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I Had a Big Problem And Only A Little Praise! Something Was Very Wrong For I Am A Bible-Believing Christian AND My Poor Soul Was Cast Down! I Paused ... And Then ... In My Mind The Tape Was Rewound AND My Problem AND My Praise Were Turned Around! It Was At That Point That I Realized That The Real Problem IS My Faithless Attitude! I Give The Problems Power AND I Give Unto My God Refuse!
PRAYER:
Father, I Am Sorry! I Have Acted The Part Of The Fool! I Have Behaved As Though You Are Not Here And, Therefore Are No God And I Have Paid The Fool's Price For Falling For The Wicked Satan's Demonic Device!
Father, Please Forgive Me! By Your Grace, Lord I Won't Ever Make That Mistake Again
For In The Instant That I Recognized That You Have The Power And, That You ARE The Power
My Problems Immediately Lost Stature, and Went Down In Bright Brilliant Flames!
Thank You, Lord For Healing My Blind Eyes And For Blessing Me With True Sight! In Your Mercy, Lord Please Make Me Wise Unto Salvation - The Salvation Of My Very Soul! I Love You, My Father!
By Nature Your Pencil Is a Working Writer! It is Made of Wood Encasing Black Lead! When You First Received It - Unsharpened It Had No Head! In The Old Days One Took a Sharp Knife And Whittled The Encasing Wood And When Enough Wood Had Been Removed A Stubby Blunt Lead Head Exposed Stood! However The Job Is Not Finished! Stubby Lead Writes Fat and Cloudy Leaving Unsightly Marks So ... Back With The Sharp Knife A Gentle Hand Shaves The Excess Lead Away Until Sharp Point Comes Out To Write Play! Time Passes And ... Accidents Do Happen! Sometimes Deliberately Pencil's Lead Point Breaks Below The Wood - That Requires Pencil Surgery BUT ... Now and Then A Particular Pencil Has Worked Hard Been Constantly Sharpened And Has Been Written Down To A Nub And As Was Then Often Heard:
"My Favorite Pencil!
Stub Though You Are
I Can't Throw You Away!
Let Me Put You Away Safe!
You Worked Hard, and
Your Eraser Cleaned Clean
So Into My Tin Case Of Remembrance You Go!
Rest Easy!
Of A Time You Will Be By All Seen!"
What About That Other Long Pencil?! It's Pretty BUT ... Sharpened Point Often Breaks! It Is Soon Discovered That That Pencil Is A Non-Working Writing Fake! He Looked Like A Pencil! He Smelled of Black Lead! BUT ... He Proved An Impostor! He Couldn't Keep The Point - He Wouldn't Keep The Sharp Writing Head! He'd Break When He Was Sharpened! He'd Break Under Pressure Of Doing The Task AND If You Ask Me He'd Break Every Time Work Was Shared Passed, and He Was Called Upon To Diligently Perform Some Specific Task! Thus ... The Boss Is Disapproving! He Has No Use For Masquerade! Do The Task To Which You've Been Appointed And For Which You've Accepted The Commission Or Having Disqualified Your Self By Non-Compliance By Non-Performance Get Cast Out - With The Rubbish Thrown Away!
