Uncharted

I will miss you

even

before

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are

gone.

John 4:34

Title: My food

While most people appreciate food for its appearance, aroma, texture, and flavor, and when we also consider it as a source of energy and pleasure, and a time of rest and fellowship when partaking of it with family or friends, the Christian derives the same in his dedication to fulfill the task God has ordained for him to accomplish.

And the task of announcing the good news of salvation in Jesus, the Christ, would not wait, in the same manner that the body would have to be nourished with such frequency and urgency day after day.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Title: A chasing after the wind

We know that life is a vapor, without definite shape or assurance of tenure, but it doesn’t have to be meaningless as it is short.

We can be certain to give it character in nobility of purpose, and depth by acting uprightly and properly in the world. And to accomplish this, we have to achieve based on the principle of the good of the other, not on envious surpassing of one by the other which is a worthless expenditure of the breath of life itself.

Revelation 13:16

Title:  To receive a mark

It would be aesthetically inappropriate for a mark to be tattooed on or a chip to be implanted in prominent parts of the body, but what the verse might be pointing to are the two major segments of society: those who use their intellect (head) and those who do manual labor (hand), and each of us fall in one sector or the other.

One potential agenda in accomplishing total control over the population is through health-care initiative, as we see now being forced down the throats of the American people by a legislated Affordable Healthcare Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.

Everyone must enroll or be penalized for not doing so, and someday might not be allowed to buy or sell also.

Genesis 1:27; Romans 1:18-32

Title:  Male and female

Sodomy and lesbianism are not gender issues, since gender is the distinction of sex, and sex is (either of the two divisions into which persons, animals, and plants are divided according to reproductive function; male or female – Websters’ Dictionary).

It is clear in the pattern we see in nature, in human beings, in animal and plant life, that there are only male and female to propagate life, and if homosexuality were the norm among human beings, animals, and plants, life would cease to exist in merely twenty years.

Homosexuality is a sin issue, and has to be addressed through repentance toward God and trust in the Lord Jesus, or the offender would surely perish with no way of escape.

1 Corinthians 15:2

Title:  By this gospel

If we would regard the gospel as the means to salvation by faith, in the same manner it has to carry us all the way to the resurrection, help us grow in the knowledge of the truth, strengthen us in the trials of our faith, encourage us in our commitment to serve God and obey his commands.

By no means is the gospel message an initial truth that would not permeate every facet of the Christian life.  We are saved by it, and by it we are shepherded to the very gate of the Kingdom.

Colossians 1:16

Title:  For the Lord Jesus

The beginning of all things is the purpose of the end of all things.

Many minds might be skeptical of the Purpose-Giver for all that live and were created, but the challenge doesn’t necessarily end there; we, including those who doubt, still have to submit to His total control.

Unless the nations consciously live for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who was born in the flesh in the Lord Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit, the end of humanity would be as horrible as its unbelief.

Possessing no purpose that will carve its path to the end which should lead to a new beginning, mankind, regretfully, has no hope in this life and in the world to come.