HAPPY SABBATH + B.Y.O.G Aka Build Your Own God!?! + PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please Disappoint The Evil-Doers!

The Sign On The Glass Door Just Barely Caught My Eye 

But 

It Was Enough To Stop Me Dead In My Tracks As I Said Aloud: 

"What The Hell!?!" 

This Was Too Big For The Euphemistic 

"What The Heck!?!" 

I Turned Back And Whipped Out My Phone And Took Two Photos! 

I Was Stunned! 

Not Even 100 Yards From A Very Large Church, And On The Diagonal

A Local Art Space Was Having An Exhibition! 

The Sign Said: 

"B.Y.O.G. Build Your Own God

And

Other Ideas For A Kinder World!" 

The Picture On It Had The Face Of 

One Of Those Egyptian-Type Animal Gods With The Wolf Face! 

Talk About Bold-Face Daring! 

The Artist's Bio States That 

She Will Be Making More And New Gods And Goddesses! 

Excuse Me!?! 

Where, I Ask, Is The Fear Of The Living God!?! 

Do Not These People Crack Open The Holy Bible!?! 

Do They Not Know The First Commandment!?! 

Have They No Shame Concerning Encouraging People 

To Sin Against Their Own Creator 

By Encouraging Them To Worship 

Lifeless Objects Out Of Their Imaginations 

Which Are Totally Useless 

Because 

They Have Eyes But Can't See

Have Ears But Can't Hear

Have Feet But Must Be Carried

And 

Hands But Can't Comfort! 

Where Is This Artist's Love For Saving Truth!?! 

Why Would This Artist Want To Maliciously Send 

Patrons Of Her Poison-Plate To Christless Graves!?! 

I Wondered How Much She Was Being Paid 

To Get Followers For Satan's Camp For The Damned!?! 

Does She Even Care That She's Doing Satan's Dirty Work!?! 

Does She Not Know That There Is Nothing Kind About Idolatry!?!

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, 

In Mercy, Please Disappoint The Evil-Doers

And

May Their Diabolical Plans Come To Naught 

And

Fall Back On Their Own Heads! 

Oh, How I Pray That It Is Not Too Late

For Their Darkened Eyes To Be Enlightened

And

Their Stone-Cold Hearts To Be Enlivened 

So That They Will Have Opportunity, Strength, And Courage 

To Confess And Repent Of Their Known Sin

So That They, Being Willing, May Take Jesus Christ

As Their Everlasting Portion! 

I Also Pray For Their Beguiled Patrons

And

Petition You, Father, For Help For Them

So That They May Be Turned

Toward The Path Of Righteousness! 

May Your Holy Spirit Abide With Your Faithful People

And

The Holy Angels Excelling In Strength Protect Us

And

Also Influence Us To Do What Is Good And Right

And, Therefore

Pleasing In Your Holy Sight! 

Oh, Lord, Let Your Name Be Ever Glorified

And

Jesus Christ Be Continually Lovingly Praised

In Whose Precious And Holy Name

I Humbly And Sorrowingly Plead!

AMEN!!!

  

Interoperability!?!

Putrid Peace!?! 

Comforting Terror!?! 

Interoperability 

Is Not 

Permitted Within The Household Of Almighty God: 

This Stems From The Directive 

"Choose You This Day Whom You Will Serve!" 

Which Stems From The First Commandment: 

"Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me!" 

There Is No Commuter Railway Between 

Sin And Salvation

    Faith And Doubt

       Good And Evil

          Beauty And Ashes

       Bitter And Sweet

    Light And Darkness

Heaven And Hell

And 

Satan And The Savior! 

Beloved, 

To Be A Christ-Christian Means That 

You Are Operating In An Exclusive Atmosphere

With Rarified Air Aka No Corruption

No Deceit

No Terrors

No Cheats! 

Good Is The Standard! 

Blessed Is The Grade! 

Truth Is The Currency! 

Peace Is Love's Glade! 

Interoperability 

Is 

The Devil's Construct 

Allowing One To Walk Like A White Chicken 

And Then 

Unceremoniously Quack Like A Plaid Duck! 

In The Economy Of Almighty God

What You See Is What You Get 

And

There Is Never The Fear That 

You Are Raising A Viper In Your Chest As A Pet! 

