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Jul 10, 2018 23:32:06   #
rumitoid
 
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on their honeymoon, collided on an innocent and fun zip line, and the g***m died. It seems too outrageous and absurd. A death like that always gets to me. Like the many who die taking a selfie from a high place. Death seems incredibly petty, embarrassingly small, to act in that fashion. It seems to make Death vulnerable to defeat. If he picks on such people, like a heartless and macabre bully, he shows a deficit in character. Maybe one to take advantage of. Perhaps.

Timing. When I was about to leave NYC in 1984 for NM, a young women was k**led by a bullet on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, shot just behind the right ear. A few days later, a 14 year old boy came forward with his parents to say that he had received a rifle for his birthday and was shooting at cans on the bay. This is where he gets curious. It turns out that the maximum range of his rifle was just enough to reach the woman's car by an improbable ricochet off the water. But she had one window rolled down; the back right passenger seat. Had that window been rolled up, she would have lived. There was just enough force left in the bullet's flight on the perfect strike behind her right ear.

A guy travels from Japan to Taos to take autumnal pictures of the environs around the ski valley. He is in a canyon far below the road when a truck coming down somehow loses a tire. It is just before a sharp curve in the road. The tire travels into the guardrail, which launches it perfectly over a stand of large pines and precisely down on his head, an inch or less left or right, who knows?

What's my point? Knowing we may have maybe a minute left to our lives, even less, and not the entire itinerary for our day or the year to come, I feel is useful to living better and freer. Something like a hospice patient putting their affairs in order. Saying those neglected "I love you" as often as you can. Embracing those dear at every opportunity. Having a living will. Cherishing the moment. Appreciating the love and closeness of family and friends more deeply. Clean underwear, lol. Doing what challenges our comfort zones. Knowing this moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Really knowing this precise moment--NOW--is the only moment we have to make a difference. Still caring when we are threatened or afraid or doubtful, for that is what life is about. This second, this instant, is all--ALL--that we have, as afar as we know: how do we want to spend it?

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Jul 10, 2018 23:36:34   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
rumitoid wrote:
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on their honeymoon, collided on an innocent and fun zip line, and the g***m died. It seems too outrageous and absurd. A death like that always gets to me. Like the many who die taking a selfie from a high place. Death seems incredibly petty, embarrassingly small, to act in that fashion. It seems to make Death vulnerable to defeat. If he picks on such people, like a heartless and macabre bully, he shows a deficit in character. Maybe one to take advantage of. Perhaps.

Timing. When I was about to leave NYC in 1984 for NM, a young women was k**led by a bullet on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, shot just behind the right ear. A few days later, a 14 year old boy came forward with his parents to say that he had received a rifle for his birthday and was shooting at cans on the bay. This is where he gets curious. It turns out that the maximum range of his rifle was just enough to reach the woman's car by an improbable ricochet off the water. But she had one window rolled down; the back right passenger seat. Had that window been rolled up, she would have lived. There was just enough force left in the bullet's flight on the perfect strike behind her right ear.

A guy travels from Japan to Taos to take autumnal pictures of the environs around the ski valley. He is in a canyon far below the road when a truck coming down somehow loses a tire. It is just before a sharp curve in the road. The tire travels into the guardrail, which launches it perfectly over a stand of large pines and precisely down on his head, an inch or less left or right, who knows?

What's my point? Knowing we may have maybe a minute left to our lives, even less, and not the entire itinerary for our day or the year to come, I feel is useful to living better and freer. Something like a hospice patient putting their affairs in order. Saying those neglected "I love you" as often as you can. Embracing those dear at every opportunity. Having a living will. Cherishing the moment. Appreciating the love and closeness of family and friends more deeply. Clean underwear, lol. Doing what challenges out comfort zones. Knowing this moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Really knowing this precise moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Still caring when we are threatened or afraid or doubtful, for that is what life is about. This second, this instant, is all--ALL--that we have, as afar as we know: how do we want to spend it?
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on... (show quote)
Make the best of the time you have, which is now, and appreciate what you have, not what you don't have or wish you had. Remember, you'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.

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Jul 10, 2018 23:36:43   #
ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps
 
Grab that innertube I left for you down in KeyWest.

Jump in the water and start swimming for Cuba.

You too can experience all those meanings about life you keep missing.

Castro awaits you. Swim harder, splash a lot with your feet and put that tube up on plane.

Have fun now.