He doesn't believe in The Savior! He doesn't believe in The Holy God! He doesn't believe in The Judgment BUT ... SURPRISE! He reverences and honors The Dying God King Fraud! His life is all about Pleasure! Acquisition is his favorite Game! BUT When he went - at Death's Door - into The Hospital You wouldn't believe which God he Avidly Claimed?! "Lord Jesus Have Mercy upon me! Lord God Almighty Please take away this godawful pain And Save Me! I know that I denied You up to yesterday But Forgive Me, Lord And Heal Me And I will change and forever serve You! I Swear! Truth to tell, Lord I desperately need You and I don't care if the people say that I don't have any shame!" Thus, it is More Often than Not With Those who have No Need for The Best Friend The Savior The Redeemer The Faithful True Shepherd The Great Physician The Holy Eternal God The Rock Of All Ages Our Peace AND Our Blessed Hope King Jesus! Thankfully Our God is Not Man! Our God calls and helps us while He can! That Is ... Until The Measure of Our Cup is Filled And The Word goes out: "Leave Him Alone!" Hosea 4:17 And Satan and His Minions Take Him Completely in Destruction's "Comfortable" Hands! Hosea 5:14; 13:1 My Brothers, and My Sisters God IS NOT The Man-Made Mock Stick Passed Around By Small Hands in The Children's Game! Almighty God IS Holy! Almighty God's Will IS Sovereign AND He doesn't Willingly Afflict The Man in Self-made Chains! To Use an Old Saying From when I was a Child: God calls ... Softly Again and Again! When You get More Own-way God Will up His "Game!" : A Pebble Rattling on Your Glass Window Followed by A Rock Then The Brick Which Bre'k Out The Whole Window And You Done Drop With The Shock! Better To Answer The Small Voice Even The Pebble on The Glass Even The Rock that Bre'k The Pane of Glass Than That Brick that Bre'k Out The Whole Window And Mash Up Your Old Flask! Stop Following The Multitude Doing Evil, and Spinning on The Stolen Dime! Pull Yourself Together OR Your Old Friends Will be Hearing You Cry, Holler and Whine! God IS Not A Convenience! God Has Feelings, Too, and Feelings For Me and For You! Difference Is God's Feelings Are Holy Eternal Compassionate, and Forgiving OR We Would have Long Been Removed From Breathing Human View!
A Believing Christian Is In An Unique Position When He Desires His Holy God To Act In His Behalf! Let Me Explain: Take As A For Instance - ILLNESS! Believing Christian Makes His First Move: "Father, I Am Ill! I Can Do Nothing To Heal or Help Myself! You Are My Helper My Healer My Savior My Sealer Have Mercy On Me!" BUT, THEN Believing Christian Realizes ... Something From Having Read AND Believed God's Holy Word AND, HE ADDS ... ... Not Wanting To Ask God Anything Amiss ... "Heal Me, Lord! ... According To Your Will AND In Your Way In Jesus Christ's Holy Name I Plead!" BUT, THEN ... He Thinks, Yet Again Of The Holy Word's Word And Says ... With Mustard Seed Faith ... "Lord, Heal Me! I Know You Can Heal Me And Even If You Don't I Shall Still Love And Honor AND Worship You!" AND, THEN ... From His Storehouse Of The Holy Word His Faithful Heart Says ... "I Want To Be Healed BUT Though You Slay Me, Lord Yet and Still ... I Will Trust You!" All Through This Time Believing Christian Thinks Of The Many Who Heard The Words: "Take Up Thy Bed And ... WALK!" "Thy Faith Has Made Thee Whole!" "Be Ye Healed!" "Go Thy Way! It Is Done As Thou Asked!" "Go! And Sin No More!" AND, His Heart SINGS ... "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth And That He Shall Stand At The Latter Day (That Final Day) Upon This Very Earth (Where I Stand) And Though Worms Destroy My Mortal Corruptible Body Yet ... In This Flesh (My Very Own Flesh) And With My Own Eyes (Not Those Of Another) I Shall See My God (Face To Faith)!"
AND ... His Faith Is Made Strong Even Though His Answer Received From The Eternal God IS
"My Grace
IS
Sufficient
For Thee!"
His Body IS Not Whole BUT His Heart IS Full ... and Overflowing! AND ...
