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^11“ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” (1 Corinthians 13)

Learning is the essence of life under the sun.  Yet there will come a place where learning ceases.  And this place will be under the Son.   What His people are and will be should not be compared to those who remain in darkness.  And we MUST stand apart from the masses around us.  This is not a mystery, though many make is so.  There are mysteries, but learning to grow in the knowledge God gives us should never become a mystery to those who have been granted eternal life through Jesus.

With a great sadness we say that many live as enemies of the Cross of Christ.  Though they call themselves what they will, they remain outside the will of God.  May God grant that they will not die in that disrepair.  And may God equally grant that those who endure will be found having overcome by that same mercy.

The title of this post represents the “man of lawlessness”.  But the body of this post is a celebration of what God has done for His servant.  That He has blessed me with 666 articles of good words, ideas, desires, and encouragements.

Having said that, what remains is that I do what I have said must be done.  That maturity come upon me.  That when I see a task and know it to be the right thing to do, I will put away the child and go do it.  That when I speak a word of teaching, encouragement, rebuke, or praise, I will speak it as it is becoming who this man is.

While the wicked remain in darkness the blessed of Jesus will grow from glory to glory; from faith to faith.  Patience belongs to those who believe.  And it is through patient endurance that we happily encounter each new threshold as we walk “The Narrow Way.”