Throwaway Society
We live in a throwaway society. People buy furniture and in a year they are tired of it and go out and buy new. Had a car for two years oh well it is not new enough let’s get a new one. My wife or husband, I don’t like the way they act, so it’s time for a new one.
What happened to restoration? If people just put a new look to their already owned stuff we could save a lot of money in America. It used to be that a girl learned to sew at an early age and making clothes was so much cheaper. Now it cost more to make your own clothes. Not to mention you can hardly find cloth anymore to buy.
There would be no need for buying overseas goods. Think of the money that could be saved.
Grab ahold of this and think … it all stems from the root of ungratefulness. I know I sound like a broken record, but check out the bible. The first chapter of Romans shows how ungratefulness can lead to immoral behavior and then to the downfall of society.
Also, there is a mentality of it’s too hard to make a relationship work. It’s too hard to sew my own clothes. People want instant gratification. Then what happens? The next gratification isn’t good enough so let’s move on to the next.
Let’s take a look at the word restoration:
restore vb (tr)
1. to return (something, esp a work of art or building) to an original or former condition
2. to bring back to health, good spirits, etc.
3. to return (something lost, stolen, etc.) to its owner
4. to reintroduce or re-enforce to restore discipline
5. to reconstruct (an extinct animal, former landscape, etc.)
[from Old French, from Latin r?staur?re to rebuild, from re- + -staur?re, as in instaur?re to renew]
re·store tr.v. re·stored, re·stor·ing, re·stores
1. To bring back into existence or use; reestablish: restore law and order.
2. To bring back to an original condition: restore a building.
3. To put (someone) back in a former position: restore the emperor to the throne.
4. To make restitution of; give back: restore the stolen funds.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s LAST SUPPER had a major overhaul. The candles over the years had given it a layer of soot that darkened it. The new restoration made the WOW factor unbelievable. People could hardly believe how bright and vibrant the colors became.
People can restore relationships, but it takes work. Something this society doesn’t relish anymore. I’d like to challenge people to begin to think about this, but Americans are too busy buying new things and having to overwork to pay for them to give a NEW well OLD idea a chance.
People used to sit outside at their homes and get to know their neighbors. They would cross the street sit out on their porches talk and play games. Now they are inside resting from their jobs, they have to pay for the NEW things they feel they need.
What is it going to take AMERICA a crashing down of our country to wake us up???
Works cited: The internet definition of restore; the free dictionary by Farlex
By Terry Board © Burnett Publishing 2011
Are We Ready
Are you ready for this, people? Is this what we want? What are you going to do about it?
Brace yourselves and you really need to be SURE you are right with GOD (El) Hebrew for God, Almighty, The Strong One, and The Mighty Almighty Conquering One! Jesus told us in John 14:6, “I am THE way THE truth & THE life NO one can come to the Father but through me.” So if you don’t know Him, you will find yourself in the same place the rich man ended up. Bible says he died and lifted up his eyes being in torment. Read the account for yourself in Luke 16:19 – 30. Time is running out make things right before it is too late.
This is what the bible predicts will happen in the last days. It’s called the Anti-Christ. I am shocked that I would live to see someone (a leader supposedly) say these following statements.
Excerpts from a speech made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“Conducive ground must be prepared to ensure collective participation and involvement of nations in an effort to promote lasting peace and security.
Shared and collective management of the world must be achieved in its true sense, and based on the underlying principles enshrined in the international law. Justice must serve as the criterion and the basis for all international decisions and actions.
All of us should acknowledge the fact that there is no other way than the shared and collective management of the world in order to put an end to the present disorders, tyranny, and discrimination’s worldwide.
Dear Colleagues and Friends;
Shared and collective management of the world is the legitimate right of all nations, and we as their representatives, have an obligation to defend their rights. Although some powers continuously try to frustrate all international efforts aimed at promoting collective cooperation, we must, however, strengthen our belief in achieving the perceived goal of establishing a shared and collective cooperation to run the world.
The United Nations was created to make effective participation of all nations in international decision-making processes, possible. We all know that this goal has not yet been fulfilled because of the absence of justice in the current management structures and mechanisms of the UN.
