A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.  It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will it to his heart.  Sorrow is better than laughter for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.  Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 

The life and words of Solomon confound me at times.  A man with such liberal understanding of life, having experienced every facet to his nth degree, displays the spectrum of moods and musings.  Ecclesiastes may be interpreted as the “The Preacher”, an acceptable perspective when reviewing the Holy Spirit’s teaching in this robust book on wisdom, patience, reputation and the cost of hubris.  Review of the life of this man chosen by God, brings perspective to humanly pursuits, painting all our worldly quests, victories and achievements “vanity”.

Must every good intention born of my own volition produce naught but folly and conceit?  If we are to accept this book as the Holy Truth consistent in the Bible’s entirety then we must accept that there is no way to “explain away” or justify our own, good intentioned but frankly naive campaigns, if they be outside the Sovereign Will, Authority and Direction of God through Christ Jesus.  Solomon is painstakingly clear that the wicked and the good both face the ravages of time and chance.  What then explains the conflict between a successful king run by shame and misery and an impoverished wise man filled with joy?  It is the same discernment each of us faces whether to choose worldly riches or priceless wisdom.  For if the same pressures of death and time await all then how that time or death is met is the measure of success.

For those who proclaim science as their master hoping to explain themselves to peace, I pose the following unexplainable quandary;  Why do the lost face death in fear and disquiet while the saved approach it in quiescence and joy?  For those who have “experienced” that moment when each of us faces the mutual departure, death, none can account for that inexplicable disharmony without broaching the taboo of the existence of God.  The scientist is doomed to find God through just pursuit in his attempts to explain Him away.  This is irony in the midst of folly.  For my reputation is best served in service to God’s Will.  Pursuit of my own pursuits however noble end in the vanity of my own passing, whose benefits are observed by another in my absence.  And to those who have lived amongst the saved, an seen first hand the wisdom that comes even in poverty, I say this you have seen Christ in all His majesty.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

Growth and growing up.  Are they the same thing?  Are they interdependent?  The Lord’s calls us to both but are they truly separate segments of learning?  The Bible is clear on both.  First look at the concept of “growing up”, becoming an adult, maturing in to a “well rounded” person.  In 1Corinthians 13:11, the Lord uses Paul to remind us of these necessary changes, “When I was a child, I talked as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  I when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”

What could be so attractive to me about being childish, perhaps the lack of accountability, that it would continually drive me to deliberate and unconscious actions associated with the behaviors of a child?  Is there some endemic safety in reactionary behavior or shedding responsibility which makes it a desirable place to reside in time of trouble.  Frequently I hear the naivete defense used to exculpate responsible parties from the consequences.  The “I don’t know” or “didn’t know” excuse is so commonly used that it has become laughably the first expected response whether chief executive or child.  It must work and that is why they keep using it.  I wish that weren’t the truth, but my hoping that is the case does not make it so.

Thinking as a child when one is an adult is extremely dangerous practice.  Typically excuses significantly amplify or magnify the ramifications of wrong doing.  Ordinary behavior in the mainstream is blame, deny, obfuscate and deflect.  Very rarely are we counseled to just tell the truth anymore, we are now counseled to do anything but.  Perhaps they are removing Bibles from the swearing in process because no one could possibly be expected to make an oath for which they have no intention of complying.  This is the price of immaturity.  That is intensified in Christianity, because for someone to develop a mature faith they must first and foremost accept, adopt/practice truth and personal accountability.  It is impossible for a Christian to lie when they know that God sees all that they do or have done.  It is also impossible for Christians to shirk accountability as the Bible distinctly defines the responsibility for each Christian when infractions occur.

Utilizing childish techniques or escapism or prevarication are unacceptable for Christians.  This is a practice meant for the world of men and friendship with the world is enmity with God.  We cannot hope to mimic worldly practices and expect to achieve any freedom, acquittal or fellowship with God.  Being honest even in the face of personal loss or recrimination is admirable in Christianity.  We should not be tied to the circumstances but to how God will view and judge each or our thoughts, words and actions.  Growing up and growing are both necessary to mature faith in Christ Jesus.  We must first grow up and realize we need Him before we can grow in faith that He will deliver us from all unrighteousness.