Think, Dear Ones, Before You Speak! 

Think Before Rubbish From Your Lips You Leak! 

Think About The Words That 

The Word Of God Supplies 

And

Know That You Will Never Decorate An All-Truth Cake 

With Red Tape And Convenient Lies! 

Strait And Narrow 

Is 

The Path To Heaven! 

Broad And Comfortable 

Is 

The Way To Hell! 

Look Well At These Modes Of Travel 

And 

Let Living Wisdom Mark Your Walking-Way Well! 

There Will Be No Living Deads In Heaven! 

Peace!

There Is No Reason For Sin!

We Would All Do Well 

To Understand, Accept

And 

Remember That 

There Is No Little Sin, Big Sin, Or Trivial Sin! 

We Will Bless Ourselves By Confession And Repentance 

Aka Forsaking Sin When We Take To Heart The Fact That 

The Lord Our Righteousness Despises Both Hereditary Sins 

Aka Born-With Tendencies To Particular Sins 

And

Cultivated Sin Aka Sin Practiced By Willful Desire! 

Neither Birth 

Nor Lustful, Hateful Desires

Need ... Nor Want 

Are Excuses For Indulging In Known Sin! 

Beloved, 

Let Us All Be Cautioned And Reminded That 

There Is No Reason To Sin 

And

There Is No Excuse For Sin! 

The Act Of Sinning Aka The Transgressing Of 

The Law Of Almighty God 

Is 

Straight-up Lawlessness! 

When We Indulge In Lawlessness 

Which Is Much The Same As Saying Like The Fool That 

There Is No God

We, In Willful Defiance Of The First Commandment

Make Ourselves God 

And 

"Give" Ourselves Life And Death Power 

Over Our Brethren And Companions In This Life! 

We All Have One Life To Live

One Hell To Avoid 

And

One Heaven To Gain! 

Tread Softly In The Presence Of The Living God 

By And Through Whom You Live 

And 

Breathe 

And 

Are Permitted To Live Each Day! 

If You Are Able To Keep Yourself Alive 

And 

Will Enter Heaven Under Your Own Steam

Do As You Please! 

If You Need Jesus Christ To Save You

Humble Yourself 

And

Daily Choose To Do What Is Good And Right: 

Bountiful Blessings Await You! 

Peace!

Rejecting Joy For A Toy + Prayer: Father, Forgive Me!

I did not Commit a Sin That Day!
I did something Worse!
I committed a Self, My Friend
Which proved to be much like The Curse!

I did not break any Laws of God
I did not Lie
I did not Cheat
I did not Steal
But what I did that day Revealed
A side of Me I Openly Concealed!

I found out that I Reverence The Living God
Upon My Currently Available Terms!
I allowed That Sotto Voce
To Dictate when how I would Enter in
Sweet Communion with My King.

Well,  you may ask
Why The Big Deal?
Is not God always there?
Oh, yes,  He is!
But that's not The Point!
I have set aside His Special Time
Where I rest in Him
And we Commune - Love and Talk!

Let me try to Explain Better Using a computer game as Analogy:

I had a scheduled appointment with Jesus
My heart and my head were prepared
We got together as determined
No bells, no whistles
No fanfare.

During our normally scheduled appointment
Worldly pursuits and considerations were put away
This Time Is for Recharging The Soul's Batteries
So that Life would not drown me in The Rolling Waves!

In the Midst of our  Appointment
A Bright Button interrupted The Blessed Flow
I Interrupted Pray and Praise with My Jesus
To check how many of My Electronic-Game-Lives 
Time had graciously Restored!

As if that were not Sufficiently Egregious
Checking The Game
Turned into Full Game Play
And even though I could hear The Holy Spirit calling
I Permitted Self's Sotto Voce
To Decide Whom I Diligently Worshiped and
At whose Altar I Fervently Prayed!

I take it back!
What I said earlier
About not having Committed any Sin
Nor broken any Laws!
The First Commandment I did break
Choosing The Game-God
Loving The Fake!

Problem is when Electronic-God took my Electronic-Lives
I Returned to Jesus Christ with Burning Eyes
And He Accepted Me
As I proffered banalities and
Uttered platitudes as if Jesus Christ did not have
All-seeing, All-knowing, Ever-present eyes.

Well, let me tell you The Outcome of That Debacle!
I have never felt more Adrift from God than I did That Day!
I felt like I had Disappointed, Even Lost My Best Friend
And, Believe Me, The Incident Something Precious did Me truly Cost!

I tried to Rationalize My Game-Play
I tried asking Myself
Why such a Big Deal over a "Stupid Game!"
But, try as I might, I couldn't get my Living Spirit to feel Right
For it was as though I had Permitted My Blessing from God to be A "NO Show!"

Dear Ones:

This Real Life Is No Computer Simulation!

There are Real Souls, Real Threats, Real Prizes, Real Deaths and Real Rewards!

The Real Difference between The Real Computer and Your Real Life Is that Real Death without a Real Commitment to The Real Jesus Leaves One without The Real Benefit of The Eternal's Real Life Regeneration Cord, and Award, and Reward!

Anything in Our Lives That causes Our  Eyes To Look Away from Jesus Christ IS Our New God, Compliments of The Fraud!

So, Give it Up, and Look Up!

Call to Jesus - He'll get you off It's Hook, and With Eternal Blessings, He will Fill You Up!

Tell It To Jesus!

God Wrote His Law 

On 

The Tables Of Our Hearts

AND

We Will

ALWAYS KNOW WHEN

We Are Doing Wrong!

*******

Denying A Lie Doesn't Convert It To The Truth!

AND

Don't Play

A Disobedient Jonah's Part

In

Your Own Life's Story!

PRAYER:

Father, Forgive Me

For Ignoring You

Father, Forgive Me

For Creating Presumptuous-Sin Stew

Father, Forgive Me

For Those Days when I Deliberately, Wickedly

Choose to Not Know or Own You

And Help Me to Yield My Sinful Self

Totally Unto You!

I Love You, Lord.

AMEN

Lessons Taught by False Worshipers

When they saw the handsome singer

They raised their hands in praise

They bowed their heads in worship

Their eyes spilled copious tears!

Some fell over in convulsions

Some fainted dead away

We watched the recording in shock and horror

For it seemed that their god had appeared!

Shouts of love and adoration

Those personally touched were in ecstacy

And all around you could hear voices in the throng saying:

"Amazing! He looked directly at Me!!"

The Minister of The Gospel

The Preacher of The Holy Word

Charismatic

Voice Melifluous

Praise for him

On voices was heard:

"Oh, I do so love him!

"Isn't he amazing!?"

"This is like heaven!"

"I could listen to him every day!"

"Oh, to be near him thrills my heart no end!"

"Being in his presence makes me feel heavenly!"

"This day could not be more perfect!"

"I wish we could keep him for ever and a day!"

These unholy displays of affection

While wildly disturbing

Unexpectedly opened up my eyes

They caused me to think

Of Almighty God whom I worship

And made me wonder about my praise and worship bona fides!

I know for sure I don't run around in a frenzy at thoughts of Him

I don't hyperventilate when I pray

I don't sweat and cry when He speaks to my spirit

And I know that when He finally appears

There's not going to be anyone fainting dead away!

These Idol Worshipers' Worship is Committed!

My Holy God Worship is at times Ho Hum!

But their Forbidden Worship Gives me Insight into Evil

And how The Devil's Thread of Sin is made of Homespun!

Forbidden Worship shows Commitment and Devotion

Heart-felt Hard-core Positivity

They will not be swayed from their chosen pathway

For they serve their god completely unreservedly!

We may take a page from Wrong Worship (Lord Jesus have Mercy!)

Of course not the excesses that we often see 

But the fact that their faith cannot be shaken

And for them their homage is right and holy!

"All In" is their Singular Motto

They'll "Take a bullet!" for what they believe

They can, and do, defend the words of their master

And their faith you cannot make them suspend, or cede!

We worship The Holy God so let's take that Holy Worship and 

By The Indwelling Holy Spirit kick it up a grand notch

Let's Really Know and Speak of  Our God Intimately and

Let's Not The Declared Mission of Spreading Hope botch!

Let Us Stand Up 

and 

Be Counted 

as

We Righteously Show Our Devotion 

to 

The True and Living God!

*******

Let Us Do What is Good 

and 

Right!

*******

Let Us Stand Our Ground

and 

Be Brave in The Fight

For God Alone Saves 

When Comes The Dark Night!