Here’s the link to an interesting piece of work about “Feminist Narcissism.” Of course, most will not read it because they are immediately put off, or offended, by the title itself, which is all the more reason why they should read the article. Others may get to click on the link and then delete it because they think it is about appointing another Supreme Court justice. There is something to learn here.
The basic construct of this article is, in my opinion, true. The society in which we live in, that with each passing day it appears fewer and fewer people like it much, is what WE have created. Nobody else. If for no other reason our own selfish desires and complacency have allowed for its birth and growth over time – an uncontrolled serpent.
I recall as a teenager growing up in the early 60s and 70s hearing our parents warn of what the future would hold if things continued in the apparent direction we were headed. Things did continue in that direction and here we are. And yet what we have created we don’t seem to like very much even if we are incapable of even comprehending any of it.
I was also taught at a very young age that in order to like other people you first have to like yourself. Evidently, many of us don’t like ourselves very much. You can’t live a disciplined, moral, decent, loving life if there is no discipline, morality, decency, and love in your own life. It is that simple.
As a society, we live sexually promiscuously and yet expect not to suffer the consequences of such a lifestyle – it’s the old adage of reaping what you sew. What further proof is needed than when the leader of this country states that having oral sex with a woman is not considered as having sex. The message is loud and clear. The consequences not so much and yet here we are.
To understand why nothing can be said any longer without offending somebody, we first have to understand ourselves – what we have been taught and by whom. However, an unwillingness to recognize there is a problem prohibits any solutions.
Earlier this morning I was telling a friend of an experience I had once while conversing with a younger woman about seeking truth and the knowledge that only comes from our Creator. I was explaining the freedom that goes with this but that also holding these truths through the Spirit of Truth allows us to see things in Yehwah’s (God) eyes and not those of this world (Satan’s).
Her response pretty much tells us the story of where we are and why there is little hope without the guidance of our Heavenly Father. She said (and I’m paraphrasing), “Oh, my! That sounds scary. I don’t think I want to know those things. I might not like it. I think I’m happy just to keep things the way they are.”
And here we are. Keeping things the way they are doesn’t imply nothing is changing. On the contrary. Things are changing at breakneck speed. It is all part of God’s will…His plan. At some point in our lives, we will have to make the biggest decision ever to confront us. God said that we cannot serve two gods. You cannot love man’s world and God at the same time. That will be the choice you will have to make and it’s coming quickly.
Our own willing blindness is what is preventing us from seeing that we are living the life we created for ourselves. Now we must pay the penalty.
Christmas: A Battleground – The Wrestling Against Powers and Principalities
I have often shared on this website Ephesians 6:12 from the Holy Scriptures: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, which are in the high places.” The celebration and recognition of the Christmas “halig“day is perhaps the epitome of the battle between “principalities, against powers, and against worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of the world, against spiritual wickedness” and Goodness, i.e. the fulfillment of our Creator’s Spirit of Truth that, by our own choice, lives within us. Because our Creator God made us of the capacity to choose, it is our choice to be filled with His Spirit, however, the power of that Spirit is what “naturally” causes us to know the difference between wrong and right, with the exception of “strong delusion.”
Since the beginning of time there has existed the evil powers, by Heavenly Father’s choice, that work relentlessly to antithesize all things of the only Creator.
Bible scholars, and anyone who “studies to show themselves approved unto God,” know that our Savior (Yeshuwah) was not born in December and thus could not have been born on the 25th. It is believed that the Emperor Constantine, wrongly accepting of the myth by most in this world to be the first “Christian” world leader, first recognized the birth of the Savior Child on December 25th, a deliberate act of anti-Christ. Soon thereafter, the Vatican took over the bastardization of the birth of our Savior and thus turned it into the Pagan “halig”day it is today.
Try as they may to destroy all things Yeshuwah, to distort and mislead, the powers and principalities at work cannot destroy Yehwah’s Spirit of Truth.
Yes, the celebration of Christmas is a Pagan event, complete with the fabrication of “Satan” Claus, with a made up story about presents and the like wrongly attempting to meld Satan Claus and Yeshuwah into a share existence, but try as the evil may evil cannot break the power of Yeshuwah and the Spirit of Truth. Among all the worldly and Pagan symbols of this “halig”day, there still can be found moments of love and tenderness, an overlooking of the nastiness that often controls our lives, complete with a genuine seeking of Peace on Earth and Goodwill To All Men.
The Powers and Principalities do recognize that their mere efforts at Paganizing a government-recognized “halig”day, an event fabricated by Constantine to falsely placate the “Christians” of the day, that actually began the modern day practice of universal religion, i.e. Paganism, but this effort needs to be constantly reinforced to ensure that real Christians throughout the world not only prop up the holy Roman Empire’s bastardization of Christ but also to totally destroy any kind of recognition of the event of a Savior of the world being born for the redemption of our sins. This is why we see constant efforts at erasing even the name Christmas from the “halig”day.
Despite this effort, Richard Fernandez this morning writes: “The effort to erase Christmas will probably fail for no other reason than that it meets a human need that a mechanical bureaucratic day off cannot fulfill. Humanity needs a time to mark the growth and change in the family, an occasion to renew hopes and put aside fears and a chance to remember something we once knew: that everything’s going to be alright in the end. It really will.”
The effort to erase Christmas will fail if for no other reason than this war between Powers will ultimately be won by the one and only True God who created all things and never breaks a promise. Many people may suffer cognitive dissonance, never realizing what is going on as they struggle to live in two opposing existences, but the power of Yehwah’s Spirit of Truth will forever show the good the differences between good and evil and as such, somewhere inside them, will seek Truth, Understanding, Peace on Earth and goodwill to all men everywhere in the World.
My prayer this day is that all will call upon that Spirit of Truth for that is the ONLY source of those things most of us seek and struggle to find.
May you receive the blessings of Yehwah!