The following was first posted in July of 2015:
I surely don't want to get in the habit of hearing a joke and then putting it in these posts. I think that I've only done that twice throughout the years but I smiled at one today and want to use it to segue into the message of this particular post that is more than serious. It seems that a man went for a checkup to his doctor and while there told him that he was concerned that his wife may be losing her hearing. The doctor suggested that he perform a little experiment to see how much hearing loss she had. He told the man to come to about ten feet of his wife and ask her a question. If she doesn't hear him go a little closer and ask, and if she still doesn't hear him move closer. And if if she still does not hear him, go right up to her and ask the question. The man went home and his wife was standing at the kitchen counter preparing dinner..."Hello honey, what's for dinner?" He moved a little closer and said "Hello honey, I'm home. What's for dinner?" Still nothing. He came closer still..."Hello honey, what's for dinner?" Finally he went right up to her and tapped her on the shoulder..."Hello honey, I'm home. What's for dinner?" She turned around and said "For the fourth time......pot roast."
God is speaking. Are you not hearing? I'll tell you what I'm hearing, and many many others I might add, one of whom is Billy Graham who has been warning America for decades that God's judgements on our nation have begun and they are increasing in intensity!
Our financial system is headed for a total collapse over the debt and/or various bubbles we have created by merely whitewashing the outside of tombs that are full of, as Jesus said in Matthew 23:27 "....bones of the dead and everything unclean." And this is the least of our problems! We have torn down every hedge of protection, opened every gate in the wall, accommodated every pagan custom, customized the Gospel of Jesus Christ to fit our desires, set up Ashtoreth poles, sacrificed our children to Moloch and worshipped the golden bull market...excuse me...golden calf. Yet we party on oblivious to the words mene, mene, tekel, upharsin etched into the newly built 'wall of separation between church and state.'
One cannot hear God's warnings to us amidst the din of applause, the cacophony of the marketplace and the fortissimo of our entertainments. Even in the quiet of our meditations we run from the sound of His voice. We do not hear because we do not want to hear. We plug our ears at the mention of His holiness and shout down those who would read verbatim from His Word, and just such words would be these from the first chapter of Proverbs:
" If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you. I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I will also laugh at your calamity......."
I surely don't want to get in the habit of hearing a joke and then putting it in these posts. I think that I've only done that twice throughout the years but I smiled at one today and want to use it to segue into the message of this particular post that is more than serious. It seems that a man went for a checkup to his doctor and while there told him that he was concerned that his wife may be losing her hearing. The doctor suggested that he perform a little experiment to see how much hearing loss she had. He told the man to come to about ten feet of his wife and ask her a question. If she doesn't hear him go a little closer and ask, and if she still doesn't hear him move closer. And if if she still does not hear him, go right up to her and ask the question. The man went home and his wife was standing at the kitchen counter preparing dinner..."Hello honey, what's for dinner?" He moved a little closer and said "Hello honey, I'm home. What's for dinner?" Still nothing. He came closer still..."Hello honey, what's for dinner?" Finally he went right up to her and tapped her on the shoulder..."Hello honey, I'm home. What's for dinner?" She turned around and said "For the fourth time......pot roast."
God is speaking. Are you not hearing? I'll tell you what I'm hearing, and many many others I might add, one of whom is Billy Graham who has been warning America for decades that God's judgements on our nation have begun and they are increasing in intensity!
Our financial system is headed for a total collapse over the debt and/or various bubbles we have created by merely whitewashing the outside of tombs that are full of, as Jesus said in Matthew 23:27 "....bones of the dead and everything unclean." And this is the least of our problems! We have torn down every hedge of protection, opened every gate in the wall, accommodated every pagan custom, customized the Gospel of Jesus Christ to fit our desires, set up Ashtoreth poles, sacrificed our children to Moloch and worshipped the golden bull market...excuse me...golden calf. Yet we party on oblivious to the words mene, mene, tekel, upharsin etched into the newly built 'wall of separation between church and state.'
One cannot hear God's warnings to us amidst the din of applause, the cacophony of the marketplace and the fortissimo of our entertainments. Even in the quiet of our meditations we run from the sound of His voice. We do not hear because we do not want to hear. We plug our ears at the mention of His holiness and shout down those who would read verbatim from His Word, and just such words would be these from the first chapter of Proverbs:
" If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you. I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I will also laugh at your calamity......."
