Put a blob of paint on a white piece of paper. Put a night crawler into the blob of paint. Watch what the worm does as it moves around, the marks it makes. That’s a person’s activity on this earth. If by chance it happens to resemble anything intelligent, it’s only a matter of chance.

If you do not have God’s hand upon you in Christ, you are just like the worm. You do all kinds of things, but it’s not the intelligence of God so it cannot be eternal, anymore than the marks of a night crawler.

The darkness looks like it accomplishes things. But everything it does is nothing more than movement.

People have said they don’t need God to live their life. That’s correct, but it’s really no life at all without him.

With Christ, however you are like a pencil. The pencil can’t stand on its own. It doesn’t even know what standing is. It certainly can’t write anything intelligent by itself, even though it does exist.

Choose you this day, whom you will follow either the God of your ancestors or the living God in Christ Jesus. The only wise choice you can make is to put yourself in the hands of the intelligence of God.

Why live a useless life when your life when you can be blessed by the eternal hand of the living God?

By His Grace

There are millions who would tell you they’re not concerned about the judgment to come. I have met quite a few who say “I will take my chances“. Such souls are absolutely oblivious to their own sinful nature somehow thinking 50% is good enough.

Here: if you want to really see what your percentage of possibility of salvation is on your own, take the time to ask God to show you what you really are. Ask him to show you how far short you fall as you rest in self salvation.

He loves you enough to die for you personally. You will begin to believe as he reveals just how perverted and unholy you are.

Step into the fire in this life and let him show you why he died for you. You will begin to notice you don’t even have a one percent chance.

By His Grace 

What’s it cost to be a nice guy.?

Especially if you have things extra you can give.

What’s it cost to be a holy guy in Christ?

Regardless, the things you used to own.

What is sinner gonna ever say to sinners that what he firmly believes in Christ might be imparted to their souls?

Nothing.

How is a man gonna change the ratio between the utterly depraved and helpless worthlessness of man and those who have been made to understand the grace of God?

He’s not.

These words are all I can come up with. But the fact that I come up with them, is astoundingly exquisite. A man cannot help another man into the arms of Christ. It is entirely an individual choice to make: submit to Christ or die in your sins.

Everything of man stands against these words like the tallest titanium wall ever built. The voice of these things bounces off the wall.

So be it.

This particular light will never set…

By His Grace

What if:

What if there was no such thing as PTSD? What if the memories of tragedy, self imposed or otherwise, simply didn’t exist. Who would we have become?

But PTSD is excruciatingly real. Memories stand in line just waiting their turn to enraged the fire.

Here’s a thought: while suffering on the inside is bad enough, what shall be said about an entire existence that just waits for opportunity to add to the trouble?

Suck it up buttercup. This is where we find life on earth and everybody gets a taste.

Thanks be to God Christ!

What makes Christianity endlessly different in this world? The foundation of difference is the question of who is responsible for my salvation.

Do we share even the tiniest portion of responsibility for our salvation with the living God? Thinking that we obey anything he tells us to do is to divide the responsibility beyond Christ.

You want the awe you had at some point in regard to his sacrifice? Do you want it back? Then stop trying to carry any portion of salvation as if it belongs to you.

Either we give total joy to his living name, or we expect some kind of applause from eternity because we did something right.

Every other religion among men requires us to save ourselves by doing something. Christ Jesus says “believe”. Everything else follows our belief in God, in Christ, and the true joy of salvation, unshakable!

The forgiveness of sin does not come when you do it all rightly. “Be still and know I am God“.

By His Grace.