Keep The Faith

I’ve been thinking about the game of Chess lately. As I was thinking about it, it suddenly hit me how much this game is like dictators and their people. As I was doing some research about the game, I came across a website that said it has sometimes been called “The game of Dictators”. For those of you who do not know much about the game let me try and explain how the game is played. It is a strategy type game played on a checker board. There are two players and each player try to capture their opponent’s king to win the game. The two players start off with an equal number of pieces to play with. Each piece can only move in specific directions and can capture opponent pieces in specific ways. Some pieces are considered more important than other pieces because of their power. Next to the king, the queen is the most important, the pawns are least important. Here is what struck me about how this game is much like dictators and their people. In the game, it is just as important ...

When I go through my ‘almost daily’ exercises, I think a lot and I talk with God too. I have to keep up with my exercises because of the issues I am having with my spine. If I don’t exercise, I will regret it sooner or later with debilitating pain. My thoughts sometimes are centered around my medical issues I am going through right now. Thoughts like why are these things happening to me. I think about the book of Job in the Old Testament of the Bible. I think about my dream ( Funny Dream ) how the Lord and I shook hands with Him saying my spine issues won’t be as bad as I think. I think about Satan, why he is the way he is and why does God leave him be. So many questions. In my last post ‘ Dictators And Wannabes’     I talked about dictators and their characteristics and what happens when they are in power. As I was thinking about Satan, he is just like a dictator. In a way I think of him as a dictator wannabe in heaven. He wants to be like God Most High where he gets t...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – George Santayana. Hitler promised the Germans that he would make Germany great again. He did do that; great and powerful, but at the expense of millions of lives. Hitler was a dictator. People are forced to obey dictators. Any opposition to dictators is quickly squashed. During Hitler’s reign no one could say anything bad about him without being severely punished, they even wanted to know about private conversations of people talking about Hitler. With dictators, the only law of the land is the law of the dictator. Putin is a dictator. He has said that the only law in Russia is Putin’s law. President Donald Trump is a dictator wannabe. Anyone can see that. You just have to open your eyes to the things he says and does.   During the presidential debates he made the comment that he sees nothing wrong using torture on people. He praises dictators because he likes the control they have over their people. After ...

There is scripture in the Old Testament of the Bible (same as the Jewish Bible called the Tanakh) that I think about sometimes. Isaiah 11:6-9 Lexham English Bible (LEB) 6  And a wolf shall stay [ a ] with a lamb,      and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together      as a small boy leads [ b ] them. 7  And a cow and a bear shall graze;      their young shall lie down together.      And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle. 8  And an infant [ c ] shall play over a serpent’s hole,      and a toddler [ d ] shall put his hand on a viper’s hole. 9  They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my holy mountain , [ e ]      for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,          as the waters cover the sea...

Love Thy Enemy Walking the narrow way of Christ’s love — even toward those who oppose us. “You have heard it said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies…” (Matthew 5:43–44) Loving those who love us is easy. Anyone can do that. But loving those who oppose us, wound us, or stand against us — that is the work of Christ formed within us. That is the narrow way. Jesus doesn’t call us to tolerate our enemies. He calls us to love them. Not because they deserve it, but because He loved us first. ⭐ Why Love Your Enemy? Jesus reveals the heart of the Father: “He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good…” (Matthew 5:45) God does not withhold His goodness from those who oppose Him. When we love our enemies, we reflect His nature, not theirs. ⭐ The Real Enemy Is Not Flesh and Blood “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood…” (Ephesians 6:12) People are not the enemy. They may act like enemies, speak like enemies, or wound us like...

There's been another tragic school shooting. This time a short distance from my home in the small town of Santa Fe, Texas.The shooter, a kid himself, a student from the same school of the students he murdered. It is so very difficult to understand how this could happen. What causes someone to murder without empathy for those they kill? ….. There have been more mass shootings since I started this post, almost a common occurrence. Will we ever see a time of peace? As I was thinking about these shootings, I've seen some similarities between them. The shooters are pretty much loners and have a hard time fitting in and are drawn into groups which are not the right groups for them to be in. These groups are residual groups from the Hitler and Nazis era. These groups are centered around Nazism , Fascism , Supremacism . I read that Fascism was first used during WW1 in Italy . Hitler and the Nazis successfully used it to gain control of Germany. It is a type of propaganda that mani...

From  Homework Help website "The quote “"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it”" is attributed to the American philosopher George Santayana and it can be accurately quoted as "“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”" as stated in his work, The Life of Reason : Reason in Common Sense." Why did I bring up this quote you ask? It is because I believe that we have forgotten the horrors that happened in World War II and how that cancer grew. Are we repeating history? I believe we are. The cancer is hiding and growing. Our American forefathers came from countries that at some period of time had tyrants in control of their countries. When they came to this new land, they wanted to protect future generations from tyranny so they formulated our constitution. We were to have three branches of government; Legislative (Congress), Executive (President), and Judicial (Federal court system). These three branches were to stay sep...

Recently I've been thinking about our United States Constitution. Back in grade school we were required to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution and be able to recite it. This morning I tried to recite it to myself and was not able to remember the whole thing. It has been way too long that I have even thought about it. Preamble to the United States Constitution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, [note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." I wonder how many of our elected officials who swear to defend the United States Constitution can recite the Preamble or much more, to know the soul of our Constitution? I think it wise for all of us Americans to...