About me, thinking of me, more of me, poor me, can’t you see me, homage to me, just plain me.  Jesus didn’t give me a new life, cleansed of all unrighteousness to serve my own needs.  Yes, those are taken care of according to his grace, provision, protection and abundance, according to his riches and glory.  However, I was set free to offer the message of freedom to others so that they might receive rest.  If I continue to focus upon my needs as the driving influence of my existence, I will undoubtedly never find the skinny path I was meant to traverse.

Jesus, is God, was God and will always be God.  I know you hate him, I know you hate me for even mentioning him, but none of your adoration or hate makes his sovereignty any less the truth.   You see, Bob over there has his ideas, you have yours and the crowd outside is filled with opinions, some match but most are divergent.  How can they all be true?  You suggest that they all run along the same continuum, in parallel, never meeting, never cancelling each other out, that is in direct conflict with reason.  One thing occupies one space at one time for we are not spanning dimensions and time.  Therefore there are governing principles, realities and a foundation truth that supports this reality into which we inject the diversity of our opinion.  My opinion does not change that reality, alter that reality or control that reality, it simply offers a perspective of reflection upon this reality.  God is the creator, the foundation, the rule maker, the judge, the life-giver.  His opinion forms, changes and sustains the reality in to which our variations are intertwined.   You hate him and me by relation because you want to be master of your own universe, the director of your own fate and do, eat, swindle, master, enslave or free whatever your emotions and thoughts tell you is consistent with your appetites.

Torturing a child cannot both be good and bad at the same time.  It is a thing that by its nature is pure evil.  How then do you reconcile two men with alternate opinions upon that subject?  They both cannot be right on this matter, they are mutually exclusive views of reality, therefore one is right and the other wrong.  If both claim to be morally superior and submit themselves as the origin of righteousness, what then becomes of public, moral construct?  The power of the masses would dictate to the weaker, what in fact is right and what is wrong.  Then we are at the mercy of the powerful, hoping upon nothing, since there is no eternal truth that those that have the authority do not believe that hurting children is okay.  We are left without mercy, held in the arms of chance and opportunistic reason.

Praise be to God that we did not have to subject ourselves simply to the whims, emotions and desires of the powerful.  For there is a sovereign Lord, who gave us the ten commandments to show us our sin, acting as mirror that we might see our behavior in God’s intended reflection.  But we mistook that mirror for something that would give us access to heaven, when in fact men are all sinners, none have never lied, never stolen, never disrespected their parents or God, but God himself in the form of a man named Jesus.  Religion is man’s attempt to earn his way to heaven.  God’s gift to man is access to heaven by belief and faith in his sacrifice upon the cross.  We continue to try to earn something which has been freely given with a qualification of belief and faith.  None are righteous, but God.  None can gain heaven but through God.  None may know him without a relationship with Jesus.  This sets the world of men afire with hatred for a God who would dare and have rules within his own creation.  God made man, not the other way around.

If I sound outrageous, you better hope that I am.  If I am right you better pray with all your might to the universe, rocks, idols and natural spirits that I am wrong.  Or perhaps you could listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit of God spoken in my words today and let your heart be touched by truth.  The truth of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and his soon return to judge, rule and reign for all eternity.  Silencing me will not constrain the truth, so you better look for a more robust solution.  Perhaps you can hide from him when he comes?  No that won’t work because the Bible says that men will hide themselves in the rocks, hoping that the mountains would fall on them to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb, and will find no such hiding place.  Their is no solace but surrender to Christ.  If you cannot find in yourself the will to surrender to the God of all universes then you are doomed to be judged, separated and suffer for all eternity.  If you find hope, reason and conviction in the truth, then turn to him and find rest, freedom and sanctification at the hands of our master.  For he loves you and offers grace to all who will hear what the spirit is proclaiming, even at this late hour of Christ’s soon return.  Be blessed, get saved, Christ Loves  You.  Amen.