SURRENDER

Keep On Keepin' On

If the day looks kinder gloomy

And your chances kinder slim,

If the situation's puzzlin'

And the prospect's awful grim,

If perplexities keep pressin'

Till hope is nearly gone,

Just bristle up and grit your teeth

And keep on keepin' on.

-- Anonymous

 
   On the staff of one Army Hospital, I assisted the psychiatrist in counseling some of his less afflicted patients.  One woman told me, "I've got scars from dealing with my scars."  A mystery of life and living which I have had great trouble in understanding, the survival-non-surrender of the human spirit, how it is that people just "keep on keepin' on".

   Perhaps I first became aware of this as a very young child.  Dessie, my father's oldest sister, had lost her new house to fire.  She and her husband had just built the house by frugal living and hard work.  She had labored landscaping the yard, sewing curtains, "painting and fixing", and it all went up in smoke.  She had lost in death her first child, a daughter, Martha.  I remember as yesterday, she said to my father, I have not been so hurt since Martha's death.  But, they rebuilt their house, more furniture, curtains, clothing.  Things can be replaced, but not a life. 

   I remember, the same time, Dessie's husband, my uncle, saying to my father, "Why do people who work hard and live right, suffer?"  He said, "My daddy was killed in WWI, leaving my mother with five children.  He was buried in Europe, but, the people and the church here held a large memorial service.  My mother, having led five small children into the church house, came home, took the Bible laying close to the front door, and threw it across the room, saying, "That's that."  She did not go back into the church for a very long time, until she learned that her bitterness toward God was not the answer.

   In a world where we have become slaves of the micro-chip, where fear kills faster than any cancer, it is time for us to face the reality of just what has happened to our world.  It is amazing, even surprising, that so few recognize what is going on.  You will not hear it from the state-controlled, secular media, because they are part of the problem.  Is it not perfectly obvious to anyone of my lifespan, that the destruction of the human spirit has been a calculated agenda of Satan?  Firstly, we have seen the destruction of our education system.  A system now of indoctrination and entertainment.  We have seen the destruction of our judicial system.  Justice based on money and politics.  We have seen the destruction of not only the schoolhouse, the courthouse, but the church house.  Most pastors/preachers are much more intent on entertaining the goats than feeding the sheep.  Worship has become an outer-court fellowship of people... this laughing-clapping-shaking hands with everyone in a worship service. (I listen on Sunday to a local Baptist Church.  In the interval between the station and the Church the sound inside the Church building is more like that of an athletic arena than the sanctity of a worship service.  Then, to add insult to injury, right away the preacher asks everyone to walk around and greet one another, something that the "oldtime" churchgoers did on the church grounds.)

  Can we not understand that the secular news media, secular universities, secular entertainment models, have overturned every absolute of right and wrong, jumped completely into the gay agenda, of same-sex marriage, polluting the front lines of the battlefield with gays mixed in with real men.  It is no wonder that America has not been able to win a war since WWII.  Military discipline, esprit de corps, has become a victim of political correctness.  We have become a nation of spiritual ineptness, 57 million of our most innocent citizens killed in the abortion holocaust while we set up hospitals to save turtles and other wildlife.

   More important than what has happened at the school house, the courthouse, the white house, the church house... is your house.  The sewer of pornography, the decadence of high-living now, is in your living room via the computer.  Just a few strokes and your children's eyes see everything that Satanic forces wish them to see.  Family life has become a problem not a priority.

   When Jesus walked around the shores of the Sea of Galilee one of his concerns was the blind, deaf, cripple.  In the American experience, next to the horrors of slavery, the greatest shame of this nation is its treatment of the disabled veteran and the handicapped citizen.  This totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected, medical officer veteran, has yet to encounter one fellow veteran who has been treated well by his nation.  Following the example of other communist nations (U.S.S.R., China, Cuba, etc.) money and policies have been directed to those who have contributed little or nothing, and, buying the votes of the welfare class, politicians and policies, "the end justifies the means" have been established.  We are ripe for every contrivance of the terrorists.  More concern with security than for freedom.  The time is approaching that those who once fought for freedom will bow the knee and beg the terrorists to take over.  This is what happens when the human spirit of men has overtaken the Holy Spirit of creator God.