People Get Ready

People Get Ready

That song was released in 1965 by the Impressions. Followed by a number of singers and groups including Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart and Al Green to name three. 

The lyrics are 

People get ready, there's a train comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel hummin'
You don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord

People get ready, there's a train to Jordan
Picking up passengers coast to coast
Faith is the key, open the doors and board them
There's hope for all among those loved the most

There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind
Just to save his own
Blieve me now
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
For there is no hiding place against the kingdoms throne

So people get ready there's a train comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel hummin'
You don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.

People get ready. Those words have been echoed throughout history, expecting the end of the world. What does it mean the end of the world? Does it mean a meteor shows up and splatters the earth or does it mean that the earth will lose all of its ozone layer and the sun will melt everything? There is another theory, the earth blows up from inside the core. These are all good theory’s but have you ever thought that the end of the world maybe an end of your world. There has been several worlds ending. There was a place called Rome and it got too big for its britches and Rome's world ended. Russia lost its last Czar in 1918 ending the world for all Russians. In 1940 the world for all Jews in Europe ended. Does that mean that the world will end or the world as we know it? 

That brings us back to the song. People get ready. You need to get ready and stay ready. We may get complacent that the world never ends and all that the bible says is a lie but whose world are we talking about. In the days of the non-politically correct preachers they use to say, “If Jesus came tonight while you were sleeping, would you be ready?”

What does that mean “ready.” Does it mean that you are a “good” person, you don’t do anything “bad”. You live each day and keep your head down. You may not go to church but you smile at people and help people when you can. It does not really matter what the bible says, you just go along with society. What they say is fine just don’t make any waves and you will go to heaven.

This is not true. Say you don’t believe in Heaven and Hell and it is true. Where does that leave you? Up a creek without a paddle or more to the point, lake of fire with no fire extinguisher.

The Romans thought that they did not need to follow God’s laws they created their own Gods and they fell. Hitler used God’s name at first and these “dirty Jews” needed to die. Who knows what Jew started all the hatred he had but he turned it on all Jews. How did he get all of those thousands of people to follow him? How do you convince regular normal people to kill and torture other human beings?

Hitler is reportedly to have killed over 6 million, Stalin was no better, he killed 6 million also but no one talks about what he did. Genghis Khan killed 40 million people during his reign. Mao Zedong is reportedly to have killed 49 million people. The world for each of the countries that these people ruled and many like them ended.

So, what does it mean, People get ready? It means that we need to follow the bible, God’s commandments and Jesus’ teachings. Get on board before it is too late. Don’t let the train leave the station without you. Take the train to heaven instead of falling into the pit of Hell. The immorality in this country has gotten out of hand. We must turn all of it off. How do you put that demon back in the bottle? There is no Genie, make no mistake about that, it is a demon.

Are you willing to do the work that it is going to take to put the demon back in the bottle or Hell where he belongs? Let’s get started.

No Two Alike

Today we use the term ‘Snowflake” to refer to the selfish, self-important, self-involved people that get their feeeeeelinnnnngs hurt at the drop of a hat and need their “safe space” to hide away from all the meanies in the world. I think this an insult to snowflakes. Snowflakes are one of the most beautiful creations that God gave to this world. So fleeting is its beauty and it makes you wonder how something so beautiful was created because who is going to appreciate them? Fairies? Their beauty cannot be seen with the naked eye. Each one is different. How can this be? You think about how many snowflakes it would take to cover a leaf of a tree and then you multiply that by all the ones that surround it. Think of all the snowflakes that cover the mountains of Peaks of Otter and the Smokey Mountains. Each one different from the other.

These un-snowflakes that live in this society now need to have something wake them up. If it was up to them, America would never have been discovered, a man would have never stepped foot on the moon and Hitler would rule the world. Suck it up people. I think everyone that acts like this should be drafted into the army, peace corps, save the children or some other mission service so they can see that it is not all about them.

I have a feeling that the time is coming when they will be tested. And the problem is that they will fail that test. There are people that live each day wondering if they will eat, drink or live to see the next day. Your feelings are not important. What you can do for each other is. We need to follow the golden rule and return to our roots. I don’t give a flying fig where your ancestors came from, what color you are, if your eyes are blue, black, brown or green. We are in this world together. There are people taking over. Drug cartels and Gangs are going to rule if we do not stand up and fight for our freedom.

It is not impossible to do.  We have to start caring. I mean care for that drug addict. No, I am not saying bring him into your home. Are you crazy! They will bring their friends back and rob you blind. I mean we have got to work as a team to come up with ways to help them, get them help that they do not pay for. I mean real help not a cold floor in a jail. I mean drug rehab, re-education and self-esteem returned. Give them their pride in themselves back. This is the only way we can fight these gangs and drug cartels. Don’t have a demand.

We have to become the moral and caring world that God had in mind so many years ago. Show these people that we don’t need them here. Throw out the ones that want conflict and anger and bring in the ones that want to care and give instead of get. There is no such thing as socialism politically but there is a communitieism that can be built. If each neighbor was responsible for the wellbeing of the neighbor on the left then that neighbor is responsible for the neighbor on their left, and so on, each person would be cared for and I guarantee that caring for someone else would be more rewarding than any drug that you can take.