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Just Imagine.

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American Big Rig

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I’ve been sitting here waiting to be able to drive my truck again.  We are compelled by law to take a 10 hour break at the end of 14 hours of duty ……… wow!  Cool huh?  Ok.  That was a useless heap of garbage to most anyone.  But anyway.  I was sitting here thinking about how useless
we are without God the Father creating the “new man” within us through the work of the Holy Spirit and Jesus’ sacrifice and Lordship.  (I realize that was a bit lengthy.  But credit is due to the One who Is.)

How would you like to appear before the consuming fire that is God the Father and say, “Well.  Here I am.  I guess I didn’t pay any attention  to Your things.  I’m just a derrilect of righteousness and pure holiness.  I’ve trashed Your Holy name time and again.  I’ve killed my fellow men with the words I’ve spoken.  I’ve neglected to do what is right and just.  I laughed at Your Holy Son and His people.  And I just seem to have appeared here before Your Blazing Throne of Purity and Holy Love.  I’d like to say I’m sorry.  But I realize that it was Your will for me that I would look for You in that life I lived.”

Or maybe you’ll be stupid enough to say something like this:  “Wow man!  Cool!  I didn’t think You were real dude”.

What might be His response?   Do the marketing thingy: “Just Imagine”.

By His Grace.

A Test is Waiting for You.

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There is a place where we can rest in testings.  Our loyalty will be tested by the Father and Jesus.  And in this testing we are not judged under the law; forgiveness and acceptance is the order of these proceedings.  But there is another testing which has neither forgiveness nor acceptance.  When we are tested by man, we are thrown to the wolves.  The testing of man is a sliding scale of hatred.  We will find ourselves tested if we let it slip that we consider Jesus first in our appreciation of life.  Then we are tested again as we testify to this appreciation.  But a sliding scale is not proportionate to a steady growth.  It’s more like we enter into differing shades of man’s hatred.  It’s not a 1, 2, 3 thing.  It’s more like :

1. we don’t like what you’re believing.  But as long as you don’t voice your belief, we can tolerate you.

2. You’ve voiced your belief in our hearing and we will now push you aside from our “fun”.

3. You’ve continued to, not only voice your belief, but act on your belief in our presence.  We will now try to destroy you because of the testimony you exhibit.

4.  You’ve continued to stand against our social order.  And nothing we have done has caused you to hesitate in the slightest.  It’s apparent you intend to continue down this path of “difference”.  So, as soon as we can find legal means, we will work toward your death.

This “test” of man will be allowed to continue until the Lord returns to establish Peace on this world under His direct control.  This “testing” is allowed because it tests and refines the heart of those who call on the Lord for true life.  Don’t be surprised at the things which encase you now.  But allow yourself to be surprised if you don’t see this progression of hatred coming upon you.  It is an indication that you are not yet where you should be in Christ.  For the Lord has promised that if they hated Him, they will hate you.  And if they desired to kill Him, they will desire to kill His people also.

By His Grace.

The Testimony of True Peace.

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Those who know the Lord Jesus hold the answers the world is looking for.  Though the world will hate true Christians with a passion, the answer to life rests in the testimony of these people of God.  The sad thing is that the world continues to deny that these people are of any value.  Perhaps this is because of the false Christians, which abound today.

Regardless the reasons why, the testimony of promise will rest within those called by God to wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb.  Want peace?  Want hope?  Want the ability to face the demands of today?  You’ll find the answer in your nearest true Christian.  Ask without judgment.  You’re dealing with another human being.  We are not God.  We just testify to the power of Christ within us.

 

by His Grace.

Wait

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Stones on a Rocky Ocean Beach

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The Lord gives strength to those who wait for Him.  He is the source of a power beyond the understanding of both the world and His people.  He is able to do far more than we are able to ask.  For He alone lives in eternity and knows the true demands of this place in which we live.

Are you floundering in the Christian walk?  Look to Him and wait.  Speak of your troubles and voice with your bound tongue.  You can’t express your sorrow or confusion?  Speak to Him.  Then wait.  The answer is approaching.  Just wait.  You are not who you were.  And you are not who you will be.  The situation you find yourself in is not eternal.  It has an end!  But He who calls you from Heaven is eternal and has no end.

Wait for the Lord.  Allow yourself the patience required to wait for Him.  Your help is approaching from the distant shores of Heaven.  Pull up a grain of sand and just wait.

 

By His Grace.

You Know a Secret.

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You look at me and mock, as though you know a secret.

I am the body of Christ.

You frolic and dance in your festival of sin.

You are the world.

We are all made of flesh, yet a difference remains.

Your mocking is futile and you waste your limited time.

Your eyes are set on what can be seen.

And there is no understanding in your mind.

Yet you mock with limitless hatred for the Holiness of God.

I look at you and wonder how it is you are so blind.

Everything pure and Holy is hidden from your mind.

I look for pity from the depths of my soul.

And I am surprised to find calm and patience where the bag of pity was always kept.

I am not my own.

I have been bought with a price.

And you are not your own.

You are sold as a slave to sin.

I would tell you to look at your plight.

But you cannot see.

O’ Lord of Mercy, we ask your help.

That we might show them their need.

By His Grace.

The Evloution of Response.

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When I first began to respond to anti-Christian blogs I would attack what was being presented.  I guess I saw their words as the enemy.  But two things have happened, through the course of dealing with such words.  The most important and transforming experience in these proceedings was the Holy Spirit of God speaking through me.  We are told the following:   11 “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.” (from Luke 12)

Who are the synagogue rulers and authorities of satan’s push against Christ?  It happens to be anyone who will come against Jesus’ people in word or in deed.  So I watch what get’s typed in the responses I present.  They became far less antagonistic and far less full of me.  God does speak through His people.  You don’t feel it as a force pouring through your body.  He simply transforms your mind to understand the implications of what was presented.  So I start typing and just allow the mind to relax.  God is in control.

The second transforming experience holds an equal amount of power.  I’ve become to see these people as simply a mouth piece of the one who has stood against the Lord from the beginning.  They are not the enemy.  And their words are addressed by the Lord through me.  What is left to me is to recognize that I was once one of them.  I used to demean everything holy.  I was a trash heap of ruin in a corrupt body of flesh.  Running around just looking for a fight.

So when you deal with folk who seem to stand against you, try to remember who’s ultimately in charge.  They are going to die just like you’re gonna die.  The body wears out and accidents happen.  The major difference between the Christian and the man or woman without Jesus is the presence of the Holy Spirit.  He is the power of God’s Son set as a seal for those who God is in the process of redeeming.  In all things we rest knowing that we are His.

By His Grace.