The Power of Words

An avid reader and an owner of a multitude of versions of the book we call the Bible or Torah and other derivatives, I’ve fed my mind and soul over the years with many a proponent of truth.  I’ve never deliberately sat down to “memorize” scripture.  There have simply been words that have remained glued to my soul and in times of need, or in times of the world facing a crisis or disaster, they have risen to surface applicable for the moment in time and space.

There are words in the Bible that speak of end times and rulings by a one world government.  I watched a movie years ago called The Stand and have never forgotten it.  It is indeed about the stand during the time of a world that is ruled by evil, by the partners of the evil one whom we refer to as Satan or the devil or haSatan.  No, he isn’t red and doesn’t wag a tail.  He is flesh and blood as we.  He is deceptive and cunning and charming and many people are easily sucked into his diatribe.  He knows what the citizen desires in his heart of heart, and he gives the citizen what s/he wants, and then once hooked…well kiss life as you know it good-bye.  The Stand is about just that; believers in good and in God, who take a stand.  When I first saw that movie it struck a cord with me, and it seems these days it is coming to life.

Are we rapidly reaching that point in human journey when we will have to make the choice to take The Stand as portrayed in the movie.  I believe so.

Here is yet the beginnings of an article from a site that I am a member of and I am hoping I have permission to post it here.  Because it is a paid site, I’ve chosen only to give you a taste, so as not to breach any copyright permissions.  There is much here on the world wide web that can be found that will teach you, tell you about what is really going on; not just what the public press is paid to print.

We need to be informed, to know….to be prepared for that time when we are called to become part of those who take The Stand for good; for what we believe to be good and holy and the right thing to do – no matter what the eyes or ears see or hear.

Evidence of the old order collapsing is all around us

There is no need to have special sources in high places to see that the 230-year old “New World Order,” is collapsing on multiple fronts. All we need to do is examine a series of unusual news events reported in the corporate propaganda media to see that this is the case.

First of all there are many signs of a break in the traditional Anglo Saxon alliance between Britain and the US. The latest was Hillary Clinton’s statements supportive of Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falklands Islands. This sort of statement would have been unthinkable in the past.

That is not the only sign continental Europe is distancing itself from the US. France just announced the sale of four state-of-the-art warships to Russia. With the US still trying to portray Russia as an enemy and still engaged in various aggressive military moves against Russia this amounts to a serious slap in the face from a US ally.

Perhaps the most important developments though, are happening in Turkey. The ongoing purge of the Turkish military is a sign that the “young Turks” who overthrew the Ottoman Empire are being ousted from power. This is disturbing news for the Zionists because Turkey is a Nato member with a modern 1.5 million man army. Turkey has recently engaged in military exercises with Israeli enemy Syria and refused to let Israel participate in a Nato military maneuver in Turkey.

The fact that Congress passed a law condemning the Turkish acts against the Armenians over a century ago (how about condemning the multiple US sponsored genocides first) and Turkey recalled its ambassador is a clear sign of this split between Turkey and the Zionists.

Nature can teach us so much about how to take care of ourselves.

It’s March as I write this blog.  It came to me this morning as I was driving in to work.  Stopped for a red light I looked around.  I saw brown, dead grass littered with debris that had gathered over the winter.  I know my city, and soon teams of community volunteers will be out picking up the debris and removing it to a garbage dump.  As people we like to take care of our surroundings, not liter so that we can enjoy the beauty that nature has to offer.  A bed of beautiful budding flowers isn’t very appealing if there is garbage strewn all around and in it.  Besides being unattractive, likely the garbage is also not healthy for the garden, the flowers, and generally speaking mother nature.

My thoughts turned to me, the person.  They turned inwards to my soul, my spirit, my real self.  I thought about all the garbage and debris that I’d accumulated, not just over the winter months, but throughout all seasons and wondered about spring cleaning.  If I but even once a year, as we do for mother nature, did some spring cleaning of my soul and removed all the ingested garbage:  negative thoughts and attitudes, wow my burden would surely be lightened and my step would have a new found spring in it.

But we humans, well we don’t just allow garbage to accumulate over the winter months; we allow it to go on all year round, for every breath we take.  Yet seldom do we even think about it and the need to do some clean up; to get rid of the garbage.

Garbage in, garbage out is the saying.  Perhaps that is why my attitude becomes overly negative and my words unkind.  I cannot expel or demonstrate anything but what is in me.

