It is impossible that anyone man should be able to write the entirety of God’s beauty.  Even the restrictions of His Glory in this place of testing are too numerous to transcribe.  There for every Christians addition of testimony is vital.  As we speak what we know the world hears of our God.

Write what you know!  Speak your experience.  Testify so that our God will be glorified among men.  You are the only one who can say what you know.

A Muslim made the comment that his book of religion is about 4/5 the length of the New Testament.   He boasts that his book is memorized by many in Islam.  Yet, he says, never in history has anyone memorized the New Testament.   His point being that his book is more loved and honored than the holy words of Christian faith.  To answer,  I see this truth:

If I tell on a lie I am likely to forget the details when I tell it again.  For this reason they are taught to memorize the words.  If I tell a truth I have no problem remembering the details.  Lies are like dead carcasses.  They must be moved for the cannot move themselves.  All truth lives forever and is sufficient to itself.

And what shall be said concerning this when we consider that Christians have the Spirit of God living within us?  He confirms the Narrow Way of God.  He leads us to freedom from lies.  And seals our hearts with Grace.  And He cautions us not to plot how we will answer His enemy, for He gives us the words of Jesus at the appropriate moment.

This Muslim has done us a favor by his chiding and boastful complaint against us.  May the Lord forever be praised for His wisdom among creation.

By His Grace.

Over the centuries the church has gotten pretty good at telling us what the Lord will do.  And they’ve gotten fairly good at telling us what we should do.  In a way they have put the Lord Jesus in a very large box.  And they have said in many ways  “Thus far he shall go and no more.”

By placing the Lord in a box, they have strived to do the same thing with all people.  But I have witnessed a most wonderful thing.  I am finding strong believers in the Lord Jesus outside of the Established Church.

I have no idea what the church is supposed to do about this.  The Lord and His people have escaped their box!   Its not like they can tell everybody they were wrong.  So they keep writing answers to a problem they can’t define.

I do see one beautiful aspect of this that may be missed by many.  When a persecution  breaks out against the Lord’s people,  there will be a whole lot of Christians unaccounted for.  The enemy will go for the Established Church,  only to find it relatively empty.  The enemy may conclude that Christians are few in number.

I am sure the greater Minds then mine are capable of drawing better inferences.  But this satisfies my curiosity as to why the Lord has broken out of the Established Church’s box.

Did you ever notice there is no movie about the beginning of Santa Claus.  Well maybe there’s a Christian documentary someplace. 

In order to show the beginnings of Santa Claus they have to go back to St Nicholas.  If he really did exist, then we were talking about a man who worshiped the Lord Jesus. 

Such a movie would take away from the power and mystery of the fictional character Santa Claus.  Such a movie would render a lie down to a humble servant of the Most High God.   This humble servant would have gotten old and died just like every other man.

So in the interest of lying to our children,  maintaining the status quo,  filling the cash register, and making a mockery of the Christ and His people,  Santa Claus sticks like super glue.  And you won’t see Hollywood make a truthful movie of Saint Nicholas.

To those who doubt God’s willingness to be patient with them.  Consider your salvation from his perspective, for just a moment.

How long do you expect to live on this earth?  Perhaps 10 to 50 years?  So all you’re asking God to do is be patient with a fool for 10 to 50 years more.  Is that right?

So if he is patient for 50 years more and you do not succeed in obeying  his will you ask only 50 years of God’s patience.  This is no great loss at all for “He who never dies”.  But if by His patience you learn to obey Him, who loses? 

Isn’t this why the Lord Jesus taught us to pray and never give up.  What hope is there for he who gives up?  Yet the potential of winning everything is there to the very last second!