Monthly Archives: May 2015

Religion

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Who accomplishes the will of the Living God?  Isn’t that the one who is constantly looking to him for direction?

To what direction should we look, since no man has ever been in heaven?  Doesn’t it require a deep and living friendship with the Holy Son of God?

And how should we be friends with one we cannot see or meet?  Doesn’t it require faith from God?

What faith can a man have in mere words?  It is required that God should give life to those words within us.

Religion by itself, produces nothing but its self.  But the faith that God gives spawns a religion all on its own.

People, you have it backward.  You present your religion is if God should honor it.  But such procedure comes from the imagination of man.  If it is not of God and from God it will be eternally destroyed.

No man can become anything more than his religion dictates.  And how very few even aspire to that.  But religion that is spawned from heaven, aspires toward heaven.  And once a man is caught up in the things of the Living God, he can no longer aspire to less.

The religions of man lean toward pride.  The religion that God grants leans toward complete humility.

We are what we eat.  Bake cow pies if you desire.  I will be satisfied with nothing more than the manna from Heaven.  And this, not from my righteousness, but it is the gift of God, lest any man should boast.

By His Grace

“Getting There”

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One afternoon, I turned a corner on the sidewalk.  I saw a great commotion.  The flavor of the people was excited and happy.  Curious, I ventured to the crowd.  I could see parts of a beautifully shiny convertible car sitting in the middle of the crowd.  Bold, as was my demeanor at the moment, I went through the crowd and asked the driver what all the hub bub was all about.  “I’m going to heaven!”  He answered.

It was a fast car, yes.  But tires need road.  In my perception, arrival in heaven needs more than a road and tires.  So I was curious about his means.  I didn’t say anything more.  I just stepped back to watch.

The driver waved at the crowd and started the engine.  The car purred with obvious power.  At the signal of his hand, eight strong men came toward the car.  Each one put his hands under the sides of the body and lifted the car.  They all turned their head toward the front of the car and began to carry the car!  All the while, the driver revved the engine up and down.  Everyone in the crowd was shouting with joy.  Applause went up from them like cracks from a large fire.

After a few steps, the men put the car back down.   The driver shut off the engine.  And stepped out of the car.  He was greeted with great enthusiasm.  The entire mass of men was full of great joy.

I was at a loss here.  My mind thought it must be some kind of circus act.  But they all looked to sincere.  I had to ask the driver what the deal was.

He looked at me with puzzling eyes.  “How is it that you don’t understand?  No one gets to heaven without friends to help him.   Accountability, boy!  It takes accountability to keep a man on the straight road.  These men carried me into dedication.  This is a sign of my vow to do what is good.  And by their testimony, I will be accounted as one who has faith.”

I just stood there speechless.  He was as serious as a spider bite.

Isn’t this what the social gospel promotes?  “If we just all get along, God will recognize our righteous intent.   If we do good for one another, God will surely praise our hearts.”  Yep.  That’s what it says.

“Wazzam Shazzam!”  We don’t need Jesus!”

It’s just too bad that Jesus was so amazingly mistaken.  He didn’t need to die on a cross to save our souls.  He didn’t need to suffer at the hands of men.  All he needed to do was praise our intentions.

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  • If you are already famous blogger having hundreds of follower, then does your attitude has changed?

    • Pride is.  And immaturity exists, yes.  But as experience comes, both are found to be false and incomplete.  I have found that one follower is just as viable as 10 million.  My attitude has changed as the Lord Jesus has allowed me to testify.  I am but a servant of the Most High God in Christ Jesus.  Humility appeared.  Pride is diminished.  And maturity buds, like a tiny bloom on a sapling.

  • Why & How, you started your very first blog?,

    • I started my blog because I was fed up with trying to testify by my physical presence.  I could only reach one person at a time, in my body.  But the blog has allowed over 11 thousand “impressions” of Christ to appear in this wicked world.  Blogging may be considered a second rate form of writing by many.  But the effectiveness of dispensing the Gospel can’t be denied.
    • Was their fear in my first post?  Yes.  Why?  Because I knew how full of hate for the Gospel is every man’s heart.  As they hate the Living God’s Holy Son, they were about to hate me.
    • Why, then, should I risk their hatred and isolation associated with testifying for the Living God’s Son?  Because, as they hate the Lord, they also hate one another.  If they already hate me for being a man, let them also hate me for loving Jesus.
    • He is worthy of every possible suffering for His Holy sake.  And why should I not suffer for His Holy name, as have millions of others?

