Honk for Hell

(Warning! Controversial thoughts found here)

These are Jarvis Wright’s thoughts on the fight over illegal immigration. I’ll tie the title in later. :)

1) Just because you make a law doesn’t make you or that law just. See the Jim Crow era when lots of laws existed that had lots of popular support. However, these laws were evil to the core.
2) Secondly, we are all here illegally in some form or fashion. And, here’s what I mean by that… A long time ago, people from Europe came to this land that we call America on boats. They made the native people sick with their infectious diseases. They evicted the native people from the land they owned (at least according to their law) , and did whatever it took to make that land our own, whether it meant killing, raping, or just humiliating. And, then there’s a long history of other people being dragged over here unwillingly and being forced into a little thing we call slavery. And, then who could forget the thousands of Europeans and Asians who came here illegally and were hated by the ones who were already here.
3) Now! I get that the so-called illegals are taking OUR jobs, and using up OUR healthcare, robbing US of resources and draining our government of cash. But, guess what, the last time I checked, the earth was the LORD’s and all that is in it. So, we should all look around at all the things we claim to be our own, and consider that they don’t even belong to us.
4) My wife summed it up best when during a conversation on politics, she said, “We’re all selfish.” And, that my friends is the number one problem – our own self-seeking pride that wants us to have “our best life now”, not considering how we might show the love of Christ in reaching others to save their life – the current one and the eternal one. So, be less selfish. Preach the gospel for God’s glory to both legals and illegals. You can begin today by considering not seeking your own comforts and your children’s comforts when this world may not exist long enough for your children to be comfortable in. And lest we forget, it will be rather uncomfortable in hell if you teach your children and their children to follow in your footsteps.

So, the jist of all this is not about the laws and who’s enforcing them, but for me it’s a matter of Christ followers getting sucked into political arguments with no basis in the mission given them by their savior. Unless God wills otherwise, America will always have more than enough resources to support those that think themselves to be here legally and those that realize that they are here illegally. It’s all in his Sovereign hands.

In case it’s unclear, unless you are a Native American…i.e. Indian, you’re here illegally as far as I’m concerned. When I see people standing on the side of Highway 280 creating distractions during rush hour with their signs saying HONK FOR ARIZONA, it ticks me off. So, to that, I say HONK FOR HELL. Your prejudice and selfishness may well deliver you there on an express route. A sermon that I heard on Jonah recently may have said it best; don’t allow your national pride to hinder the global mission of God in your life.

Much love! And, I mean that…even if you’re from south of the border.

Is man inherently good or inherently bad?

Here's a post without a lot of fanfare or opinion.  When answering the question of whether man is inhrently good or inherently bad, Jarvis Wright takes the side of scripture that we are all desperately evil and unable to do anything about it.  The more I look inwardly and the more I look around,  the more I look to the following verses for what we are like... 

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.  -- Genesis 6:5-8

Here we see three elements 1)that after the fall of mankind, we are inhrently evil and continually bent on doing wrong and 2)that God is holy and hates sin, and 3)that God is gracious and compassionate toward whom he chooses.  Our only chance is that we would experience the grace of God.  I pray that God is gracious to you and makes his face to shine on you.   Let us turn from our sin, trust him for our salvation, and tell the world. 

Much love!!

Leaving Stuff Behind

"A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous. - Proverbs 13:22"   After attending church on Sunday, July 4th and hearing a great sermon, I specifically thought about the first half of the scripture shown above.   The fine folks here in the United States have a proud heritage that we like to pass from one generation to the next.  And, I don't knock that.  But, there is a greater heritage that we have in Christ that we should pass along to our children.  And, now I need to backtrack because I know you're looking at the scripture and you're looking at my words and you're thinking, that scripture is talking about leaving your children and their children some STUFF.  And, I don't deny that it probably is, but what about good men that don't have money to leave behind.  What would they leave?  And, for those that paid attention in Ecclesiastes to the story about the man that works so hard to leave money to his sons and he doesn't know whether his beneficiaries will be wise men or idiots.  What vanity?! 

So, here's what Jarvis Wright is thinking.  I won't spend the money that God blesses my family with frivolously but I don't plan on hoarding up so that my son(s and daughters) won't have to earn what they get in life.  But, I will pour out the life that I have for God.  So, if there's money for somebody to argue over when I die, great for them.  But, in my estimation, it's more important that we live simply that others may simply live.  And, if you know me by now, I'm not just talking humanitarian aide with.  God is moving us more and more toward pouring out our lives for the sake of reaching others with the gospel of Christ.  So, that means the inheritance that I leave for Caleb and others who may follow him will be an inheritance of a life surrendered to God.  And, the decision that I've made recently, is that I will live that life and journal about that life to leave the journals behind for my son and his future siblings; God willing.  Hopefully, what they see in me daily and what they read about me leads them to know that their dad loves God and loves them; even after I'm long gone.

Much love!!