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Jul 10, 2018 23:46:54   #
rumitoid
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
Make the best of the time you have, which is now, and appreciate what you have, not what you don't have or wish you had. Remember, you'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.


Haha, good point.

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Jul 10, 2018 23:48:24   #
rumitoid
 
ghostgotcha wrote:
Grab that innertube I left for you down in KeyWest.

Jump in the water and start swimming for Cuba.

You too can experience all those meanings about life you keep missing.

Castro awaits you. Swim harder, splash a lot with your feet and put that tube up on plane.

Have fun now.



Love and life will go to extremes.

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Jul 11, 2018 00:00:10   #
Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas
 
rumitoid wrote:
Love and life will go to extremes.

Only if you're livin off credit/debit cards

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Jul 11, 2018 00:03:36   #
rumitoid
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
Make the best of the time you have, which is now, and appreciate what you have, not what you don't have or wish you had. Remember, you'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.


Nice summary.

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Jul 11, 2018 00:29:32   #
Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas
 
rumitoid wrote:
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on their honeymoon, collided on an innocent and fun zip line, and the g***m died. It seems too outrageous and absurd. A death like that always gets to me. Like the many who die taking a selfie from a high place. Death seems incredibly petty, embarrassingly small, to act in that fashion. It seems to make Death vulnerable to defeat. If he picks on such people, like a heartless and macabre bully, he shows a deficit in character. Maybe one to take advantage of. Perhaps.

Timing. When I was about to leave NYC in 1984 for NM, a young women was k**led by a bullet on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, shot just behind the right ear. A few days later, a 14 year old boy came forward with his parents to say that he had received a rifle for his birthday and was shooting at cans on the bay. This is where he gets curious. It turns out that the maximum range of his rifle was just enough to reach the woman's car by an improbable ricochet off the water. But she had one window rolled down; the back right passenger seat. Had that window been rolled up, she would have lived. There was just enough force left in the bullet's flight on the perfect strike behind her right ear.

A guy travels from Japan to Taos to take autumnal pictures of the environs around the ski valley. He is in a canyon far below the road when a truck coming down somehow loses a tire. It is just before a sharp curve in the road. The tire travels into the guardrail, which launches it perfectly over a stand of large pines and precisely down on his head, an inch or less left or right, who knows?

What's my point? Knowing we may have maybe a minute left to our lives, even less, and not the entire itinerary for our day or the year to come, I feel is useful to living better and freer. Something like a hospice patient putting their affairs in order. Saying those neglected "I love you" as often as you can. Embracing those dear at every opportunity. Having a living will. Cherishing the moment. Appreciating the love and closeness of family and friends more deeply. Clean underwear, lol. Doing what challenges our comfort zones. Knowing this moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Really knowing this precise moment--NOW--is the only moment we have to make a difference. Still caring when we are threatened or afraid or doubtful, for that is what life is about. This second, this instant, is all--ALL--that we have, as afar as we know: how do we want to spend it?
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on... (show quote)





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Jul 11, 2018 00:48:37   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
rumitoid wrote:
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on their honeymoon, collided on an innocent and fun zip line, and the g***m died. It seems too outrageous and absurd. A death like that always gets to me. Like the many who die taking a selfie from a high place. Death seems incredibly petty, embarrassingly small, to act in that fashion. It seems to make Death vulnerable to defeat. If he picks on such people, like a heartless and macabre bully, he shows a deficit in character. Maybe one to take advantage of. Perhaps.

Timing. When I was about to leave NYC in 1984 for NM, a young women was k**led by a bullet on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, shot just behind the right ear. A few days later, a 14 year old boy came forward with his parents to say that he had received a rifle for his birthday and was shooting at cans on the bay. This is where he gets curious. It turns out that the maximum range of his rifle was just enough to reach the woman's car by an improbable ricochet off the water. But she had one window rolled down; the back right passenger seat. Had that window been rolled up, she would have lived. There was just enough force left in the bullet's flight on the perfect strike behind her right ear.

A guy travels from Japan to Taos to take autumnal pictures of the environs around the ski valley. He is in a canyon far below the road when a truck coming down somehow loses a tire. It is just before a sharp curve in the road. The tire travels into the guardrail, which launches it perfectly over a stand of large pines and precisely down on his head, an inch or less left or right, who knows?