It has been roughly two thousand years since our Lord came to us, defeating sin and death, providing an avenue for the salvation of every human.  It has been roughly one nano second since I have been challenged with thoughts of my sin and the difficulties in capturing/managing my thoughts and actions.  It has been roughly two hundred years since a group of people got together, defining a new nation that was supposed to be different than any historical republic in its ability to adhere to righteous principles defined by God.  It was roughly one week later that we began to influence and corrupt that foundation to conform to our own desires, morals and wishes.  Is there something for which close is not good enough?

I have roughly been a good Christian, in that I don’t cheat, steal or commit murder/adultery.  Just as roughly implies limited accuracy or precision, I have always come close to the mark or roughly became what I was supposed to become.  What is that missing statistic, that range of imperfection, that zone of incompleteness that keeps me from the bulls-eye?  The margin for error is where I reside in my unwillingness to surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Six can never become seven.  It is representative of the “roughly” category in which man attempts to reach God through his own means.  I can never reach perfection.  Even if I were to maximize my gifts, talents, treasure, philanthropy and psychology it is a destination that will forever remain roughly unachievable.  Roughly the reason for my misery is that I have never fully accepted the necessity for surrender.

There are many things that I would be okay with just coming close; my job, my house, my car, my relationships, none of these require perfection.  I would be okay with a house that almost met all my needs or a car that had everything but was not the right color, but not so with my relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ.  To be with Him, I must surrender to His changing hand to become like Him.  And He is perfect, so becoming like Him requires that I give way to that perfect hand in His ability to conform me to His likeness.  I cannot achieve it.  I cannot stand being roughly, sort of or almost like Him.  The only path to reaching that goal is through surrendering to His hand.  Therefore my unwillingness to surrender is the “real enemy”.  Sure the voices of the Lord’s enemies will always seek to capitalize on my rebellion, assisting me in turning away from God’s Will, but it was me who displayed the disobedience at the outset.

Father I pray for an obedient heart.  I pray that you build in me a disgust for “roughly” achieving Your Will and Blessing.  Make in me a heart that refuses to accept any thing less than complete surrender to Your Perfection.  Deliver me from dependence upon anything but You, even when that foundation is my own strength.  Make of me Your Perfect creation so that You may delight in the Work of Your Hands.  Give to me a submissive spirit.  I love you and do not want to miss the mark.  Let my flight be true.  In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

Regret is entirely associated with action not taken until “then”.  Now is the time for realizing the moment in which we find ourselves.  Now is the time to love our families, friends and neighbors because then may never come.  Now is the time for trial and relief, bringing us closer to resemblance to Christ Jesus.  Now is the time for study, prayer, struggle and works bubbling up from our hearts filled with gratitude for the blessings we were freely handed.  We see evidences, impacts and costs of waiting until “then” to take a conscience or Spirit evoked action in the faces, mourns and laments of those who did not take those actions while “now” existed.  I pity those who mourn and mourn with them for their loss, but I also reflect on what created that loss, the fact that they did not value what they had when it stood, walked or vied for their attention in the “now”.  We are to come to the Lord with a spirit of “thanksgiving” always appreciating the enormity of His grace and “soberly” reflecting upon the times in which we find ourselves participating.

This world does not want truth.  We all know that there are extremists of every order attempting to campaign their abhorrent views into the norm of acceptable morals through effective media strategy and tactics.  We see that power corrupts, greed is poisonous, sexual promiscuity is immoral, it is wrong to kill the innocent and that it is right to pursue righteous living, but we exceed to these campaigns labeling all these things acceptable.  We praise terrorists as “freedom fighters” without looking at their motivations or their “charter” documents, something we would never do when looking to align ourselves with any club, company or social experiment.  We support people that we know are wrong, giving them the benefit of the doubt in hopes that they may somehow correct their continued malfeasance and allow us to eventually proclaim our absolution from poor judgment.  What happened to choosing someone to represent us based on evidence of the proven “character” and good judgment?

