“THE Word that I have spoken will be the same word to judge you in the last days,” thus saith the Lord.
This means disobedience to His Word is absolutely a sin. This means if you make your own word/s by setting aside His Word, you’re an abomination and a curse in His sight.
If you make your own righteousness, your own way and your own interpretation of what is good and what’s evil, and not any of the Father’s, it’ll boil down to one thing: disobedience to his Will.
Remember, when we face HIM in judgment after our physical death, He’ll only ask one thing: “Son/ daughter, did you obey My Will while on the earth?”
And our being smart, our being clever and dexterous can never outfox the Lord Almighty. We can never fool the Lord of our being so, while here in this material and secular world where we can do our thing with impunity, especially while in power, while having such influence and affluent at that.
No, never! (More of spiritual enlightenment by then)
‘VISA’ PASSES FOR NEXT HEARING
DISTRICT 2 Councilor Mike Alavar III’s proposed ordinance met a rough-sailing during its committee hearing held last Thursday afternoon at the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s session hall.
In the end, it concurred, through the strong participation of all those present (resource persons included most) that it be given a chance for the sake of peace in this petrified city marred by a wave of gun-assaults most of which have remained unsolved to this day.
While it may run counter to certain laws enacted by the national government like those of the Land Transportation Office which falls under the Department of Transportation and Communication, the fact that local LTO-Region 9 officials aren’t that hard in their interpretation of its laws when summoned for the committee hearing that Thursday, shows that the Alavar measure is up for its possible strict implementation here despite the foreseen odds that they raised as certain “gray areas”.
“That’s why we might have another (committee) hearing to fine tune this proposed ordinance,” District 1 Councilor Charlie Mariano, committee chair on Ordinances and Resolutions, who presided over the hearing, disclosed.
Let’s keep a close watch on this particular issue as LTO is very specific when explained by their District Officer here Noel Noche and buttressed by its Operations Officer Shan Amilhassan that for as long as it won’t entail to superseding its national law/s, it’s okay with them—referring to the Alavar VISA (Verification/Identification of Stickers Authenticity).
Pruba gane’ kita, if only to ultimately curb or even minimize cases of senseless and barbaric gun-related incidents in our beleaguered city of Flowers with so much brandings, the latest as Asia’s Latin City if only to help improve its tarnished image.
MY FRIEND VICTIMIZED BY PICKPOCKETS
MY good friend Diong Capeña claimed he was a victim of a pickpocket right at the old public market of ours, whose short distance to our Zamboanga City Police Office defies logic. Keber, serca lang na aton otoridad, yet this thing could still happen. Similar complaints reached us as well, not only pickpocket, but other petty as well as grievous crimes too.
Can’t we do something against such pernicious incidents happening right under the very noses of our authorities, supposedly the ones to provide us ample security and protection? This is absolutely absurd, and even an insult to our own law enforcers, meaning they’re helpless and worse they are inutile!
BIEL DESERVES KUDOS
District 1 Councilor Luis “Noning” Biel III is one public-servant leader who’s among the few “early birds” arriving in the Sangguniang Panglunsod, religiously attending to papers reaching his office for immediate attention.
A simple and modest guy with less talks, but a lot of actions, as we see him move out of his own comfort zone—meaning his air-con office, to be with simple folks in the barrios where the presence of our elective local officials is more needed.
Biel is a byword in the barrios because of his dynamic role in attending to the basic needs of the poor in impoverished areas of the city, specifically in depressed villages of his district. He’s instrumental in providing potable water projects in far-flung sitios of his district by using his City Development Funds.
This December, he’s on the go, as usual, in providing for free bunches of bamboo splits for our inmates whose ingenuity in the making of lanterns every time yuletide season arrives, is beyond compare.
“Dimiyo se promesas canila Jun, todol diciembre, cay grande ya se ayuda cunel diaton mga inmates basta benidero ya de paskua,” the ever affable city lawmaker from Baliwasan declared (in Chavacano).
Bale! (jayfeliciano2@yahoo.com)
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