Can You See It Yet?

“Wouldn’t you hate to wear glasses all the time?” asked Billy of his friend. “Noooo,” his friend answered. “Not if I had the kind grandma wears. She sees how to fix a lot of things, and she sees a lot of nice thing to do on a rainy day, and she sees when folks are tired and sad and what will make them feel better, and she always sees what you meant to do even if you didn’t get things just right. I asked her one day how she could see that way all the time and she said it was the way she learned to look at things as she grew older. So it must be her glasses.” It is said that the majority of the world’s population, age 37 years and younger, have very little knowledge of true world history, nor true history of the country they live in. Philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist, George Santayana, born December 16, 1863 in Madrid, Spain, died September 26, 1952 in Rome, Italy, is the author of an often misquoted statement: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. (and the most misquoted part of this statement)  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants: * Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. * Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes. * Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it. * Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them. * Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them. There is a similar quote by Edmund Burke (in Revolution in France) that often leads to misattribution: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." (Wikiquote.org) I was very angered to hear Senator Bernie Sanders say of Russell Vought, nominee to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, because of Vought’s Christian beliefs, “...is really not someone who is what this country is suppose to be about.” I guess we need more representatives from the socialist group masquerading as a better religion so all our rights as a free society will be stripped from our constitution. What’s happening in Washington today happened in Berlin in the 1930’s. Are you seriously ready to repeat history in your own back yard?

[Jeremiah 18:1-10] God still works us and molds us as a potter does clay. In verses 7-10, God lets it be known his governing of the kingdoms of the world other than Israel. “If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or a kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.” People throughout the world are standing up, screaming for the right to practice every wicked way of life that has been condemned and called sinful by our Creator God. I honestly believe the world is one generation away from total apostasy. And my friend when that happens, God is going to pull the plug – Game Over! Christians in this country are fixing to find out what it means to be persecuted for their faith, and many are going to deny their Savior. Your “testimonies” of faith are quickly becoming “hate speech” against many “minorities”.