What's my point? Knowing we may have maybe a minute left to our lives, even less, and not the entire itinerary for our day or the year to come, I feel is useful to living better and freer. Something like a hospice patient putting their affairs in order. Saying those neglected "I love you" as often as you can. Embracing those dear at every opportunity. Having a living will. Cherishing the moment. Appreciating the love and closeness of family and friends more deeply. Clean underwear, lol. Doing what challenges our comfort zones. Knowing this moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Really knowing this precise moment--NOW--is the only moment we have to make a difference. Still caring when we are threatened or afraid or doubtful, for that is what life is about. This second, this instant, is all--ALL--that we have, as afar as we know: how do we want to spend it?
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on... (show quote)




Every man/women has an appointed time, by God.

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

When we will die is not a matter of accident or chance; the Bible makes it clear that our lives are in God’s hands. He knows the time of our death, and He has even appointed it. The Bible says, “Man’s days are determined; you (God) have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed” (Job 14:5).

When we know Christ, then we can say with the psalmist, “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15). Jesus came to give us life—life right now, and life in the world to come. Make sure of your commitment to Christ today.

1 Timothy 6:13, “I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus.

Here is more specificity. James applies this sovereignty precisely to whether and when we die. He says that instead of saying we are going up to such and such a town to do some business there and get a profit, “You ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live’” — now, that just settles it for me — “‘and do this or that’” (James 4:13, 15). And then James adds, “As it is, you boast in your arrogance” — meaning, he thinks it is arrogant to presume we live one second longer than God wills for us to live. “All such boasting is evil” (James 4:16). The point is, only if God wills, do I live another minute. Therefore, the Lord decides when I die.

Jesus put it this way: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground” — meaning, die — “apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of much more value than the sparrows” (Matthew 10:29–31). Now, what is the point? The point is, if the time for the death of a tiny bird in a remote forest is of a concern to God and determined by God, how much more will our days be numbered and determined by God with great care and wisdom. In fact, the psalmist says to God, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” (Psalm 139:16). Which means, the days that God has allotted for me and you are already written in a book. They are decided. There aren’t any extra ones outside the book that slip up on God.

Job confessed this about his own children when they had all died in a storm. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Hannah says the same thing in 1 Samuel 2:6, “The Lord k**ls and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.” In other words, life and death are in the hand of God. Moses says the same thing when he quotes God in Deuteronomy 32:39, “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I k**l and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”

So Rumi, every person according to the will of God dies when God says so. The weak and sick can live decades serving God, the strong can drop dead.
We don't live each day to its fullest, God wants us to live each day to have the fullest relationship with him, thus he blesses us with joy in our serving the Lord, seeking to be "Christ like" even in our flawed vessel's, tripping and falling but getting back up until the time we live eternally in our new and perfect incorruptible bodies in the presence of the Lord.

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Have we truly accepted Jesus as our Saviour, believing he paid the price for our sins on the cross, that he died and rose again.
Jesus is the son of God, God in the flesh that walked among men, but rejected by the Jewish.
Prophecy is fulfilling as the church age is coming to a close and the time of Jacob's Troubles about to begin, the time God deals with Israel and all Jewish will accept the Lord as God also sends his wrath and judgment upon this World.

Time is short to ask Jesus for forgiveness of our sins, repent (Change how we think about sin, turn away from sin) confess with the mouth that Jesus is the son of God, our Lord and savior.

God Bless America
God Bless Israel
God Bless and protect President Trump

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Jul 11, 2018 05:25:43   #
Forkbassman Loc: Missouri
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
Every man/women has an appointed time, by God.

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

When we will die is not a matter of accident or chance; the Bible makes it clear that our lives are in God’s hands. He knows the time of our death, and He has even appointed it. The Bible says, “Man’s days are determined; you (God) have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed” (Job 14:5).

When we know Christ, then we can say with the psalmist, “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15). Jesus came to give us life—life right now, and life in the world to come. Make sure of your commitment to Christ today.

1 Timothy 6:13, “I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus.

Here is more specificity. James applies this sovereignty precisely to whether and when we die. He says that instead of saying we are going up to such and such a town to do some business there and get a profit, “You ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live’” — now, that just settles it for me — “‘and do this or that’” (James 4:13, 15). And then James adds, “As it is, you boast in your arrogance” — meaning, he thinks it is arrogant to presume we live one second longer than God wills for us to live. “All such boasting is evil” (James 4:16). The point is, only if God wills, do I live another minute. Therefore, the Lord decides when I die.

