In our neck of the woods the sun, he was a shining.  Had a bit of wind this morning, but it calmed down this afternoon. 

Forecast for the next few days is below freezing at night.  It will give me a good opportunity to see how that hummingbird feeder I got too late last year, keeps the feeder from freezing at the bottom of the feeder so the little guys can be fed.

Supposedly, to single digits.

We have two, maybe three that are still here, not sure what happened to the fourth – or third, if we have but two – they are just too hard to count when they don’t show up at the same time and then dart and flutter all over.

I remember, back in the 1990’s some people claimed their Television was spying on them for the government, or whoever.

Then we learned that computers could be hacked where someone could listen in, unaware to us, to everything that was said in the room.

Now, we just bring in the 24 hour a day listener, asking it questions and trusting it to give us the right answer.

If it is answering from searching the internet – who else is listening???????

Just a thought, as I watched a television ad for one of those devices. 

Come to think of it, my television is hooked up to the internet, hhhmmm...........maybe those guys 30 years ago knew what they were afraid of would come about.

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2 Peter 3: 10-11  KJV    “ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,”

I can’t count the times, mainly ‘cause I can’t remember them all even when told about them, I have made arrests when I am not on duty.

One of the first was when I say some kids taking beer off a truck, told Carla to call the department and I went over and arrested one of them and held him for an on-duty officer to come in.  We went out and looked for the other and eventually found him.

Carla and the kids were left behind; at least they had a car to go home in, that hasn’t always happened.

They were in my car when I was in South County and made an arrest, they had to wait by the road side until I met up with an officer to take the prisoner – then I went back and got them.

While I have had things happen on duty that were almost as effective, most of the times people that are going to commit a crime are looking around to make sure they are not being watched, especially by a police officer.

No one wants to be caught committing a crime if an officer is standing over them.  It would be foolish.

If a person is around his Pastor, it is highly unlikely he is going to do or say something that will embarrass him, he is very careful to be as ‘pious’ as possible.

Yet, too often we act as if God isn’t watching us.  And many people think they have all the time in the world before they meet up with God, so they continue to sin and live their life as if they have all that time to wait before they make a decision.

Not realizing that since they aren’t deciding for Him, they have made a decision against Him.

No one is promised tomorrow, or for that matter, next moment.

I have covered many accidents where the person was in the process of doing something, going somewhere with plans for that day; they didn’t make it.  Most survived, some had to go to the hospital and spend some time there.

Others didn’t live.  They didn’t have an opportunity to put off the meeting they were going to, didn’t have time to tell someone they loved them, didn’t have time to ask God for His forgiveness through His Son.

They didn’t have time; their death came “as a thief in the night.”

But, that is also a lesson for us.  We sometimes think we have time to tell others about the saving grace of God; so we put it off, maybe we are too timid, maybe we just don’t want to take the time because we are too busy.

Whatever the reason, when the Holy Spirit directs us to speak to someone, we can’t wait, it may be the last opportunity we have, AND they have, to find Christ.

We need to speak and act as if Christ was standing, visibly, right beside us – we know in our hearts He is; and do our best to live our life to His Glory; to live our life as He lived His.

And He always made time for the sinner.

Later, Art (-: