Lyle's Blog

A lot of people say they’re going to leave America and never do. If you take a look around the world there isn’t any place you can go that let’s you get away with the crap you do here. Blacks may not like the shootings in their neighborhoods but at least they can own a gun. America has safety nets for everything which is not the case elsewhere. Nothing is expected of you in America and you still eat, vote, bitch, and remain as you are.

Victimhood has become a legitimate way of life so whether black or white, why leave? Other countries require something of you. Try going somewhere else and not obeying the law or refusing assimilate to the culture. It’s not going to happen. Try going to China or anywhere else and bitching about your rights. They’ll wipe that smirk off your face. America? You can hate it, work to destroy it and we’ll keep your sorry ass here. On top of that we’ll educate you, feed you and give you every handout we can.

Come on and all; we can print as much money as necessary to take care of you and your friends.

John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

Everyone at one point questions God. We look back throughout history we question the needless suffering of so many innocent people. Where is God and why does He allow century after century of unthinkable wickedness? Is He really there and if so does He really care.

The disciples were effected by the same thoughts. Like us they could see man’s strife, the very thing that God promised to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:16-19, a tough, never-ending battle for survival and your one son slaying the other. To this day we still suffer the same hard living and injustices of man. What caused all this suffering and why God doesn’t intervene is the age old question.

Eve disobeyed God. Yes, she was persuaded and tricked by Satan but why was she tricked? Scripture says the duty of the husband is to wash his wife in the Words of God. Of most importance is for man to know what God says. Poor communication with God leads to forgetting what’s most important to God: obedience. Sometimes we do things wrong without thinking and passively repent, believing that God is content with our neglecting His commands.

Adam disobeyed, Moses disobeyed, Saul, David, and it is the same for you and me. God loves obedience more than some sacrifice we might make for wronging Him. God made the sacrifice for disobedience on the cross. We have nothing to sacrifice except our obedience to the cross.

In due time Christ died for us, everyone from Adam to us and everyone in between. Christ comes and tells us, finally your heart doesn’t have to be troubled. He’s building a new kingdom that isn’t tied to Adam; it’s tied to Him. We have a new life in Christ and He isn’t going to leave us here like God left Adam and Eve. God promised the Messiah and the Messiah promised He wasn’t going to leave us here without a comforter. Adam had no comfort; we have hope because we have Christ.

Reading on in John Chapter 3 brings us right back to what God required of Adam: obedience. Jesus said, if you love me you will obey my commandments. There we are back to obedience and loving God. God is a jealous God. He doesn’t do well when we ignore Him and forget to spend time with Him.

Adam forgot to love God more than Eve. We must be lovers of God and obey Him lest we fall into pride and the lust of life overwhelms our desire for Him. His yoke is easy. Jesus summed up all the commandments into two: loving your neighbor as much as you love yourself and then the bigger one, loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind.