Each person is fulfilling their own destiny. Did you ever hear that coffin’ sound? Means the poor boy is underground. Did you ever hear them church bells tone, means another poor boy is gone? Enlightenment happens in the present moment and is outside time, history, or geography which are therefore irrelevant. Living powers, ourselves, and our bodily instruments are activated by inspiration, dedication, and decisions of consciousness to the spiritual vision. A spiritual attitude leads one to be friendly, kind, and well-meaning to all life. There is an increasing awareness that life is filtered through our perception. Even though there is no evidence at present for spontaneous generation, one who believes in the continuity of nature must proceed with the vision of the mind. Our organized bodies are no more a part of ourselves than any other matter around us. One can form a mental picture of the self apart from the organism and suggests that consciousness is very much dependent on the state of the brain. My great comfort in all my afflictions is that it is in the power of no enemy to rob me of my conscience, nor will I ever be so much my own enemy to destroy it. #RandolphHarris 1 of 10
By a necessity engendered and justified by science I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life. Feeling has origins as ancient and as worthy as the origins of intelligence and religious sentiment, which is mischievous if permitted to intrude on the region of objective knowledge, over which it holds no command dignifies and completes humans in the region of poetry and emotion. Science, which must be free to investigate cosmological questions, is but one of the human activities leading to the whole beings. I prefer commotion before stagnation and not to purchase intellectual death. Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life. It is easier to stop reacting to people internally as well as externally by becoming familiar with the nature of consciousness. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10
Human life is very difficult, even in the best of circumstances. Frustrations, delays, lapses of memory, impulses, and stresses of all shapes and forms beset any individual. Demands often exceed capabilities and life is pressured by time requirements. It will be noticed that everyone’s ego is about the same as that of everyone else. Most humans believe that love is something that you get, that it is an emotion, that it has to be deserved, and that the more they give away, the less they will have. The opposite is the truth. Lovingness is an attitude that transforms one’s experience of the World. We become grateful for what we have instead of prideful. We express our lovingness when we acknowledge others and their contributions to life and to our convenience. Love is not an emotion but a way of being and relating to the World. Anything which is not spiritual downfall. I must learn to fight against and overcome the things that come against me, and in that way produce the balance of holiness. Then it becomes a delight to meet opposition. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10
Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ. If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith. People fall into the trap of getting even or making constant remarks. It is horrible to live in a country where your father and grandfather served in the war and died and you are disabled because of your father’s serve (agent orange) and your own government does not protect your rights, allows you be assaulted, stalked, robbed, kidnapped and tortured, but then sets aside $30,000,000.00 tax payer dollars to defend illegal immigrants who do not even have a right to be in America. It is awful when your own mother and sisters work with your enemies to take you down for reasons you are unaware of. And it is terrible when you are stuck in a horrible situation for over a decade and barely surviving and go to bed every night praying for God to save you, while people in power pretend not to know what it going on. President Trump is right about the media, they produce fake news and get away with whatever they want. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10
It is very interesting that judges will not allow President Trump to secure our country, but they allowed for the new King’s arena to be built in Sacramento, California which cost nearly $600,000,000.00, and is mostly paid for by tax payer, who had no ability to vote in the process. Also, judges allowed Governor Jerry Brown to implement the bag ban, and now we pay $.10 for new thicker plastic bags, which used to be included in the price of good. Also, Jerry Brown raised registration taxes and gas fees, and no judge blocked him from doing that, as many of us are struggling to pay rent, buy food, and keep the lights on. Why is it that tax payer money can be blown without any fight from a judge, but when the President tried to protect the country, these judges stand up and refuse to allow him to enforce laws to protect us? Our money is being wasted and our right being taken away to help criminals and it is not fair! They create enemies and animosities. These preclude a peaceful life. Nobody needs enemies. They can retaliate in ways unseen and so bring on unfortunate consequences. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10
