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Gold Stars and Gold Braids

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When I was young, they would reward my good efforts by giving me little gold stars.  Then I entered places where they might adorn my shirt with a button or a little trinket of “glory” as I moved from success to success.  I entered the military.  I received medals for certain accomplishments.  And now I receive rewards from men for doing what they wish me to do according to their standards.

The Lord is the same way.  Though we might or might not perceive it, He allows us to become adorned with certain Glory as we move from learning to learning.  We enter new places of obedience and usefulness as we spend time with Him.  And He is a generous God!  His mercy will be poured out on anyone who earnestly and actively turns from sin and rebellion toward obedience.

He will be praised forever because He is merciful and loving.  It will not be the notches of death He has had to render to the disobedient which will be His acclaim forever.  It will be the loving way He holds His people close to His wonderful heart that will be spoken for eternity.

Subject yourself to His wisdom and learn.  You will move within Him from place to place; from worst to better, and on to best.  Submit and learn to Love in Christ Jesus.

By His Grace.

Ok. Fine! So I’m Stupid.

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I woke this morning after 3 hours sleep.  I can’t sleep!  I want God’s will.   And I’m going to rant here a bit.  I don’t care if you can forgive my ranting.  I’m frustrated and simply need to vent.  I stand between the world and the Lord.  I want Him far more than I want anything in this world.  And people who know me and hear me say that would nod in understanding:  “Yep.  I can testify.   This man really is crazy after God’s things”.

No matter where I turn I find lies and confusion.  People speak of God as a fairy tale.  They don’t realize that the world they’re trying to re-create is the fairy tale.  They think this day is the day they’ve been waiting for.  They think they have what they finally wanted since man began.  They want no part of God or His ways.  Oh how they speak fine words.  Refined language is the religion of the day.  If they can speak the right words, they think they have nullified the Word of the Lord.  They turn to what they call reason.  “If we can just approach life from a logical perspective, we can rid ourselves of all this God stuff.”  What they are saying is that the mind of man can create the utopia he deserves and desires.

Fine!  Have your utopia by virtue of your own imagination.  And you call Christians fairy tale people.  Foolishness!  What has your tiny mind created that you can hold in your hand?  Murder?  Chaos all over the planet?  Hunger?  Rape?  And every other kind of horror.  Has your tiny mind created a solution to all these things?  And does your tiny mind really blame God for all this?   Are you really that stupid?  Or are you simply misguided.

I am frustrated by the denial men live their lives under.  If I tell them that the answer is to turn to God in humility, they laugh at me.  Yet if I point out their failing foolishness, they get angry.    Where is the godly man and woman in the face of all this stupidity?  Where are the voices of the “called out ones”?  The main stream “church” is full of the same kind of stupidity as the world.  Every place I attend I find smatterings of philosophy, psycho analytical nonsense, “how to’s”, and more books to read.  What?!   Is this the answer?  NO!

The Living God, present in the lives of man, is the answer.  Doing what He demands all men to do is the answer.  He will not be silent much longer.  And when He speaks you will wish you could just disappear, O’ World!  Right now is your day.  Go ahead.  Have it your way.  Speak the lies you embrace.  Sell each other the trinkets you have made to replace the Holiness of God.  Advertise all manner of foolishness to each other.  Speak of peace, while you are at war with the Most High God.  You are being manipulated by the father of lies.  And you don’t even notice.

Where is truth?  It is found in the Living God, through Jesus.  There is no other such thing as “truth”.  And what I have said will be found true.  But this is your day.  While you send truth to the pile of dung in your world of lies.  God will bring your lies to ruin.  Abandon will be your meal for eternity.  For you have abandoned the Lord of Life.  Hatred will be the fork and spoon you feed yourself with from you plate of “nothing”.  For nothing is what you hold so dear.  You want nothing!  And you’ll kill to get it.  Nothing is what you will receive.

What I testify about the Lord is true.  And you will taste it soon enough.  There is not one shred of doubt in me regarding the judgment to come or the present demand by God that all men turn to Him through His Son.  Yet you say “God is like us”.  Like you?????  Are you kidding?  Are you serious?  You want a God who lies?  You want a God who will die?  You want a God who gets sick?  You want a God who doesn’t know his ear from his toe?  Is this your version of God?

