MOMMY'S OBITUARY †

IT'S ALL PERSPECTIVE

I The are some cultures of people whom speak loudly to one another. From the outside looking in it appears that they are upset with one another - arguing their respective points. But they're not upset at all. It's just their way of communicating as to how they've grown accustomed. It's all perspective. II On earth a year is a long time - 365 days, and 24 hours is only one of those 365 days because it takes the earth 24 hours to complete one revolution on its own axis while taking 365 days to complete one revolution around the sun. But on the planet Mercury it's quite different. It orbits the sun once every 88 earth days, yet it takes 176 earth days for it to complete one revolution on its own axis. So Mercury's year is shorter than its day. It's all perspective. III In Canada and the northern United States we associate cooler weather and the changing of the leaves with September and October. Just the mention of these months conjures thoughts of harvest, hay in the barn, football and cross country, and the new school year. But in the southern hemisphere - like in Australia, autumn for them is our spring. March, April and May is when the air turns crisp and the leaves turn gold. It's all perspective. IV Sometimes it seems like there's no way out of misery. Every day that arrives is another day to suffer in silence and despise the sun for making yet another appearance. Sometimes it seems no matter how hard I try I just can't do anything right. Now at age 52, what do I have to show for my life? Still a schmuck after all these years? V Well, with God available at just a call from my throat, nothing is hopeless! There are always possibilities! If everybody on this earth were to write me off, they'd be in the minority because where God is concerned He is always the majority. If God is all I have, God is all I need. If He be for you, who can be against you? He makes a way out of no way. When all around me gives way, He, then, is my hope and stay! As long as I am breathing there is hope! Really ... it's all perspective! COPYRIGHT © HAILE NKRUMAH GAULT ~ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

CHRISTIANS FOR BEARING ARMS

The biggest proponents of rabid opposition to gun control are professing Christians! If you, for whomever this applies, clutched and clung to the Cross at least as tightly as you do to the gun you'd realize that God said: ~ Micah 4:1-4 [1] In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. [2] Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [3] He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. [4] Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the Lord Almighty has spoken. [5] All the nations may walk in the name of their gods; we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. God was not speaking about the distant future in Micah. He was not speaking of the end of the world. He was talking about when the kingdom of God would be established here on earth. Christians know that the Bible teaches that the kingdom of God is here now. It came in Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost. So why are we the main ones leading the fight to build our plowshares back into swords, and our pruning hooks into spears? Do we care what God said? Or are we just going to be bull-headed and go with what our selfish wants demand? The Christian nation is composed of many nations. God's word is what settles disputes among these nations within the kingdom, not the sword, nor the spear, nor the knife, nor the gun! Christians who lead the fight for the right to own guns should be ASHAMED! Usually it's the Liberals who want to allow everything and the Conservatives who seek stricter controls. But in this case it's actually the so-called conservative Christians willing to sell their soul for the right to allow every type of arm to be available on the market for the common citizen in the United States. Christians love to scream about the 2nd Amendment. Since when are we to put man's law above God's law? Since when? I don't care how many amendments there are, we don't now nor have ever had authority from God in the Scriptures to supercede His commands with our own. Anything you say in an attempt to justify ordinary citizens in purchasing oozies, glocks, machine guns, bulletproof vests and bullet-resistant head gear - that's between you and God, and you will have to answer Him for it. Answer me this though: Do you believe Jesus would be leading the fight on this issue if He were here in the flesh today? ~ 2 Timothy 2:4-5 [4] No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. [5] Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules. That's God's rules, not man's rules usurping God's rules. The soldier being spoken of here is the Christian soldier. Civilian affairs are those of the world - outside of the kingdom. The commanding officer is God Almighty. What are the weapons we are authorized to employ today? The Armor of God ~Ephesians 6:10-18 [10] Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. [11] Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. [12] For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. [13] Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. [14] Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, [15] and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. [16] In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. [17] Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. [18] And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Most of those who departed Europe in the 1500's - 1600's to explore foreign lands were conquerors, and they conquered with the gun - an arm unknown to the natives in America at the time. They raped and murdered the native Americans with the gun. They sailed over the Atlantic to Africa to conquer and enslave blacks with the gun. They sailed back over the ocean and kept the newly acquired slaves in line with the gun. These same bandits wrote into the constitution the right to bear the gun and to kill with gun. And today Christians ... I said Christians - so-called disciples of Christ - are the loudest ones to be followers instead of leaders in advocating the weapon of lawbreakers, the gun. For those of you Christians that cantankerously push the agenda advocating no gun control, realize that the gun is your Cross. You are fighting a worldly battle rather than a godly one. You are fighting Satan's battle, not God's. The devil has cleverly mounted his assault on gun control with droves of unwitting Christians doing his most incensed bidding, and you don't even realize it. All you know and care to know is that the 2nd Amendment allows for the bearing of arms, and doggoneit you will fight to the death for it no matter how many innocent citizens are sprayed with bullets and mowed down at will. ~ Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Your consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. You are beyond the capability of listening to reason on this issue, and you cannot feel for the victims enough to change your mind. ~ 1 Timothy 4:2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. You can rationalize it all away if you like. It's your own conscience that will be called to the carpet when it comes time to give an account. As for me, I will serve the Lord. HAILE NKRUMAH GAULT

JESUS LOVES ...

Whoever you are, whatever you've done, no matter how many times you've hurt or been hurt, been thrown away, used or been abused ... Jesus loves you! He loves you just as you are, but He loves you too much to leave you the way you are. "Come, follow Me." ~ Jesus