But now, amongst those things which we discover sinful, there will be some unto which, through the disposition of our nature, or long custom, or the endearments of pleasure, we are so much wedded, that it will be like cutting off the right hand, or pulling out the right eye to abandon them. However, must we therefore sit down and wait till all difficulties be over, and every temptation be gone? This were to imitate the fool in the poet, who stood by the whole day at the river-side till all the water should run by. We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices of using taxpayer money to defend criminals who are not supposed to be in America, in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity. Let us suppose that we are utterly destitute of any supernatural principle, and want that taste by which we should discern and abhor perverse things; yet sure we are capable of some considerations which may be of force to persuade us to this reformation of our lives and country. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10
If the inward deformity and heinous nature of sin cannot affect us, at least we make be frightened by those dreadful consequences that attend it: that same selfish principle which pushes us forward unto the pursuit of sinful pleasures, will make us loath to buy them at the rate of everlasting misery. Thus, we may encounter self-love with its own weapons, and employ one natural inclination for repressing the exorbitances of another. Let us therefore accustom ourselves to consider seriously what a thing it must needs be to irritate and offend that infinite Being on whom we hand and depend every moment, who needs but to withdraw his mercies to make us miserable, or his assistance to make us nothing. Let us frequently remember the shortness and uncertainty of our loves, and how that, after we have taken a few more turns in the World, and conversed a little longer amongst humans, we must all go down unto the dark and silent grave, and carry nothing along with us but anguish and regret for all out sinful enjoyments like cheap labor and discounted maids. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10
And then then think what horror must needs seize the guilty soul, to find itself naked and all alone before the severe and impartial Judge of the World, to render an exact account, not only of its more important and considerable transactions, but of every word that the tongue has uttered, and the swiftest and most secret though that ever passed through the mind. It is a travesty that we can so quickly remover God from our government without protest, but riot and protest to allow illegal immigrants to enter this country and use tax payer money to hire lawyers for them, when families are being put out on the streets, veterans dying because they cannot get medical care and women being beaten and forced to stay in violent marriages because they were groomed from their teenage years by some older men and have no skills or education other than home economics and cannot make a living on minimum wage. Let us sometimes represent unto ourselves the terrors of that dreadful day, when the foundation of the Earth shall be shaken, and the Heavens shall pass away with great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the present frame of nature be dissolved. #RandolphHarris 8 of 10
One day our eyes see the Blessed Jesus Christ, (who came once into the World in all humility to visit us, to purchase pardon for us, and beseech us to accept of it,) now appearing in the majesty of his glory, and descending from the Heaven in a flaming fire, to take vengeance on those that have despised his mercy, and persisted in rebellion against him. When all the hidden things of darkness shall be brought to light, and the counsel of the heart shall be made manifest; when those secret impurities and subtle frauds whereof the World did never suspect us, shall be exposed and laid open to public view, and many thousand actions which we never dreamed to be sinful, or else had altogether forgotten, shall be charged home upon our consciences, with such evident convictions of guilt, that we shall neither be able to deny nor excuse them. There shall all the angles in Heaven, and all the saints that every lived on the Earth, approve of that dreadful sentence which shall be passed on wicked humans; and those things that are most terrible and grievous in the World, and yet all do not suffice to convey into our minds any full apprehensions of them. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10
When we have joined together the importance of all these expressions, and added unto them whatever our fancy can conceive of misery and torment, we must still remember, that all this comes infinitely short of the truth and reality of the thing. It is true, this is a sad and melancholy subject; there is anguish and horror in the consideration of a nation being overrun by criminals and illegal immigrants; and such thoughts as these may be very useful to fright us from the courses that would lead us there; how fond so ever we may be of sinful pleasures, the fear of Hell would make us abstain. Our most forward inclinations will startle and give back, when pressed with that question in the prophet, “Who amongst us can dwell with everlasting burnings?” To this very purpose it is that the terrors of another World are so frequently represented in holy write, and that such terms as are most proper to affect and influence a carnal mind: these fears can never suffice to make any person truly good; but certainly they may restrain us from much evil, and have often made way for more ingenious and kindly impressions. Well, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold. There is just one favor I ask, see that my grave is kept clean. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10
