Too Smooth

Last year wasn't the best. This year started out rough, but things seem to be getting better. I was able to get more done on the non-fiction book this week. It takes too long to look things up. For fiction I look up far fewer things and can make it up when I need to. I have no idea how long it's going to take, but I hope it won't be long. Based on word count, I might be a quarter to a third of the way through the rough draft, which I think is going to take more effort to polish than fiction. I'm kind of thinking about working on something fictional on the side, but I don't have infinite cash to free up all my time.

Someone recommended a Christian post this week. It actually echoed something I was talking about the other day with that person. Until I got to the line where it said God was "in a season" of blah blah. Really? God is seasonal?

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever.

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

A modern reading of James would say something like with whom is no variation or shadow caused by turning. In other words God is always the same. He doesn't have seasons. I keep running across these people who claim God is in a season. Nothing they ever say comes to pass. And it's always a good season for things like breakthroughs, healing, prosperity, etc. It's never a season of correction or pruning. There's a passage about people like that.

Isaiah 30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

In modern language: Don't tell us the truth. Tell us only what we want to hear. The fact that these alleged prophets only say smooth things is a sign they're talking to rebels against the Lord. I'm tired of "prophets" of encouragement who encourage without doctrine who always say what I want to hear. I don't remember Jesus telling the Pharisees how awesome they were and they just needed to hang in there a little bit longer to get the revelation and breakthrough. I'm so tired of these people who have called themselves but God didn't call them. I guess I'm in a season of denouncing them. :)

I'm still enjoying my Google Home Mini. My smart switches arrived. I set up one on a lamp and the other on a little heater I use only if it gets really cold. I have a third one I haven't set up yet. Now I can turn the lamp on and off with voice command. It's in the living room away from the light switches. No more turning on a light, going to turn the lamp on and and then going back to turn the light off. I can also turn it on and off with my phone. That's a nice feature. If I think I'm not going to get home until after dark, I normally leave a light on. Now I can use a voice command to turn the lamp on as I'm coming up the driveway. Will it save enough on the power bill to pay for the switch? I have no idea, but it sure is convenient.

I still have to leave a porch light on. I'd love to get some smart bulbs, but they're just too expensive to put outside. The temperature gets well below freezing in the winter and around 100F(37.78C) in the summer. Highs and lows can differ by thirty degrees(around seventeen degrees C) from day to night. I don't know that kind of expansion and contraction that would do to a smart light over time. Later, when the prices come down, I'll be all over the smart lights.

One of the fun things about voice command is I can tell my mini to turn the light on, or I can say to activate the light. I named the heater Emergency Heater. I always tell the mini to activate or deactivate that one just like in Star Trek.

Have a great weekend.