Category: Spiritual

My thoughts on God and his love for us

Ill-legal, What’s That?

I’m confused. Doesn’t it mean something someone has done is against the law?  I know if I do something like parking in a wrong place, or telling a lie in court, I will either pay a fine or go to jail. That doesn’t seem to be true any more. Or, maybe it still is true for someone like me but it isn’t true for either the rich and famous, or a person who enters America ill-legally, Haven’t we gotten off on the wrong track somewhere?

My grandparents came from Norway in the late 1800’s. They came through Ellis Island, a legal entrance and after they had completed what they had to complete, they were proud Americans. We still have legal border entrances like that, but we don’t hear much about them. Why is that?

Today we hear a lot about people entering our country ill-legally, or really sneaking here. They seem to be allowed to stay, but even to commit crimes here! Does that seem right to you? Drug sellers and murderers have been known to get off easy and have not even been deported!

Those of us who call America ours should not put up with such a thing. Soon,  America will be over-run with murderers and drug sellers! We must remember that even though some of the folks who come here are good folks. But they are committing a crime, even though they maybe don’t know it. The only way they have the chance to say, “We are proud Americans” is to go through our legal entrances.

What shall we do about it? The right way is to pray first and then vote for those people who call ill-legality a crime. The government should somehow keep the illegal people  out and let the good folks in the legal way.  I don’t know….maybe we, the people, should tell the government to end this continuous talk about immigration and do something about it.

Our God Given Will To Choose

God has given us the freedom to choose good or evil. Just look with me at the beginning, in Genesis, chapter two, where God told Adam, “You are free to eat from every tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of Knowledge of good and evil.” They did though, and from that time on, we have the freedom to choose good or evil. Does that mean God won’t love us anymore if we choose evil? The Bible tells us that after they sinned, God made clothes for Adam and Eve out of the leaves of the fig tree. To me, this tells me a little about God’s love. After all, don’t we dress our children in warm clothes when it is cold outside even though they are naughty?

When we choose evil, does that mean we cannot ever come back to God? Of course not! He will gladly take us into his arms when we tell Him we are sorry. Still, we say,  “I could never be as good as the folks in the Bible. They always did the right things.”

Well, let’s look at a few of the people we read about in the Bible. Abraham had his wife lie to the leaders in Egypt, telling them that she was Abraham’s sister, not his wife. In order to be sure that Jacob would get the blessing from his father, which should go to the oldest son, Their mother had Jacob dress in the furry skin like Esau’s, and had him wear some of Esau’s clothes and even made Esau’s favorite stew. Then Jacob went into his father, who was ill and blind, to get his brother’s blessing.

We all know David, who is listed in the Bible as the man of God’s heart, took the wife of one of his fighters and made love to her. Then, he put her husband in the front of the battle so he would be killed and he could marry her! And, we know that Peter, in the New Testament, lied, telling the people he didn’t know Jesus when Jesus was being tortured.

All of these people and many more were richly used by God even though God forgave them. If you made the wrong choice, God still loves you. He will forgive you too. Isn’t it awful the wrong choices people are making today? But God will still forgive them. Why? because He always loves us, every one of us, even though we make the wrong choices He stands ready to forgive us.