Look the signs are self-evident just as the budding of trees and the greening of grasses is predictive of Springs arrival or the falling leaves and chill are signal of winters promise.  For those who are sitting on the watchtower as we have been commanded; typically globally we have roughly 200, 2.5 or greater magnitude earthquakes per week.  That number conspicuously jumped last month to 300 per week and this week has now eclipsed 400.  Volcanic activity has trebled in the past year.  Storms are getting more ferocious in their life taking ability and the enemy embroils us in a conversation about global warming as the cause to obfuscate the real reason, God’s warning of coming judgment.

The social paradigm is ripe for wickedness.  A clear separation between believers and those who worship the various gods of this world has never been so precise.  The climate for a global religion for “tolerance” and acceptance of every road as a path to God exists for perhaps the first time in the history of mankind.  The groundwork for one-world government has been fostered, tended and promoted in acceptability by our leaders for the past century and is now approaching reality.  Soon, like false prophets there will arise a leader so clinically impactful and authoritative in his delivery of the words “itching ears” wish to hear that they will proclaim him messiah.  Very shortly it will become impossible to live outside of the rules of this collective agreement the foundation for unions both civil and private.  Those who will not participate, any group who is prohibited from following these guidelines by the commands of their God, namely Christians and Jews will be targeted for widespread conversion, persecution/prosecution or termination.  It is surprising to see the Jewish Nation playing right into the hands of this folly as they know the horrific reality of this episode more clearly than any group in history.

What we do now defines what can be done then.  Concentration on the now allows us to rejoice then.  Rejoicing now allows us peace and contentment then.  Praise now leads to adoration and faith then.  Faith now pleases God now and assures eternal relationship then.  Belief, prayer and action now leads to the absence of regret then.  The question remains will we live now or wish for life then.  The Kingdom of God IS COME, it is now and will be then and forever thereafter.  Embrace it now and live abundantly regardless of circumstance or episode.  Praise You Father for Your Eternal Righteousness and Truth.  Jesus is God come to us because we could not save ourselves from sin and death, so He conquered them to demonstrate His love for us.  That is worth rejoicing for Now.

https://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/prayerandcounseling/intercession/Hickey_PrayerFasting06a.aspx  What one Christian columnist says about the power of prayer and fasting.

http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/10-awesome-bible-verses-about-the-power-of-prayer/  A Christian Bloggers view of Prayer

http://bible.org/question/what-does-bible-say-about-fasting  Analysis of Prayer and Fasting in the Bible.

The power of each Christian resides in the indwelling of Spirit.  Each time God is glorified through our actions it is achieved through His prompting, through His energy and in His authority.  Prayer is answered either in the manifestation of a particular request, the release from an encumbering circumstance or the achievement of a particular objective through the Grace of God.  The action of petitioning the Lord for resolution is an act of Faith in His Promises to answers those requests.  As faith is the belief in things not yet seen.

Prayer is also demonstrated obedience to the Lord’s direction as He commands us to “pray without ceasing”.  Believers are encouraged, comforted, relieved and empowered through prayer.  Spending time with the Father in prayer builds relationship with the Lord Almighty.  Considering all the benefits of prayer it is the chief assault point of God’s enemies.  If all relationship, empowerment, confirmation, encouragement, faith and fellowship occur while in prayer the enemy must prohibit that time and action at any cost.  So be advised, expect your prayer time to be a battle with the powers and principalities of the heavenly realms, in their attempt to curtail your prayer life.  No wonder the Christian community has lost the Power and Authority of Holy Spirit of God considering our prayer lives have been reduced to paltry moments of acknowledgement and requests.  Those who live in victory are always prayer warriors, spending committed time seeking the Lord’s counsel in humility.

What about fasting?  So many out there today deny its place or potency in the Christian paradigm, but few will argue the clarity and breakthrough moments they have experienced in fasting.  Self control is one of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit.  Have control over your actions is evidence of the presence of Spirit.  Food is one of those things that typically exerts control over every person.  Hunger pangs visit each of us signifying the bodies requirement for or craving for sustenance.  Fasting in order to humble one self in an exercise of worship to the Lord is not required but sure does have a lasting effect on our prayer life.  The power to fast typically generates the desire to pray and the willingness to ask for His intervention and strength to complete the fast.  Fasting takes the dependence off of the material and places that dependence on the authority of God.  Additionally, when you give up anything for a period of time in recognition of a desire to become closer to God, then for at time, the importance of the object of abnegation decreases in precedence.  Basically we are saying that Lord we love You so much that there shall be “No Thing” that will stand between us.  Again, as in prayer fasting is a manifestation/demonstration of faith.  Faith remains a concept unless there is evidential action.

