OUT OF THE BOX

  SEEING OUR GOOD INHERITANCE   Dear Friends, We can learn some important lessons from Israel’s journey from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan. We need to remember how bad our bondage and lost condition really was, and not look back with a deceptive fondness. We need to appreciate the fiery trials of the wilderness journey and realize they were meant to discipline, train, and prepare us for the promised land and to ultimately to do us good. We especially need to realize that the promised land was not just a promise, but also a command. Israel was not given the option of refusing it with impunity. We must avoid the tendency to naïvely expect victory without battle or the despair of expecting battle without victory.  There will be giants and adversity to face. The land awaiting Israel was not at first a friendly and peaceful paradise to casually stroll into. They had to conquer it. The same is true for us. We must appreciate our inheritance, realizing it is also and prim...

  Dear Friends,  This post is a repeat from one year ago. I am sending it out again for the new readers who may have missed it last year. Blessings to all, Billy Long.  God and Creation: Look At Your Nose   "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse of heaven His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their sound has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." -Psalm 19: 1-4.   No matter what is your religion or spiritual belief system, it logically must bring you to the intellectual and philosophical conclusion that there has to be a creator and a Sovereign manager over it all. For instance, reincarnation is a complicated process, if it were true. If you believe in reincarnation, I would have to ask you, “Who manages and directs it? Where did the spirits come from that keep reincarnating upward. Who does the eval...