Sometimes you just gotta say whats on your mind

I cannot escape it. I try but cannot.  It is everywhere. In every family. In  all the churches and synagogues. In the work places. In government. Un-forgiveness.  Bitterness. Pride. Hatred. All going unrecognized or worse yet, it is worn like a badge of "righteous" recompense, revenge or vengeance. Which ever seems to fit the bill best at the time - in our own eyes. 

All done in the Name of the one we claim to follow.

The one true G-d. The G-d of Abraham Issac and Jacob.

ELOHIM - Genesis 1:1, Psalm 19:1

meaning "God", a reference to God's power and might.

ADONAI - Malachi 1:6

meaning "Lord", a reference to the Lordship of God.

JEHOVAH--YAHWEH - Genesis 2:4

a reference to God's divine salvation.

JEHOVAH-MACCADDESHEM - Exodus 31:13

meaning "The Lord thy sanctifier"

JEHOVAH-ROH - Psalm 23:1

meaning "The Lord my shepherd"

JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH - Ezekiel 48:35

meaning "The Lord who is present"

JEHOVAH-RAPHA - Exodus 15:26

meaning "The Lord our healer"

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU - Jeremiah 23:6

meaning "The Lord our righteousness"

JEHOVAH-JIREH - Genesis 22:13-14

meaning "The Lord will provide"

JEHOVAH-NISSI - Exodus 17:15

meaning "The Lord our banner"

JEHOVAH-SHALOM - Judges 6:24

meaning "The Lord is peace"

JEHOVAH-SABBAOTH - Isaiah 6:1-3

meaning "The Lord of Hosts"

JEHOVAH-GMOLAH - Jeremiah 51:6

meaning "The God of Recompense"

EL-ELYON - Genesis 14:17-20,Isaiah 14:13-14

meaning "The most high God

EL-ROI - Genesis 16:13

meaning "The strong one who sees"

EL-SHADDAI - Genesis 17:1,Psalm 91:1

meaning "The God of the mountains or God Almighty"

EL-OLAM - Isaiah 40:28-31

meaning "The everlasting God"

Well G-d is many things - the one thing HE IS NOT is filled with HATE. So if you are harboring any unforgiveness towards ANYONE or have HATE in your heart for anyone, don't think for a second you can talk up your love for G-d. It doesn't work that way folks! 

James put it this way, "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister." (1 James 4:21)

Don't even get me started on the forgiveness issue!

Am I saying I am perfect? NO! I am not! 

Am I saying that it's always easy? NO! Absolutely NOT!

Believe me...when I say I know THIS ONE first hand...many times over!!!!

However, that is why we have the Ruach Hakodesh/Holy Spirit - to HELP US.

What I am saying is that I am so overwhelmed by all the hate that is overrunning this world - even within the Body of Messiah and in our own homes...that I think it would do us well to check ourselves.

I mean....

Let's think about it.

How many different social medias are there out there? 
There are folks out there sharing their deepest desires and greatest fears with a world of strangers. Yet they won't even talk to their own G-d given family members. WHATS wrong with that picture?

There are believers (not talking about those in the world who don't know better) calling into customer service screaming and using language only befitting a drunken sailor, over nothing. WHATS wrong with that? 

There are secret sins ( (pornography, adultery, money laundering & the likes)  allowed to continue until forced out by default, within the highest ranks of leadership in government, schools and even our churches and synagogues.

This is huge! The line in the sand dividing good from evil and the righteous from the unrighteous has widen into a cavern far to deep to cross. Yet still,  it is not obvious enough to the majority of church going Christians in this the land of plenty where we live which side of line to choose!

Seriously?!?

I personally find this astounding as well as completely heartbreaking.

This is why I am writing this blog post.

Timothy spoke of the days we are living in and I am speaking of, in one of his letters to the early church. You can find it in full in your Bible.
These vrs were taken from 2 Timothy 3Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

"Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times. People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,  heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good,  traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God,  as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power."

I would like to say in closing,
If you do not have perfect Shalom (peace) right now.
If you do not know for sure that you will be with the LORD if you were to close your eyes tonight and never wake up again.

Well, then it's time, right now....to come home.

If you are hearing a voice in your head telling you that you still have time. It's the deceiver. He's lying to you. You really don't.

Shalom