When Did I Betray You? How Did I Betray You? You Have Got To Be Insane!! I Used To Be Just Like You! I Was Chained, But Now, I Am Changed! Just Because We Are Family It Does Not Mean I Will Lie For You! Just Because We Are Church Family It Does Not Mean I Will Cover Up The Wrongs You Do! Just Because We Are Best Friends It Does Not Mean I Pick Up Your Fire-Rage! Just Because I Work For You It Does Not Mean That Use Of My Conscience Is Included In My Wage! Just Because We Belong To The Same Group It Does Not Mean I'm Lying Down In Your Grave With You! Do Not Get Me Wrong! I Love You BUT We Do Not Share A Soul Nor A Mind! Your Conscience May Be Dead - Not Mine! I Am Walking The Straight and Narrow I Have To Give God An Account Of My Time And I Will Be Damned ... YES! I Said Damned - And I Mean It Literally - If I Am Going To Lie On My Conscience To Keep Your Friendship or Business or Familial Association! I Am Not Using No Twenty-five Cent Phrase! I Am Speaking God's Honest Truth! Family, Friend, Mother, Father Brother, Sister, Teacher, Preacher President Pope Prime Minister or King I Do NOT Give A Rat's Well Who You Are! If You're Wrong YOU ARE WRONG And I Am Going To Tell You That You Are Wrong! Call Me Traitor! Disown Me! Dismiss Me! Block My Bank Account! Close My Credit Card! Repossess My Car! Repossess My House, and Even Take Back The Non-Pet Mouse! Liar Crook Deceitful Dishonest Dishonorable Cheat Don't Try To Put Me On Your Hook! Jesus Is My Captain! He Runs A Tight Ship! I Believe In Love and Trust Him And I Intend To Go Home and Live With Him! So ... If You Want My Custom My Friendship My Companionship And Want Me To Share A Meal With You Buy A Clue Hook Up With The Truth Shepherd Confess ... And Repent And He Will Walk With You, Too! Go Get Yourself A Job And Work Out Your Own Soul's Salvation! I Am Working On My Own And I Can't Share The Benefits I Receive With You!
Truth to Tell - I was in a Bit of a Pickle I Committed Sin I was Headed for Hell No "If..." No "And..." No "But ..." My Life was Straight-Up Living in Duck's Guts!
God Has Very Specific Sentencing Guidelines:
You Sin! - You Die!
I Didn't Know How To Extricate Myself! I Knew - For A Fact That I was Going To Die For The God of Heaven Does Not Cannot Tell Lies! I Tried To See If I Could Give God A Little "Berry!" You Know: A Little Quid Pro Quo! (Something for Something) I Should have Known Better That This God Was The God Of The Letter And That His Answer Would Be To Me A Plain: "NO!" I Had Been Around Town A Time or Two And So I Knew One or Two People, Too! I Explained My Plight I Even Got Into A Fight AND Thereafter I Found Myself Facing My Darkest Night! I Don't Know From Whence The Thought Came But I Uttered A Prayer Learned From Me Old Gran' Mummy:
"Lord, I Know You Up There
I'm Living In Sin Down Here
Have Mercy - Send Me Some
Even If It's Worth
Only An Old Bent Penny!"
Now, If I Remember True Old Gran' Always Tell Trut' And I Know That She Never Led Me Astray! I Chose My Own Lot And Look At What I Got Fears Tears A Runny Nose And A Stomach Full of Leaden Butterfly Knots!
Lord,
Talk To Me!
I'm Finally Ready To Listen -
Hear My Plea!
I Have Nothing Else To Lose
No One Else To Whom I May Turn!
My Ball Ran Out of String
My Bees Lack Honey -
All They Have Left Is Bare Sting
And My Mind Is A Whirl
And Even My Hair
Straight and Curly Got Tight-up Curls!
People Must Understand That My Situation Was Desperate And I Would Have Done Anything To Get The God To Cooperate BUT Almighty God That He Is Was Having None Of My Fizz! He Wanted Me AND He Was Finally Getting Me - I Was Down On My Knees! Now That I Had God's Attention God Had My Full Attention God's Truth Came Flooding Into My Soul:
God Is The God Of Justice!
God's Justice Demands Payment For Sin!
Sin Is The Transgression Of God's Law!
God Is The God Of Mercy!
(Sparing Me From Receiving What I Deserve!!)
God's Only Beloved Begotten Son Died ... TO PAY
For My Sin ...!
God's Mercy Gives Me Grace!
(Gifting Me With What I Don't Deserve!)
God Loves Me - A Raw-Mouthed Sinner!
(The Stench and Mark Of Sin Are Upon Me)
God Hates Sin!
(The Line That Separates The Holy and The Human!
(The Thing That Makes Us Profane!)
AND ... All I Need To Do To Be Accepted Into Fellowship With The Living God IS To Confess My Sin To Repent For Having Committed My Sin AND Have A CHANGE! SUBMIT! SUBMIT To A Change Of HEART!
