Keep The Faith

Faith • Truth • Hope A reflection born during quiet moments of exercise, prayer, and honest questions before Father God. My Thoughts While Exercising During my “almost daily” exercises, my mind becomes very active. I think, I pray, and I talk with Father God. I have to stay faithful to these exercises because of the issues with my spine. If I neglect them, I pay for it later with debilitating pain. Naturally, some of my thoughts drift toward the medical challenges I’m facing. I wonder why these things are happening to me. I think about the book of Job. I think about my dream — the “ Funny Dream ” — where the Lord and I shook hands, and He told me my spine issues wouldn’t be as bad as I feared. I think about Satan, why he is the way he is, and why God allows him to continue for now. So many questions rise up during these moments. In my last post, Dictators and Wannabes , I wrote about dictators, their characteristics, and what happens when ...

In every generation, God calls His people to stay awake, stay discerning, and stay faithful. What follows is a reflection on history, power, deception, and the unshakable hope we have in God. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana History has shown us how easily nations can be led into darkness when people place their trust in leaders who crave power above all else. Hitler promised to “make Germany great again,” and in one sense he did—Germany became powerful, but at the cost of millions of lives. Under a dictator, obedience is demanded, opposition is crushed, and even private conversations become dangerous. The only law that matters is the dictator’s law. Putin is a dictator. He has openly said that the only law in Russia is “Putin’s law.” President Donald Trump has long shown the traits of a dictator‑in‑waiting. His words and actions reveal it plainly to anyone willing to look. During the presidential debates, he said he...