Jesus put it this way: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground” — meaning, die — “apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of much more value than the sparrows” (Matthew 10:29–31). Now, what is the point? The point is, if the time for the death of a tiny bird in a remote forest is of a concern to God and determined by God, how much more will our days be numbered and determined by God with great care and wisdom. In fact, the psalmist says to God, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” (Psalm 139:16). Which means, the days that God has allotted for me and you are already written in a book. They are decided. There aren’t any extra ones outside the book that slip up on God.

Job confessed this about his own children when they had all died in a storm. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Hannah says the same thing in 1 Samuel 2:6, “The Lord k**ls and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.” In other words, life and death are in the hand of God. Moses says the same thing when he quotes God in Deuteronomy 32:39, “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I k**l and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”

So Rumi, every person according to the will of God dies when God says so. The weak and sick can live decades serving God, the strong can drop dead.
We don't live each day to its fullest, God wants us to live each day to have the fullest relationship with him, thus he blesses us with joy in our serving the Lord, seeking to be "Christ like" even in our flawed vessel's, tripping and falling but getting back up until the time we live eternally in our new and perfect incorruptible bodies in the presence of the Lord.

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Have we truly accepted Jesus as our Saviour, believing he paid the price for our sins on the cross, that he died and rose again.
Jesus is the son of God, God in the flesh that walked among men, but rejected by the Jewish.
Prophecy is fulfilling as the church age is coming to a close and the time of Jacob's Troubles about to begin, the time God deals with Israel and all Jewish will accept the Lord as God also sends his wrath and judgment upon this World.

Time is short to ask Jesus for forgiveness of our sins, repent (Change how we think about sin, turn away from sin) confess with the mouth that Jesus is the son of God, our Lord and savior.

God Bless America
God Bless Israel
God Bless and protect President Trump
Every man/women has an appointed time, by God. br ... (show quote)


Very well said! AMEN, brother!

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Jul 11, 2018 06:04:22   #
old marine Loc: America home of the brave
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
Every man/women has an appointed time, by God.

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

When we will die is not a matter of accident or chance; the Bible makes it clear that our lives are in God’s hands. He knows the time of our death, and He has even appointed it. The Bible says, “Man’s days are determined; you (God) have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed” (Job 14:5).

When we know Christ, then we can say with the psalmist, “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15). Jesus came to give us life—life right now, and life in the world to come. Make sure of your commitment to Christ today.

1 Timothy 6:13, “I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus.

Here is more specificity. James applies this sovereignty precisely to whether and when we die. He says that instead of saying we are going up to such and such a town to do some business there and get a profit, “You ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live’” — now, that just settles it for me — “‘and do this or that’” (James 4:13, 15). And then James adds, “As it is, you boast in your arrogance” — meaning, he thinks it is arrogant to presume we live one second longer than God wills for us to live. “All such boasting is evil” (James 4:16). The point is, only if God wills, do I live another minute. Therefore, the Lord decides when I die.

Jesus put it this way: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground” — meaning, die — “apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of much more value than the sparrows” (Matthew 10:29–31). Now, what is the point? The point is, if the time for the death of a tiny bird in a remote forest is of a concern to God and determined by God, how much more will our days be numbered and determined by God with great care and wisdom. In fact, the psalmist says to God, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” (Psalm 139:16). Which means, the days that God has allotted for me and you are already written in a book. They are decided. There aren’t any extra ones outside the book that slip up on God.

Job confessed this about his own children when they had all died in a storm. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Hannah says the same thing in 1 Samuel 2:6, “The Lord k**ls and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.” In other words, life and death are in the hand of God. Moses says the same thing when he quotes God in Deuteronomy 32:39, “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I k**l and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”

So Rumi, every person according to the will of God dies when God says so. The weak and sick can live decades serving God, the strong can drop dead.
We don't live each day to its fullest, God wants us to live each day to have the fullest relationship with him, thus he blesses us with joy in our serving the Lord, seeking to be "Christ like" even in our flawed vessel's, tripping and falling but getting back up until the time we live eternally in our new and perfect incorruptible bodies in the presence of the Lord.

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Have we truly accepted Jesus as our Saviour, believing he paid the price for our sins on the cross, that he died and rose again.
Jesus is the son of God, God in the flesh that walked among men, but rejected by the Jewish.
Prophecy is fulfilling as the church age is coming to a close and the time of Jacob's Troubles about to begin, the time God deals with Israel and all Jewish will accept the Lord as God also sends his wrath and judgment upon this World.

