i meet a lot of people living in this city. sometimes i just meet them, and i can't wait to get away from them. there are those that you meet, and think that i might want to get to know them more. then there are the few,........very few that you bond on up with them. something just clicks, and you just know that they are a good person,
then there are those you simply meet by chance. when i say by chance, i'm talking about they do a different business than you do, at the same place. this had being said, the main character of my blog comes into play.
two or three times a week i have to ride one bus to another bus stop, and wait for another one to reach my projected goal. i always catch the other bus in front of a hospital. one day while i was sitting there waiting on the other bus to arrive, a man approached me.
now, please keep in mind that there are some folks out here crazier than i am!! hard to believe ain't it? the best way that i've learned to deal with them is to act as if everybody i meet, is to just give then the benefit of doubt that they are sane. you might as well, because if they are not shooting with a full clip,..............it don't take long to detect it.
one day i met this old man. he was putting out religious tracks on the bus stop for people to read. he took the time to talk with me. he seemed kinda pushy with his direct line of questioning. this dude was getting down to the nitty gritty with a quickness.,
he asked me, what i did for a living, where i lived, and all kind of personal questions. i was fixing to tell him that i would no longer answer any personal questions, because it was none of his damn business about my life!! then he started talking about church. where do you attend? do you go ever Sunday? and blah, blah, and such in such. this old man was a talker. he must be used to entertaining himself, because you can't get a word in edgewise!!
then he told me that he was a member of the First Baptist church. immediately he got my sympathy, because you know how i feel about that church in particular. i then thought of him as the poor old man out doing the work of our Lord. he's probably being deceived like a lot of their good members.
anyway,...............time is passing, and it seems that almost every time i go to that bus stop the old man walks up. he is becoming a nuisance now. he must have Alzheimer disease, because every time that he meets me he acts like it is his first time. all the same question every time. i've got where i avoid him when i can. after all, he really is an older gentleman, and deserves a certain amount of respect. at least that how i was raised up to act. you always showed respect for your elders.
well the other day i was at that bus stop. i was waiting with several other people that day, and up comes ink-a-bod. that's what i call him, though every time he shows up he tells me his name. i can't remember who is for nothing!!
anyway,.......i felt kind of safe that day, because there were so many that he could talk with. i just assumed that he wouldn't even give me the time of day.
by now y'all ought to know that I'm curious by nature. that's my polite way of saying at times i get nosy as hell!! I'm probably the only one that gets that way at times. i know that none of my readers would ever be that way!!
i started listening to the way the old man approached every person. it was the exact same way that he always talked to me. he simply can't speak to a person without getting personal. maybe some Christians feel like they are justified to approach folks in this manner, and because of his age people allow him to continue.
either way i kept listening to his words. he was inviting people to his church. you know, that's OK, because he believes that people need to attend a good bible believing church. i thank it's a damn shame that he don't attend one like that, but in his mind i think that he does believe that he does.
i can't say what really happened to change the old mans words at that time, but for some reason he started saying very loudly one point: the Jews accidentally killed Jesus!! if they had know who He was, they would never have murdered Him!
now,..........quickly my opinion of him just being and old man out doing the work of our Lord changed, into a heretic,out blaspheming the word of God!! i decided that i would not blow his cover unless he came straight to me with that lie.
well,.........you guess it,..........he did come straight to me, and i had to blast his little boat of lies right out of the water!!
i said, do you really believe what your saying? the old man replies that is what the Bible says. i went on to say, that Jesus was prophesied back in the old testament in the Bible to come to earth, and the Jews would crucify Him. the Jews didn't kill Him!! He gave His life up by the will of the Father!! nobody murdered Jesus!! furthermore, there were no accidentals in the Bible!! there were no random, or chance happening's in the Bible!! everything was already planned out by the Father before the foundations of the earth were formed.
i went on to tell him that he needed to get his act together before continuing to spread lies about the Bible. he said that he had his act together, no,............no you don't i replied.
i must have gave him something to think about, because he quickly scampered a cross the street, and disappeared. i've also noticed that every time i'm waiting on a bus at that stop, that he is avoiding me now, and that's probably a good thing. he wont even walk 50 foot towards my direction.
now,.........i am a firm believer in the Bible. i believe every word that it says. i don't understand every word, but i believe it as the truth!! i am a Christian. i know that I'm not a good Christian though. i don't claim to be a good Christian either. Jesus was all about love, and truth. i believe that anyone that goes out witnessing to others about Jesus, should at least tell the truth!!
yep,.................that's right,....................that's my story,............and i'm stickin' to it!!
..........much love
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