for future success. It is called liberty. Freedom with little intervention from Government. If anyone notices, Government laws rarely help but hinder the general public. We do not believe in welfare for people who can help themselves and are capable of working. Handicapped programs are great. The world got along fine in the last 2000 years without government programs.

If you are in the middle, you have no foundation. Your absolutes are polluted with relativism. If you are a believer, God's word says "The ________" will set you free. What sets you free? Truth. Theories do not set you free.Theories only muddle up the equation. Do not get me wrong, theories are ok until they are proven to fail. Once proven in truth that it does not work and people continue to try and apply it, well someone in the group needs to stand up and say hey! This has failed before, and it will not work.

This is what is going on in this country right now. The middle of the road people say, hey give President Obama a chance. Lets see what he will do. The people on the Left will chide in with remarks about racism if you are against Obama. They will say many things that if looked at closely simply are not supported by any semblance of truth.

What are my examples? President Obama said he was not going to raise taxes but rather cut taxes. His appeal was to the lower middle class and lower class financial citizens. Ok that sounds.... fine and dandy. It is certainly what people "want to hear". However everyone has a track record in life. President Obama is not any different. How many times in all of his opportunities to vote for a tax cut, did he do just that? If my memory serves me correctly it is 197 times. That is a lot of opportunities. He also voted 197 times against the tax cut. So now I am supposed to believe he will give tax cuts just because he says he will do it when his track record shows he never has. Not one time?

There are a lot of ways to be taxed. Cap and trade is one of the more disastrous to economic programs out there, and he is for that. So that means much higher taxes for our industry as well as companies. Companies that provide jobs to many Americans. So should a person, if they have read and studied about this danger to America keep quiet and take a stance...lets just wait and see?

How many people have studied about his desire for America to pay taxes to the United Nations. That is what he plans on doing. This is the same America that is in so much debt spending since he took office that his spending in less than 4 months is greater than our History. We are talking about printing money that does not have a gold standard. Do any of you know how much Iraqi money that was used before the war is worth? That is where this is headed. Say nothing? Wait and see how it turns out?

How many of you have ? Is life a wait and see how everyone feels before you implement things into your life? Do you let them just do things because as your say, everyone is doing it mom! Everyone is doing it dad! My parents would say to me, I do not care if "everyone" is like that because we are not!

The word of God states that if you raise your with Godly principles and a heart after God that they will follow that life path. I am not talking about a bunch of rules. I am talking about a love relationship with truth. That is what it means. Not a stiff strict life. Its working from your salvation and not "for" it.

So, if the foundation is strong, it will hold up against life's storms. A strong foundation can only be built with absolutes that are proven to work. Capitalism, when left alone has always worked. Its proven time and again. Marxism has never flourished and never will because it takes away from the real greatness. The individual flourishing within his own gifting. That is why people of absolutes promote it from the mountain tops.

Reinventing a bad thing is still a bad idea. Government health care has failed everywhere. Germany, France and England are hurting because of it. It sucks the life out of the community economically and to try and make it work, it ends up being very poor health care. Eventually the government tells you when you have lived long enough. So, should we be quiet about that? Give it a chance once again? It doesnt work.

Spending packages have been tried in America several times before this last fiasco we have now. Did it work even once? The last time it sent us into a bad era called the great Depression. So, we are to trust this and say lets see how this works out this time?

Its like walking the same way to school and getting beat up by the school bully. How many times does this have to happen before you either take a different route or get an equalizer? A person with intelligence and the ability to think for themselves does something. They do not need to "just" see what happens because they already know. The people on the right believe in foundational truths. The people on the left believe in failed ideologies that are based in relativism which lacks truth. That is the difference. The people in the middle do not really know what they believe because they are tossed to and fro in the wind.

Be Blessed.....find the truth


imavessel
(M H)
59F

5/13/2009 5:27 am

The masses cry out for what they perceive as real and pressing need-

In reality- no one over here HAS to starve or be homeless

(Ask people around the world.)

But they turn to neighbor or their local county seat or their government instead of God.

And most people are so heavily concentrating on themself, their family, their homelife, their lifestyle, their bills etc. -----
and we've probably all done it . . .

that some---MANY---- are willing to sell out fundamental rights, entire ways of living etc. just to get what they can------------
on an invisible dime . . .

But that's just it, it isn't invisible. It's "cloaked" but still attached to all of us, . . . including those who are for more programs, more spending more more more-----------------------

Neither a borrower or lender be . . .

Hmmm.

& You now what? The folks I know that live fairly simply----------
That "wait" and buy things with cash --- or go without--------------

That do go out and work for what they bring in--- have more right now than a lot of folks. & They always will. Why? Because whether God's or the world's- they operate in a Kingdom principle.

No ding on those having problems. But the reality is, there is always a price what things are mishandled.

But to further that is almost the definition of insanity------

which basically is doing the same thing expecitng a different outcome.

We know the end of The BOOK. We are not to be ignorant of the times.

We should always be in prayer & always doing that which we can do. SOME of this will not be altered whatever we do.

& Again, we are to not be ignorant of the times.

The other thing- everything going on also is serving as a great distraction.

-A distraction to help get us so focused on it or our own lives or plights--- that we stop walking, doing, helping, being----- willing & available vessels that God might choose to help someone else see Him.

God is real.
Heaven and hell are real.

Jesus Christ is the Way- and many still do not know Him.


Tropical_Man 67M
6389 posts
5/13/2009 7:43 pm

Hey Mya...Love Ya