He says, the one who sins is the one who will die.  And you hate Him for being so blunt.  He created you and everything you have.  But you hate the fact that He asks you to give it all up and accept Him instead.  YOU ARE THE CREATED ONE!!!!  What do you have that you made for yourself from nothing?  You are a user.  Breathing uses the air God created.  Thinking uses the brains God created.  You point your created finger of hatred at God and His people.  You move your created tongue with hatred and lies.  You crain your created ear to hear others speak of things you want to hear.  And you ignore anything godly.  And I’m the foolish one?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

By His Grace.

Sculpted from Flesh.

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It is God who gives the righteous their works.  It is He, who lives forever, who creates His people.  Among the nations the Lord is working.  He is carving out a people for Himself.  Praise the Lord, you righteous in the land.  You are sculpted from flesh into a fragrant flower for the Lord.  He is able to present you on that day with beauty and honor.  Only humble yourselves as those who are being built by One Greater.  Righteousness belongs to the Lord!  And to Him only will all praise be given.

by His Grace.

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Repent or Die.

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Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hanity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levine, and all the other “minor” pundants are all wrong.  While the “Left” thrives on lies, the pundants of the “Right” thrive on half truths.  So which is better if both are not complete?

God has established that man’s ways of sin will lead to a certain place.  In the end it will be called Armageddon.  But while in transit, man’s will is bound to appear in predictable fashion.  You men holler from your perches.  You scream and dance for the world.  You think you are telling the truth as you point out what is wrong with the world today.  You think you can predict where the world is headed.  But you are not telling the people that God has ordained that man should endure the fruit of his sin and rebellion.  You are not saying what is true.  You are simply pointing out what’s wrong.

Then I hear you mention a possible remedy to our plight.  You say that if we all band together we can stop this “train wreck” from derailing America.  You do no one favors by saying these things.  Not one man can correct the direction of mankind.  Man is headed for a deadly encounter with the Most High God.  And all you are saying is that we’re going that way because we didn’t try to stop it from happening.  In this you speak a particle of truth.  For each man is responsible for his own knees of humility.  But you will not stop or avoid the clash of man against the Lord Most High.

What is the completion of the message you will never spout?  “Repent or die”.  This you will not tell the people.  And so you will continue to dribble your partial truth.  While millions will devour your words as if they were candy.  And so the world will continue to spin right into the battlefield.  Here it comes!  It’s not far from every man.  But there is a place where God will make that “final stand”.  Since you will not say it, I will voice the words:  “REPENT OR DIE”.

By His Grace.

I’m Not the King.

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I presented a witness to you.

And you thought you mocked me.

I stood before you and spoke.

And you shot your hatred at my head.

I did not flinch, nor did my soul respond.

While the dust of your words passed me by.

I knew, without doubt, that those words you cast out,

Were not meant for one such as I.

The dust of your words left no trace upon me.

Every speck has landed somewhere else.

It is the Lord you’ve insulted.

I am only His messenger to your face.

And how foolish to dash the messenger,

Then turn and boast that you have killed the King.

 

By His Grace.

“Blessed is the man . . .”

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I used to think that a man could consider himself blessed by God if he did certain things which pleased God.  I equated “blessed” with God being thankful for our work/s.  And to a small (very small) extent this might be true.  But I remember that nothing we do actually pleases the Lord.  “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.”  (Isa. 64:6)  So I am forced to reconsider what blessed means from God’s point of view.

Psalm one says, “Blessed is the man who . . .”.  And the psalm goes on to describe what this man’s blessing will manifest itself as.  The blessing is not a future promise as much as it is a present and real way of life.  The Lord causes a man to become what He desires.  Man did not know to do good.  It was the Lord who caused the man to do good.  There will be no boasting before the Most High God that a man has done a good thing.  God prompts us to desire Him.  We react with some action, according to our personality.  He rewards that reaction with another prompt.  And so it goes as we develop the fruit He desires to produce on us.  Eventually we are to become holy, even as our heavenly Father is Holy.

If you do not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of the mockers, then the Lord has caused you to be like this.  Perhaps you thought or think that you choose to do these things.  But you are blessed by God to bear His desired fruit.  So praise Him, for this is your function.  Humble yourself to worship Him.  For He has been kind to you.  He has allowed that you should not be a fool in your actions.  He has blessed you.  You have not become a righteous man on your own.  You did not desire to serve Him or read His word on your own.  It was His Spirit which has brought you to this place you now live.  So render to God what is His due.

By His Grace.