A Spiritual Success!

Grace And Blessings

Are Placed In The Hands Of Those

Who Will

Faithfully Honor Jesus Christ 

The Only Holy Deity

The Lord Of Life!

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Two Tables Of The Law! 

Two Chambers Of The Heart!
The Law Of The Lord Eternal
Is
Written Upon The Heart
And, From Thence
We Should Never Let It Depart!

Those Who Will To Follow Christ
Will Follow His Direction
And
Seeing In Their Characters Things Objectionable
Will Seek Avidly
- Under The Direction Of The Holy Spirit -
To Make The Necessary Corrections!

No Man Woman Child
Who Truly Walks With The Lord
Can Stay Unchanged In His Presence
And
For This Very Reason

We Seriously Need To Look 

To Correct Those Things That Are Not Right 

In Ourselves
If
We Have No Desire For The Lord
In The Judgment Hour
To Look Upon Us In Rejection
In Abhorrence!

If You Love Me

Keep My Commandments!

Is What The Savior Says!

Take My Yoke Upon You

And Learn Of Me

For

I Will Lead You On The Path Of Truth

On The Straight And Narrow Way!

Brethren, Beloved
Please Listen Unto Me ...

Truth In The Inward Parts
Causes The Devil
From You, To Flee
So
Take In The Good Word
Morning Evening
Noon And Night
And
Be Blessed With All Blessing
And
Blessed
The Lord God Holy ... To Delight!

Please Make Every Effort

To Shun Evil Companions!
Bad Language: It Must Be Disdained!
Idle Gossip: Put It Away From You
And
Daily Invite Jesus Christ The Lord
To Lord O'er You!
The Direction Is Plain!

Be Not As Those Who Are Profane!

God Almighty 

Is 

For You!
No Created Being Can Pluck You From His Hand!
No Weapon Formed Against You Shall Prosper

And
No Enemy Will Over You Take Command
If
Jesus Christ The Righteous
Is 

Holding Your Trusting, Though Trembling, Hand!

Fear Not!
Fear Not!Fear Not!
Is
The Lord's Oft Repeated Refrain! 

Please Take It To Heart!
Raise Up The Banner!

And
Sing The Songs Of Zion!

Let Your Soul Be Christ's To Command!

Jesus Christ
Is
The Rock
The Shepherd Of Rest
And
Judah's Conquering Lion

And
By Him
With Him
In Him
You Will Pass 

The-Way-Of-Salvation
Despised-By-The-World
Hated-By-Satan Test!

All Will Be Well
And
You Will Be Gloriously Blessed

And
Marked 

- By He Who Alone Matters -

A True Spiritual Success!

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!

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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