Time is short to ask Jesus for forgiveness of our sins, repent (Change how we think about sin, turn away from sin) confess with the mouth that Jesus is the son of God, our Lord and savior.

God Bless America
God Bless Israel
God Bless and protect President Trump
Every man/women has an appointed time, by God. br ... (show quote)

Excellent post jack

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Jul 11, 2018 06:30:36   #
mwdegutis Loc: Illinois
 
rumitoid wrote:
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on their honeymoon, collided on an innocent and fun zip line, and the g***m died. It seems too outrageous and absurd. A death like that always gets to me. Like the many who die taking a selfie from a high place. Death seems incredibly petty, embarrassingly small, to act in that fashion. It seems to make Death vulnerable to defeat. If he picks on such people, like a heartless and macabre bully, he shows a deficit in character. Maybe one to take advantage of. Perhaps.

Timing. When I was about to leave NYC in 1984 for NM, a young women was k**led by a bullet on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, shot just behind the right ear. A few days later, a 14 year old boy came forward with his parents to say that he had received a rifle for his birthday and was shooting at cans on the bay. This is where he gets curious. It turns out that the maximum range of his rifle was just enough to reach the woman's car by an improbable ricochet off the water. But she had one window rolled down; the back right passenger seat. Had that window been rolled up, she would have lived. There was just enough force left in the bullet's flight on the perfect strike behind her right ear.

A guy travels from Japan to Taos to take autumnal pictures of the environs around the ski valley. He is in a canyon far below the road when a truck coming down somehow loses a tire. It is just before a sharp curve in the road. The tire travels into the guardrail, which launches it perfectly over a stand of large pines and precisely down on his head, an inch or less left or right, who knows?

What's my point? Knowing we may have maybe a minute left to our lives, even less, and not the entire itinerary for our day or the year to come, I feel is useful to living better and freer. Something like a hospice patient putting their affairs in order. Saying those neglected "I love you" as often as you can. Embracing those dear at every opportunity. Having a living will. Cherishing the moment. Appreciating the love and closeness of family and friends more deeply. Clean underwear, lol. Doing what challenges our comfort zones. Knowing this moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Really knowing this precise moment--NOW--is the only moment we have to make a difference. Still caring when we are threatened or afraid or doubtful, for that is what life is about. This second, this instant, is all--ALL--that we have, as afar as we know: how do we want to spend it?
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on... (show quote)

You just blew a perfect opportunity to speak of the good news and salvation in Jesus Christ:

The Romans Road to Salvation through Jesus Christ

Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”
Romans 10:9 “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:13 “For whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

If you, dear friend, have not yet come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior, I encourage you to give your life to Christ. Just say a prayer and ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and come into your heart, so that you might have eternal life and be “born again.”

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Jul 11, 2018 12:50:24   #
Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX
 
rumitoid wrote:
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on their honeymoon, collided on an innocent and fun zip line, and the g***m died. It seems too outrageous and absurd. A death like that always gets to me. Like the many who die taking a selfie from a high place. Death seems incredibly petty, embarrassingly small, to act in that fashion. It seems to make Death vulnerable to defeat. If he picks on such people, like a heartless and macabre bully, he shows a deficit in character. Maybe one to take advantage of. Perhaps.

Timing. When I was about to leave NYC in 1984 for NM, a young women was k**led by a bullet on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, shot just behind the right ear. A few days later, a 14 year old boy came forward with his parents to say that he had received a rifle for his birthday and was shooting at cans on the bay. This is where he gets curious. It turns out that the maximum range of his rifle was just enough to reach the woman's car by an improbable ricochet off the water. But she had one window rolled down; the back right passenger seat. Had that window been rolled up, she would have lived. There was just enough force left in the bullet's flight on the perfect strike behind her right ear.

A guy travels from Japan to Taos to take autumnal pictures of the environs around the ski valley. He is in a canyon far below the road when a truck coming down somehow loses a tire. It is just before a sharp curve in the road. The tire travels into the guardrail, which launches it perfectly over a stand of large pines and precisely down on his head, an inch or less left or right, who knows?

