I have a really hard time resting. It's been 6 days since I worked (due to a flu last week plus Christmas) and I'm itching to get back to it, but I'm going to force myself to wait at least until Monday.

And I think it's important to - not only is the sabbath "made for man" for his benefit, rest is also an admission that accomplishing what you set out to do "is not of him who runs but of God who gives mercy." I am desperate to make the most of my time by working on Coracle. But "unless the Lord builds the house, he labors in vain that builds it."

This is why Moses prays in Psalm 90, "establish the work of our hands for us." He had recognized the ephemerality of human life: "we finish our years like a sigh... their boast is only labor and sorrow." He asks God therefore to "teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom."

But this wisdom is not despair, or skepticism, or stoicism like that expressed in ecclesiastes, while an unknowable God's voice "makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare," but hope, and peace:

"Go, eat your bread with joy,

And drink your wine with a merry heart;

For God has already accepted your works.

Let your garments always be white,

And let your head lack no oil.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun."

God has already accepted my works, which in the end is really the only thing that matters, and he has commanded me to rest. And this is only possible - either the work or the rest - in Christ, God become man to do the work we could not, and to give us the rest we could not enter into.

And so every work left for the Christian is a work of joy, and industry is rewarded because it increases the number of accepted works. Rest is permitted because all that can be done has been. Thank God for his mercy on us, that he "knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust" and yet "as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him."

Anyhow, Merry Christmas, see you next week 😅

Life is a sat race and Saylor is beating you and me

Man I can’t believe my left arm still goes numb from time to time.

Fucking injuries & getting old

Gm > Merry Christmas

Try to change my mind.

Red light therapy is increasingly popular and claims exposure to low levels of red light, and infrared light, have beneficial effects on cellular health and feelings of well being.

I choose to do it the old fashioned way, without a medical consult.

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Foolish men are leading the world toward war.

I'm thinking about the Prince of Peace.

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Aren't incandescent lights supposed to be naturally warm and healthier than LED lights?

These things are great!

Damn l feel sick af

This sucks ugh

Alot of people talking about the "mark of the beast". And what it means.

I am actually more fascinated by the description of what the beast is metaphorically in the vision that John had on the Island of Patmos.

Among many other things worth reading, John describes seeing in the future a multi-nation conglomerate which surrenders their respective sovereignty to a single centralized entity. Two things define it... a completely controlled, centralized monetary system, where no one can buy or sell unless they have an unspecified marking in their hand or hairline (forehead), and the ability to "call down fire from the sky" to enforce this economic system. (Space race to develop focused energy weapons anyone?)

But what interests me the most is the metaphor of the woman riding the back of the beast. Which is to mean the driving ideology, belief system, and worldview that drives this coming globalist political system. The beast itself has symbology of Babylon, Persia, Greek, and Rome. But the woman, or the ideology behind it, is called Babylon, the Great Harlot. Who in the text, is labeled as responsible for all the bloodshed, and corruption in the earth over the millennia.

This fascinates me because of the history of the concept of "Empire" in the earth. Or centralized tyrannical government. A direct line can be traced from Sumer which became Babylon, to Persia, to Greece, and then to Rome. But the seed bed of dictatorial tyranny in the earth, really began in Babylon. Personally, when I read this, I see a total condemnation of the concept of Empire itself. Its something that God is totally against, and hates. That is absolutely fascinating to me.

Perhaps most important is the small line in Revelation which rarely gets talked about, which is "God is bringing them forth to perdition." If you believe this vision, (which is astoundingly accurate), the reason the rise of this one world system is being allowed, is not so they can rule and reign, but so it can be completely destroyed once and for all.

Im not sure if this globalist system, which has been trying to birth itself into the world for a long time, will succeed this time around. In fact, I have doubts it will, and suspect a time after this of it retreating. But eventually it will succeed. But the point is, if the old vision is to be believed, it will not stay it power. In fact, it will not survive one decade before being completely destroyed.

Faith, Hope, and Love will remain.

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Who is planning to visit El Salvador in 2024? 🇸🇻✈️

The U.S. government will literally spy on every single law-abiding American citizen before investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s client list.

Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook (December 12th)

A Quiet Heart

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength — Isaiah 30:15

It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and mistrusting. What can we do if we wear ourselves to skin and bone? Can we gain anything by fearing and fuming? Do we not unfit ourselves for action, and unhinge our minds for wise decision? We are sinking by our struggles when we might float by faith.

Oh, for grace to be quiet! Why run from house to house to repeat the weary story which makes us more and more heart-sick as we tell it? Why even stay at home to cry out in agony because of wretched forebodings which may never be fulfilled? It would be well to keep a quiet tongue, but it would be far better if we had a quiet heart. Oh, to be still and know that Jehovah is God!

Oh, for grace to be confident in God! The Holy One of Israel must defend and deliver His own. He cannot run back from His solemn declarations. We may make sure that every word of His will stand though the mountains should depart. He deserves to be confided in; and if we would display confidence and consequent quietness, we might be as happy as the spirits before the throne.

Come, my soul, return unto thy rest, and lean thy head upon the bosom of the Lord Jesus.

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