  • Your feelings before posting your very first post,

    • I was tired of watching the Righteous One be ignored.  I was tired of seeing men waste their lives in search of what cannot last.  I was tired of witnessing acts of murder; from simply being silent in the face of wickedness, to literal shedding of blood.  I decided to speak.  It’s that simple.

  • What is reason  behind your writing?,

    • I will live a life of testimony regarding He who is true.  I do not do this to secure a place in eternity.  I write that Jesus might be glorified in my otherwise ridiculously useless life.  I will take His Holy promises.  I will employ my soul on His Righteous behalf.  I will raise up the Holy Name of Jesus, the Righteous Son of the Living God.  And I will not shrink back.

  • How your blog is useful to others?

    • My blog is tiny.  Yes there are many posts, well over 2000 now.  But the usefulness of this accumulation of words is not for me to determine.  And if I could determine their usefulness, would that be useful?  It is better that I continue to write without hope.  Let me simply serve my Lord.  Pride waits crouched just outside the door of worship.  It is far better to serve without expectation of reward.  Humility makes no demands of others for praise.  Pride seeks praise without ceasing.

  • What is your purpose to write a blog?is it for professional use,for fun,only as hobby,for being a writer,for fame,increasing contacts,for sharing your thoughts,showing your skills?or any other?

    •  I write to allow God to have what is rightfully His.  In this unholy world, there will be a place within this man to allow Him to speak.  There is no other rightful reason to speak at all.  Everything else is trivia and will prove itself to be useless use of our ability to communicate.  If Christ is not glorified in our every moment, we have lived a relatively useless life.
    • Many will say this is trite.  They will consider that I speak of items far too high for a man to contain.  They will consider such words as too high minded to be real.  What’s that to me.  I know Him.  He knows my heart.  And I am not ashamed to have spoken of the highest possible expectation of purpose.

  • what are your expectations and dream as a blogger?

    • I desire to introduce 10,000 souls to the Holy Lord.  By the time this world comes to an end, may God bless Himself in this servant of His Holy Son, that He might take for Himself at least 10,000 souls into eternal joy.
    • My dream is to see His Holy Face without fear.  My dream I to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who were not afraid to testify on behalf of the Most High God’s Righteous Son.  My dream is to bring pleasure to the One who made me.  My dream is to ignore the threats of man, and embrace the joy of service to the Holy One.

Thanks to “itsmine”, the one who supplied these questions.  You can find his blog at negativethinker.wordpress.com

Stop by his blog.  Say hi.  Embrace one another in the Holy Name of Christ.  Support one another for His Holy Name’s sake.  Live Christ Jesus!

 

Amen.

New Light (Artist, unknown)

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I think this song belongs to Lenny Leblanc, but I can’t confirm that.  Its nowhere to be found on the internet.

I remember the first time you called my name.

Broken and so ashamed,

That I never heard you before but now I see.

I was just a rebel running through the night,

With no safe place for me to hide.

And I didn’t know that you knew what I was going through.

Chorus:

But there’s a new light shining

In  these old eyes of mine.

All my friends I used to see

Don’t quite know what to think of me.

But it’s the love of Jesus

That’s made a change in me.

And I have left something behind.

But the peace I found in you is forever mine.

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Memories are ashes all around my feet.

And the raindrops rolling down the street,

Remind me Lord,

Of the sweat and the blood that you gave just to wash me clean.

And sometimes I don’t know how to pray.

There are no words to truly say,

How much that I care

Oh lord, I want to live for you

Chorus:

But there’s a new light shining

In  these old eyes of mine.

All my friends I used to see

Don’t quite know what to think of me.

But it’s the love of Jesus

That’s made a change in me.

And I have left something behind.

But the peace I found in you is forever mine

By His Grace

Preferred

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Rather would I fall on my knees in worship in a moss encrusted building, a place which housed great saints, than to enter the polished beauty of popular elegance.

By His Grace

Quiet Please

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“Hey!  Keep it down over there.  What are you trying to do, raise the dead?”  So says the social gospel to those of The Faith.

What comes back, as an answer to all?

 

YES I AM!