Month: June 2012

Keep it simple, silly!

/ Tracy Eldridge / Leave a comment

The principle and the message in the title is simple but our lives are not. What problems affect you and your everyday living? Bills coming due, the loss of a loved one, a sick child, all of these are upon the whole of the world regardless of the country you live in or your financial condition. How can we cope with the problems that we face everyday? Who will comfort us and show us the way to go in times of trouble?

The answer to all of these questions is Jesus. I know that there are many people who really don’t like that answer, but He is. In our lives, we have pain and doubts from physical as well as emotional problems but the only person that we can count on to be there when we need Him is Jesus. I know that many people say that is just a crutch or even a fairy tale but the prophecies contained in God‘s Word are true and most have been fulfilled. The only ones that have not are the ones concerning the end of the age and it isn’t time yet.

When that time comes, everyone will see and know Who is in charge. They may not like the outcome, but if you decide to follow Him before that day you will be a winner! Nothing that we have or get in this life goes with us when we die but the decision to follow Jesus or not determines your eternal destination. Think about it.

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Are we really that easy to fool?

/ Tracy Eldridge / 3 Comments

In recent years there have been new “religions” which have come into the world. Are we really that gullible as to believe something which man has devised from his own thoughts and feelings?

I suppose we must be since Scientology and other religions have been created just in the past one hundred years from man’s own mind. Imagination is good when it is used to write a book of fiction but it is another thing entirely when you are using it to create something that you follow as a “religion“.

In all sincerity you can make a religion out of most anything, from football to fishing or even your job or your status. But, if you do such a thing and you are wrong, what then? If the Bible and Christianity are true, which many people believe, then what will you do when you stand before God after you die? “Sorry” or “Oops” come to mind but they won’t be enough!

What about Islam and Allah? This religion was given to their prophet a little over a thousand years ago and it is reported to be a “peaceful” religion. Yet, according to their laws, you will be killed if you do not worship Allah and submit to Islamic traditions. It doesn’t sound peaceful to me.