So much is written about works in the Bible as confirmation of our belief in God.  Let us for a moment analyze the intrinsic truth housed in that philosophy.  Hate does not sponsor a desire to do good.  Greed does not create generosity.  Gluttony does not enhance our willingness to take care of the needs of others.  Anger does not bring someone to readily forgive one’s enemies and adultery does not breed patience, kindness and selflessness.   The presence of God in a person’s life and the subsequent thankfulness sponsors a desire to give back.  Since we cannot give to God directly, He provides us the way to demonstrate our gratefulness and love by giving to those whom He loves.  Without faith it is impossible to please God, so Prayer, Fasting and Giving are all pleasing to God as they are manifestation of Faith.

Lord, forgive me for my paltry prayer life, my unwillingness to fast and my lack of works done out of thanks.  Make me an avid and mature prayer warrior.  Call my heart to fast in honor of Your Glory and as a means to draw nearer to Your Grace.  Make my works sincere, upwelling out of an abundant heart, bubbling to the surface refreshing those around me through their momentary reflection upon the origin of their blessings.  Praise God in all His Glory.  Jesus My King.

Father, the weight upon my mind has become burdensome.  There are things that I have been attempting to carry without asking you for assistance and direction.  The storm looms and my brothers and sisters still frolic as if these signs indicate nothing.  Christian people are clamoring to have one more hoorah, one more sightseeing tour, one more slice of cake, leaving nothing for Kingdom Work.  I am not a clanging pot, yet I feel the urge to cry, scream, shake them awake to the darkened horizon and the need for repentance, prayer and re-dedication.  The blossoms have bud and the fig tree is fixing ripen.  Now is the time for harvest and preparation for winter.  What has occurred that so many believers do not see the evidence in the truth of Your Predictive Warning?

War’s and rumors of wars.  Natural disasters consistent with a planet that is burdened with sin and ready for the physician.  Lawless people wanted the restraining influences of law, truth and moral controls removed so that abandon may thrive.  A new breed of wickedness that demands peace at the cost of all reason and sensibility.  A peace that means they get what they want and no one has anything to say about it.  This is not peace this is liberalism bordering on anarchy.  Peace is not possible, just as love is not possible without the Prince of Peace and a Loving God.  How long can this thirst for wickedness prevail before You bring judgment to this guilty world?  Your enemies thrive and mock You Lord.  I know that Your timing is perfect and that You will allow this to go on only as long as there one heart remains reserved for You.  Please forgive me for relying upon my own strength in attempting to tolerate this wickedness.  I am thankful for Your disciplining hand as many will come to know Your Love through the catalysts You are about to provide.

Bless Your Mighty Name and Praise You for Your Wisdom, Righteousness, Glory and Patience.  Remake my heart to Your Good Pleasure.  God Be Praised in Jesus’ Holy Name.  Amen.

What are my options?  Let us review.  I am a proud citizen of a blessed nation who has either forgotten or chosen to depart from its Judeo-Christian heritage.  Our government, once the model for a world full of despots, kings and tyrants has now become so corrupt that it suffers from dyslectic amnesia.  Trust withered, faith shaken and conscience seared people are left fending for “Self”, bereft of the collective sense of duty and community.  Women, full of fear, fall pray to the paralyzing prison of private depression, taken out of the game by the false safety of personal retreat.  Once strong men, stand palsied, captured by the latest whim of marketing, unable to lead, destined to follow the most prolific bully or nightmarish character.  Children so afraid of the encroachments of their own governing bodies that they fail to speak out against infraction, keeping their wounds in private, knowing fully that telling the truth would be far more costly.  Brothers who have forgotten loyalty, dedication and righteousness.  Sisters that seek fulfillment through temporary victories of beauty and possession rather than the timeless wealth of family, tradition and lasting legacy.

