Our Choices? One.

Determine!

Many people find it easier to blame the environment for failed choices, over that of taking responsibility?

It is always easy to blame another factor and we see this first in the garden of Eden, when Adam blamed Eve! But Adam knew as well as eve that they were not to eat from the tree of knowledge, so they both shared in this disobedience to God which brought in the second sin of shame!

What is happening in our lands, cities and streets are well within our influence and this is proved by the reaction of people to build up mistrust that then fuels the laws of the ghetto or anarchy!

Genesis 2:25,  Psalm 119:116,  Proverbs 8:10,  Mark 8:38, Acts 15:7,  1 Thessalonians 5:23,  Titus 2:8.

Acid Attacks. One.

Three year old Attacked!

The depravity of the human heart has no bounds to its wickedness, this is the first reported attack on a child of this age and it is not clear what the motive was, if there really can be one!

We have covered this subject before, but it is one that needs to be reconsidered in relation to its continuation in the U.K., where the police lack the means to fight crime and this is playing into organised crime?

Prayer for believers is key, witness of Jesus for those who have come out of gangs is essential, working with the community to try to mediate and to rid our street of this hatred!

Genesis 6:5-7,  Numbers 16:26,  Psalm 1:1,  Matthew 13:49,  2 Corinthians 7:10,  2 Peter 2:7,  3:17.

Irma and 9/11.

Today is the 16th Anniversary of 9/11!

Meanwhile as one disaster is remembered another is ending hopefully with the monster storm Hurricane Irma, which has killed well over 50 people so far across the Caribbean and Florida?

Irma has been bad, but it has ben nothing like this eventful day in New York 16-years ago, which left over three thousand people dead, when two commercial airlines where hijacked and crashed into the twin towers!

Many people will ask why, why do these things happen? Some are the results of bad foreign policy and broken promises, while other could be blamed on the continued ignorance of burning fossil fuels that are messing up our weather?

These things are bad, but what is even worse is not knowing God and Jesus of Christmas came to set all free from the darkness!

Deuteronomy 29:22,  31:17,  Proverbs 3:25,  Jeremiah 16:10,  Luke 13:4.

'Swords. Part-Two.

If you know its wrong, don't do it.

People who use knives, sword, bats and guns are thugs and they know what they are doing is wrong.

There are laws in every land to keep order and peace.

We know that there is corruption and dishonesty, even in the police and government.

But God says 'if you lift a weapon of any kind, you have now broken the law.'

Mark 14:47,  Ezekiel 35:5-6,  Revelation 13:10.