Spring is nearly here.  The time of year that brings out the crazy in all of us.  Many of us don’t have much crazy left, but we give it our best shot.

This post is for the young drivers who have not lived long enough to let life whip the insanity of spring out of their soul.

A fully loaded semi truck can weigh nearly 80,000 pounds.  Your car weighs about 2,000 pounds.

If you want to meet the Lord Jesus, go ahead and play games with trucks.  If you’d rather stick around here and learn how to serve him let this word of wisdom penetrate.

Let Spring drive you crazy.  Have fun within the bounds of what is right.  But do not let the insanity of spring make your loved ones cry.

By His Grace

Narrow path the Lord has us to walk is as narrow as to be almost single file.  It is hard enough for a brother to understand a brother along The Way.  How then, with any common sense, can we expect the world to understand us, when they the vigorously ignore the path itself?

By His Grace

What is more important?  To understand all mysteries among men?  To be able to see the trajectory of man’s accomplishments?  To see what is hidden behind the deceit of power?  Or to know the God who has created and allowed all these things?

Without question, to know the God who made us is supreme.  To understand His Holy judgment is best.   Men will twist and misuse the life they are given.  But to know the life that God holds his hand for all man is better.

This was brought to mind this morning as I considered the nature of things around me.  Men are excited about free internet for every person in the world.  But their excitement raised an alarm within my soul.  Where men are excited about the things of men suspicion comes like a dark cloud.

Immediately I understood.  What men propose is man’s version of prayer.  There are men who would be gods.  What they have lacked is a means to complete control.  With the advent of Internet in every household these men achieve their desire for control.

They, as men who are of supreme power, will speak to the masses.  And there will be expectation of obedience and praise.  Only they who are fools will speak against it.

Man will not relinquish  the works of his hands.  This is what God has fore told.  It is the greatest of sins to desire to replace the living God.  But is this not their intent?

I will not be a fool in their eyes because I reject their desire.  I will be a fool in their eyes because I support the living God.  This is as it should be for all men.  And it is this place that, by His grace, I will inhabit with his wisdom.  Come join me.

By His Grace.

By His Grace

Men and women who love what is wicked;  you who see no difference between what is the Righteousness of God among men and the wicked things you adore.  Why do you refuse to look into the things of righteousness?

Not one of us is “Righteous”.  There is One who is Righteous alone.  There is none Good but God.  Yet you despise your fellow-men who desire to imitate what is good.  You despise those who appeal to God day and night.  They are not like you, so you despise them.  You love them well enough when they offer you peace.  Why won’t you love them when they explain the full message of God?

I do not speak for myself.  Nor will those who have found the river of Righteousness that flows from the Lord.  We do not condemn you, for we were once like you.  We too condemned those who love the words of God.  But we found no reason for our folly.  Thus we succumbed to the will of God that we might learn.

Since I do not condemn you, let me ask the question again.  Why do despise those who seek and speak of the Righteousness of God?  What have we done to you but to point out what God has already spoken regarding the wicked things in this world?  Is this what offends you; that we should willingly give the warning we are conscripted by love to proclaim?

We mean you no harm.  Nor does the Righteous God mean you any harm.  He has not come among us to take away our pleasure.  He has come to give us the greatest possible pleasure: Righteousness, Peace, Fearlessness, Hope, and Eternal Life.  If you could be sure to have those would you drop your despising?

Ask and we will share.  Come taste and see that the Lord is Good.  The offer is to all who will be bold enough to look past the trinkets of this world.  The offer is to all who will humble themselves before the Living God and receive.  His name is Jesus, for the Living God has ordained Him as High Priest to all who accept His offer of peace.

By His Grace.

If I tend animals, I fence them in.  If I want to herd them, I must go to where they are.  If I travel by foot there might appear a fence I must cross.  To cross the fence is not enough.  I must continue on to my destination.

Where is the threshold of salvation?  For the thief on the cross, it was his confession.  For Stephen, it was a life lived in the fullness of the Spirit.  Let us not reflect on the threshold.  Let us not rest, either atop nor just the other side of the fence.  Far too many consider minimum sufficient.  Few pursue the fullness of their calling.

Let each man consider his own journey in the Lord.  How far have you traveled from the moment of your own salvation?  How far are you willing to travel still?  When we reach the end, we will have reached the end.  Will you truly be satisfied at the distance you were willing to travel for His sake?

I present this so that we all might consider the cost.  We do not consider the cost once and then endure.   It is a continual and daily considering that provokes a fruitful tree for the Lord.  Is He worthy of such “upward movement”?  Judge for yourself, this journey you’ve been taking.  Look to the end and consider His testimony of the work you allowed Him to accomplish within you.  How much more can be done by Him if you are simply willing to travel a little further?

This morning, while I prepared for the day’s demands, I listened to what they had to say on the morning “news”.  I considered what they said regarding the glory of man to accomplish.  I listened to what they called “good”.  Then I began to consider how to reach those who adore the language I heard.  Desire raised up within me to reach them with what is true.  It was then that I heard what the Lord had to say concerning this.

“There is no room in them to appeal.  There is no place or door through which to enter.  They have closed out the truth of God with vigor.”  As long as the body is the focus, there is no room for introduction of the Spirit of God.  It is when the lack of strength appears that man realizes the falsehoods of this world.

Desire remains in me, and within the Lord who bought me, to share what is true.  I am His servant.  His desire is to share what is Good.  But what place will appear for the Glorious One to grasp?  All day long, what is man reigns supreme.  All day long lies take the place of the One who made us all.  Where will a beginning begin?

By His Grace.