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Monday, July 29, 2013

Propaganda?

I have been looking at a lot of things, which concern the end of time, or the last days. The truth is that, there is so much information out there, that it can be pretty over-whelming. I know that the ultimate guide, when studying these issues, is the Bible. Honestly, I am not a Bible scholar. I never went to seminary, or any college to study the Bible. There are times, which it does leave me at a disadvantage, when I am writing. Those are the times, that I am letting my flesh, get the best of me.
I must admit that I like to write the story, which makes me feel, as I have accomplished something. I am not trying to fool anybody, into thinking that I am a scholar. I just wasn’t to be well informed, about the post that I publish each day. In my experience as the writer of this blog, I have come to realize a few things.
The first thing is, there is a lot of propaganda on the internet. Everything that we find on the web is not necessarily truth. A lot of subjects can be proven, by both schools of thought, to be the truth.
Maybe it is the fact that I grow weary in my quest, and walk away. Let’s take for instance this subject. I typed into my search engine this question.  “Is the United States the Babylon in the Bible?” I thought that was a fair question, and just assumed, there would be only one answer. Now out of roughly, one half a million opportunities, that I had in which to choose the answer, that I thought was best, I stayed on the first page.
Out of the first ten, seven of the answers were no, and the other three were yes. Each one said that they could prove that their answer was the right one. The bad part is that I have spent a lot of time, watching videos depicting, that the United State is the Babylon of the Bible. Honestly, the lifestyle that Americans live is close enough to make a person wonder.
There comes a time in each one of our lives, which we will have to decide, the answer to the question that Pilate asked. (John 18:38)  What is truth? The truth is a hard item to find in most places. In the courtroom when giving testimony, we are to swear to tell the truth. Even though, we place our hand, on the Bible and swear to tell the truth, often times, it is not hard to tell, when a person is lying.
Is the truth what we are doing, while we are telling, little white lies? If those are white, then what color are the rest of them? Back in my day, I could tell you a whole rainbow of lies!!      Moving on….
I love Jesus!! He was a very radical person. There was a statement that He made, that was severe, cutting edge stuff!! John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Is that radical or what? Can you imagine a person making a statement like that? Jesus showed up on the scene, proclaiming to be the Son of God, and making a statement like that. I can tell you right now, there was a reason that I was not around, while Jesus was walking on the earth. I would have been an excellent Pharisee, and nothing would slide by me!!
Two thousand and thirteen years after the fact, I am good with it!! Do you want to know how good, that I am? I have put all my eggs in one basket. I have pushed, all my chips, into the middle of the table. I have hopped off the fence, and I have placed my very soul, into the hands of Jesus. I am sold out!!
I believe every word that Jesus says. I accept Him as the only way, for my life. I accept Jesus as the only, solid, truth, which I will never find to be, in a compromising situation. Since I’ve known Him, for a couple days in my life, He is life, and life more abundant!! I truly understand what He meant, by saying those words.
Do you understand what it really means to fully take this word from Jesus? There are a lot of things in the world today, which are being disguised as fun. It does have an edge, or hint of fun at it, but it is nothing but white wash. The first time that it gets wet, it starts to show the true color that was hidden underneath.
I believe that one verse is a map to our Salvation. We were all born with something inside of us missing. It is not a defect, but a choice mechanism. There is something missing, and we have the choice of filling it with what is missing. We often try to fill it with all kinds of things that just don’t work.
Jesus tells us that He is the way. We have a lot of different choices, of the way that we are going to go. What makes Jesus the right choice? Where is His way going to lead us?
Jesus is the only choice that will fit into this missing area within us. He is the perfect fit. If we try to stuff anything else inside of us, it creates pain. The second question is a great question!! Jesus is leading us back to the Father, Our Creator!! We have been lost, or separated from Father by sin. Jesus has a solution. Don’t you love a plan when it comes together?
Jesus is truth. Every Word of Jesus is truth. Jesus can’t lie, because there is no deception to be found in Him. If we trust Him, as the only way. We should have little trouble trusting Him as the truth, but we often do. We are like Peter. We take our eyes off of Jesus, and immediately start sinking!! However, Jesus is always there with His hands stretched towards you, beckoning you to grab ahold.
It is funny how we perceive the notion at we are alive, when we really didn’t have anything to compare with. Once you accept Jesus. I guess that I need to make this very personal. Once I really accepted Jesus, as the way, and the truth, only then did I receive life. I am always seeing how, that I was totally dead without Him. Paul was very accurate when he said that we were dead in our sin. Romans 8:10  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. I did not even have a clue what life was about, or how good that it can be.
            ……..Much Love

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