It has been a tiring week. My sullen hulk refused to go out yesterday leaving me with no option but to watch football all day. This was tiring, especially as the football was mediocre English stuff. I struggled through two games and gave up halfway through the third. However, I did have the joy of watching Kilmarnock beat Rangers the evening before, and that cheered me greatly. Always good to see the Old Firm struggle.
One noticeable change in recent days is the Conservative Party candidates refusing to mention that they belong to the Conservative Party. Here is my own MP, and Foreign Secretary at that, not only dropping the word 'Conservative,' from his poster, he, like the rest, have changed the Conservative Blue to a peely-wally green. Possibly this is to convince people that the ones who have given licences for hundreds of oil and gas rigs to appear in the North Sea are doing so for 'Green Environmental' reasons. The water companies pumping sewage into the sea with no punishment possibly don't count here.
A simple con, which will fool many let's be honest, but not all. Whatever this crowd of gangsters get up to a third of the English population will vote Conservative. Why? Habit, fear of 'socialism, because the 'Daily Mail,' 'Daily Express,' 'The Telegraph,' or the 'Sun,' tell them the Conservatives will stop foreigners coming here on wee boats. They believe taxes will be lower, and they will benefit. The majority are no longer fooled, but many will still support this gangster party.
Daniel 7:9
‘As I looked,
‘thrones were set in place,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow;
the hair of his head was white like wool.
His throne was flaming with fire,
and its wheels were all ablaze.
10. A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from before him.
Thousands upon thousands attended him;
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
13 ‘In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He
was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples
of every language worshipped him. His dominion is an everlasting
dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never
be destroyed.
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This Sunday the church I didn't attend, was considering the transfiguration of Jesus. The time he took three disciples up a mountain alone, and was suddenly transfigured, Moses and Elijah appearing beside him. This, strangely enough, is a moment I and others I think often ignore. We read it and move on. However, if we read the powerful description in Daniel we see where Jesus came from, thus we can no longer imagine him to be merely a 'good man,' but we are forced to accept him as God on earth.
The supernatural is missing from many churches these days. Those who accept and believe it often forget it during the working day, yet it remains the real world, and this earth a mere copy.
Jesus transfiguration frightened the disciples, how much more we when God moves in our lives. When God interferes with our lives on earth it can be frightening, we cannot control him, the supernatural is above and beyond what we know. Yet, the image of God seen on his throne, pure and Holy, surrounded by myriads of angels, yet offering his Son, the one to be worshiped, simply to save individual people here on earth. The Love that is revealed as this Holy God reaches down to me and you, dies as a substitute for my sin and yours, and knows all the corruption inside, and there is plenty in me, is quite astounding. To think that this Holy God wants someone like you and me to be with him, enjoying him for ever is a thought worth considering.
Albert Goodwin - The Rain From Heaven, All Souls, Oxford
