Toledo Municipal Court Judge C. Allen McConnell issued a statement Wednesday on his refusal to perform marry a same-sex couple earlier this week.
McConnel says he declined to perform the marriage based on his “personal and christian beliefs.”
Christians have rights too. Isn’t it curious how it always ends up costing the Christian everything, while the world gets just what they want.
No matter. We have every confidence that God will reward accordingly. In the meantime, I’m proud of my brother.
I am remembering.
How blessed I am.
For consciousness no sooner returns to my sleeping mind, and the things of my God come flooding in.
I am remembering who I was.
What an unspeakable blight to heaven and earth, was I.
For in those days,
No sooner would consciousness come to my sleeping mind and everything I could do came flooding in.
No thought of God.
No thought of righteousness.
No thought of restraint,
Except for apprehension by the laws of society.
I am considering.
There is a place where creatures are not blind.
There is a place where there is no break of sanity.
It is not a place of “was”.
It is not a place of “will be”.
It is a place of “is”.
Here, righteousness floats about like Cottonwood seeds on the breeze.
Here, righteousness is like the irritating mosquito.
Here righteousness is, “I will get to it when I feel like it”.
But in the place of “is”, sin and blindness are like those things.
So I wake to eyes in my soul that see.
Among the people of abject blindness, this one can see.
I am remembering.
What mercy is the Living God, that a man such as I should know these things like this?
I am remembering.
What potential lay in the blind souls of every man on this planet?
And now I remember my pleasurable duty;
Speak release to the captives.
With the cunning of a predator,
With the gentleness of a good mother to a newborn.
With every skill of captivity man has invented.
Yet with every possible release the living God offers.
I wake to holy sanity.
This cannot be!
But it is!
The glory is not mine.
I am no inventor of righteousness, skill, hope, regeneration, or release.
I do not have it in my hand to do any of those things.
What is in my hand is only to point:
There is God.
Here is God.
All around inclusive and exclusive, there is God.
Nothing is hidden from his sight, as it is in the eyes of dead souls.
He is perfectly dependable, full of righteousness, peace, mercy, justice, grace, patience, life and hope.
Show me the place here that even is a shadow of a likeness to those things.
That I should know these things!
It can’t be, but it is!
Among all the well-worn passage of the broad way to hell, is one of spectacular beauty. Righteous is the title of everyone whose feet glide along that path.
The path is laid with every precious stone this world has to offer. Glittering pearls and diamonds are embedded along the walls. And the feet of every traveler are gilded with satin smooth slippers.
Lofty and moral conversations delight the ears of all. Beautiful people with beautiful tongues raising beautiful hands of praise. . . To themselves.
Wonderfully capable is everyone there, to present their bodies as living examples of excellence in social morality and responsibility. They are a religion unto themselves.
“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builder builds in vain.”
By His Grace
There was a day when men would seek out those who “knew”. At their feet they would listen intently. Even if they could not believe, they believed in that “something More”.
Is that day like today? Everyone is forced to say no.
The worldly mind praises the accomplishments of Man. The religious man praises the accomplishments of god-ward thoughts and traditions. The sinner praises his bold rebellion. But who seeks the fullness of God within His Holy Christ?
Many have come. Many have returned to the world. Who remains? Who seeks to become the intent of God? Who sits at the feet of those who know? Who remains in belief and listens intently?
What have we learned, in regard to this world? Yet what have we desired to learn of the things of Heaven?
God knows those who are His. His eye is intently set on their souls. God is not like limited man. God sees with penetrating understanding; what man can conceal from man cannot be concealed from God. You may fool me for a while, but the Spirit of God quickly points to the truth we can expect from those who belong to Him.
7 “Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.” (Galatians 6, the living translation) There will be a noticeable DIFFERENCE.
Isn’t the door of understanding from the Living God’s Christ wide open? Who is willing to enter? Who will bend their will toward all that is Holy? Those who do so will be sent.
Isn’t the world in dire need of truth? Who will “go”, that they may be sent?
I don’t want people to mistake the intent, meaning, source, inspiration, or Leadership of this blog.
I don’t write to give strength to universalism, relativism, humanism, atheism, or any religion/construct of man.
If I point out anything in creation, it will find an immediate reference to the Holy Lord God Most High; and this through The Holy Son.
They say, “All truths lead to the singular Truth”. They say that every item and thought will lead to “something greater”.
While there might be a miniscule of truth in what they say, I am amazed that the “something greater” is never the target of such teachings.
They always stay in a “search mode”, as if discovering was the key to living a full and satisfying life.
This blog is from God, through his servant in Christ Jesus, and will never advocate anything more than a diligent humiliation of soul before the Majesty of God.
I am not writing a “search mode” blog. I am spelling out the Truth; that elusive and rarely intended target of all Man’s endeavors.
If you’ve come here thinking that I will add to your search, you’re wrong. I intend to define, highlight, advocate, glorify, and promote the Living God’s Holy Son Jesus.
There is NO truth but the very Word of the Living God.
He is TRUTH.
He is LIFE.
He is RIGHTEOUSNESS
He is HOPE
He is THE SINGULAR SACRIFICE FOR EVERY MAN
Does this sound like I agree with all the “search modes” of man?
The fabric of heaven, his hands obediently made.
Every angel created by the love of God made manifest in Jesus.
Every act of building, from eternity to eternity;
The love of God made manifest in Jesus.
Every particle of the universe came to be by His Holy hands of obedience.
The love of God made manifest in Jesus.
Driven from the Glory of God, the father of lies succumbed.
The love of God made manifest in Jesus.
“Let us make man in our image.”
The love of God made manifest in Jesus.
Rebellion found its match, and infinitely more.
The love of God made manifest in Jesus.
So it has been, so it will ever be.
The love of God made manifest in Jesus.
And yet to come, the salvation of We!
The love of God made manifest in Jesus!
By His Grace
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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