No one ever had a heart attack about what happened in the past, nor do most of us have heart attacks about what is happening today. Our concerns, stresses are usually future and we can do nothing at all about what happens in the future, not even 5 min, 5 hours, 50 hours in the future. Most of us have learned to take life one day at a time.
I am an old man, have taken 82 years, one day at a time. Days when I thought I would never make it, but I'm still here. When you learn that God is in charge, living becomes much easier. Every time we pass a cemetery, funeral home, we know that death is a certainty, that if you are chosen, elected, looking forward to eternal joy, death is not feared. Remember, we all age at the same rate of speed, always just one breath away.
And so it was with Andrew Breitbart, 43, much too soon. In my lifetime, I have seen political correctness take over, politicians-pastors parsing their words in order not to offend anyone. The old hymn states, “neutral you cannot be”. Preachers had rather see congregations of people die and go to hell, than to warn these sophisticated, good-smelling, charisma-laden that, unless they meet the well established laws of God, they are going to hell in spite of their power, prestige, popularity, or money. Politicians have allowed this once great, constitutional-republic to fall, as did the Roman Empire because they had rather please those with lots of money than those with no money, than do the right thing.
Breitbart told it as it is, investigated, brought the cowardice, decadence, deception of government to the attention of the public. AND, so, as with the history of man, he was despised by the liberals-communists-democrats and republicans in government. The secular, state-controlled news media will have little good to say about him or anyone else who puts integrity before influence.
So simple, patriotism, Christianity, commercialism, you can distinguish a crooked stick by putting it next to a straight one. Talk, excuses, propaganda, is cheap. It takes a real man to dig in, wearing the “full armor of God” (Ephesians 6) and keep walking, in spite of the threats and harassments of the past. We have a history of real men and women who, so committed and convinced, persevered, we have a history of this in God's book and every world history book which has not experienced liberal alteration. The saints of old, (Hebrews 11) in the lion's den or burned alive, were the pacesetters. Those who crossed the waters on small boats... sick, destitute.) Even the 56 signers of the Declaration, risked everything.
Breitbart was “killed” while taking a walk. My ancestors, arriving in New Jersey, founding Morristown, walked everywhere. We have no record of our blessed Lord going anywhere on wheels. We know that by the time Joseph was in Egypt, wheels were used. Jacob and his family were taken to Egypt by wagons which Pharaoh had sent. (Genesis 46:5) Later, 600 of Pharaoh’s chariots were lost in the Red Sea. Much later, we know that the Ark of the Covenant, against God's will, traveled on a cart. (1 Samuel 6:8) But, most animals walk... many with great burdens. (camels, oxen, mules, etc.) During the great depression people in the country would walk ten miles of more to town because their farm animals, so poorly fed, no gas or tires for vehicles.
Along with the other provisions made for God's chosen, the three million Jewish slaves, for 400 years in bondage, in Egypt, “Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.” (Deuteronomy 33:25)
Flip flops, expensive Michael Jordan shoes, even combat boots, will not suffice. God gives us the strength we need for each day, and everything we need (even shoes) for that day. The trip is tough, not complicated. Have you been promised a tomorrow?
As my father would say to me, every time I warned him about his unhealthy diet, “I have outlived all of my doctors”
Breitbart was concerned about this lawless nation, lawless politicians and bureaucrats. He did not believe, as does the communist news media-liberal democrats, that you “go along to get along”, “the end justifies the means.” You will never convince the elitist academics or intelligentsia of the world, that the very foundation of all history is found in God's book. (Jerusalem means foundation of peace) To show how far the world, flesh, devil has walked us, Tel Aviv, “so-called” Holy land, is now the homosexual capital of the world. King David, walking and dancing before the Ark of God, would cleanse the place. This writer will challenge any liberal, especially modernist-liberal theologians, to study God's laws concerning man's behavior. Sinatra was wrong, “doing it my way”. God expects obedience, law or grace. Study the exactness with which Aaron and his sons performed the rituals of the priesthood. (Exodus 28, 29 etc.) You do not need to inform me that the world has changed, that recent presidents of the United States are philanderers, obsessive compulsive, high style livers, but the absolutes of right and wrong, good and evil... just as the mitochondria of cell metabolism, has not changed.
I have traveled the entire world, seen the mountains around Jerusalem several times. Those mountains will not change. It is up to us to cling to our mountains of faith, good grip, don't let go.
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