Back out from sin again

12/22/2007

Joel Akin

Someone once complained that if Jesus were born he would be taxed. After all the very concept of justice is that people would tax.

Taxation is the gift of the lawyer. Any lawyer can tell you how to start a tax. It takes a team of them to turn it off. And even then they have to find out who didn't pay the tax in the first place.

I could go on in humor but as usual I'll go serious.

It has been a real war. War is the word I use to speak of escalation. Escalation is a word which rises up with fair warning.

Fair warning is the gift of a hoped for answer with the mystery of JERUSALEM which you'll see in the box to the right.

Thought it may sound hyped I really did wonder if it had meaning. After all I couldn't find anyone else on Google images who had anything like this box. Jerusalem was on my moms computer but it seemed to be from the box I had purchased for my own computer. I've had thoughts that a friend introduced it by adding the name JERUSALEM to her computer. And if that is the answer it is simple.

Yet the complexity of the question is that I tried to find how it could be done and I haven't figured that part out yet.

So it is a mystery which I can't repeat.

Now if that is a mystery I can't repeat the war with Sin is a spiritual battle I refuse to bear more then once.

We assume as Christian that Jesus paid all suffering price. Yet the world of Christians is filled with suffering. And this bothers me. Not just because I suffer but because everyone I know suffers.

So who then is responsible for starting the story that Jesus healed everyone? I think it has to do with the evil of life. We come into the world and we want it fixed. We want to heal others. We pray and we can't fix their problem. We blame ourselves until we are free. Then we blame them. And its often easier to blame them even though men of old asked that of Jesus. They wanted to know if the parents were to blame. And the fact is we put blame on everyone in this story.

Why do we blame? I think its easier to say we are responsible then to say that we are in over our head. And if I say that I mean it. I didn't know what to do much of the time. So when I hit a wall or hit a circumstance I said "I'm sorry" and I took the blame for my tiredness.

Now that makes little sense but imagine I'm really tired. I wear out and I get upset because I can fix it right away.

God has been on the job with me and He knows I get wore out fast. I go for a few minutes and then have to lie down.

So here is the gist of this story. We are in a battle to time. Time is the New Year. If all goes well there will be a new time approach and give us a new year.

So if that is true then it is a new revelation and one I want to see.

I am not out of it I hope. I am still warring in time. Time is the beast of the abyss like Sin. It is the sea of time like pain and sorrow. It is the bee of things like things which vanish away.

And most of all I fight to see a way to the wee end. The wee end is the eye of the needle which the camel couldn't go through. Of course a wee end is perhaps a way for sheep to enter in. Of course that is the best of times and the worst of times.

I do pray you will have a wonderful Christmas and you get all that you have sought and asked for. I am getting some answers by prayer and by asking.

And that is the hope of things to end the deal of suffering for our family. We know there are many who suffer so pray God will include you in our prayer and its answer for the best.