You Should Avenge Yourself on Such a State As This!

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 O that i might have a tiny house in the woods somewhere that i may leave from here for the people here are godless and worldly always ready to commit harm and violence with their mouths and some now with guns and knives totally oblivious to the fact that God is watching them and listening to their unbridled tongues that are worse than automatic weapons.  In their hearts, they lie in wait after speaking peace and love with those deceitful tongues, tongues dripping with honey only to collect money, only to save on what's to them costly. You should avenge Yourself on such a state as this!

"I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals.  I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant." --[Jeremiah 9:11]

i hear a lot of lip service but do you have the Holy Spirit in you?  When He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. -- [John 16:13] My parents did a good job.  They did something right by naming me Timothy and the reason i say that is these days there are those who have no intention of calling me that and it's not because they're lazy.  It's because they're thinking i'm not worthy of having the namesake of two of Paul's letters to him, as though i couldn't be worthy of receiving the message of the Gospel myself.  i could be wrong, but their resistance indicates that i'm doing something right, and my parents sure as hell did right by me as well.

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