Standing on the Promises

Have you ever watched scripture fulfilled right before your eyes? Likely, you have heard the verses from Luke chapter 11 many times. 9) And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10)For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Just recently, this very thing happened in my life. We moved to Oregon in February of this year after living in Washington for seven months (that is another story for another day). After arriving, we feverishly searched for a house. Finally, we found one in the “perfect” location, situated right behind my kids’ schools. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until the day before we were to move in. I called and the woman (homeowner) changed her mind! What??? Everything pointed to this being the perfect house! After a few tears (okay, many tears), we went searching again…sigh! The next morning we checked out some townhomes. Now I am not opposed to apartments, townhomes, condos, etc., however, keep in mind I have FOUR children. We took a tour and I was pleasantly surprised. These townhomes spanned nearly 1600 sq. ft. and the one we were hoping to get would be set facing the beautiful hills behind us. To make a long story short, we moved in two days later.
Now you are probably wondering how this scripture in Luke plays in, right? Well during the time we were looking for a place to live, there was a young mother calling out to God, asking him to help her find a church. She was raised a Christian, but now was living here in Oregon, far away from her family in New Mexico. She had been asking, seeking, knocking and God in His great love and mercy heard her cry. He changed our situation and opened a door for her. She lives in the apartment below us and we met under unusual circumstances (funny how God does that) but her and her fiancé now call our church home, and two weeks ago, he was baptized in the precious name of Jesus.
Although, God changed our situation and at one point, I even felt quite abandoned, He was responding to the pleas of this young woman. She asked and received, she sought and found, she knocked and God opened the door! The word of God never fails!

The Desecration of Marriage

The Institution of Marriage

It is without question to Christians and Jews alike, that the institution of marriage was first established, and ordained by God himself. We find in the bible that God created manand gave him a woman because it was not good for man to be alone.

“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Gen. 2:18).

It is evident from this scripture that God intended for man to in a relationship. The question then becomes, what type of relationship? In order to find the answer to the above question, and to better understand the institution of marriage we must continue reading the text in its context. It is in the book of Genesis (The book of beginnings) that we find the very first reference of a woman and her God intended role as a wife.

“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and broughther unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shallbe called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”(Gen. 2:22-24).

Although the book of Genesis was economically written, it is more then evident from what we read, that this was God's purpose and intent for man and the type of relationship that he was and is to be in. In this type of relationship that we call marriage, there is a man, a woman and the woman is a wife. Based on these scriptural evidence; we have throughout the ages defined marriage as “between a man and a woman.”

Redefining of marriage

One only has to look up the meaning of marriage to see the changes thatare taking place in this postmodern world. Many “online dictionaries” are giving marriage an extra definition; included are people in same sex relationships. One can ask: how is this possible? There is absolutely no logic to such a thing as “gay/homosexual marriage.” To those in favor of redefining marriage it is simply because its time, and because everyone deserves equal rights. But is it really about equal rights? When pressed about marriage involving incest relationships, those in favor of homosexual marriage seemed to be against equal rights for others. In America today there are some states that had laws passed in favor of equal rights to marriage for same sex couples, most recently New York. In 2008 Californians took to the polls and voted for “Proposition 8” a proposition that recognizedmarriage as between a man and a woman only.

“On November 4, 2008, California voters approved Proposition 8 by a margin of almost600,000 votes. Proposition 8 placed into the California Constitution the same language that voters already passed by 61% of the vote in 2000. This action was necessary to overturn an outrageous California Supreme Court decision that overturned Proposition 22 and had legalized same sex marriage in California” (ProtectMarriage.com 2010).

Prop 8 was later overturned by another California judge, who happen to be in a homosexual relationship. Clearly the rights of thousands of voters did not matter. Thus we can see that “rights” are not the issue.In your face: The real issueIf truly equal rights is not the issue, we are forced to ask: what is the real issue? Clearly we are pressed to accept as normal the homosexual life style. The very fact that people have voted over and again against homosexual marriage, and it is still being imposed on us; makes onewonder how far will this go? A life style that was once considered shameful, is now not only “out of the closet” but is “up in your face.”People became too a afraid of not being “politically correct”that they gave up they're right to Freedom of speech. Now, in the war of ideas and ideologies one side put down their “weapons,” while the other side (postmodernism) became embolden, and has not stopped its attack. Perhaps there are those who wouldn't think of this issue as a war of beliefs,but simple research that reveals far more then a debate between the postmodern mindset vs essentialist mindset.

(Vacek, E. 2003) Explains the differences in the two mindsets involved in the debate, and attempts to the best of his ability to define marriage from an ecclesiastical perspective. Although he is scholastic in his approach, he fails to pin-point the fact that marriage is in its purest essence a religious ceremony. Homosexuality in its fullest form is anti-creation/ anti-God. Its rebellion to the fullest extent. So why are they fighting for something they are openly against? To desecrate it. On the surface we think in the terms of postmodernism vs essentialist, however it is better understood as secularism vs theism.

Conclusion

The effects of an “open society” are already showing, in order to continue to impose their agendapostmodernism is now using its children. J Crew recently publish a catalog in which a mother is doing her son's toe nails hot pink. In New York a couple decided to keep the gender of their new born a secret, citing “a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become”(Associated Press). This same couple have a five year old boy who they happen to allow to pick his own clothes, it just so happens that he picks dresses and his favorite color is pink. Or is it the agenda push and imposed by his parents? Postmodernism/Secularism will stop at nothing, not even the very destruction of their own children.

Casey Anthony and the Media Kool-aid.

Last week I was engaging in a conversation about Casey Anthony, my position was the same then as it is now. I don't believe just because she lied to investigators, she is guilty of murdering her child. My position is based on evidents or the lack there of. I do believe she is guilty of being a horrible mother, but she wasn't charged with being a horrible mother. I'm positive that had she been charged with being a horrible mother, the jury would have found her guilty as charged.

The question is, do we really believe that Casey is smart enough to murder her child and get away with it? I don't. The fact that Casey's mother said that Casey's car smelled like a dead body, doesn't make Casey guilty. We have to asked, how exactly is Casey's mother an expert at identifying the smell of dead bodies? How many dead bodies has Casey's mother smelled? I think its safe to say not one.

The fact that Casey took a month to report the missing child doesn't make her guilty of murder. It makes her guilty of "not caring." Again, horrible mother. I keep hearing the words "what kind of mother would wait that long to report her missing child?" I ask you, what kind of person would wait to report a missing child?" How long did Casey's mother wait to report it?

Simple research on Casey's mom and dad, will show inconsistencies in their stories/testimonies. Example: on the "Today show" they said that they believed Calee was alive. But on the 911 call Casey's mother told the operator about the car smelling like a dead body. The journal, well the FBI concluded that type of journal wasn't on the market since 2004. Lets consider Casey, being faced with the death penalty, she maintained her innocence. I could continue to make more points on this topic that support my position, however, I need to move on to the media.

We know that the "mass-media" has lost credibility. Their loss of credibility comes from the open bias shown by its politics. If you cannot trust the media on one subject, what makes us think that we can trust them on anything? The truth is that Nancy Grace and the likes of her, crucified Casey long before the trial started. But there is a big difference between "HEADLINES vs FACTS."

A jury of 12, heard the facts. The jury of 12 were not convinced that Casey was a murder. They were convinced that she lied to investigators, but murder? No. One can speculate all we want, but speculation doesn't stand in court, and neither does headlines. What I find horrible is the masses of mainly "stay-at-home-busy-bodies," that are outraged over the verdict without knowing any facts. They know headlines, but the headlines are only revealing the stupidity and lack of ability to think critically by many Americans. Christians are wetting their beaks too, here is a quote from a "so-called" christian lady on a popular social network "she know she did it, let guilt kill her." Again, no facts to back up her statement, just stupidity. At the end of the day, did she do it? We don't know. The facts didn't indicate that she did, what the facts did reveal was that this family is bound by deep dysfunction.