What are we lookin at?


Don’t look at the bum.  Look at the man.  Look past his position in society.  Look past the dirt and a shame.  Look past the isolation.  Look past the potential violence.  See the child who desires love.

Don’t look at the Fashion, pretty hair, makeup and elegance.  Look at the woman.  See the precious little girl she still is.  See how she is caught up in what she was taught; the lie of seduction.  Help her see that what she has learned is not helpful; love her as a soul. 

Don’t look at the flashing smile, rehearsed gestures, pretty words and promises.  Look at the man who says he’s a politician.  In his place, the tools of his trade are lies.  But he is still a little boy.

Don’t listen only to the religious words a man speaks.  Look at the man.  Full of misunderstandings, he strives to master the unknown.  Help him do so with you in mind.  Then, benefit comes to both.

Why do we refuse to judge rightly?  Why are we so lazy that we receive the veneer without thought?  Love is not that willingly blind.  Why do we refuse the eyes that God is so willing to give?

Help where we can.  Correct where we must.  In all things, let our minds be directed by the Holy will of God.  Then our judgments can stand the test.

Don’t look at your accomplishments, no matter if they’re religious or secular.  Look at the man and weep.  Yet do not judge before the appointed time.  Assess with the sobriety of Christ.  Leave room for Life.  Forever, you will be nothing more than a baby.

Judge all things with eternity in mind. 

“THINK ETERNITY!”  Think love.  Do what it says!  Become the people you say you are.

Paleness


Christian-Cross-Coloring-PagesThe mother of a little girl sat her child at the kitchen table.  Mom placed a drawing of a cross on a hill with a shash before the child to color.  Then mommy went about preparing dinner.

The child knew the color of wood.  She knew the color of grass.  She knew to shade the rocks with gray, and the sky with blue.  But when it came to the shash, the little one was perplexed.

“What is the color of the cloth?”  The tiny one asked.  Mother responded with the wisdom from God.  “Let God tell you what color to use honey.”

Tiny fingers reached for the box.  With the pure faith of a child she drew out the proper one.  And with all the care she had she shaded the cloth.

“It’s done.”  The precious one said.  But when mom came over to see, understanding reached deep into her soul.  God spoke to Mommy with clarity.  The color the child had chosen was the palest pink in the box.

As we are, so we teach.  Does God see?  Yes he does.

Do we worship in the true Gospel?  Or is our version so watered down that the very blood of Christ is but a pale pink?

POST 666! Glory to God for What He is Doing!


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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.”