Because Of Disobedience ...!

The Lot Of Man

Is A Cruel One

Because Of Disobedience

AND
Refusing On God's Word To Stand

So Now It Seems

That We Operate By

The Satan-Prescribed Plan

Which Leaves Us No Outlet

BUT
To Be Amongst The Unnecessarily Damned!

BUT ... There's A But!

Almighty God

In His Mercy

Made A Way To Reclaim His Own!

He Gave Up His Treasure

So That By Pure  And Willing Sacrifice

The Wayward Sinners

- Acknowledging Their Need -

Would By Prayer

Be Able To Reach Their Father In His Home

AND

By Using The Name Of The Treasured Jesus

- Once Dead For All But Now Alive -

They Could

By Confession And Repentance

Have Their Dying Souls

By God's Great Grace

Lovingly Revived! 

The Way Is Not Easy!

The Inanimate Road

Is With Disease

Temptation

AND
Beckoning Death

Alive!

There Be Those With Agendas

- Compliments Of God's Bold Enemy -

Who

To Those Walking The Straight And Narrow Path

Will Be Fawning Frenemies!

All The Way Walking To Jesus

Faithful Ones 
Must Keep Their Eyes On The Prize!

Look Not Back Toward The Flesh Pots!

Look Forward To Heaven 
AND 
Walk As Ones' Wise!

Yield Not To Sin!

Yield Not One Holy Spirit-Inspired Conviction!

Hold On To The Lord Jesus Christ
For

He's The Only Way To Father God

AND
To Eternal Life!

Be In Constant Prayer
For It Is Our Shield, Friends!

In Its Warmth

Jesus Leads Us Day By Day!

Hold On To Hope!

Be Strong, Fellow Travellers

Jesus Christ Will Get Us Home

If We To The End

AND
In His Faith

Endure Tribulation

As We Walk With Confidence
Along The Gospel Way! 

PRAYER:

Lord, 

Please Make My Earth-bound Eyes 

Blind 

To Seeking Indulgence 

In Gross Carnality

So That

I May 

- By Soaring Hope -

See The Inexpressible Joys

That You Have Prepared For Me

And

In The Fullness Of Your Time

That I May Enter

The Home You Have Prepared

In The Land That Is Heavenly!

Lord, 

Help My Faith To Live

And

To Prosper

So That I Will Not Fall For

Satan's Diabolically Deceitful Offers

And

Please Also

Grant Me Your Peace

And

The Holy Spirit's Refreshing

And

Let Not Self Have Dominion Over Me

In Jesus' Holy Name I Plead!

I Love You, Lord!

AMEN.

***********

By Living Faith

In Jesus Christ

We Will Enter The Home

Not Built By Hands!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: FICTION FRUIT 'N FACTS: Sin Has A Cost + PRAYER: Forgive Me, Lord

I Was Looking At Myself
And One Day I Saw
Me
Bargaining
With The Lord
And When
Through The Spirit
I Realized What It Was I Had Been Doing
I Knew That I Was Going
Down
The Wrong Path!

In Shame
I Asked My Self:

How Do You Bargain
With The One Who Made 
You
AND
Who Maintains You 
As A Soul Living?

How Do You Bargain
With The One Who Gives 
To You Highest Heaven
As The Blessed Attainment 
For Your Soul?

How Can You Bargain
With The One Who Holds 
The Planet 
Your Home
In The Palm Of His Hand?

How Do You Bargain
With The God Who Knows
The Numbers 
Of Every Beach's Grains Of Sand?

How Do You Bargain
With The God Who Numbered 
The Strands Of Hair On The Head
That You Are Now Holding In Your Hand?

How Do Your Bargain 
With The God Who Knew 
You
Before You First Gripped A Finger
On Your Mother's Hand?

Ashamed
I Turned To My Father
The God Of Heaven And Earth
AND
With Tears Of Contrition
I Said To My Lord:

Father,

I Was Bold

And I Fearlessly Believed

That I Could Bargain With Thee!

