kp wrote:
Quote:We need to remember that during the dark days of Ahab and Jezebel there were still seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Ba'al, but also that the amazing revival under King Josiah was not enough to permanently alter the course of Judah's downhill slide toward spiritual oblivion. We---as individuals---need to be cultivating our relationship with Yahweh, regardless of what our governments are doing, or not doing. The times of spiritually astute governance in human history can probably be counted on one hand. Our eternal outlook has nothing to do with who's in power.
I thank FATHER ETERNAL YAH, for being among friends who can make such observations as this, by kp. It becomes more obvious every time I look at it, that these sentiments are where we really need to be at - as fundamentally ignoring the physical world in favor of an entirely spiritual focus, yet such a result really isn't something that is going to happen overnight for anyone. We need to be making a daily choice to direct our focus in the other direction, than upon such worldly things as governments and economies and worldly power and what Paris was up to last night.
So we hear from the pope, ministers, pastors, clergy, mullahs, priests, rabbis etc, etc. - every one of them proclaiming to be all about the spiritual realm, while they constantly promote - visually and otherwise; their ultimate trust in the physical, via world governments, weaponry, conflicts, threats of annihilation, jihad, monetary gain, church wealth - and greed, condemnation of others with different beliefs, sham efforts to 'unite', and the list can go on forever.
They are all apparently - cups washed and polished spotlessly clean on the outside, whilst on the inside, full of ..............
So when if I may ask - are we finally going to see a people who earnestly despise and reject such physical things of this world, for their heart is by their daily choice - entirely set upon the spiritual realm we read about in scripture?
I guess they first have to commence that quest for themselves by choosing to TRUST - in the possibility of the existence of a spiritual realm in the first place, huh? And I further guess the only real place that I can honestly expect that to commence is within me - within my own heart maybe?
Grace and peace to all my brothers and sisters.
"So knowledge isn't the main measure, love of Yah and of each other is."
Edited by user Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:09:09 PM(UTC)
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