Living By Faith!?!

I Was Wandering
In A Daze
In Philosophy's Convulsing Maze
Looking For Already Biblically Provided Answers
When
My Eyes Started To Glaze!

I Called Out In Terror!

Suddenly ...

There One Stood
AND 
In Pitying Love, Said:

Dear Beloved,
I AM The Door!
I Gifted You With Faith!
Exercise It
And Walk Safely Through!
The Way Is Sure!

He Made It Sound Ever So Easy!

For Very Long
AND
Like So Many
I'd Had An Intellectualized Faith
Wearing It
As A Badge Of Honor
Wearing It
Like A Cape
Satisfied
To Be Called A Faithful One
BUT
Never Having Displayed Its Fruit
For
My Reading
AND
My Reasoning
Did Not Philosophically Compute!

I Had Not Understood
That Exercise Is To Faith
What A Spoon Is To Soup!

You Are Hungry!
You Have A Spoon!
AND
You Have A Bowl Of Vegetable Soup
BUT
If You Don't Believe 
It Is Hunger-Satisfying Vegetable Soup
AND
Put The Spoon Into The Soup
AND
Lift Up A Spoonful
AND
Place Same In Your Mouth
AND
Swallow The Contents Thereof
THEN
You Will Not Experience
Your Vegetable Soup's Benefits!
All You Will Have Is A No Score
AND
A Still Hungry Belly!

You Exercise!
You Have Received The Gift Of Faith!
BUT
If You Don't Exercise Faith
By Believing The Word Of The Giver
By Believing There Are Merits In The Gift
By Opening The Wrapped Gift
AND
Taking The Contents Out
AND
Using Them According To The Instructions
You Will Never Experience The Benefits Of
Free Mercy
AND
Daily Grace
Hope
Forgiveness
AND
Salvation
Which Are Irrevocably Tied
To The Exercise Of Faith!

Exercised Faith, To You
Would Be Just A Words
Falling Out Of Your Mouth!

All That We Have
- As Christians Called -
Without The Exercise Of Faith
ISA Mountain Goat
On A Short Rope
- That Is Wrapped Around Our Waists -
That Is Running From
A Roaring Ravening Man-Eater Lion!

Put Differently
We Have No Options!

With Exercised Faith
With Faith Exercised On
AND
In
Christ Jesus
We Have
Unexplored
Unexpected
Unanticipated
Untold
Unheard Of Options
Which Are Only Available
To Those Who
Will Believe The Word
AND
Look Up
To The Gift Giver
AND
Because Of Exercised Faith
LIVE!

Brethren,

I Encourage Us All
To Stop Living Dangerously
Riding Doubt
That Mountain Goat
On The Short Rope
AND
To Start Living Safely
As One Saved
By Exercising Our Gift Of Faith
For
By Exercise
Regular Exercise
Strenuous Exercise
- Exercise With Intent -
Our Gift Of Faith
Is The Gift
That Will
From The Here And Now
Through The Ceaseless Ages Of Eternity
Keep On Giving
And Giving
And Giving
And Giving
AND ... GIVING ...!

Live ... By Faith

And 

By Faith ... Really Live!

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The Sightless Eyes

Of

Faith

- In The Lord Jesus Christ -

Can The Clear Way To Live Life

Plainly See!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The Code Of God

Dear Pastor,
I Do Not Know Your Name!

Dear Pastor,
Your Christianity To Me Is Quite Strange!

Dear Pastor,
The Bible Is Not The Book Arcane
AND
Your Preaching Is Foolishness Writ Large!
Can You For Deceived Souls
Before God
Take The Eternal Blame
AND
The Eternal Shame?
Are You Of Heaven - As You Say - Really In Charge?

Philosophy Is Opinion Quite Grand!
Putting God Into It
Doesn't Change It From The Opinion Of Man!
Putting It In Church
Doesn't Bless It By God's Holy Hand
AND
Reviewing It In The Media Doesn't Give It Steady Legs
Upon Which To Grand Stand!

Jesus Saves!
Any Man Can That Understand!
Jesus Saves Man From Sin
Is Knowledge That Blesses
So Don't Hide It From Me
Saying That That Knowledge Is Too High For Me
AND
That It With My Pea-Brain Brain Messes!

Tell God's Truth!
My Brain Is The Same Size As Everybody's
So Don't Sell Me Down The River
Just Because Satan's Filthy Lucre's Wild
And Running
Fast Fit And Loose
To You Thou Fatted Goose!

You Have No Use For Heaven
AND
You Don't Want Me To Get In
So
Tell Me What I Did To You
AND
Why I Am Responsible For Your Sinning?

The Code Of The Living God
Requires My Coming Clean Before Him
Telling The Truth Of My Wicked Past
No Excuses Trivial Making!

God Requires Confession
AND
Repentance
For Our Not Walking In His Right Way
AND
Your Making The Living God A Liar
Is Not Going To Make God's Truth Go Away
Or Keep You Out Of Hell's Unquenchable Fire!

Almighty God Keeps Eternal Records
That You Can't On Your Computer Try To Delete!
You Can't Pay One Of God's Angel's To Change Them
Just Because
You Think That Almighty God Easily Tires and Sleeps!

The Book Of Life Bears The Names
Of All Who Accept Jesus' Sacrifice
Confessed Their Sins
Repented
AND
Received Forgiveness
From The Father For Them
BUT
The Book Of Remembrance Bears Record
Of All The Sins Of Men
Unforsaken
Unforgiven!

Dear Pastor,
I Know You!

Dear Pastor,
I Know Your Name
For
You Are Activated By Profit
AND
You Have No Shame!
The Profit You Covet
At The Cost Of Men's Souls
Will
- If You Don't Repent Of Your Gross Deceptions -
See You Dancing 
With Your Dying god Satan
Amongst The Burning Hot Coals!

P.S.:

Fire-Proof Suits Don't Work In God's Fire Lake
AND
Satan Who Deceives You
Cannot A Drop Of Water Give You
The Burning For To Slake

Sooo ...

Please Take A Page
From The Humble Christians' Ways To Please God Book!

Humble Christians
Who Know They Have Sinned!
Humble Christians 
Know They Need God
AND
They Tell God You're Sorry
For The Holy Way Having At Times Forsaken!

God's Plain Code For Living Life
AND
For Gaining Eternal Life
Is In The Preserved King James Bible
AND
Not In The Bible Written Suitable
For Your Benighted Penchant For Living
The Suite Sweet Life!

Almighty God Is The Eternal God

AND

He Has No Need 

To Constantly Have 

Carnal-minded Men 

Rewrite His Holy Word

To Make It 

Politically Correct

AND

Licentiously Current!

Stop Lying To God's People!