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Man Destroys Himself

Posted on February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 by Pam

Pray for His purpose or we can waste a life (from a Perspectives testimony). I also read this today in Joy Loewen’s thoughtful book, Woman to Woman, Sharing Jesus with a Muslim Friend, “Freedom and healing are the twin ministries of the Holy Spirit”. Purpose, freedom, and healing can only be accomplished/completed by belief in Jesus. That is what went wrong in Germany and what is wrong with our warring world today. Dietrich continues, in ETHICS, pages 100-109. He writes about bourgeoisie that is inseparable with reason. His meaning describes people who repeat the phrase, “Jesus is God” without understanding its true meaning. He believed that the poor worker’s statement “Jesus is a good man” had more meaning than the bourgeois’s statement. I would ask where the discipleship in the church was and who was teaching the everyman. Was there the snobbery about who might grasp this simple truth? His example is the revolutionary concept of nation for that time. “It sided with the people against the government, with becoming against being, and with the organic against the institutional. It was thought from below, in opposition to thought from above”. He compares Prussia, in the NE portion of Germany, “No political unit has ever been more alien and indeed hostile to nationalism when was Prussia”. I have not studied the history of these few years surrounding WWII. My Dad was in a control tower near London directing planes. That is the history I am close to. I do know that the Soviet Union remained neutral with Nazi Germany until attacked in June 1941. Dietrich lists technology, people movements, and nationalism as the three contributions to the revolution and war. He thought the masses and nationalism to be hostile to reason. Another result of the French Revolution was a western godlessness and a religion of hostility to God. I wonder if we have ever recovered? This distance from God is how man destroys himself. “It is the protest against pious godlessness in so far as this has corrupted the Churches….God would rather hear the curses of the ungodly than the alleluia of the pious”. While America is the real west, He writes about our Constitution that, “American historians can say that the federal constitution was written by men who were conscious of original sin and of the wickedness of the human heart”. He thought Christians had the only base for democracy….it is a western (again, meaning Western Europe) void, a rebellious and outrageous void, and one which is the enemy of both God and man…The burden of yesterday is shaken off by glorifying the misty past, and tomorrow’s task is evaded by speaking rather of the coming millennium…With the loss of past and future, life fluctuates between the most bestial enjoyment of the moment and an adventurous game of chance”. He says about being under surveillance, “And even the tacit confidence in one’s fellow-man, which rests on the certainty of permanence and constancy, is now superseded by suspicion and an hour-to-hour watch on one’s neighbour”. He is discussing the genuine decay around him but let me close with this observation. 2 Thes 2:7, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way”. The place where the miracle of God is proclaimed is the Church and the two things that still have the power to avert the final plunge into the void is faith and force which the Bible calls the ‘restrainer’.

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Pam writes so that must make her a writer. Recently retired, she can now fill days with family, friends, missions, writing, creating, and showing up for whomever needs her. Pam loves the Lord and people. The Bible is God’s love letter to us (and who does not need more love) so she studies and writes some more.

Pam lives in the Pacific Northwest but was home-grown in Southern California. She attended San Jose Bible College and finished a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at UCLA. She became a teacher, then a Research and Development Chemist, then she built two successful real estate businesses in two states. Pam also pursued study at Fuller Theological Seminary and just completed six months serving in missions abroad.

Pam has two amazing children, married to two precious in-laws, and five sweet grandchildren. Pam is a gifted connector and communicator and the Northwest has the perfect climate for staying inside and writing – or baking! She has been writing since a wee one and is currently converting many years of blogging, by topic, into ten books. The first is a collection from 2011 titled, Beautiful Enough. The second is a yearly day-timer titled, Weekly Planner - Lessons in Life, Glory, and Grace. Number three is in progress with the working title, Christmas Today.

Ten facts about Pam in no particular order:

  1. On the team that developed an insulation for the Alaskan oil pipeline.
  2. Loves looking at homes, decorating, and has flipped five homes.
  3. Likes being tall.
  4. Films have helped define her vocabulary.
  5. Comes from Colorado tenement farmers with history traced to Wales.
  6. Was lost but now is found.
  7. Baking makes her happy – as does eating sweets with coffee, of course.
  8. She thinks mission work is the most important work in the world.
  9. The church started in Rome so she is learning Italian.
  10. Pam is a work in progress!

“I will be your God throughout your lifetime - until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.” Isaiah 46:4

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