I Was Foolish, Dear Father!

I Spoke Arrogantly!

I Indulged Myself In Presumption

Behaving As Though

We Were Mates!

I Was Behaving Like The Very Devil

Whose Sin You Surely Hate!

Father, I Am Sorry!

Forgive Me, I Pray!

Turn My Heart

From That Consuming Broad Way

And Guide Me

Along Your Straight And Narrow Way!

Father, Help Me

To Accept

What I Receive From You

In The Reading Of Your Word

And Help Me To Stop Trying 

To Be A Big Head

Acting Like The Intelligent

Know-It-All's Of The World

Who Are By Satan Fed!

Father, I Desire To Walk 

As Your Compliant Child

No Longer Willing

To Walk On The Wicked And Wild Side!

Lord,

When You Give Me A Biscuit

Instead Of The Loaf Of Bread

For Which I Did Plead

Help Me To Accept 

My Biscuit With Gratitude

Realizing That There Are Others

Who Will Be Grateful

For What I Upon

Daily Freely Feed!

Forgive Me, Lord

For My Presumption

For My Willingness

To Believe I Can Walk

By My Self

And Still Turn To You For Direction

So Humbly 

Yet Lyingly

As I Once Prayed!

Help Me, Dear Father

I Don't Want To Earn Satan's Pay!

Forgive Me, Dear Father

For Heeding Self

And Walking Proud

And Acting The Fool!

I Love You, Lord

Please Continue To Feed Me

With Your Blessed Food!

AMEN

The Ultimatum

ToBe SaVed is Ever Always Surrounded
By Sinners
Sinning and
Sin, and
His Brethren
NeeDing SaVing
MayBe SaVed
HowToBe SaVed and 
BeYe SaVed
Have been His Heart
Troubling!

He Knows John 3 and Verse 16
He Knows 1 John 1 and Verse 9
He Knows he wants to be Christian
But Sin - and Sinning - is Brightening his Searching Seeking Eyes!

Sinning to ToBe SaVed Seems So Exciting!
Do Whatever Whenever However you Want!
The Thrills often Heard 
Excite More Than God's Word
And ToBe SaVed is Iffy, Itching to Join Follow-Fashion's Herd!

Follow-Fashion is The Great Deceiver!
Truth to him is Not About Eternal Life!
LIFE to him is about Fun, Fads, Falls, Foolishness and Feelings
Especially when Delivered by The Cruel-Friend Knife!

One Day, LIFE Itself gave ToBe SaVed The Ultimatum:

"Choose You This Day Whom You Will Serve!"

Poor SaVed ToBe, was in a Pickle ... a Quandary
For Follow-Fashion was Great Fun and Fabulosity!

ToBe SaVed Sat Down
Weighed The Pros and
Weighed The Cons
And Asked The Great Question of His Own Soul:

"When The Fun is All Done, Where Will I Rest When I Lie Down?"

And His Spirit gave Him This Simple Dressing Down:

"Life Without Christ is a Satanic Device

To Draw You Away from Your Soul's Savior

That Life is Full of Thrills and Spills

Hangovers and Chills

And Friends that Last as Long as Your Last Dollar Bill!

With Jesus Christ as Your True Companion

Your Life will be Hard is Many Ways

You Will be Hated and Cursed

You Will Bruises Nurse

But Your Ride in The Hearst

Will Not Be The Curse!

Jesus Christ Saves!

He Died for You!

Don't be a Sin Slave!

Pick up His Light Burden and Walk

Sedately ... He is By Your Side

The Spirit of His Comfort Will Be Inside

And ...

At The Last ...

Just Like Jesus ...

You Will Be Raise From The Dead ... GLORIFIED!"

ToBe SaVed is today I-Am SaVed!
He Knows When he Dies
Angels will Mark his Cold Grave
And he Walks and Talks 
As The True Christian Should
His Walk and His Talk Match
He does not Talk as Spilled Gas
And Walk as Lit Match
But he Blesses
And Teaches
And The Seeking Soul
He Prays for and Edifies!