It’s time for some spring cleaning of the soul.  Anyone want to join in?  Not that I am asking you to do my cleaning; only I can do that for only I know what needs to be dealt with and removed.

What a question; few words but a depth of meaning that I’ve concluded I shall never truly uncover or know to the fullest extent.  Am I what parents call me, “daughter;” or spouse calls me, “wife:” or teacher calls me, “student;” or employer calls me, “employee;” or person who lives next door calls me, “neighbour;” or grocery store manager calls me, “shopper?”  Good heavens, no wonder I ask this question with so many labels pinned upon this physical personhood!  No wonder I am “confused” about “who I am.”  Which label shall I wear today; better still, how many of the labels shall I wear over the next 24 hour period of time.

The age old, never ending question that every human being has asked him/herself at one point in their life, still remains unanswered by me.  I’ve come to the realization that it is a question whose answer I will never fully know until I see my Creator face to face; until this human journey ends.

But it is about the journey, isn’t it?  Life is living this moment, this second fully and in so doing uncovering a little more about who I am.  With each new “uncovery” (I always say “uncovery” and other such derivatives, as opposed to “discovery” because I believe all that is exists waiting to be uncovered), a little more of me is exposed, comes to life and is visible to me and the physical realm that we call reality.  I believe that the essence of all human kind cannot be seen by the naked eye; that it is covered, clothed in flesh.

Those labels referenced in the first paragraph of this blog do not in any way tell me “who I am.”  They are just that, “labels” for a “function” I might perform in this human existence.  Take a look at them; they are transistory, that is they apply only for certain periods of what we call “time” in our human existence.  Does that mean, for instance, when I am no longer studying, bearing the label student, that I “cease to exist?”  Of course the answer is no, because here I sit, writing this blog.

I am (without knowing who) much more than this – I have to be, and I am not transistory like the labels that have been applied throughout the course of “time” that I’ve “existed” as flesh and blood.  Just as the “student” and other labels are transistory, but for a space of time, I believe so too the flesh.  Does this mean when the flesh ultimately rots and dies, I no longer exist?  No….

So, I ask again, Who Am I?

A scripture comes to mind where we are told that He (YHWH), “is the potter” and we “are the clay.”  He moulds and forms us into the human vessel that He would inhabit for the fulfillment of His Holy purpose in our human lives.

Think about this aspect of potter and pottery.  We’ll use a tea cup as an example of the pottery that is being made, and I shall be the potter for this telling (keeping in mind that I am in fact the pottery in His hands).  I make this wonderful tea cup.  It’s beautiful to look at, or not if I am not very good at my skill.  But it’s my creation, perhaps one of my first, and I’ve not perfected my craft.  You see, I am human and I am flawed.  On the other hand, the Master Potter knows no imperfection, so I must conclude that when He crafted me, He did so in perfection.

Now back to my perfect or not so perfect tea cup.  I’ve done it, I’ve created it.  Now what?  It’s a cup, a vessel and it’s purpose is to be filled with a beverage for someone to drink.  But wait, someone has to fill the cup – first deciding what to fill it with.  Then someone has to pick it up and consciously decide to drink from the cup.  Without that someone, and we’ll assume it is me, the potter, making the decision to use the cup, it remains just that – an empty vessel of no use in and of itself.

I would not have made that cup, unless I had a purpose; unless I intended to use it for what I intended.

So too, our Heavenly Father.  He would not have made you and I without a purpose.  But, that purpose cannot be fulfilled unless we agree to allow Him to accomplish that purpose; to fill us up as it were and then allow someone else to drink of that goodness that we’ve been filled with by Him.  If we don’t use up what’s in the cup (us), it will stagnate, dry up or evaporate and be of no good to anyone.

So, I ask again, who am I?

I am His vessel and I am created for His purpose and I need to allow Him to fill me up for His purpose and allow Him, give Him permission to “pick me up” and “use” me for what He intended when He created me.  Did the “cup” know when it was being crafted, that it was going to become a cup? Did it even know what a cup would be used for or even that it would be used?

Do we human kinds really know what we are capable of accomplishing in His Holy Hands?  I dare say the answer to that is no, we did not, and no one will ever know the totality of what has been created by Him can accomplish, by Him, until we allow Him to do it.