Life Ought To Be A Simple Choice!
Life Ought To Be A Simple Choice!
By Don Twobears
Another of my “How odd is it” articles. Today, I still like to delve into TV shows that are of the Crime and Forensics type, like “Bones, CSI, NCIS” and the like. I still enjoy the forensics part of the shows, because I worked on Human Hearts for almost 50 years in the Medical Field. I was not then, nor am I now a Physician, yet I was a very highly skilled Technologist in the Cardiac arena. How odd is it, as I grow older, that many things are forgotten, I sometimes remember the “Foramen of Ovale”, but I can not remember why it is so important. Thus old age is creeping up in my mind and doing it’s deal on me.
I was watch CSI TV show and it was called “Kiss Kiss, Bye-Bye” and it was about the forgone days of the 1960s and some of the older people from back then. The Protagonist died in her bed from a gunshot through the heart, still looking serene and gorgeous. Frank Sinatra was singing in the background and then a series of older Las Vegas flashed across the screen, depictions of Las Vegas in the 1960s. And as is usual for me, the thought popped in my head, I wonder if the Protagonist was saved to Jesus Christ and then the same continued with Frank Sinatra and others. I am sure you know the answer to those questions in my head.
I couldn’t help buy notice the house she lived in, the doors to a certain room were so expensive, they would have been able to purchase food for the poor, for months. The Opulence was ridiculous to say the least and she was dead while still walking about in the show. She metastatic Cancer and was full of tumors and yet the only thing on her mind was the “Old Days, the Old Times, Old relationships”. As quickly I realized where she probably is right now and that made me sad. The “Heir Apparent” to such wealth, the dizzying heights of Society she was at, yet she was dying of cancer and her money was worthless…it was worthless to get her into Heaven as well. Yet who cares, it was just a show…right?!
How odd is it, who all knew her, except for those in her circle? How many people did she help in her life, how many people had she saved from an unknown life and death? Few?! Ah…there’s that little three letter word again, of such notoriety in the Word of God. And that little word holds such significance for every person ever born on earth.
How odd is it, that the children and grandchildren, of these notables from way back when, are only interested in any wealth left behind? How odd is it, that these notable people die of the same diseases as the poorest of our Society? And after they die and pass on, they are buried in the ground just like the poor are. And in spite of their extreme wealth, their lives fade away just like everyone else? From 0-maybe 90 years of age, they have every need in their lives met…for them, still they one day die, just like everyone else in life.
How odd is it, that they spend their entire lives making wealth and then they are imprisoned by their wealth, never to see an ordinary day again? Knowing that it is their “Spirit”, is that part of them that they call their mind, never do they call upon the Lord God Almighty. Then knowing they enjoy all the finer things in life, the Opulence and being catered to, why would they neglect to know God and end up in some place like hell?! Which if you consider for a moment, is the epitome of their REAL lives here on earth, the back-stabbing, the filth and degradation, that helped them get where they once were? And then to know they have chosen this Eternal ending…for themselves. How odd is that?! Talk about a life that is an “Oxymoron”!
Before I was saved to Jesus Christ, I was a very angry man, well skilled from the military for survival in almost every situation. I was never afraid of someone “Looking Down their collective noses at me!” I could tear them a new one, if you will, at any time. Oh and did they hate me for that! But then again, there was nothing they could do about it!
Today, things are different for me. I belong to Jesus Christ! I Praise HIM for that! Yet, they still hate me, because I laugh at them for looking down their noses at me. I simply tell them, they ought to meet my Big Brother Jesus Christ! HE is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent! HE is God Almighty! In both cases, how do you scare a man…that is NOT afraid of death?! In the War, I walked with death everyday and after the war, In the Medical Field, I walked everyday with death again. So I know death all too well! Point is, I KNOW where I will be…after I die…or the Rapture…Heaven! So how are you going to scare me?! “I’m gonna kill you!” and then I tell them, they will be sending me right where I want to be…Heaven with my Lord and Savior!
How many of the 1% in this Country and the world are able to say the exact same thing?! “Few!” There it is again my Friends! Life does nothing more than reveal the Word of God, over and over again!
John 14:5-11 “Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.”
“Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?”
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
I use the King James version of the Bible and all emphasis is mine.