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Famous Bad Advice. Stupid is What Stupid Does.

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Thinking RFID
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CAUTION:

WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ MAY OFFEND YOUR SENSE OF SELF WORTH.

MY INTENT IN THIS POST WAS NOT TO CONSOLE THE MASS OF HUMANITY.  I’VE REALLY TRIED HARD TO OFFEND EVERYONE IN THIS POST.  IF YOU FIND YOURSELF UNOFFENDED AFTER READING THIS, PLEASE INFORM GOD.  PERHAPS HE WILL REMIND ME OF SOME OTHER STATEMENTS. 

“You’re not in a boat that is sinking.  You’re getting ready to go swimming.”

“You’re not about to drown.  You’re about to drink a whole lot of water.”

“You’re not going to be eaten by sharks.  You’re helping feed the earth.”

“The world isn’t corrupt.  It’s only doing what it can get away with.”

“You wouldn’t have done that if you knew what was going to happen.”

“You’re not sinning.  You’re only doing what comes natural.”

“Liberal thinking isn’t wrong.  It’s simply questioning the definition of the word truth.”

“You don’t have to work for a living.  If you look pathetic enough long enough, someone else will feed you.”

“Nobody owns anything they weren’t given by the government.”

“If you do enough good deeds God will accept you.”

“The state of the world is God’s fault.  After all, He’s the one who put the two trees in the Garden of Eden.”

“I am not a liar.  I just don’t tell the truth sometimes.”

“Just because somebody asks you to stop doing something doesn’t mean they really mean ‘stop’.”

“Sexual immorality isn’t sin.  It’s just testing the waters.”

“I know you didn’t mean to kill him.  After you stabbed him the first time you were just being merciful to stab him the other hundred times.”

“It’s only a yellow light.”

“The cops won’t give you a ticket for only breaking the speed limit by 5 miles an hour.  Besides, you’re in a hurry.”

“Jesus isn’t the only way to God.  God just thinks of Him as His Son.”

“God watches to see how you dress, what kind of car you drive, how much money you can make, and how popular you are.  He uses those things to determine how good of a person you are.”

“You can make up your own rules about God.  It’s ok.  There’s too many versions to be sure anyway.”

“It’s ok to believe God is just a myth.  After all, no one has seen Him.”

“Panic on my part is justified if you failed to plan your life.  After all, I am my brother’s keeper, right?”

“Marriage isn’t restricted to a man and woman.  It’s the union of really good friends.”

“It’s ok to take that paper clip from work.  They’ll never miss it, and you need it more than the company.”

“You didn’t kill anybody.  You just caused them to cry a little bit.”

“You were only late for work because you over slept.  It doesn’t mean you don’t care.”

“It’s ok to not read the Bible.  After all, it only makes you feel bad.  And there’s just too much bad feelings in the world already.”

“You’re not a bad man.  You just get a little violent once in a while.”

“It’s ok to look down on the stupid people.  After all, you know what’s right.”

“Prayer isn’t all that important.  (shrug shrug)  God knows everything anyway.”

“If you do what everyone else is doing, God will forgive you.  After all, you’re only human.”

“When you find someone who’s done something worse than you, it’s ok to hate them.”

“Jesus is willing to forgive everyone’s sins (even the most horrible).  But your sins are too much.”

“You’re not going to be judged by the Most High God.  You’re only going to get a chance to see what this ‘Hell’ thingy is all about.

Eternity isn’t that long.

The Threshold of the Second Coming

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greed [aka cost/benefit]

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How fast the world is deteriorating into evil.  The darkness covering the land today makes the 60’s look more pure.  While there was nothing holy about the rise of immorality of the 60’s, the embrace the world is giving to wickedness today has increased by folds.  And all indications are that this increase will explode.  Are you ready for absolute chaos?  It is coming.

 

Throughout the ages, since the resurrection of Jesus, men have proclaimed the return of the Lord of Glory.  I’ve often pondered, as have others, just what the signs will be when the Holy God of Israel has had enough.  Because, when the Lord God sends His Son, this world will endure all manner of horror.  Many thought their age was the one in which the Lord would surely return.  But wickedness had not run its course.  This observation has given birth to an understanding within me.

If the world has become increasingly wicked and the Lord has not yet returned, just how wicked must the world become before the Lord comes?  Personally, I believe anyone would not be far wrong to expect His return very soon.  But how much more violence, godlessness, and unholiness needs to come to maturity before God responds with His Holy Promise to do away with man’s rebellion?  If it’s this bad now, how much more horror must man manufacture?

God has given man over to the desires of his heart.  The central desire of man is to rid himself of the God who made him.  How long will man rebel?  How much destruction will he be willing to reap from the works of his own hand?  The answer is “A LOT”!  Murders, greed, anger, rapes, thefts, lies, corruption of every sort on every level, even within families, all these things are going to increase until there is no one left on the face of the entire earth who is willing to allow God to be the King of their life.  At this time, the Lord of Glory will appear with Great suddenness; when they least expect it.

