Some more of my rambeling thoughts....

Well I am still around....as you can see my blog is still up and going, just toned down a bit...

Feeling kind of wore out but plugging on....

It always seems that just when I think my life is going a bit smoothly something has to come along and throw a huge wrench in the works. Guess that is the way life is. A huge wrench grinding anything for the good to a halt.

I have heard from many of you out there that you are all are getting a lot of spiritual attacks from some places you did not expect them. I have also been hearing and noticing that people are crossing some sort of line. You know? The mean are meaner, stuff like that. It seems a lot of people are just plain losing their sense of compassion and heart for others. They seem to have no conscience about the things they do at all when it comes to hurting others and forgiveness does not seem to mean anything to them.

Yes, it really seems dark times are upon us here on planet earth. But then maybe it has always been dark with sporadic glimpses of light now and then.
This is a time when we really need to know where we are in the spiritual sense. And that my friends can even be a hard task when we are being bomb-barded with satanic arrows and deception is flowing out like water.

I am just starting to understand why King Davids cried out with groanings, questions and pleadings that he poured out in his Psalms.
I find myself more often then not doing those same things these days.

I wonder why I was spared and allowed to live when so many died. I wonder if anything I can possibly do ever effect or make a difference on this planet. Have I just been spinning my wheels in thinking anything can make a difference?

I have often said we need to love... we need to show compassion. I have often talked about forgiveness. I have often talked about giving of ourselves. I have often talked about faith and hope. All of these things are what I believe were created in us... that is if we are HIS... in that we belong to The CREATOR of the Universe. These are HIS gifts planted in our DNA and spirit.
I am starting to understand that not everyone on this planet are HIS. Many are the tares so often written about in the bible. They blend in and can not always be identified easily.

And if they are not HIS, these gifts will not be in them. If these gifts are not in them, then how can we expect those people to be anything other then the dark, rank, sad souls that they are? Yes, they will lack compassion. Yes, they will lack forgiveness. Yes they will hurt others without a thought.

The hard thing to deal with is that some of these people can be people we love... people we thought we could trust... people who claim to serve our GOD. They are like shape shifters and chameleon's changing to fit whatever environment they are in. They can stand at a pulpit, in a government office, even be sleeping in your bed. You might even have given birth to one or adopted one. They might be a sister or brother. They might even be a parent or grandparent.

So.....what if the only thing we can do on this planet is what HE has written in our hearts to do, give love, compassion and forgiveness. These gifts HE gave to us and placed in our DNA, in our hearts and in our spirits. What if that.... is why I am alive.... you are alive....we are still around?
What if we are to minister those things to the ones left with HIS DNA...to give them hope....to give each of them a little push toward HIS Light... and help them turn away from the darkness? Maybe we are here to let them know there are still a few of us around.

Just some thoughts....

Judy

Announcement....

I may have to pull my blog....just a warning, I will know in a few days...

Things are happening beyond my control that are hurting close family members

Please those of you who care be praying..

I will update soon...
Thank you,
Judy

Thoughts...

I Have been seeking a lot of things in my heart as of late....I have even started a list called...What if ?....
I write down random thoughts as questions. Questions I hope to be answered.
I talk a lot to the Creator... does He listen? Is He interested? Who is HE ? I wonder.... does this thing called my life really matter? Is there really a purpose for me to be here? Do I have a destiny on this planet?

Several people have written me and asked the same question.... WHY????
What is the point in all the pain we and others have had to suffer in this life?

I have heard most of the pat answers and that is what I usually tell them. You know .... that man has a free will and all of that stuff. But I always feel so lame in my response to these questions.

In truth? I really do not understand... I can not begin to understand the whys and ways of GOD and what this mess is really all about. What I do know is this....

As long as I am alive I know that I have to do the best I can as a human and a child of the Most High to help as many on this journey we call life as I can. I know I am to do what is right in my heart to the best of my abilities to honor the Most High. I know that I am accountable for what I do or do not do in this life and I am only accountable for me... no one else. When my life is over no matter where I end up I want to know I did the best I could to honor my Heavenly Father with what He had allowed me to have and that my life has made someone elses life better for what I had to share.

We all have something to share... something to give... something to do. Nothing is too small or too little... be it a smile, hug or a meal. When we give anything it is never too small, unless you do not give it in love. There is the key... it has to be given in love.

Maybe that is all we are here for...to love one another. Maybe that is what the love of GOD is all about. To just love one another...

Until later,
Judy





THE END OF PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING

(Job 40:1-5)



Have you ever been amazed at how arrogant personal understanding can be towards the matters of eternity? Such understanding often determines what we conclude truth or reality to be. We manage to get the best case together we can about a personal situation. We come up with what we perceive to be an airtight presentation. In our mind there is no way we can be wrong about what we perceive to be right or true.

For Job, he was not only in a fight for his life, but he was in a debate about what he understood or knew about God. Even though nothing made sense, he had to cling to what he knew about the character and ways of God. When he came to the end of the debate, God stepped on the scene. He asked Job if he was the one who instructed Him. God did not have to give an answer for His being or ways to mere man, but man would give an account to Him.

At the end of personal understanding is the awareness that God is beyond any personal understanding, debate or conclusion. God is eternal. Can the finite mind of man possibly comprehend that which has no beginning, is unseen or can’t be marked by any change or ending? The answer is no, but each of us can get glimpses into the orderly, perfect ways of that which is eternal. It is the glimpses into the eternal that puts what is known and understood into perspective.

I have learned each New Year that if I do not gain insight into the eternal, that my world will become very small and tormenting indeed. There is absolutely no hope that can be found in the age we live in. All of civilization and creation is teetering on the brink of destruction. If I cannot see above this present age to see that in the end justice will prevail, good will reign, and holiness will be established as the indubitable standard that will silence all skeptics, I would only be able to conclude that each of us are truly the most miserable of all creatures.



Prayer: Lord, as I meditate upon all matters of Your creation, I must conclude there is no hope or purpose outside of You. Give me greater glimpses into Your heavenly reality. Amen

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