“Spare me
the din of your songs;
And let me not hear
the melodies of your stringed instruments.
Let justice flow down like waters,
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Did you bring me sacrifices and gift offerings
For those 40 years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Now you will have to carry away Sakʹkuth
your king and Kaiʹwan,*
(These deities may
both refer to the planet Saturn,
which was worshipped as a god.)
Your images,
the star of your god,
whom you made for yourselves,
And I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,’
says he
whose name is Jehovah
the God of armies.””
Amos 5:23-27.
***
Standards
as to ‘right’
or ‘wrong’–
globally, many from them
frightfully ______________ flee
as from a cobra
spit-ting after ‘Democracy’…
Freedom!
Is for what mankind
tragically bleeds
not as refreshing ‘dew’
but, due to a ‘summary’
historically to recent
of monarchs
absolutely, constitutionally,
or even electively
ruling with iron like ‘rigidity’…
Slavery
considered
in any economy
or to any degree
through wages deficient,
medical benefits–non-existent,
or mandatory over-time persistent
rings a bell to gather in rebel
against ‘tyranny’
since abundant ‘laws’ seemingly
oppress ‘mild’, ‘humble’, or ‘meek’…
While ‘rich’ or ‘wealthy’
apparently can party hard in jungle style
then ‘pay off’ with minimal impunity…
So ‘arrogance’ is promoted.
Warring for ‘greed’ and ‘power’
masked as ‘sincerity’…
Evolution
held up in staunch belief
so no one is accountable, responsible,
“I plead ignorance”
against any ‘act’
though ‘deplorable’ it may
internationally not considered be…
What ‘victim’?
Didn’t ‘he’ or ‘she’ consent?
Even ‘children’ can ‘choose’, right?
“Look how sexy they behave!”
Imitating
‘adults’, though their ‘innocence’
is immediately ‘spent’
to garner love and affection
and attention; though ‘adults’
consider them as ‘lambs’–
tender, expendable, ‘non-human’
in identity…
Yet, standards of excellence
usher in ‘order’, peace,
and a ‘real sense of security’
to those who adhere
to a ‘brotherhood’
that ‘uphold’
a universal
‘community’.
***
“For look!
Jehovah is going out from his place;
He will come down
and tread on earth’s high places.” Micah 1:3.
“For look!
he is the One who formed the mountains
and created the wind;
He tells man what His thoughts are,
He turns the dawn into darkness,
And he treads on earth’s high places;
Jehovah the God of armies
is his name.” Amos 4:13.
Cover Subject | YOU CAN BE Close TO GOD
Do You Feel Close to God? https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/wp20141201/relationship-with-god/
“Having a close relationship with God makes you feel secure, complete, and stable. It feels like God is constantly looking out for your best interests.”—Christopher, A Young MAN IN Ghana.
“God sees you in all your desolation, giving you more love and attention than you could ever ask for.”—13-Year-OLD Hannah, Alaska, U.S.A.
“It is the most precious and calming feeling to know that you have a close relationship with God!”—Gina, A Jamaican Woman IN HER 40’S.
Christopher, Hannah, and Gina are not alone. Many people from all around the world are convinced that God views them as his friends. What about you? Do you feel that you are close to God? Or would you like to be close or closer to him? Perhaps you wonder: ‘Is it really possible for a mere human to have a close relationship with Almighty God? And if so, how?’
Being Close TO GOD IS Possible. . .
“The holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things:
to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.
If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”” Acts 15:28. 29.
“For this is the will of God, that you should be holy+ and abstain from sexual immorality.” 1 Thess. 4:3.
“Let sexual immorality* and every sort of uncleanness or greediness not even be mentioned among you, just as is proper for holy people”.
“For you know this, recognizing it for yourselves, that no sexually immoral person or unclean person or greedy person, which means being an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and of God.” Eph. 5:3, 5. © 23 mins ago, Lucretia McCloud society • sad • teen • spiritual • hope • love
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