PRAYER: Lord, We Await The Consummation!

I'm Leaning On You, Lord

So That I Do Not Slide

Into Sin

With That Destroyer

And Thereby

Cause My Soul And Damnation 

To Collide!

I Believe Your Word, Father!

I Trust In The Efficacy Of The Blood

And

I Am Pleading For The Promised Salvation

That Is Lost

To Those Who Choose To Wallow

In Iniquity's Mire And Mud!

In You, Lord

I Have Peace And Rest

And

Mercy And Grace

The Known Perks Of The Blessed

And

I Desire To Live

In That Holy Land

And I Beseech You, My Father

Please Help Me In Your Truth

Ever Faithful

To Confidently Stand!

I See By Faith

That Has Pure Sight

So In Hope

I Look To The Light Of Life

The Lord Of Creation

And

I'm Begging, Lord

Begging

For Help

For My Self

My Family Friends

Community City

The Wide World!

Lord, Let The True Gospel Be Accepted

So That It Will Bless My Backsliding Nation

And Remove Them

From The Damned Goat Herd!

Father,

Fables Are The Thing Fabulous

And

Truth ... The Thing Disdained

When Truth Is The Thing Most Precious 

And

Should At All Costs Be Obtained!

Help Us!

Grant Unto Us Spiritual Hearing

That Will Indeed Bless

As With That Hearing

The Hearer Becomes A Doer

By Spiritual Discernment

And Is

By Your Holy Hand

Forever Blessed!

Help Us Not To Be Complacent

Believing The Lie

That Man Is Saved In Your Kingdom By Rote

When Truth Is

Citizenship Comes By Our Election

Our Choosing To Accept The Invitation

To Be There

Our Preparing For Salvation

The Ground That Is Our Heart

Our Trusting Our Instructor

Our Studying For The Exam

Our Doing The Will Of The Examiner

And

Walking In The Light

And

Away From The Dark

That Surely Our Spiritual Prosperity Blights!

Lord, Help Us To Get Our Garment

Our Character 

Ready

And

Help Us To Be Ready And On Time

For The Big Day Of Examination

Before The Lord Gracious

Holy

Divine!

Without You, Lord

We Have Nothing! 

With You, Lord

We Have All

That Amazing Acquisition

For Us Descendants 

Us, Repentant Children

Of Those Who Caused The Fall!

Let Your Grace Be Sufficient For Us!

Let Your Truth Be Our Bread!

Let Your Word Be Our Pillow!

Lord,

Please, In Your Gentle Hand

Hold Our Hearts And Our Heads!

We Do Not Know You As We Ought!

Lord,

Let That Condition Change Today!

Help Us To Approach Unto You

In Humility And Longing

As We Say Our Heartfelt, Pleading, Prayers!

Please Accept Us

In Our Sorrow For Known Sin

And

Correct Us To Walk Aright!

Please Bless Us And Protect!

Please Feed Us

Guide Us 

Lead Us

Help Us On Your Ever-Present Goodness

Daily

Moment By Moment

To Gladly Reflect Upon And Expect!

We Love You, Lord

And

Look To The Great Day Of Consolation

For That Blessed Consummation

When We Are Forever One!

We Ask These Few Blessings

In The Great Name Of The Holy Jesus

Our Savior, Lord And Expected King!

Please Come Soon! 

AMEN.

Perplexity ... By Complacency!

Lord, Help Us To Not Be Complacent!

Life Is Not A Movie Script
That One By Will Writes!
Life Is A Pie
AND
We Only Get A Single Slice!

Life May Also Be A Fruit Cake
BUT
No One Knows
Which Slice Of Life Cake
Has The Whole Red Cherry
AND
No One Knows
Which Bite Of Their Slice Of Life
Will Have The Random Fragment
Of Egg-Shell Broken
For A Nerve Jangling
Tooth-Crunching And Edging Token!

No One Knows
If Their Slice Of Life
Is A Holdover
Carrying Forward
The Generational Curse
BUT
Everyone Raised
To Consenting Adulthood
Knows
- By Cultivated Tendencies -
How
To Make Generational Curses Worse!

But ...

Life Is Not All Doom!
Life Is Not All Gloom
For
The Creator Of Us All
Rich Poor
Free Bond
Gives To Every Child Of Man Born
Access
To Heaven's Bakery
Where
They Can Be
The Bread Of Life Fed
Absent
Pharisee Leaven
Absent
Bitter Water
Present
Rose Of Sharon
Present
Lily Of The Valley
Present
The Balm In Gilead
From
The Hand Of The Fairest
The Brightest
The Best
The Savior
The Redeemer
The Sustainer Of Men's Souls
The Eternal God Of Heaven
The King Of Love -
No One Less!

Provision Is Made
For All Who Choose To Believe
That The Living God 

Is 

The Lord Of Life

That Life Is Not License
That Birth Is Not Death
That Circumstance Is Not Conclusion

AND
For All Who Choose
To Approach The Throne Of Grace
To Sue For Peace
To Cast Down Strongholds
To Lay Down Burdens
To Get Good Gifts ... Forgiveness Of Sin
Salvation

Peace
Rest
AND
In The Day To Come
To Rise To New Life
For Being An Over-Comer
Against
Satan Sin And Strife!

There Is No Need To Worry
No Need To Fear
If Your Slice Of Life
Is Rancid
Moldy
Filled With Boll Weevils
AND
Insurmountable Burdens To Bear
For
The Maker Of All
Has Reprovisioning Available
For Whosoever Will
By Confession
Repentance

AND
From Sin 

Doing A Turn Called
Degree 180!

Cast On Him Your Cares!

Guardian Angels Surround 

Protect
AND
Influence For Good! 

The Holy Spirit
Teaches Guides

Leads Into All Truth
AND
Chides!

The King Of Love 

IS 

Shepherd
Captain And Commander
AND
Our Father
Is God
Sovereign
Earth Beneath
Heaven Above!

Do Not Present-Life Pie
Into Your Mouth Carelessly Shove
For 

Your Mouth Will Not It Love!

Whichever Slice Of Life You Get
Give Your Life To Jesus Christ!
Your Best Life Is In Him
AND
The Best Is Yet To Come
AND
On That
You Don't Have To Place
The Fool's Denying-God Bet!

By God's Grace
In Wisdom ... I Now Write This Missive:

Formerly-Dear Questioning Life,

You Once Sorely Perplexed Me!

You Turned My Life Upside Down, Backwards, And All Around
BUT
Please Be Advised, That With Instant Effect

Your Power Is Usurped!

Jesus Christ IS My Answer
AND
By Him

My Death Sentence Is Summarily Reversed!

My Jesus
- My Answer
My Peace
AND
My Rest -
Goes Before
Walks Beside Me
AND
For Eternity
He Is My Home!

I Wait Upon My Jesus!
I Have Cast On Him All My Cares 

AND 

Furthermore, Questioning Life
Please Do Not Forever, Hereafter

Do Not

DO NOT 

Call My Name
For I Trust My Lord Jesus
- I Don't Trust You -
AND
I've Given Unto Him
All My Fears
AND
He Wipes Away
All My Tears
So ... Do A Smoke
AND
Disappear!

My God To Me
Is Dear And Near
AND
You Will No Longer
Belly-Up To My Dining Table
In The Master Chair
Nor
In My Living Room
Occupy And Lord It Over Me
In My Best Comfy Chair!

I Do No Wish You God Speed
Nor
A Bon Voyage
Nor Utter A Blessing
For The Prosperity Of Your Seed!

Your Former Faint-Hearted Client
Who Looked For Round Answers In All Your Square Spaces
BUT
Now Avidly Learning From
AND
Comfortably Leaning On
The God Of All Graces
Omnipotent Omniscient Omnipresent
Never
Omnivorous Like You!
Vamoose!

Complacency Con & Contempt Com!

Angels

Cannot Remain Where People

Do Not Want

Jesus Christ's Presence

AND

Do Not Notice

His Absence!

They Were Cussing!

Nothing To Lose!

Last Ditch Effort!

Nothing To Gain!

Going All In!

No Turning Back!

Moving Forward!

Stop Looking Back!

                                     Why?

How?

                     If?

                                                      What For!

I Should Have Known!

You Never Cared!

Selfish!

Idealistic!

Unbending!

Unyielding!

You Don't Understand!

You Don't Love Me?!

I Hate You!

I Pity You!

They Never Raise Their Voices!
- Loud Voices Are Despised! -
They Use Complete Sentences
AND
They Want To Sever All Ties!

They've Known Each Other Forever!
Complacency!
Contempt!
BUT
That Is Proving Problematic
For
Where Ever Complacency Went
Contempt
Energetically Followed!
That Is How Their Time Is Spent!

Stop Following Me!
Stop Calling Me!

You're Such A Mellow Fellow!
It's Amazing How With Life You Cope!
You Take All Things For Granted
And You Look To Be Sauced Up
And Ever Always On Dope!

I Can't Say The Same For You!
You're Always Snide
Even Angry!
You Say Everyone Is Beneath You
And You Are Always Looking
For The Least Excuse To Vent!
You're So Twisted That You Are Bent!

Brethren,

So In The World
So In The Church
Is Complacency
Is Contempt!

A Complacent Christian
Is One Who
- Ultimately -
Will Hold Jesus Christ In Contempt!
This Is The Truth Of The Gospel
AND
Reliable
And So I Can Promise You!

An Analogy Is In Order:

Two Things That Are Not Complacent
Are
Jello And Hot Tea!
Jello Is Cold!
Hot Tea Is, Well, Hot!

Revelation's Laodicean Church
Is Representative Of
Our Church's Behavior Today
Which Is Lukewarm
Complacent
AND
Taking For Granted Its God
AND
This Church
- Unchanged -
Is Decidedly Marked
For
The Spewing Out!
AND

This, Dear Ones, Is A Call Out!

Those Laodiceans
They Have Need Of Nothing!
They Are Increased With Goods!
They Talk Of The Lord!
They Walk With The Devil
AND
They Don't Even Realize
That Jesus Christ
AND
The Holy Angels
Have Departed
Their Well-Heeled, Rising, Neighborhood!

Theirs Is Not A Teachable Spirit!
They're Into Platitudes
Seminars
Retreats
AND
Wiseman Sage Gurus
AND
They Have Not The Required Time
True Gold
Eye Salve
Nor Clean White Raiment
To Purchase From The Living, Loving, Lord
For
Wittingly Unwittingly
They're In The Pay Of The Fraud
AND
All The World
- Suitably Appalled -
Can See
Their Naked Short Backs
Indented Sides
AND
The Unmentionable Portions
That They Can't Cover Up
AND
Definitely Can't Hide!

Awareness
Is A Must
To Avoid Complacency!
Choke Complacency
AND
Contempt Will Dead Be!

I Am Asking My Jesus
To Keep Me In The Realm Called Aware
AND
To Engender In Me
A Sense Of Urgency
So That Christ's Condemnation
Of Me
Will Not Ever Be My Fear!

Complacency
AND
Contempt
Are Completed
By Condemnation
AND
Those Condemned
Are Damned
AND
Cast Into 
The Eternally Lost
Conflagration!

Please Do Not Allow
Lack Of Care
AND
Consideration
To Cost You 
Your Christ-For-Me Commission
For

There Is Nothing
Too Big Too Small
That We Can't Carry To God!

If God Is God Don't Abuse Him!
If You Are God
Please Know That You Will Lose
For
You Can't His Will
Nor His Way
Ever Hope To Deflect
Or
Confuse!

Flowers Look Up
AND
The Birds Give Vent To Their Praise
Of Our God
AND
So The Question Must Be Asked:

"What Is Our Excuse?!"

For Not Cheerfully Loving
AND
Doing For Our God The Same!

We For Whom Is Prepared
The Great Reward
Of The Everlasting Day
Need To

Call To Jesus!
Walk To Jesus!
Talk To Jesus!
Think On Jesus!
Go With Assurance To Jesus
AND
Just Be ... With Jesus
AND
Do It Daily
Moment By Moment
Gladly
AND
Stop Behaving
Self-Righteous
AND
Acting Out So Badly!

Complacent Contempt

AND

Contemptuous Communication

Are Fruit

From

Satan's Poisoned Planting Ground!

Please Avoid Them

At All Costs

Or

In The Day Of Jesus Christ

Be Assured

That You Will Be Eternally Lost!

Count The Costs

And

Humbly

Passionately

Trust The Lord Jesus Christ

And

Give Satan And His Kind

The Get-Thee-Behind-Me

Get Lost Toss!

Looking Back ...!

Sin Tried To Kill Me!
I Cried Out In Despair
AND
Salvation Intervened
AND
Love Aka Life
Poured Out
Grace And Mercy
AND
Made Me Alive!
Jesus Christ Saved Me!

I Had To Take Medication!
It Was The Bitter Pill!
It Drew Out The Offal In My Life
AND
Confession
AND
Repentance
I Did Spill!

I Had Walked Right
In My Own Sight!
For Correction
I Gave Neither A Ripe

Nor

A Green Fig!
I Lived For The Dance!
The Party!

The Prance!

AND
If You'd Looked Closely
You Would've Seen Me
Doing The Jig!

That's An Old Word ...!!

... And It Suitably Describes 

My Old Life!
I Did The Hop
The Skip

AND
The Jump

AND
I Did The Bossa Nova

AND
I Energetically Shook My Rump
AND
I Ignored
Family
Friends
AND
Dear Faith
AND
As For The Lord Christ
If I Had Been A Smoking Person Then
I Would Have Blown Smoke Right In "His Face!"

Goodness!?!

You May As Well Say
"Gracious!"
For That Is What Christ Is
For
When My Fun-Bubble Broke
He Did Not Leave Me
On The Disbursed Rubber
To Choke!

Lord, Have Mercy!

Oh, Yes!
God Did Have Mercy
In The Person Of
The Lord Christ
Who
In Love
AND
With Great Compassion
Disclosed
The Way I Was Walking
AND
Revealed
The Working Of Sin
That Satanic Device!

Only Jesus ...!

... Only Jesus
Could Save Me From Self ...!

... That False God!

Only Jesus Could Save Me
From Receiving
My Share In The Devil's Reward
For
I Was Bent On Destruction!
I Was In Self-Destruct Mode!
I Was Moving Full Speed Ahead
I Was Heading For
The Mother Lode
Condemnation
Damnation
Lake Of Fire
Eternal Separation
From GOD ...!

But ... GOD?!

But, God
Placed
Before My Very Face
Answers
To Questions
I Wouldn't Articulate!

Don't You Mean Couldn't?!

No, I Don't!

If I Had Asked "The Questions!"
I Would Have Had To Stop
Playing
With The Devil
But, Man
That Party Was Hip!
That Party Was A Hit!
That Party Is Hot!
There I Was Spinning Like A Top!

Oh, My!

Oh, My Life Was In Toilet!
I Was In The Personal Stall!
I Was Handling My Business
AND

I Was Brooking No Intervention
At All
Until
The Results Wouldn't Flush
AND

The Engineer Of Life
Came In
AND

I Had To Regurgitate
The Refuse Of My Life!

Believe Me

When I Tell You That
My Head
My Heart
My Hands
Even My Heels
By Then
Were Seriously Hurting

BUT

The Engineer
Was Not Unkind!

He Offered Me Hope!

He Said I Was Amongst
The Blessed
That My Cup Had Not Overflowed
Else
When I Flushed
I
AND
My Mess
Would Have Gone Down
Into The Pool Called Cess!

Dear Lord!!

The Dear Lord
Who Is The Father
Of My Kind
Forgave Me Of My Seriously Foolish

AND

Grossly Complacent Ways!
He Reclothed Me
In My Rightful Mind
AND
I
- Now In His Service -
A Purer Life Did Find
AND
In His Presence
I Offer Deep Praise!

Gloryyy!

Glory Be
To The Father
And To The Son
And To The Holy Ghost
Which Spirit
Fell Upon Me!

I Am Satisfied With Jesus!
I Have Little
BUT, GOD!Is In It!

I Recognize
That There Was One
Who Was Willing
To Die
In MY Stead
So That I
So Unworthy
Might Live ...!

... Nailed To The Cross!

My Sins Are Nailed
To His Cross
AND
He Fills Me Now!

I've Got Joy!
I've Got Peace!
I've Got My Jesus
Since From Sinning
I've Been Released
For Jesus Came Into My Heart!

I Trust Him
For
He Throws Out ...

... THE LIFE LINE!

Amen, Amen, Amen!!

Be Still My Soul

The Lord Is On Your Side!