Cherry Picking For The Government?

  I was reading an article by Marion Nestle (Food Politics) and I thought it was interesting. In the article, the writer expressed concern and disappointment because the President wants to deregulate certain rules that are being followed by the FDA. The one at hand is a rule concerning how many cherries that frozen pie makers are required to have in their pies.

   I'm just going to put this out for my readers to consider. I find some of the Food Politics articles to be interesting, so I don't want to dis them. But I do want us to see how effective the Liberal Left has been in persuading us in our thinking.

  Here's more on the article:
"I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I hear things like this. According to a report from the Associated Press, the FDA plans to follow the Trump administration’s deregulaory agenda by getting rid of the standard of identity rules for frozen cherry pies.

The rules currently require commercial frozen cherry pies to be filled with “mature, pitted, stemmed cherries that are fresh, frozen, and/or canned,” to contain at least 25% cherries by weight, and to have no more than 15% of the cherries with blemishes." Marion Nestle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/30/americas-cherry-pies-may-soon-feature-fewer-cherries-heres-why/

First of all, who is responsible for deciding how much cherry weight is to fill our frozen pies? I am not necessarily looking for an answer for this, and it is a good question. It's a little bit like 'checks and balances'. It is a form of accountability. 

So, should the frozen cherry pie makers have to give account of their product to a governmental agency? If not, where else should they give an account to or should they be accountable at all? 

This is just my take on this; It looks like we are looking to a governmental agency to protect us. Maybe that isn't a bad thing in itself. But where does it end? If the government has the right to decide the rules concerning a frozen pie, what other rules will the government have over businesses? How far will this go?

Did you know that elite schools such as Harvard actually form people and train them so they will be able to run operations like the FDA or the EPA? Those are governmental agencies, and they have a lot more power than what we realize. And they are in bed with the government, so to speak.

If groups like these are making decisions that affect our businesses and how we live, and they are made up of people who have been schooled in Left-wing ideology, what can we expect from them?How will these groups give oversight to our businesses and lives? How much control should they have? Should they have any control over businesses?

Those who think with a Left-wing mindset believe that people are not capable of making their own decisions. They need a grown up to make their decisions for them. That is one goal of a Socialistic government. Basically, they don't want people to make their own decisions. They want to be the ones to call the shots. That way, the government will be run by them, not by people. They decide how restaurants should run. They decide how healthcare will work. They decide how many cherries are supposed to be in frozen pies. The list goes on and on. 

Problem is, those who come out of Harvard or Yale do not necessarily know how businesses are to be run. They don't really know how many cherries are supposed to go into a frozen pie. They weren't trained for that. 

It seems like there should be someone to give account to. Giving account is a good thing. But is the government the best place to be accountable to and is it right?

Maybe this is the reason why we should have self-government. But wait, self-government really only works for those who are born again, those who know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Self-government is for those who have the mind of Christ and the power of God to live a holy life. 

Think about this; if more people were born again and living out their lives for the Lord, we would not need much government. Maybe the answer to all this is simply to do evangelism and plant churches.

Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,.."

1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV

What to pray for:

* Wisdom for those in authority

* People who break the law will be caught and penalized

* People in America to learn the 'fear of the Lord'.

* God to expose the hidden works of darkness.

Really Irritated About The Lies

I am so tired of hearing the lies about Donald Trump, that if I hear one more lie, I think I will croak.

Today, I read about Ronald Regan's daughter (can't remember her name), who appears to me to be a sold out Left-winger. She was complaining about people associating her father with Donald Trump and was asking people to stop doing that. Then she blasted Trump with a bunch of false accusations, and the one accusation that, by now, we should all know better than to believe and promote.

She thought Trump was such an evil person for putting children in cages. What? This lie has been easily dispelled. Where is this woman coming from? Does she not know what is really going on?

Trump never put children in cages. It never happened, and I doubt it ever will. The children that you see photographed who are in cages, were put in those cages during Obama's administration. These people who love to lie and make up stories about people that they want others to believe, are so perverted.

The Bible talks about people who are deluded and have believed 'the lie'. Because they hate the fact that God has authority over us and calls the shots, they don't want to have anything to do with Him. They openly defy Him. According to the Bible, God turns them over to their wickedness.

These are the people who call things that are good, 'evil', and things that are evil, they call 'good'. Let's read what the Bible says about them:

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:24-32 ESV

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV

I believe these people are also affected mentally. Also, they do not have a working conscience. 

Another one I heard today on the news was a person responding to the topic at hand; the Collusion Narrative, which we know was made up to destroy the President. The guest on the program (I think the show was Cavuto. Not sure who the guest was), responded to a question or statement by making a statement about the President not being able to keep any of his promises. Again, what??? The President has kept many of his promises (which is rare for any elected candidate to actually accomplish!). And the reason he hasn't kept all of them is simple; every time he wants to accomplish something that has to do with why he was elected, the Democrats block his attempt to accomplish the goal. He'll create a bill. They will veto it. As long as they are in the House, they will block anything they have the power to, simply because they want to stop President Trump and they want him to not be able to fulfill the promises he was elected to do.

We have cartoonists making drawings that are a stretch, um, rather a lie, with a picture of or symbol representing the President doing something questionable. 

We know the President supports Israel. Yet, there was a drawing on a public news article depicting the President bullying Israel. These people just don't stop. It's time we stop listening to them and we need to become discerning so we can separate the truth from the lies. 

Things to pray for:

Pray for the church to be able to separate the truth from the lies

Pray for believers to love the truth and defend it

Pray for God to fill the hearts of His people with His love

Pray for the salvation of lost people

Pray for God to raise up laborers in the harvest