Play Now - Sacrifice Later!

Sacrifice Now - Play Later!

OR

Heaven Now - Hell Later!

Hell Now - Heaven Later!

OR

Hard Life Now - Bliss Later!

Bliss Now - No Life Later!

*******

However YOU Want It

YOU Are Going To Bear A Cross!

My Eye Lead Me!

I once let My Eye Lead Me
Down The Primrose Garden Path
And when The Journey was all over
I had purchased for Myself a Golden Calf!

My Eye had an annoying habit
Of buying what did My stomach overfill
And it always left me feeling
Like I was a trussed-up chicken waiting 
For the Butcher to come and kill!

You would think that I would acquire some Commonsense
But you would be wrong on that very score
I again let My Eye make another purchase
And Hell came knocking trying to break down My front door!

Lord, if ever I needed You

Today would be The Day

Please Help Me for

Devil Dog and You Ate Bought It

Are playing "We Got A Covetous Pup To Make Pay!"

Lord, I know that I have been Seriously Lawless

But I finally have had My Fill

Lust of This Flesh

Lust of My Eye

Pride of This Life

Have been holding sway

But if You would condescend to help a Foolish One

I promise to live My Life evermore as You Command

Help Me, for I'm about to be undone!

"Child, rescuing You is No Condescension

When Lifting You up is My Sacrificial Goal

Repent, turn away, walk on in My Light

And soon You Will Walk on The Eternal Shore.

Turn, turn, away from The Dead Things

The Dying Joys of The World

Come to Me - I AM Your Savior

With Me Life Ends in Great Reward!"

From That Day until This Day 
On which we are conversing
I have put My Shoulder to the Gospel Plow
And by God's Grace and a Living Faith
I'm Walking Straight and Behaving like 
Chubby, The Contented Cow!

This World No Longer Fills These Eyes of Mine!

HAPPY SABBATH + Free Will and Wild Ways!

IF I am living for my body
It must be because I am lacking in Department Brain
Which means that I, therefore, lack reason and thus
Behave like a starved animal in chains
Hungry, restricted, abused
Abusing myself for lack of a  meal feel
Which gives stomach-Satan the upper hand
To make me do whatever he please.

God made us in His Image.
God gave us Reasoning Free Will
Not to be used like currency
On hypochondriacs needing placebo sugar pill.

Problem with this thing called Free Will
Is that we can use it however we please
To help, to hurt, to hound
To turn a frown upside down
Thence to cry foul when Free Will wastes
Wounds, wrecks, and rebounds.

Thought is to think
What foul is to stink,
And Free Will is tied to - and tried by - Responsibility.

You know right from wrong -
It is written in your Code
So living like a Lush in lard will clog up Free Will and
Waste your Living Soul.

Okay. Let us think this through once more!

I don't meant to be a bore
But Free Will wastes if used solely on food 'n mood!
Food fattens off a feed!
Mood maddens off a need!
And Greed is Old Satan's pet steed!

Everything about Freewill is summed up this way:

Food - either for the body, or for the soul.
Give The Giver your Will and
He'll guide your Way
Fill your Soul
And the needs of your Body
Will be met under His loving control!

Free will
Self will
Won't Self set free.
Pray to The Father
Get on the knee
Deny your Self
Put your "wise ways" on the shelf
Do it willingly
And then - by God's Grace - you will be set free.

WILL means:

W hat

I

L ove, I

L oad - Good in bowl - Bad for the soul!

Just Because You Didn't 

Pay A Penny 'n a Pound

For 

Your Free Will

It Doesn't Mean You Should 

Sell IT To Sin 'n Satan for a (s)Cent!

Take the "I" out of WILL and add an "L" and it now means:

W illingly

L etting the

L ord

L ead.

Let us All strive to 

DAILY

let 

Our Almighty God 

LEAD US

to True Liberty by 

GIVING
or

RETURNING 

or

TURNING OVER

our 

FREE WILL

to 

Him!