Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Isaiah 55:6
It seems interesting to me how the Lord always has the exact right verse of the day to speak to what he is showing me that day, which today and late yesterday is all about people seeing and hearing you, but not acting on it as if they did not hear. And many even roll their eyes at you and make faces, maybe even flat out criticize you for how you live. you feel sorry for their kids who are suffering when they do not know why as they did not do anything to deserve it.
Proverbs chapter one says what happens on the other side of your lack of listening and obeying, I highlighted a few of the verses, but please read it all as it is tough but tells the story of what I keep saying. Hear God and obey and life will be good, ignore wisdom and God and it will end badly. “Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.”
Last night one of our sister in laws was over, and she and the husband are having big problems. Both have their issues and share of the blame, and it goes back many years in the making. We can see it and why. I have a special place in my heart for this sister in law as she is around the same age as my older daughters, I kind of feel like I hope someone tells my daughters truth like this (being they do not speak with me) so I do the same. Same thing with our cleaning lady, she is the same age.
But here is the thing, you tell them things and explain things to them. They see how we live first hand, the things we do and how. The see the changes we make in our life, so when we give advice it is not hypocritical like many. We are living examples of how to do things right, because our teacher, the Lord is right 100% of the time and we mostly just follow him. Do as he says. So we live a very clean and good life, except those rare moments when we let our emotions get to us, which for me is very rare. I have learned to keep my focus on the truth and not on the emotions. The devil loves you to focus on your emotions and play with you using them against you and everyone around you.
Your emotions are not sinful in and of themselves, but they do lead you to sin when you let them have control. The main ones being fear, greed, selfishness, anger. But also can be laziness and lack of caring about what is right and wrong. Or lack of discipline.
Without going into details on what we see happening with these people, we can see the road they are going down and we know the outcome from it. Over the years we counsel and speak of what the consequences are for disobeying truth. Because there are always consequences. Some serious, some not so much. For example, you eat bad and maybe the worst is you get a little over weight or have zits. But you do not let it get further. Others really do not care and get extremely obese and have all kinds of health issues and normally die early.
But the point is, the wisdom comes, maybe through other people like us who have learned. Or maybe and hopefully directly from the Lord because you also know him. But it comes and we ignore it and remain in our ignorance and it becomes sinful. And later on the calamity comes and we cry about it, running not to the ones who have the wisdom to change it, but to anyone who will cry with us and make us feel comfortable in our sinful emotional state.
Here is an example of how it is supposed to work with God. The last month or so, I put on a little extra weight all in my belly. The only thing I can come up with is because of our vacation and eating the trash everyone eats that we had at the all inclusive resort we were at. But instead of running to a doctor for a weight loss pill. I fasted, and am seeking the real reason why? I lost 5 pounds in one day, and my belly dropped a lot, not completely but a lot. The point is or the difference is, when something happens I seek why and how to fix it so it does not continue to get worse. I first and foremost seek the wisdom of God, but also I watch videos from guys who know what is going on. I have this guy Dr. Berg on youtube who knows how the body works and what we need to do. I have a few financial guys I watch who give me good information to make wise decisions. I watch a few guys about gardening and homesteading. I watch a few channels which tell me things from the bible, mostly historical things. Things that help me understand better the that time in history and the significance of it. For example Yeshua never spoke of things we have today like cars, airplanes, computers, internet, robots and AI… They did not even have electricity or running water. So to get into why they would say the things they wrote about, one needs to understand the times.
What I do not watch is emotional movies, and sports which get my emotions going. My time is spent with things that keep my mind stayed on truth in God, improving my mind, physical health and mostly my Spiritual relationship with God. And because I do this, and do not do the second list. My mind stays on God and the fruit I bear is good. If some bad fruit starts to come around, I can immediately stop it and get back to where I need to be. There is a balance in life to maintain, for example keeping a healthy weight, not too fat and not too skinny. In our society today, not many can or are willing to do this. Most are fat, but there are also those who are too small with anorexia or bulimia.
When you have the light or wisdom of God, then you know how to make the best adjustments to maintain the best weight, the best peace, the best joy and mostly a deep love. Where if you do not do this, the things you are ignoring just keep getting worse until the calamity comes on you, and the real problem comes. And as more and more people allow the calamity, it becomes normalized instead of a sign of lack of discipline and your ignorance or stupidity.
For example, I used to tell my mom that her and dad would have serious health issues if they kept eating like they were. She told me, we like it too much to stop. She died a tough and early death barely over 70 from cancer, my dad has spent the last almost 7 years in a wheel chair from a stroke. But to them, instead of seeing it as their calamity, they see it as simply being one of the unlucky ones.
Cancer, strokes, heart issues, obesity, diabetes… Are all controllable and avoidable issues. And not difficult to stay away from. You just have to avoid certain foods and certain environmental things.
Good family relations are also controllable as all it takes is spending time with your wife and kids, good quality time. Doing healthy things and avoiding the unhealthy things. Teaching them or bringing the kids up in the wisdom of God instead of allowing this world to get to them. And helping them to understand why on both sides.
Also your finances, I was watching a video today about the laws of money, and how the “system” I keep telling you about works. And how the wealthy know the system and use it or work with it. And how they also manipulate it to steal even more wealth. They caused the great depression and all the recessions by their money policies and are doing it again. And each time they do it, the middle class and poor get poorer, but they make a lot of money from it. Just go back and look at the wealthy ones, even as late as the 2020 lockdowns Many people lost their businesses, but the 1% had their wealth go up significantly across the board. If you do not learn to do what they are doing, you will lose out. And these young kids do not even seem to have a possible future because no one is teaching the rules of wealth and money. The rules with your health, mentally, physically and Spiritually.
When you understand the unwritten rules or laws of your wealth and health, then you can prosper in all ways and bear good fruit. God wants you to know these things and will teach you if you are listening. This is his wisdom. This is why King Solomon had extreme wealth, because he seeked the wisdom of God, so he got that as a side note or bonus. But if you ignore these things, and do not follow or obey what he is showing you about how it works, then the calamity comes, like what we are seeing now with this HUGE financial storm brewing and has already whipped out a lot of people. I see many businesses going out of business, many have been in business for 50 or 100 years. And it is just getting started.
This financial storm might be the end of end alls. It could be the one that destroys the system as we know it leaving everyone broke no matter what you do, other than the few people who are orchestrating it. They know where to put their money or real wealth. From what I am watching it seems to be commodities and real assets like farm land, rentals, gold, silver, bitcoin. And they are cashing out of fiat paper money. They are stripping the last little bit out of the market of real wealth before they let the fake economy nose dive.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, and I hope I am wrong. But they are even telling us clearly that by 2030 you will own nothing and be happy. It also plays directly into the prophecy of the end of times. With way too many things lining up exactly like it predicts in the bible. If this happens, the only thing you can do is be right with God, because it is going to be so bad for us all, including the ones who do everything right, that even the elect would not make it if that were possible.