every single person who sees this note should read this.
*extra incentive = free books (as in, plural) at the bottom.
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/sin-is-bad-2.html
if your joy depends on who occupies the white house...yikes. you're in trouble.
“Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:3–4)
Wicked Unbelief & “Let’s replace Moses!”
Followed by. . .
[God said], “none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.” (Numbers 14:22–23)
Judgement.
Followed by…
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, (Numbers 15:1–2)
God says: Moses is still my guy.
Despite the wickedness of this generation, my promise still stands. You will inherit the land.
Michael Morales: “The land is further defined as the ‘land of your dwelling-places’ (môšĕbōtêkem), the singular use of this ascription in the HB (cf. Hausoul 2018: 82), fostering the anticipation of God’s gift, as if their homes were already prepared and waiting for their arrival.”
Amazing. Already prepared and waiting for their arrival.
Which reminds me…
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” (John 14:1–3)
"All the mojo appears to be with the Trump campaign, and the Harris campaign is in disarray. She is manifestly out of her league, in over her head, and also under water. Those three are hard to do all at once."
https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/brace-for-impact.html
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
Most people have not read Ecclesiastes and it shows
“Nothing is so beautiful, nothing so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy as good; no desert is so dreary, monotonous and boring as evil.” Malcolm Muggeridge
a mostly peaceful november
"One of the reasons why Christians should support Trump in this election now is that, given his waffling on the life issue, we recognize that we are therefore in the semi-finals. And in the finals, we should much rather be dealing with the results of a Trump victory than with a Harris victory. If Harris is president, we will have no chance when it comes to the next SCOTUS nominee, and no influence at all. If Trump is president, we have a really good chance to affect what happens. And I would much rather fight with Trump about it than fight with Harris about it. Some sort of acceptable deal is possible with Trump, and not with Harris."
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” (James 4:13–15 NIV)
What good is it to control 1% of all the sats…and lose your soul?
Your life is a mist, vapor, breath.
Soon you will stand before the Judge of all the world. Then what?
What are wombs for?
Ecclesiastes 7:7 — A bribe corrupts the heart.
“You can stop your heart being corrupted by going to the funeral home and listening to death’s sermon about money. Extra cash? What are you going to do with it? You could always use it to line the walls of your coffin.” —David Gibson
Ecclesiastes 7:20 (ESV): Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
$100,000 imminent
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (John 15:2)
"The branch has but one object for which it exists, one purpose to which it is entirely given up,to bear the fruit of the vine wishes to bring forth. And so the believer has but one reason for being a branch--but one reason for his existence on earth--that the heavenly vine may through him, bring forth his fruit." Andrew Murray
You exist to bear fruit for Christ.
You ask: "well, what if I don't want to do that? What if I reject the vine altogether?"
Answer: If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. (John 15:6)
“The universe you inhabit and the life you have today come from God’s hand as something you do not deserve. Your life is on loan for a short while, and one day God will call time and take it back, just like the library will recall that overdue book on your shelf. So embrace life for what it is rather than what you’d like it to be. Live it before God with reverence and obedience.”
— David Gibson