[Healing and Peace]

14 He said,“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,remove ⌊every⌋ obstacle from My people’s way.”

15 For the High and Exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:“I live in a high and holy place,and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.

16 For I will not accuse ⌊you⌋ forever,and I will not always be angry; for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,even the breath ⌊of man⌋, which I have made.

17 Because of his sinful greed I was angry, so I struck him; I was angry and hid; but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;I will lead him and restore comfortto him and his mourners,

19 creating words of praise.” The Lord says, “Peace, peace to the one who is far or near, and I will heal him.

20 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still,and its waters churn up mire and muck.

21 There is no peace for the wicked,”says my God.

Isaiah 57:14-21 (HCSB)

My focus is on God’s promises for healing in verses 18-19.

I see 5 promises for healing of sinners like us-
1. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;
2. I will lead him and
3. restore comfort to him and his mourners,
4. creating words of praise.”
5. The Lord says,“Peace, peace to the one who is far or near,
And He repeats Promise #1 at the end, affirming His promise: and I will heal him.

I was a little puzzled by “restore comfort to him and his mourners”, wondering who were his mourners?  Then I remembered Matthew 5:4, Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.  I think the Lord is promising comfort to the individual and to his fellow mourners, to all who mourn.

I am also encouraged that the healing includes God creating words of praise by us, literally, the “fruit of lips.” To be fruitful in this life includes speaking or singing words of praise!  And God inhabits the praises of His people!  May the Lord give us further understanding and further healing each day of our earthly lives.

An excerpt, but please read it all:

Today, we are fulfilling the promise of a smaller government that lives within its means. Today, we begin doing what we promised we would do. The defenders of the status quo have already begun to yell and scream. They will try to demonize me. They will seek to divide us rather than unite us. But even they know in their hearts, if not yet in their minds – it is time for a change.  Never forget, some of those shouting the loudest are the architects of the disaster we are now suffering. Do we really want another decade of economic failure? No, this spring it is time to clear away the underbrush to make room for growth.

via Text of Gov. Chris Christie budget speech to Legislature | – NJ.com.

Unsurprisingly, the whole foundation of these alarms is built upon incompetence and deceit, as is made clear in this excellent article.

This article is authored by Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (www.CornwallAlliance.org).  He formerly was a professor on the faculties of Knox Theological Seminary [FL], and Covenant College {GA].

Excerpt:

When even the Times of London, long a promoter of DAGW, forthrightly reports, in the midst of all the news of the collapse of credibility of data purported to support DAGW, that other serious scientists say the world is not warming, you know the gig is up. The Times quotes Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and a former lead author for the IPCC, as saying, “The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change” and then goes on to explain Christy’s and others’ criticisms at length. “The story is the same for each” region he has analyzed, Christy said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”

Baptist Press – FIRST-PERSON: The meltdown of Global Warming alarmism – News with a Christian Perspective.

For more information, see http://www.cornwallalliance.org/ .

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

Mark Krikorian is fighting back against Census form race politics and urging you to do the same:

Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the government’s business (despite the New York Times’ assurances to the contrary on today’s editorial page). So until we succeed in building the needed wall of separation between race and state, I have a proposal. Question 9 on the census form asks “What is Person 1’s race?” (and so on, for other members of the household). My initial impulse was simply to misidentify my race so as to throw a monkey wrench into the statistics; I had fun doing this on the personal-information form my college required every semester, where I was a Puerto Rican Muslim one semester, and a Samoan Buddhist the next. But lying in this constitutionally mandated process is wrong. Really — don’t do it.

Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — “Some other race” — and writing in “American.” It’s a truthful answer but at the same time is a way for ordinary citizens to express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification schemes. In fact, “American” was the plurality ancestry selection for respondents to the 2000 census in four states and several hundred counties.

So remember: Question 9 — “Some other race” — “American”. Pass it on.

A few excerpts:

-We’ve learned that spending a Trillion dollars does not make unemployment better.

-We’ve learned that bailing out banks does not improve the behavior of the people who run them.

-We’ve learned that Eric Holder is an idiot.

-We’ve learned that “change you can believe in” is not necessarily a good thing.

-We’ve learned that “yes we can” is only good when it applies to something that is not stupid.

It’s been a truly educational year.

Taken from: CGO NewsBlog.