Wrong: “Be thankful or get your butt kicked!”

Right: “As you believe thanks will flow like a river”.

We are condemned to hell already.  His release is the additional option to life.  What sane person is thankful for a promised beating?  What sane person is thankless when they realize their life was saved?

Today’s man says, “You got 2 seconds to get my attention.  If you want me to listen to you, you better come on strong.”

God asks, “How much time passes between death and judgment?”

If a man is willing to compromise he can have 10 million friends in this world.  But if a man will grasp and hold tight the singular word of God he will see his friends diminished.

The sad thing is,  a man does not even need to be holy or righteous to watch his friends run away.  All he needs to do is fall in love with God’s Word.  The more a man reads it and speaks of it the less friends he will have.

God may refer to man by many different names.  The best maybe “the bride of christ”.  But the worst maybe “fuel”.

First we love God.  For by that love we measure all things.  His law is eternally beautiful.  It remains within Him unbroken from eternity to eternity.

Next we receive His Grace and mercy in Christ, who is becoming our loving Husband.  For by His gentle embrace we find security and surity of His promises.

Then we are free to love as He has first loved us, showed us the glorious law of His Father, and covered us with a costly garment.

By these we are set free to love our siblings and to be kind to the world from which we came.

By these our love of the brothers and sisters in Christ is tempered.   By the scathing caress of God’s law we deliver the Gospel of our Husband.  And by these things we are sure that unless God opens their eyes, they will never understand our words or ways.

Man in his foolish folly looks up at God and says, “Get down here and save me like you promised to do.  It’s your fault that I am full of sin.  You have an obligation to save me!”     With that man reaches out his hand as if to grab God by the collar and pull him down.

God does not even bother to smile.  “Here I remain in my glorious throne room.  If you want me feel free to approach.”