What lay on the spectrum of rational choices propagated by extremism, lunacy and wrong thinking?  Where does the conscious man philosophically reside?  How does one balance one’s call to duty for a nation departed from the underpinnings that make service sensible?  How would a man speak out without being labeled, seditious, alienating friends, family and compatriots?  Is there a way to “fly under the radar”, the current mantra being mumbled by the disenchanted, or will the meek become fodder for the powerful as they have throughout our transgressive history?  Should a man take stance regardless of implication or sacrifice?  What would be the cost for standing in the path of greed, false teaching, subversion and wickedness?  Even my Christian brothers have lost heart refusing to place faith in the Sovereignty of God.

Perhaps this is the Glory of God’s Plan?  A design so perfect that it creates impetus in each heart as we are faced with the decisions of protecting our positions or standing up for righteousness and truth.  What will we do when faced with that moment where we could have made a difference?  Will we melt into mediocrity letting the chips fall where they may or be remembered as the guy who defied the apparently insurmountable?  This conflict although internal, faces all of us.  Our collective conversations indicate that we all face the same internal struggle.  Everyone one around me is conflicted and this, my friends is a good thing.  Without conflict there can be no resolution.  Without friction there can be no torque, horse power or finish line.  Change is guaranteed, peace must be bought and maintained with intention.  Status quo is unsustainable.  We are perched upon the fulcrum or competing influences, teetering between opposing realities. left with the choices or capitulation or sacrifice.  Inaction provides temporary relief balancing between possibilities, weight compensating, temporarily avoiding the inevitable.  But this is a story with only two possible or probable outcomes, agonizing over, ignoring or refusing to make a choice will not alleviate the consequences.

I choose Christ and all that this choice means, regardless of the personal implication.  May He be followed, praised and glorified.  Amen.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2390419343001/jerusalem-mayor-on-russias-role-in-syrian-conflict/?intcmp=HPBucket&playlist_id=922779230001  Israel resolute, Jerusalem prepared for God and Russia making its position clear.

Where have I gone when called to speak?  Why do I lay in comfort when every fiber of my spirit cries, “Stand”?  What has become of my will to honestly declare, “no, that is wrong, and I will have nothing to do in supporting it”?  Why do I look away when I see the storm on the horizon, knowing fully well what the clouds portend?  How do I reconcile my unwillingness to study, know, declare and prepare for what God’s Prophets and the Lord Himself have said are next for humanity?  I cannot question the motivation of a man because I cannot see into your heart, I can only guess because I see the self-serving tendencies within my own breast.  But, know this that the Lord sees all.  Fear that moment when those eyes of fire review directly, every moment of our existence, speech and action and your fear of anything in this world will become nil.

Russia has now taken an open role of opposition to Israel.  They no longer work solely behind the scene to foster a culture of subversion to God’s people, but now choose openly, to act in a style of aggression that lays bare their true intention.  Do we know Psalm 83 and Isaiah 17-19, where God foretells what will surely and quickly come to pass?  Or do we wish to remain ignorant hoping that our naivete and refusal to admit will somehow delay the inevitability of prophecy?  Soon, a select group of Israel’s neighbors will make the ill advised and percussive mistake of threatening and attacking Israel.  This will end in the Nation defeating them handily and subsequently capturing/absorbing a greater territory, previously given them by the Lord Almighty.  That episode will set a countdown to the circumstances depicted in Ezekiel 38 and 39 where Russia, joined and empowered by a greater coalition of nations will enter the Land to take what we perceive as “bounty”.  These are not my thoughts, my words, my predictions.  I make no claim to have specific insight in these occurrences, I am simply declaring the Word of God from old.  That we have any recent insight into these things at all, has in itself been foretold in Daniel, because the Holy Spirit of God has revealed these things to the beloved.

Prepare your minds and hearts to receive the indwelling of Spirit.  Take the stand when Spirit directs to declare to the masses the Righteousness of God.  Warn those who would be eternally separated from the Father, that salvation is near and judgment follows.  Make it known to all what is soon come to pass as evidence of your reliance upon the perfection, truth and accuracy of God’s Word.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the Lord.  So seek the answers in scripture, as you need not be ignorant or led astray by false prophets.  My hope is in the God who saved me and His redemptive authority over all that exists, including sin and death.  Rejoice for salvation is come, in Christ the King, Jesus our Lord will soon arrive to accept His rightful place upon the throne of humanity, for ever and ever.  I cannot wait for that day, but if I must Lord, please equip me to handle all that comes my direction.  Empower me to act, speak and wait in tandem with Your Will.  Praise Your Holy Name.  Amen.