What's my point? Knowing we may have maybe a minute left to our lives, even less, and not the entire itinerary for our day or the year to come, I feel is useful to living better and freer. Something like a hospice patient putting their affairs in order. Saying those neglected "I love you" as often as you can. Embracing those dear at every opportunity. Having a living will. Cherishing the moment. Appreciating the love and closeness of family and friends more deeply. Clean underwear, lol. Doing what challenges our comfort zones. Knowing this moment is the only moment we have to make a difference. Really knowing this precise moment--NOW--is the only moment we have to make a difference. Still caring when we are threatened or afraid or doubtful, for that is what life is about. This second, this instant, is all--ALL--that we have, as afar as we know: how do we want to spend it?
I just read where an Israeli couple in Honduras on... (show quote)


Sounds good if you're an atheist. If you're a Christian, not so much. Death isn't the end, it's the beginning. This life is a test, after death you learn if you passed or failed. Maybe that's why we can't see eye to eye or walk shoulder to shoulder or hand in hand. One side believes, seeks, obeys, and follows Him and the other side doesn't. That's it in a nutshell.

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Jul 11, 2018 19:51:25   #
malachi
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
Every man/women has an appointed time, by God.

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

When we will die is not a matter of accident or chance; the Bible makes it clear that our lives are in God’s hands. He knows the time of our death, and He has even appointed it. The Bible says, “Man’s days are determined; you (God) have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed” (Job 14:5).

When we know Christ, then we can say with the psalmist, “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15). Jesus came to give us life—life right now, and life in the world to come. Make sure of your commitment to Christ today.

1 Timothy 6:13, “I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus.

Here is more specificity. James applies this sovereignty precisely to whether and when we die. He says that instead of saying we are going up to such and such a town to do some business there and get a profit, “You ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live’” — now, that just settles it for me — “‘and do this or that’” (James 4:13, 15). And then James adds, “As it is, you boast in your arrogance” — meaning, he thinks it is arrogant to presume we live one second longer than God wills for us to live. “All such boasting is evil” (James 4:16). The point is, only if God wills, do I live another minute. Therefore, the Lord decides when I die.

Jesus put it this way: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground” — meaning, die — “apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of much more value than the sparrows” (Matthew 10:29–31). Now, what is the point? The point is, if the time for the death of a tiny bird in a remote forest is of a concern to God and determined by God, how much more will our days be numbered and determined by God with great care and wisdom. In fact, the psalmist says to God, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” (Psalm 139:16). Which means, the days that God has allotted for me and you are already written in a book. They are decided. There aren’t any extra ones outside the book that slip up on God.

Job confessed this about his own children when they had all died in a storm. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Hannah says the same thing in 1 Samuel 2:6, “The Lord k**ls and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.” In other words, life and death are in the hand of God. Moses says the same thing when he quotes God in Deuteronomy 32:39, “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I k**l and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”

So Rumi, every person according to the will of God dies when God says so. The weak and sick can live decades serving God, the strong can drop dead.
We don't live each day to its fullest, God wants us to live each day to have the fullest relationship with him, thus he blesses us with joy in our serving the Lord, seeking to be "Christ like" even in our flawed vessel's, tripping and falling but getting back up until the time we live eternally in our new and perfect incorruptible bodies in the presence of the Lord.

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Have we truly accepted Jesus as our Saviour, believing he paid the price for our sins on the cross, that he died and rose again.
Jesus is the son of God, God in the flesh that walked among men, but rejected by the Jewish.
Prophecy is fulfilling as the church age is coming to a close and the time of Jacob's Troubles about to begin, the time God deals with Israel and all Jewish will accept the Lord as God also sends his wrath and judgment upon this World.

Time is short to ask Jesus for forgiveness of our sins, repent (Change how we think about sin, turn away from sin) confess with the mouth that Jesus is the son of God, our Lord and savior.

God Bless America
God Bless Israel
God Bless and protect President Trump
Every man/women has an appointed time, by God. br ... (show quote)


Whew! I thought no one would mention the most important thing. The choice is clear. Jesus or satan's joint....hell is not only horrible, but God won't be with those who deny Him.?

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Jul 11, 2018 21:13:19   #
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Peewee wrote:
Sounds good if you're an atheist. If you're a Christian, not so much. Death isn't the end, it's the beginning. This life is a test, after death you learn if you passed or failed. Maybe that's why we can't see eye to eye or walk shoulder to shoulder or hand in hand. One side believes, seeks, obeys, and follows Him and the other side doesn't. That's it in a nutshell.

Amen brother amen

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