Our freedoms are being taken away

I have tried to be as polite as possible in my service to Him and I will continue to be but when your first amendment rights to free speech are taken away, you have to stand up. I posted a couple of times on a website called drudge.com and they revoked my so-called privileges to post or even leave comments because I was "preaching". I did not mean to be offensive although my posts were not necessarily about a specific news topic, they were about news that most of the people on this site needed to hear, whether they like it or not.

John 3:16 said that ""For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

The Bible is very clear about this and the fact that we only have to believe in Him and who He is. This is too simple for some to accept or take into their hearts and yet it is and always has been the truth. The Bible may be an "old musty book" as some have said, but how many other books were written by more than 60 authors and still have the same theme from beginning to end all pointing to our Saviour, Jesus Christ? None!

He is risen! He is risen indeed!

We can do more for those who hate us, than for those who love us

Our lives are to be used in service to others through our faith in Christ. Our faith in Christ is what gives us the strength and ability to do what needs to be done for God and His kingdom. This is supposed to be the purpose of every Christian on earth.

The people who hate us and ridicule us are those who don’t understand our faith or beliefs. The say that they don’t want what we have and yet, the self-help section in bookstores is overflowing, psychologists are turning away patients, people are taking Prozac and other medications by the handful. Why?

Because they are searching for something to fill the emptiness inside them. It may be drugs or sex or alcohol or many other things that are harmful to them as a person, but they will turn to something, anything! Especially when they don’t know what it is that they are looking for.

Most self-help books just re-package the same themes which are found in the Bible. They take the “religious words” out to make it easier for non-Christians to incorporate it into their lives but if you take them and compare them to an English Standard Version of the Bible they sound almost identical.

People hate to hear the words which I have penned here, especially those in the tech-industry. I have noticed that if you mention God or the Bible or Christ around people who are “geeks”, you will be almost “run out of town” and “hung by the neck until dead”. It doesn’t matter if you are talking about software for a Church or for Bible study.

God created the people here and gave them the knowledge to created the computer and the software which runs it. It doesn’t matter who or why they say they did it, God has always been in control of everything that happens past, present and future.  The technology which runs almost everything today is not new to God. He knew about the Internet long before it came into existence. Give Him a chance in your life. Listen to the Word in the Bible. Pick one up in a bookstore and read a little, it won’t hurt. You might find something that you have been searching for all of your life, but you will never know if you don’t at least try it. He is waiting. He loves you regardless of who you are or what you have done.