The Glory of God’s plan brought us back into relationship with our Creator through the Divine Personality of Christ.  He made it possible after separation in the garden to once again have fellowship with the Almighty, growing in faith and resemblance.  How is it now that we have been given that greatest possible gift that we find ourselves so far away from God?  This distinct distance is measurable in all today’s top stories.  We no longer trust our leaders to do the right thing but rather cling to hope that their transgressions will have limited impact upon our status quo.

Our disconnection from the Lord is so complete, no longer is it socially/morally acceptable to hold someone to honest accountability.  Our leaders no longer accept responsibility for their direction.  They dismissively sacrifice the reputations of those around them on the alters of power preservation.  The term public servant no longer means what it represents because apart from God “there can be no truth”.  Service to self is now acceptable practice.  Our faith in egalitarian selflessness has eroded displaying the loam upon which our house of cards resides.  The people of the Earth have become more like their true father, the god of this world.  Having abandoned God we now seek satisfaction in the unreliable.

The Glory of God is that this is all recoverable.  Our distance from God has been closed by His visitation.  He comes to us when we reach out in humility asking for forgiveness and a return to relationship.  I pray Father that my Brothers and Sisters caught up in the deception of this world see the cost of eternal separation and throw themselves upon Your immutable Mercy and Grace.  There is nothing in this world that may be taken with us when we leave this life why then do we cling to it so?  Please allow us to see the error of our departure from Your Truth and Light.  Let us again see the Brilliance of Your Glory as it illuminates the path to Righteousness leading to the foot of Your Throne.  Jesus Be Praised for ever.  Amen.

Be careful or you too will risk being led astray.  These are dangerous times where opposing influences revel in each heart or mind that they capture through deception, false teaching or corruption.  Have you looked around you recently to see all of the earthly gods of money, job, sex and adventure vying for your time, loyalty and attention?  If those who have seen Almighty God, as Solomon did, fell pray to these foreign influences even after being specifically warned then what hope shall any of us possess outside of God’s direction?  We both know the answer.  So check your heart, capture your thoughts and pray that the Holy Spirit of God protects us from all stimuli seeking our deception.

Are we the elect?  Do you know that you are headed to heaven, certain of your salvation, sealed by the Holy Spirit of God to be among the raptured?  Or is something in your life between you and God, prohibiting that relationship from blossoming?  It may be an unbelieving man or woman, who holds your love, leading down a path that you would otherwise have avoided.  Perhaps the dreams of success, whether job or competition calls you to dedicate your time, talent and resources to something other than Kingdom pursuits?  Maybe it is fear of being abandoned that keeps you standing among peers for which you were never intended, grasped by the false agony of potential loss.  Or worse yet perhaps it this new global voice of tolerance, asking you to be rational and voice opinions contrary to God’s Word in hope of being accepted.  Whatever the influences, beware the false gods of this world.  Anything that leads you outside of God’s Will or draws your energy away from what you know must be done is anti Christ.  Remember these are spirits not humans and their weapons are lies, fear, deception and promise of satiated desire.

I see these influences competing daily for my limited attention.  I am not saying that I always succeed in doing the right thing.  That is not a requirement for being a citizen of the Kingdom.  However, capturing thoughts, repenting and turning away from sin and not returning to wickedness are expected of Christians.  But we humans will certainly continue to fail, even when we are certain of our strength.  I wish to encourage you to turn to the Lord in repentance and truth.  Ask God for forgiveness, accept it and then ask Him to change your heart, thoughts and actions.  He will make you a new creature, you have but to surrender to His awesome, shaping Hand.  There is nothing each of us has done that He does not know from the beginning of time.  He knows yet He still listens and forgives.  I will never be worthy of such love and acceptance.  Thank God, I don’t have to be.  You are my Lord, the one and only God of all universes.  Besides You there is no other.  You are worthy, You are righteous, You are Eternity and everything lays before and beyond.  Praise You Father in the name of Your Son, King Jesus, Amen.