My Daughter is growing up!

Jedidiah is reaching for the sky rapidly. I still hold dear those memories of her as a cute little babe. Oh-h, how time flies!

The Final CLAIMANT

The debate concerning the coveted prize which is my scalp rages on.
Consider these saying with me: "I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live, the life that I am living now I live be faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave his life for me on the cross, so that I being dead to sin might live to righteousness by believing and calling on his name." Another one says thus "we have the in of Christ." And the next says: "if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Lastly he admonishes us and says: "Do not depend upon your own knowledge and wisdom but in everything you must acknowledge Me and I will make your path to be straight."
I rew mean it when I say that I am running my race with patients looking unto him who is the author and finisher of my faith. He has the final say as to who claims my scalp, the Rapture or Death.
After all, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Two Destinations one journey!

Today I am thinking about the end purpose of my natural life. Natural life, what is that? Does this mean that there is another life different from the one we know as natural life? The answer is yes, there is, it is called spiritual life. Some call it life in the grave. Life continues after that a person has left his physical body.
It is a great deception from the pit of destruction to advocate that the spirit of man evaporates or that it becomes oxygen and is breathed by those who continue living. That type of thinking and advocacy does not have scientific or moral logical proof.
The Creator of the heavens and the earth says that He has caused his wisdom to sound like foolishness to those who are perishing.
I, therefore, have an eternal choice to make for myself, that choice is, "acknowledge that the One greater and mighty exist who is able to plot into fixed positions and circuits the galaxies; or deny that He does and then deceive myself and say that these galaxies are the result of a big Bang." This choice has consequences and repercussions; consequences in that it affects and determines my eternal destination after this earthly life. Heaven, Paradise or hell fire and subsequently, the lake of fire. Repercussions because this choice influences how I spend the rest of my life here on earth.
How do I fare thus far? Am I heavenly bound or am I plunging headlong into hell-fire?
The choice for me is simple, "Acknowledge God exist and his great work wrought for me through His Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth or diplomatically decline it." The choice is mine. I faced this difficult choice once in my life and by grace and not of my own wisdom, I made the right choice. My soul is in peace, I do not fear death anymore. For me now to live is Christ and to die is gain. One of my forerunner in the faith, while being stoned to death by those who hated his teachings, saw heaven opened up and the Son of Man standing at the door. He told his murderers what he was seeing and they were incensed even the more and some closed their ears because they did not want to hear what he was saying. Sadly, he asked the Son of Man standing at the pearly gates to forgive them for their murderous evil deed and he gave up the ghost. My last moments here on earth, how will they be like? As a man thinketh, so is he. I desire that the Son of Man who stood at the doors of heaven when men on earth stoned Stephen, should say to me these words: "well done good and faithful servant enter into the rest I have prepared for you."
In the meanwhile, I am fearfully and patiently running the race set before me, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of my faith. He is the Righteous judge who is soon to come. The I AM that I AM!

Ultimate destination

Two options one journey!

The Race To Claim My Scalp!

There are two entities who are going all out to claim my scalp. You would ask me the cardinal question: "Who are those entities?" Alas, you honestly do not know?
These two entities are firstly, Death, and the second is "The Rapture". 
Death has a claim over us because of our terrible blunder in the garden of Eden. There we sold our birth rights to the Big Snake, called the Dragon in the book of Revelation. He used three of our characteristics to deceitfully wrest our rights and authority from us. Scripture tells us that there was a discussion held in the garden of Eden some time back. This discussion between Satan and our mother Eve ended disastrously for us. We lost our authority and right to govern here on earth. The big Snake called the Dragon used deceit to agitate our curiosity, appetite for forbidden fruit and desire for power equal to our Creator. Our mom did not consider the fact that she was already in the image and likeness of her Creator and that her Creator had given her power and authority second to his in the whole of creation. The Dragon hid from her that allowing her desires for the forbidden fruit to be agitated was tantamount to treason. That her acceding to those agitated desires for the forbidden fruit would be like committing harakiri. We lost all three godly elements that we initially had from creation; glory of God, authority and power to replenish the earth.
We were also banished from the garden forever. A flaming sword and two cherubbims were commissioned to guard that garden of Eden after our banishment. We were stripped of all our important possessions, we were stripped of our glory and left stark naked. It is our Creator who designed clothes for us and covered our sin riddled nakedness. The first living sacrifice killed on behalf of mankind was that animal Jehovah slaughtered in order to cover our nakedness with its skin.
Since our Creator warned us that if we transgressed his commandment, "thou shalt not eat of the fruit of this tree!" we shall surely die. Die we did, first spiritually and then naturally.
Since redemption was provided for us through Jesus Christ, we were given a reprieve and a way of escape. Redemption through Jesus Christ. Jesus has thus promised his redeemed that not all of them shall taste of death. Some of the redeemed are going to be ruptured.
Hence, the living are faced by a two horse race between the horse called death and the second one called Rapture. So then, of the two, who is going to claim your scalp?
Alas, the horse called Death claimed the most prized possession I ever had, my beloved parents, Matthew Marishili and his wife, my mother, Evelyn Kamane Meambo/Myambo.
Who then of the two is going to win the race for the coveted prize, my scalp? Death or Rapture?
In the interim, I'm running my race with patience looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of my faith.

The Priests in Israel!

Bible Dictionary - Aleluiah Apps Aaronites The descendants of Aaron, and therefore priests. Jehoiada, the father of Benaiah, led 3,700 Aaronites as "fighting men" to the support of David at Hebron (1 Chr. 12:27). Eleazar (Num. 3:32), and at a later period Zadok (1 Chr. 27:17), was their chief.

Hiroshima

It is disheartening to note the alarming  audacity in which truth today is being thrown out the window. It is particularly so when you see and hear people with tremendous  influence flaunting the rules of moral rectitude with impunity and  bland faces on television.
Japan is commemorating its dead who died as a result of the two atomic bombs dropped on them during the second world war. Was this step by Japan's enemies unjustified?  Was Japan at that time a peaceful nation that was minding it's own business? A nation of farmers, religious  and scientific people who were going about their own peaceful daily existence? No, no, no! And again I say Nooooo! Hirohito and compatriots are guilty of unprovoked, cruel, atrocious inhuman acts. That is what ultimately led to the dispatching of the "Enola Gay" to deliver its deadly cargo to Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The time for the US of A to give account to the Almighty for their own iniquities is at hand and if they do not repent like Nineveh, in sackcloth and ashes, with remorse for their own iniquities, their just and equal punishment is imminent.
But for the Japs today to pretend that what happened to them at Nagasaki and Hiroshima was unjustified is preposterous to say the least. If they are still holding grudges against the dispatchers of the payload to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, then the implication is that they are still harbouring their expansionist dreams even to this day. Woe be unto us if they then should reach that point where they feel that they are ready to resume their quest of 70 years ago.