Lyle's Blog

We’re taking off for Idaho and Washington for a month. We are spending our first night in Las Vegas. My wife wants to see the beautiful hotels of this city. Our pastor was a cop in Las Vegas. He has stories of what hides in the shadows of all those lights. He advises to stay where the lights are. I’m sure it’s impressive but I’m hoping the shallowness of man will become so overwhelming that in her mind she will understand how close to Sodom we are; and not to look back and miss the lights when its destruction comes. Our whole country has caught casino fever. However I don’t think it too long before the consequences of twenty trillion in debt and a hundred trillion in unfunded liabilities will bring the whole thing down. Those lights have attracted so many. What a day when the stars begin to fall.

It’s a numbers game. The central banks of the world have invented this game that we all must play. At first it was Monopoly money; it had a face value of whatever the manipulators said. They were so good at managing the mountains of paper debt that we developed huge confidence in their crooked system. To further enhance our stupidity and confidence and keep the whole scam going, digital money was created. This was done in the form of credit. Being money had no ties to real assets like gold and silver, its value could and would float and property purchased with this money would float too. Easy credit meant dollar values would go up and the reverse if credit was tightened. If you look at the national debt of America, it’s climbed to unimaginable heights like most countries of the world. There are still many that believe in this corruption. But there are many that don’t and so we are divided into two camps. Those on the left want the game to go on; those on the right are uneasy about the height of the stack of cards. But nobody wants the stack of cards to fall. The result is something we just don’t want to think about. Our way of life and our lifestyles all depend on unending debt accumulation. I purchased a new European coupe in 1974 for less than $4400. Today that a car similar to that would cost eight to ten times that much. Debt, real or made up by a central bank has consequences. I was making pretty good money back then, $7.89/hr. I was a pipefitter. If my wages kept up with the price of the car I would have to earn $60/hr in today’s dollars. Today the top pay for a pipefitter is under $40/hr and many earn much less. The money that no longer is available for wages has been transferred to pay debt. To live the same lifestyle we must borrow ever increasing amounts of money. The banking system benefits from our loss. The numbers get bigger and we get poorer. That’s the game. This scenario puts us on the verge of crisis on a regular basis. The communists and rest of their ilk have prepared the population (through the education system) to accept the bondage of the state with open arms. So there is a bloody fight coming between the numb-brained idiots on the left and the property owners on the right. The clash between these two factions will be harsh and brutal. The property owners have been stripped of most of their rights by the court system and Congress and have little left to them in the legal system. Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try; that’s the mantra of the left. Nothing to fight or die for is a recipe for slavery. It will cost you money, friends, family, and maybe your life but there is something noble about dying on your feet and not living on your knees.

Have you ever wondered what’s important? The answer is different depending on your age or how much future you think you have left. That’s the deception. We believe we have one more day. Many things are important of course but most of us spend our lives making sure our number one is all right. We seek companionship, sex, jobs, lifestyle and retirement with ourselves in mind. And why would we not; it’s our life and the only one we get. We get older and a lot of important things are tossed to the ditch. I really never understand the devotion people have to things that really have little or anything to do with them but especially when they are nearing the end of their life. I suppose it gives them a feeling of self worth by voicing support for some issue. Have you noticed when a person dies nothing is important except life itself. Then all the things you believed and collected become worthless. Life becomes the only important thing. Beyond life is that great unknown. Oh we have ideas but if it’s only a belief we have settled on, that could be unsettling. The atheist thinks that this life is all there is. Religions of various sorts purport other doctrines. But the Bible says that we may have eternal life and that is believed by other than Christian people. Scripture (in the book of John) defines eternal life as knowing God. Not knowing about Him but knowing Him personally just like we know people here on earth. So believing in God is different than believing God. I never give scripture references; I just say “the Bible says”. If you want to seek God and eventually find Him it isn’t that hard to do. Read His word. Follow the commandments of Christ. Seek the kingdom of God. Humble yourself. Become aware of the treacherous position you are in. When you realize that you aren’t as good and special as you thought and feel the depravity that breeds in each one of us, repent as the Holy Spirit draws you to Himself. Like Job we must come to an understanding of who we are and who God is. He is the potter, the one who made man in His image. We are the clay marred by a desire to be the potter. We decided to shape ourselves in the image of pride and lust. You have to be willing to let God redeem you. First, genuine repentance is necessary. One must be ashamed before God for following our own selfish ways. We must accept the death of Jesus Christ as payment for our sin and believe He conquered our enemy (death) in His resurrection. Then we start on the path to eternal life by renewing our minds. Get rid of the old thoughts that are contrary to Gods Word. Learn to give grace to all men as He gives grace to us. That’s the difference in knowing about God and knowing God. When you know Him you want to honor Him by giving Him glory in all you do. So I urge everyone to seek Him now while He may be found.

Why would anyone of the Islamic faith kill a bunch of homosexuals? Are people of the homosexual faith treated poorly in Muslim countries? Are 1.3 billion followers of Allah culpable for not reigning in these “extremists”? So many questions; such easy answers. America is filled with ignorant chumps and the rest of us have to suffer because of their arrogant ranting. A lot of us are tired of it but most of us are getting old and will pass soon. But it’s our kids who must pay the biggest price for the idiot thoughts that rule our country. That’s the most frustrating because many times our own children haven’t caught up to the reality that there are many sinister people out to destroy them and don’t deserve a voice in a free society because they don’t believe in a free society. Basic reality 101: liberty is the only thing that protects us from thugs whether it’s on the streets or in government. Wake up!

I sometimes wonder if praying has become a lost art. In America we have lots of options for solving our problems. I’m retired and live in Sun City. I live in “doctor heaven”. Doctors of all kinds and hospitals are just a minute of two away. There are so many care facilities that the urgent care centers have people on the corner with signs trying to wave you in like furniture stores or pizza parlors do. It’s odd until you think how many thousands of old dilapidated people live here. Yep there is a concentration of people needing help with health challenges just like others need pizza. Still I weary from all this handy lifestyle that threatens to make me a self-centered old codger who doesn’t care much about what’s happening outside the box. I’ll have to admit it is comforting to live in an oasis that’s outside the world that’s spinning way to fast. After a life that seems sometimes like a blur we’ve arrived at the point where nothing matters too much. Our kids if we have any are doing their own thing and don’t really need our input or want it for that matter. Politics matter only in keeping our boats afloat and the dismantling of our societal norms is out of our hands. The fact that we could have had backbones and made a difference escapes our thoughts. Maybe we enjoyed the freedom that ignorance provides. We’ve done what we were programmed to do and on the way went to Disneyland as much as we could, living life like we thought we should, getting all the gusto we could. Now we must succumb to spending time communicating in worthless words, We’ve decided whether there is a God and are content if there is that we are ready to meet Him. We’re good enough. We’re not killers, thieves, or adulterers. We didn’t do anything too bad. The Word of God says we have all fallen short of the glory of God and at best we are naked, blind, and corrupt. Blissful unawareness engulf the old. What are we unaware of? That knowing God personally is eternal life and that if the Lord doesn’t build your life you labored or spent your efforts in vain. I’m trying to convince people that no matter how old you are it’s wise to find the reason you are here which is only one thing and that is to glorify God. If you are young start now. If you are middle-aged start now. If you are old make your next breath one that praises God. Get to work for as the Bible says the days are evil which is to say this could be your last day and it’s our duty to Him to shine the light of Christ in a dark world.