May the Lord have mercy on those who read this post.  May He open their eyes to see.  Billions and billions of blind are, even now, awaiting their fate at the hands of the Living God.  Yet hell still has room.  Why would you seal your eternity as they have?  Why not humble yourself before the Most High God, through Jesus, and accept the testimony of His people?

By His Grace.

No Legs to Stand

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You thought you were expected to right all wrongs.

You considered the power of God a “noneffect”.

It was written about you,

“They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly.”

Then you will stand and present yourself for inspection.

You will give account of yourself and all the things you thought you did with righteousness.

But what will be said?

Perhaps you will say that you gathered all information and stood your ground against wrongs.

Perhaps you will point to others and say that they did not allow you to perform godly actions.

Perhaps you will render all your deeds and realize that God was not part of any of them.

When you are asked to give account of yourself, what pocket will you reach into to draw proof?

What chance will you have to say, “May I have a moment to reflect?”

Your tongue will betray your fear and words will come regardless your desire to stem their tide.

Before Him you are standing, on that day.

He who has provided the power to accomplish God’s will.

But you decided here to do all things according to your own imagination.

You read the Bible and determined that you could obey the Holy Law of God.

How’s that working out for you?

You see social injustice and take it upon yourself to correct the flood of lawless men.

You made a “good” life for yourself and your family.

And it is your hands which have constructed the house you now live in.

Have you never heard the Gospel?

Will you recount, on that day, that everything you have to present to the Holy Father has been done by Jesus His Son?

Perhaps you have not heard this:

 Unless the LORD builds the house,
   the builders labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
   the guards stand watch in vain.
In vain you rise early
   and stay up late,
toiling for food to eat—
   for he grants sleep to those he loves.

May God grant you understanding before you stand before Him.

“I Found One!”

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Puzzle piece

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Two people work together to put a puzzle together.  It’s not a small puzzle, built for a child.  There are 600,294,385,001 pieces.  And they search with furrowed brows to find even one match.

“I found one!”  One of the people screams out with great joy.  The other’s head levels with inspecting eyes.  “Are you sure?”  Deft little fingers put the two together.  All the edges match perfectly.  The colors blend in seamlessly.  “YES!”

“What is it?”  A pause ensues.  Turning the two joined pieces around and around, they inspect the item of joy for any hope of understanding.  But in the end there is no possible way to know what it truly is.  Oh there’s colors that could be identified in various ways.  But in the end, there is simply joy that an answer has been found.  And back to their work they go.  But now they search with a renewed vigor.  For they have been given proof that some of the pieces DO fit.

This is what walking with God in Christ Jesus is like.  We hold in our hands only the answers we know we have found.   But we leave the Glory of understanding the bigger picture to the Lord who supplied both the puzzle and the two who work together.

By His Grace.

What or Why

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Jesus with children, early 1900s Bible illustr...

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In understanding life, far too many ask the wrong line of questions.  Instead of asking “What”, we find asking “Why” to be far more fruitful.   When we begin to ask why, we begin to receive answers that “What” can’t supply.  Even so, when many begin to understand the answers they get, they don’t like them.  So they return to asking “what”.  But if you endure, and are willing to receive the truth, “why” will provide them.  In the end, you will find Jesus as the answer.  Asking “what” things are is a matter of definition.  It becomes a simple exercise of language.  People who have no serious interest in understanding life limit their questions to “what”.

And let us remember that “why” is the central question of young children.  And look at how irritating that gets to their parents.  Could it be that the parents haven’t asked “why” enough?

Wings of Vapor, Muscles of Iron

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Canada Goose flying

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The Geese fly over head, speaking words of encouragement to one another.  Noticing how majestic their formation remains as the winds beat against their path, I marvel at their unity.  They have one purpose, yet does any one of them know the destination of sleep tonight?  I consider their strength as they push through what cannot be seen to arrive at a place unknown.  Their muscles are steel chords, flexing wings of vapor.  How majestic is the Lord’s creation!  How much more has He in store for those who He has set apart to worship Him forever? 

He has shown us what is good, and what is to be desired.  Speak kind words of encouragement to one another as you travel to the marks along your path.  We speak the language foreign to the world.  Love one another with a unity born of Heaven.  We have One Lord and One purpose; that we might learn to please Him in this place of testing.  Those who are called “out” will mount up on wings as eagles (or geese, house wrens, hawks, bats, bugs or whatever you chose to be compared to. . .).   Where was I?  Oh yea. . .  “Bugs?”  At least rats and slugs don’t have wings.  Thank you Lord!  I’d rather not be compared to a rat or a slug.  Certainly not by You.

By His Grace.