About working hard...

Most people work hard, but most people are not filthy rich.
Many, but not all, get where they are by walking on the backs of others.
Is a student sitting in a college classroom working harder than everyone else?
Who is better than another? Do we not all need one another?
Many seek love in all the wrong ways.
The only true hope for each of us, and for all of us is Jesus Christ.
It is as simple as that. --dc

The Holy Spirit

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Bush and Religion

Yes...now we are in agreement. The Holy Spirit certainly helps us in our understanding of what is written and I believe from my own experience that the holy spirit has much to do with our inspiration. And of course, God's Word is energy that bears fruit, not ink on paper. We do not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God. We are the fruit of the vine. For example, we cannot see love, but for words on paper; --but we can know love by the evidences. People don't realize how deep the scriptures really are, but easy to understand, if one has the eyes and ears. --dc

Topics: president george w. bush, church and state, religion and politics

Answered by DonColeCartoons on December 29, 2008

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Force Love?

Force anyone to love, or to believe in something? I think not! Is that possible? However, we do have the power to offer, educate and influence. That is how Jesus worked/works.

We can lead a horse to water, but we cannot make it drink. But, people who own horses say that the horses do drink when they are led to good water. Sometimes, in this life, bad water is all people have to drink. We need to be there for them.

We need to love our neighbors, each other, and all mankind; to be good stewards, as our Saviour would have it. Not return evil for evil, as is the nature of the unsaved, the natural man.

Jesus Christ never forced anyone to follow Him; --but He led/leads the way! Man is born with a free will. We are offered the good water of everlasting life, everlasting happiness and fulfillment, to live in the presence and providence of the only one and true God. Yesterday, today and forever. That which cannot wither away, nor rust decay.

Love begets love; as likewise, hate begets hate. Man will die by the sword, or live by the cross.
Truth begets truth, as deception begets deception.
We become, and are, that which we accept and hold dear; and that of which we choose to eat, and decide to drink. Love does not force anything down someones throat, although hate might.

So, what do/will we eat and drink? Is it healthy or is it really poison to our soul? Are we not made with the inherent ability to recognize, and sort out, the good from the bad? What do we choose?

And so our prayer rises up, that the Muslim terrorist prisoners be led to living waters, and be saved. For how can they ever know, if there is none to teach them?

Don Cole

"Why didn't God create light first, so He could see what He was doing?"

Such problems as this arise when persons do not understand the true nature of God.

This certainly is an interesting subject.
God is not an old man in the sky, nor limited to our own dimension and physical limitations.

The Bible, and history, teaches us God's nature, and the world would do well to love and take heed.


--just Seaman Deuce,
comic strip character, by Don Cole,
...surfing on the sea of life.