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Warning: Travel With a Compatible Companion.

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Carpool

Carpool (Photo credit: eltpics)

To my fellow humans:

I have had many a word with those who want to argue against the Gospel in various aspects.  I want to reassure them that their arguments have been and are heard.  They think their arguments are between humans.  But I know the One who listened to the arguments they purport long before their lips spoke them.

I just wanted to put them at ease here.  Your complaints are registered in your personal name at the throne of the Most High God.  If you want mercy for what you’ve said, I suggest that you appeal to Jesus.  If you don’t care now, I understand.  And so does God.  He will ask you plainly what you meant by what you said and thought.  And He will certainly take into consideration how you taught your arguments to others (especially children).

So don’t worry about how I listened to you.  You might have walked away from a conversation with me thinking that I was angry with you.  That’s absolutely not so.  I simply spoke the truth as I read it in the Bible.  You are no offence to me at all.  Even now, I can’t remember any specific argument with anyone about the ways of God.  Oh, there’s a general sense left within me that many hate what the Bible has to say.  And by that hatred I am on their short list of people they would least like to carpool to work with.  Got it.

Have a nice day folks.

Sure, You Can! For Now.

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Police Officer Breaking the Law

Police Officer Breaking the Law (Photo credit: Call To Adventure)

“I can, so I will.”

This is said of the majority of mankind.  They perceive an advantage is to be gained by stretching the laws of the land.  They don’t notice that they’ve already determined to stretch the laws of God.  So what does it matter if they push past the limits of man’s laws?

“I must, so I should.”

This is said by a handful of people who are striving with all their might to learn to love God and all His ways.  They subject themselves to the laws of God.  So it matters a great deal when it comes to obedience to the laws of man.

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”  (Joshua 24:15)

The Growth of Decline.

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Exponential function

Exponential function (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What we are to become, after the end of this world, is yet to be seen or announced from the Lord.  We have little glimpses of what God Himself refers to as Glory.  And we know that God is love, perfection, and absolutely steady in Holiness.  So we can easily come to the conclusion that His people will be like wise.

And what we are now is virtually blind, naked, and powerless compared to what is to come.  What is it to us then if we suffer for the time it takes to wink an eye?  I have mentioned this before, but it is worthy of re-mention:  If this place of testing was sufficient to produce the Glorified Jesus, the Christ of God, what are those who overcome the temptations of this world?  And how powerful is the grace and mercy of God that He would come to us to empower us to overcome?

We take great heart in His promises.  We take great heart at the signs of His presence in our activities and attitudes.  Even as the Sun rises in the morning, we know that He will produce in us what is necessary to be pleasing to the Father.

Stay the course with renewed strength.  Look around and take note of how wicked the world has become in just the last 25 years.  The growth of wickedness will become exponential at this point.  Encourage one another to remain steady as we pursue the holiness He is calling us to embrace.

A Letter to My Brothers of Flesh

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human dimension

human dimension (Photo credit: ηeliʘ)

Dear Man:

You sigh with deep concern about what you see around you.  Your nerves are constantly tense because of what you perceive coming upon the entire world.  I am one of you, and I have seen it coming for quite a while.  I have a message for you that you might not have allowed yourself to realize.

Listen to the noise in the world now.  Watch as men frantically strive to right the ship of humanity.  It lists precariously to port.  Yet, instead of removing the excess cargo men keep adding to it.  In their lazy approach they have not evened the load within the ship.  And the lazy have drawn up their chairs on the port side of the deck to watch the commotion.

We are about to undergo a very deep trouble.  Finances will collapse around our ears.  Poverty will strike the richest among us.  Drought, disease, war, earthquakes, storms, and intemperate climates will embrace our waking from sweat laden beds.  Violence will become the norm.  And death will become desired by millions.

From centuries past man has thought he can create his own world.  And we are reaping the result of their foolish and greedy ambitions.  While we should be turning from the very building blocks of sin that has caused the present problems, we are doubling down on their ambitious greedy ways.

I am one of you.  I have no right nor need to accuse you of anything.  I will suffer along side my brothers of flesh.  But this is the message:  “There is no remedy for what is about to happen.”

I desire you peace.  But not the peace of man.  I desire you that certain peace of Jesus that soothes the nerves, heart, mind, and soul, despite the conditions around you.  This is what I desire for all men.  Just as my Father in Heaven has desired it for all men through out every age.  But now we must endure the results of godless ambition.

Come share with God’s people in the eternal life after this place of testing.  Enter in.  Allow God to prune your greedy heart until greed is just an unwelcome nightmare in your past.  Get clean now, despite the circumstances that are unfolding before our very eyes.  Only those whom God teaches to become like His Son will enter into eternity free of condemnation.  Beware!  It is not religion God is looking for.  It is a transformed life He rightfully demands.

By His Grace.

Something from Nothing to Perfection

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Man has invented (or realized) many items.  He tells his brother that his life is better for all the things they have made.  First came steel.  Then came the computer chip.  And man is boasting quite loudly that his hand has been able to save him.  From what?

God spun the world and all items of creation from absolutely nothing.  Man refers to the big bang.  God says He just spoke and the universe, in all its complexities, came into being.

Man makes a car.  Absolutely straight wheels glide the chassis and body down relatively smooth roads.  And with this invention, man’s world is transformed.

God makes a cloud rise up.  Turmoil between heat and cold eventually provoke a lightning strike.  Though lightning seems to us arbitrary, God does not see it that way.  He tells us the lightening answers to Him, “Here I Am.”

It comes from the cloud.  Traces the most random appearing path to the ground possible.  Then hits exactly the spot on the earth that God intended it to hit.  Amazing precision through apparent random behavior.  But this is the nature of God’s ways.  It is man’s way to control nature.  It is God’s way to use what is natural to perform absolutely perfectly precise tasks.

Man invented the car.  God created man’s feet.  And what a difference between the results of both.  Everything man does is destined to collapse.  Everything God does is destiny.

Wide-lightening

Wide-lightening (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Song of Creation

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English: Cyclepath. Summer photo of the cyclep...

English: Cyclepath. Summer photo of the cyclepath that follows the line of the Innocent Railway. It’s abundant with plant and animal life. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Lord God Jesus is a God of signs.  He speaks to all men by what He has accomplished.  His promises are made known by what He has already done.  He has made man in this place of abundant life and death.  Who does not perceive what is around them?

Animals, trees, grass, flowers, rocks, clouds, storms, heat and cold, and every other aspect of this world testify in some way to His majesty.  Suffering, joy, knowledge, and all the aspects of life roll up into our death.  And all the while we witness these same things in the life around us.  A living story has been created within us and without.  Who does not perceive what is around them?

Object lessons abound, each pointing to some great revelation of His ways.  Nothing is that doesn’t teach us something about the Gospel of the Lord Jesus.  Yet how many take the time to make the association between what is and what will be?

Boundaries have been laid out for every living thing.  And He has spoken a word to us regarding these signs.  “Man is without excuse.”  We are spoken to about God and His Majesty every moment of every day.  Men run from the Bible.  But the noise of creation is a song of testimony which never sleeps.

Let us all look around a moment and consider what we are and what surrounds us.  Listen to the song of sacrifice, life, death, consistency, and promise.  Regardless our willingness to accept what He speaks, the message of our Holy God in Jesus rings out loud and clear.  Deaf ears, blind eyes, unfeeling fingers, and lying tongues will never hide what is true.  Simply because I deny what is true does not make Him out to be a liar.  It is the one who ignores His message who suffers.  Eternity rolls on with or without us.

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