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The Other Side of “Happiness”

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-- From the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson 1776 Considering this statement, I have come to realize many shocking and heartbreaking things:  Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… What this statement does not take into account is whose life and liberty is trampled on in another person’s pursuit of “happiness”.  This is what I find: That in the pursuit of one person’s happiness, another’s is sacrificed… in one person’s desire for “life”, another’s life is sacrificed;  That when humanity creates laws that condone the unwritten law of “everyone do as they think right in their own eyes” (Judges 21:25), then the good perfect and absolute Law of God is abandoned (John 15:12-13);  When a nation or state creates laws that fail to uphold the moral Law ...

I will trust God for my reward

It seems that these last few years I’ve been bombarded by a culture that is captivated with “his special Christian lineage”, or  “her special Jewish heritage”,  with possessing “exceptional giftings”, or “unusual anointings”, or “exceedingly high callings”;  with being chosen by the Lord “for such a time as this” …to slay giants, move mountains, possess spheres of influence or liberate nations;  to take on and defeat the “Python spirit”, the “Jezebel spirit“, the “Ahab spirit”, the “Leviathan spirit”, the “Pharisee spirit”, the “Sadducee spirit”, the “Religious spirit”, etc, etc, etc…No wonder so many of Gods people seem worn down and confused. Big names on big platforms…“Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”(1Samuel 8:1-22), {In Revelation 2:20-23, Jesus, when confronting the Church of Thyatira over their tolerance of “that woman Jezebel” (an individual or individuals who were displaying the same lethal characteristics as the Jezebel of 1Kings...