The composition of the Security Council is unjust and inequitable. Therefore, changes including the restructuring of the United Nations are considered the basic demands of the nations that must be addressed by the General Assembly.
During last year session, I emphasized the importance of this issue and called for the designation of the current decade as the decade of shared and collective Global Management.
I would like to reiterate again my proposal. I am sure that through international cooperation, diligence and efforts by committed world leaders and governments and through insisting on the realization of justice and the support of all other nations, we can expedite the building of a common bright future.
This movement is certainly on its rightful path of creation, ensuring a promising future for humanity. A future that will be built when humanity initiates to trend the path of the divine prophets and the righteous under the leadership of Imam al-Mahdi, the Ultimate Savior of mankind and the inheritor to all divine messengers and leaders and to the pure generation of our great Prophet.
The creation of a supreme and ideal society with the arrival of a perfect human being who is a true and sincere lover of all human beings, is the guaranteed promise of Allah.
He will come alongside with Jesus Christ to lead the freedom and justice lovers to eradicate tyranny and discrimination, and promote knowledge, peace, justice freedom and love across the world. He will present to every single individual all the beauties of the world and all good things which bring happiness for humankind.”
Pardon me but I for one am not ready for this! Are you?
Work Cited:
Taken from: United Nations
http://gadebate.un.org/sites/default/files/gastatements/66/IR_en.pdf
Terry Board
© Burnett Publishing 2011
Dissensions and Hindrances
We ought to obey God rather than man. God never changes to meet the needs of man. His word tells us He is the same yesterday, Today, and Forever.
As I am reading my bible today and I went online to find a scripture. It lists the different versions of the bible. I was shocked to find one of the mainline denominations has now written a bible that is gender inclusive.
Acts5:29 27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the Council. The high priest interrogated them, 28 saying, “We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this Man’s blood upon us.” 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Hebrews 13: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.
God created man and woman, and this comes from the book of Genesis. These words from God teach us that God created man and woman and he intended for them to stay that way. Going back again to the scripture Hebrews 13:8. God does not change He is always the same throughout all generations.
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that He would lie, nor a son of man, that He would change His mind;”
You see God does not lie! So how can we change what God has ordered and set into place? He created human beings in His image male and female. God does not want us to associate with the works of darkness and anything that is contrary to God is darkness.
Romans 16:17-20 17 Now, I urge you, brothers and sisters, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned and turn away from them. 18 For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. 19 For the report of your obedience has reached everyone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil. 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (NAS)
If we are in Christ Jesus God has crushed Satan under our feet and we should walk every day in that manner. No, we are not to change what God has created! How can a church turn to the works of darkness? All I can say is it must not have been grounded in truth. In Jesus’s own words he said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”
So God The Father, Jesus, The Son, and The Holy Spirit will not and do not change! If you are teaching anything different than this word of God then you are a liar and walk-in total darkness!
Now as far as man and woman God made it plain and simple it is the utter works of darkness that want to change it.
Genesis 5:1,2 and 18–25 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created. (NAS)
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam, there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 And the LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ Because she was taken out of man.” 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed. (NAS)
Just so no one is confused here, God gave Adam the authority to name everything on the earth including his wife. Adam called her woman and he named her Eve. God let men run wild with his thoughts and actions and this created havoc upon the earth and it still does. How can anyone confuse God’s words that clearly say men and women were given over to their own degrading passions and not know what that means? They are clearly blind to the truth! That is why they are ever running after lies! Gods word says;
Romans 1:26-32 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, 27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper, 29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Definition of degrading: (to lower to an inferior or less effective level, to bring to low esteem or into disrepute, to drag down in moral or intellectual character, to lower in grade, rank, or status: demote.)Merriam-Webster
Can you find anything positive in degradation? Stop listening to the lies! You know the truth.
If you are a Christian you are to run from lies and deception! Do not let the dissensions and hindrances pull you into the agendas of the people who follow after darkness!
By Terry Board © Burnett Publishing Company October 2021