I was shopping for a few carpentry items at Home Depot,where Terri works, and all of a sudden developed a super scary hurtful stomach-- from the two Ibuprofen pills I took earlier this morning. Ouch! And that, in itself, brought on a 'panic attack' as I started to look for a cold soda machine... but somehow it all subsided. From now on, I MUST have something to eat when I take that devilish medication that the VA set me for pain! Not alot of food, just enough to mask/ blend into the digestion. Hey-- better living thru 'chemistry'-- right?
Anyway, as I was shopping I got a phone call from my friend, Dave McKay, a fine, mature Christian, who is also an experienced pilot, and Vietnam Vet, and he wanted to talk about LaCrosse, KS., where he grew up-- but they just had a super tornado out that way, and another one in Hays, KS., where I have some nice cousins and kin. Attn: "Dorothy and Toto, report back to your base camp, ASAP." My dear, beautiful cousin, Wanda Jane [Schuckman] Becker lives and works hard in Hays, KS., and she first alerted me to a few sent pix concerning the twisters there. And they don't call it tornado alley for nothing...
We get some pretty stiff winds U.P. here in "The Mountain." Iron Mountain, MI., to where I am moving soon to be with my Terri. I am still very new up here and learning my way around town and country. We scattered Sharon's ashes on top of a well know mountain one year after she died, and that was very hard for me to do, but it served a special purpose for me-- to let go, and move on. I can never forget-- but I must move on. The same with the anniversary of Andy's death last year, and then the trial of one of his murderers--soon to be sentenced. I just want the animal locked up to protect society, but deep down in my heart and mind -- I well know that the Lord will take care of him soon before 'he gets out.' Rapture, and those 'left behind'... read. So, do people really get away with anything in this world?? Maybe-- but not forever. God cannot lie-- and He is a God of Justice, also Wisdom, Love, and Might. See Ezekiel.
So now, I keep thinking: 'What have I missed, forgot, misplaced, slipped up on -- so that it don't bite me in the back side, when we are off on a short vacation?? People lied when they said that RETIRED LIFE is an EZ, care free time in our lives. Just like: I can never, but ever depend on any children of mine to help me think and keep tract of my day to day affairs, and NEVER will be able to do that! No hurt meant -- just true facts, and that's the way it goes for us in these 'end times' mentioned at 2nd Timothy chapter THREE -- read the whole short chapter, please, so you know that I am not just laying another "proof text" on you. I expect everyone to challenge me and look scriptures up for themselves, with so many false prophets coming out of the wood work. Praise the Lord for giving us all these modern "signs" to figure things out, and watch God lay out his masterful truths of the ages come true after all this time.
Thank you, Brother Dave McKay, for the fine phone conversation this morning, and the informative scriptures and proof today! Feel free to call or contact me ANYTIME, for any reason. I got a feeling now that God is just about ready to use me for some purpose U.P. here, and soon.
Warm Regards,
Tom
Tom, good talking to you this morning. Sorry about the rush. I just
remembered that I owed you an answer concerning where in Scripture was it stated
that the mind is enmity with God. Here it is and talk to you soon. Your
Brother in Christ, Dave
It's in verse 7:
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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