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The spike of peace

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Our life can be considered as traveling upon a flat line.  What lay to the left is yet to come.  What lay to the right is written and sealed.  But the spike upon the line is the “now”.

What is to come is not.  What lays behind is done.  Only the moment should be of any serious consideration.  The faith of the future and the faith of the past squeeze together and cause us to be.

There is peace in the faith of what is to come.  For he who promises cannot lie.  There is peace in the faith of what is behind.  For the mercy of God in Christ covers us with beautiful righteousness.

So it is right to say as follows:

“I have peace regarding what comes for God is faithful and supplies.  I have peace regarding what has been for God is faithful to forgive.”

How then should we live in any anxiety?  The promises are sure.  Strength to sustain us is present.  And he has shed His Holy Blood as proof of our forgiveness. (Not only so, but he who believes in the forgiveness of Christ also gains a clean conscience)   How then shall we walk in anxiety?

This should be the aim and desire of every man and woman in Christ.  God has caused things to be in this way, so that his Glory maybe known for eternity. 

But if we live in dreams, desire, greed and anxiety about the future, how does that bring glory to God?  And if we quake and shake and cry and moan for the wicked things we’ve done, how does this bring glory to the Holy blood of Christ?

But if we live in peace, understanding, knowledge of truth, and trust, then we live in the place that God has desired for all men to live. Then a man lives in eternity. Then he is prepared to receive the good things God desires to give. Then the man becomes.

Practice trust.  The righteousness of God covers us.  And we know that his righteousness is Holy true.

Who are you?

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Who can say he would do such if certain things happened to him?  To make words is easy.  Fools do it all day long.  But who among us knows of what they are made before the test is given?  And even as a test begins upon us we have not yet seen the fullness of our nature.

Were your mate to have a stroke and lay in a bed for 10 years.  Could you endure?  What would you do?  As the question is presented, your mind answers.  But you cannot say for sure.  Your answer would arrive at the end of the 10 years.

Life as you now know it will end.  Plans you had together will not just deteriorate or be placed on hold, they will evaporate into nothing in the flash of a moment.  And you will become embroiled in a horrible test.

Should you be caught up in some stupidity and find yourself in jail for 20 years, what would you do?  Again, the answer comes at the end of 20 years.  What we say before the test is complete is but speculation.  It is not even to calculated guesstimate.  Proof alone can rightly answer.

We know what is right.  We know what the word valor means.  We know the meaning of weakness and strength.  But we do not know of what we are made until we are tested.

No man can fully be called faithful to Christ until he arrives before the Holy One; this place of testing left behind forever.  Until then we fall on our knees and beg for mercy that we may endure everyday.  To consider yourself a faithful Christian now is to prepare a room for pride.

Who knows what tomorrow brings?  Who knows what will happen before the sun sets?  What we are is what we have done.  The sum of our history is a test.  As you look at what you have done, who are you?  We are living answers.

Canditate Obama said, “Science will save us.”

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Toy Keys with Remote Recalled

Toy Keys with Remote Recalled (Photo credit: USCPSC)

The problems with society we find today are the result of education.  Though we are technologically advanced and trained from birth to encounter this technology, we are not educating ourselves in the things which promote a healthy society.  We learn about how to satisfy the desires of the body.  But we pay little attention to the things of the soul.

If a man was able to learn all there is to know on earth he would still be vulnerable to abhorrent behavior.  And, as I have observed, the more a man knows the more sinister his “secret” behavior becomes.  If it isn’t sexual sins, it is pride in his knowledge.  Education regarding the things of man are only useful if they enable the student to study the things of God.

The education we lack as a society, as a whole, is the education that comes directly from God.  There is a natural aversion to this teaching inside every person.  But as we begin from the moment of birth to teach God knowledge we advert possible rebellion against God’s laws later in life.  And a godly society is far less likely to encounter the onslaught of wicked behavior we are witnessing today.

Millions would scoff at what I’ve just written.  But ask yourself something:  Is society today a better and safer place because of the “advances” of man?  Or is it just easier to get what you want to have.

What can we do to turn this society of godless behavior around?  Nothing.  You take care of yourself and those you can reach.  But we’ve made a society of anonymity.  And when a wicked man lives his life without accountability surrounding him, he will increase in his wickedness.  In short, he will specialize in that particular wickedness he finds most attractive.  And regardless how he tries not to, he will teach his wickedness to others.  Soon we have the majority following godless behavior more than righteous and accountable behavior.  And if you think it is bad today, look down the road a few years.

Because of these things we say again, “The end is nearing faster than you might expect.”  Chaos is just a few blocks away from your front door.  All it takes to ignite this blazing violence is a little more hardship upon those who are already willing to do violence.  Once it starts freedom is taken away.  And in its place comes the heavy hand of a godless government.

Education is the key.  But we replaced our key ring with plastic baby keys.

Wisdom Received

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom rock formation in Wadi...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom rock formation in Wadi Rum, Jordan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eternity measured in men.

I slept and I dreamt of a youth who now can.

You cause me to dance, and I’m an old man.

Aerobic limbs mount my limbs, I am not lame!

I spin like a child, with uncanny aim.

The Bauble is cast and I catch it with ease.

With laughter, by Your grace, I dance to please.

Explosive, unexpected I’m bathed in Your blessing.

And they watch in amazement as Your touch sends me reeling.

I leap at the wall and bounce away cloudless.

My hands are my feet, ability boundless.

My body, a spring bouncing high in the air.

And gravity denied, bruise’s rightful heir.

Wisdom is given and received with great joy.

And I turn, spin, and toss, What a happy little boy.

All this because of You.

To God, give His due!

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.”

 

 

Ah. To Know to the Doing!

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Wacka' Mole!

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I know how to tie my shoes.  I know how to feed myself.  I know a lot about the body and the world around me.  But what do I know about the Kingdom of God?  I want to know more.  But I don’t just want to know for the sake of knowledge.  I’m not intending to attend a trivia party.  I want to know to the doing.  I want to know what the Lord allows a man to know regarding holiness.  I want to be set apart from the ways of this world.  I want to honor His name!

Yet my heart is wicked and full of sins.  I quash one this moment, and another pops up a little later.   We are so horribly locked in a battle against what is pure and what is not pure.  I want to know to the doing of the Lord’s will.

by His Grace.