We take things for granted. Life, family, love... We even take for granted the right to certain freedoms we have, not realizing that at any given moment it could be taken away.
We are guaranteed to the right to a fair trial, and to the right to a trial by jury. The jury is supposed to be of our peers. But how do you explain a jury of perdominantly white people for a trial where the defendant is a black man accused of killing a white cop?
How do we justify killing a man without giving him the benefit of a doubt even though there were eye-witnesses that recanted their stories.... How do we justify not letting him get a re-trial? Is it because he's black? Is it because he's convicted of killing a cop?
Or do we just take for granted that our legal system isn't as corrupt as what it seems to be?
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
In the midst of it all....
Bad things happen to good people. It seems as if that's the question we ask all the time... Why do bad things happen to good people. We make mistakes. We don't always do what we are supposed to do. When we do that, our actions not only affect us, but it effects those around us. We don't always see the mistake that the person made. We just ask... He/She was such a good person why did such a bad thing happen...
Bad things happen sometimes to get us to dig down deep. To get us to think about what it is that we need to possibly turn around not only with in us, but with the world around us. sometimes bad things happen because we need them to happen. If life stayed good, we wouldn't tell someone we loved them, we would go on assuming that they knew. If life stayed good, we wouldn't learn about who we are because we wouldn't take the time out to stop and spend time with God getting to know him. For it's when we get to know him that we find out what our purpose is, and in finding out our purpose, we learn who we are, what we're capable of.
There have been many postings that refer to the story of David. Man did he go through some things on the way to becoming king... Through it all, he spent time and relied on God, and then wrote about it... Where do you think all of the Psalms that he's credited with came from... In the new Testament, Matthew 11:28, has Jesus telling us to rest in him when we are weary. To lay all of our burdens on him... How many of us do that? How many of us just walk around acting like things are OK instead of admitting we cannot handle it on our own? How many of us find other ways in which to deal with the hurt and end up in the process killing ourselves?
We have to get to a point where, we are depending on God more and more than we depend on ourselves and our own mind....
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.... Proverbs 3:5-7
Bad things happen sometimes to get us to dig down deep. To get us to think about what it is that we need to possibly turn around not only with in us, but with the world around us. sometimes bad things happen because we need them to happen. If life stayed good, we wouldn't tell someone we loved them, we would go on assuming that they knew. If life stayed good, we wouldn't learn about who we are because we wouldn't take the time out to stop and spend time with God getting to know him. For it's when we get to know him that we find out what our purpose is, and in finding out our purpose, we learn who we are, what we're capable of.
There have been many postings that refer to the story of David. Man did he go through some things on the way to becoming king... Through it all, he spent time and relied on God, and then wrote about it... Where do you think all of the Psalms that he's credited with came from... In the new Testament, Matthew 11:28, has Jesus telling us to rest in him when we are weary. To lay all of our burdens on him... How many of us do that? How many of us just walk around acting like things are OK instead of admitting we cannot handle it on our own? How many of us find other ways in which to deal with the hurt and end up in the process killing ourselves?
We have to get to a point where, we are depending on God more and more than we depend on ourselves and our own mind....
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.... Proverbs 3:5-7
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Timing
It's funny how this came about. Timing is everything. We learn that when something presents itself, when the opportunity comes... to just jump on it. But it makes you wonder why when God presents us with the perfect opportunity we don't take it. How is it that we can turn down the chance to have everlasting life, yet we can't pass up that new job... or that one-day sale. Makes you wonder doesn't it?
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