You know the moment, the proper time, whether under moonlight in the early Spring or perhaps late Summer, in a library.  Huh, in a library, how the mcmuffins are you going to plant any seeds in a library?  Are you doing some kind of illegal hydroponic germination project?  Shouldn’t planting best be done with a shovel, a hoe or a rake out in the middle of the garden?

That depends on the type of fish you’re conducting?  What, we were just talking farming and you jumped right in to fishing.  What the magillicutty’s is wrong with you Ebenezer?  Sorry to confuse, actually this is same exact discipline.  Farming, fishing are both activities that provide a crop, a catch a harvest, get the picture?  They are productive measures that after some patience, and I might add sometimes considerable skill, produce a result that feeds you and your family for the time being.

Why did the Lord use these two disciplines as basis for his argument for discipleship?  Absolutely, because they were two of the most prevalent jobs or skills of the day.  The majority of the people in that day were either farmers or fishermen, so it made a lot of sense to use those two examples for they would have been readily understand by the bulk of the listening public.  But isn’t that unique that they are just as easily understood today as in that day.  The seed is the beginning of all things in creation, whether plant or animal.  The seed, provided by the male in most specie, is taken by the female an after some unique miracle infused process offspring are produced.  It makes sense, for it matches the same process of fishing or farming.  You plant, you invest, you work and eventually you see the product of that labor brought about by God. That’s right, by God.  Where did you think the fish came from?  It came from the same place that the potato did, from God, from the lake, ocean or dirt he created.

So we are to take the seed of God’s Word, the ideas presented in the Gospel and plant them into the soil of each person we meet and that soil will produce based upon the factors surrounding its direct relationship to God?  Absolutely.  It is the same way when considering being a fisher of men.  You dangle the well prepared bait of God’s Word and dependent upon their direct relationship to God they will swallow the bait and continue to produce for the Lord for a duration.  That’s not that complicated.  Why do you think seed corn often is the best bait?

Lord, thank you for making things simple so that it is easy to understand.  We get it and will continue to plant seeds and throw bait out there until you come.  In Jesus’ Name.

Life preservers are extremely useful sometimes. However most of their lives are spent resting casually against the hull of a ship or beside the pool, bleached by the sun, corroded by too much salt, suffering under inflation or foam deterioration.  Just as in defibrillators they are kept around in the event they are needed, for important purpose of course, but then quietly tucked away in the hall drawer or hung on a plastic cradle. They don’t take it personally when people use them and then forget they are there because that is their purpose to be called on in emergency as needed.

What a joy to save lives.  What an extreme blessing to intervene for the sick and dying.  What a grand investment in mankind to love them, sit with them and nurse them to health.  Experiencing the excitement at watching someone walk again, learn again, live again is something only those caregivers know intimately.  What then when they go back to that position on the wall, in the drawer or tucked neatly on a shelf until called?

I saw their burden today.  The shadow pain of having cared for someone so long and then having them die and the unnoticed, unanticipated weight or absence of the requirements, establishing a void of volunteered love and kindness.  The tears were real, the problem invisible, the answer given in deliberate prayer and much needed silence.  How is this possible that purpose can be a burden or boomerang to sadness, having accomplished such honorable intention?  Isn’t there only joy in fulfillment of one’s gifted tasking?

Some things are natural but still hurt.  People die, it is natural but it still hurts.  Nurses and doctors prolong life but when people die, even as the result of expected and natural occurrences it still hurts?  Why?  And the doctor is soon forgotten to go back to the drawing board, another patient, likely with the same outcome as death faces each of us.  What then of the life preserver?  Should it be carried or put to other use so that it does not diminish in its ineffectual time?  I mean it certainly makes a decent seat cushion of perhaps could be hung from the ceiling in the garage to indicate proper parking position?  What of the down time.  Are we to forget the tools which save our lives, nurse us back to health from injury and sickness or just simply encourage us back to feeling better when we’ve been emotionally wounded or blue?

There will be associative costs within your divine gifts.  One of which is the, “they only need you when they need you” clause.  When you are a healer they will remember you and desperately need you when they require healing, but then they will naturally lose the need for you and put you back on the shelf with the other emergency only objects.  Is that acceptable?  Are you okay with that?  If you can’t stand being viewed as an on/off switch it is best to stay out of the healing arena.

The joy is that it quickly establishes those around you who truly are authentically yours.  For they will remain well after the healing occurs, to pester, to bother, to befriend, counsel and love the real you.  They will see your gifts and talents and take advantage of them as needed but will see much more in you then just a caregiver.  They will see you and for whatever reason determine that they see value in a long term relationship with a life preserver.  Isn’t God wonderful.  Isn’t serving Him glorious.  All the benefits of this job are greater than the pay.  In Jesus’ Name.

Isn’t being on time about being at the right place on or before a certain time, especially if there is crucial event associated with that moment in time?  How does the concept of Divine Opportunity work?  Are we to be in tune, in step, aligned with the Lord’s calling in a such fashion that we are at the right place at the appropriate time?  Or is it that the Lord brings the opportunity to you when your heart is open and you are engaged with His plan for your life?  That is one I will have to ask the Father.  However it fascinates me how meetings are orchestrated, to the second sometimes, such that we have been placed in the right place for a specific conversation or opportunity to provide assistance to someone in need.  It is the miracle we have all been waiting to see.

God worked this out before the beginning of time.  He made sure that I misplaced my keys, changed my shirt due to a coffee spill and circled the block three times before pulling up right in front of the man who needed prayer.  The woman who needed some money and a ride, left and then forgot her cell phone which I was holding as she walked back in checking the booth where I was sitting.  The old man prayed for help at his home just before I got a flat tire at the bottom of his driveway.  Lord, this is the greatest blessing of this brief life, please don’t ever stop.  Let me be in the right place with the exact assets and attitude necessary to glorify your name.

Besides, Father, I really love these people.  They have all kinds of difficulties in this world and really need help, but why am I telling you that, it is why you sent me anyway.  Let me remember to tell them how much you love them, because that is the greatest gift of all.  Thank you for allowing me to be even a small part of your plan for humanity.  If I can do anything at all please send me.  Signed Knucklehead 42, the guy with the keyboard a bunch of random words and a great big heart because you loved him so much.  All my heart, mind, soul and strength, Father, in Jesus’ Name.

Children starving, old people hungry because they only had the money for meds, wives beaten, drugs ruining young adults and orphans enslaved for sexual gratification or worse.  Men and women struggling in marriages where both of them must work while their children are indoctrinated by those owing allegiance to the ideals of social justice.  Fathers, powerless to discipline their children for fear of losing them to the same government who requires him be accountable to their behavior.  Grandfathers wishing they had chosen otherwise as they watch young people ill equipped to protect the America they bought with their sweat and blood.

And you would blame God for this chaos, when He provided Eden and a sinless world?

This is madness.  These are the earmarks of a leader numb to the cries of his people.  These are not the outcomes attributed to God but to the enemy who rules in his stead for the time being.  The Lord rebuke him if he chooses.  And I would pray that God sends him to the Lake of Fire early if He so chooses but I know this is not God’s Will as the Bible says so. Every thing has its time.  Every season must come and go and this one we are in is awful.  We must be moved by something, for most of us just looking at the state of our world does the trick.  The tears roll, but what comes next infinitely matters.

Do you go to God in prayer for the innocent and dying?  Do you stand in the gap for those who are being abused by tyrannical relationships?  Do you ask God to provide you the strength to help the elderly, the orphaned and the widowed?  Are you fighting the enemy with prayer, fasting and the Word or is he unrestrained in your households and those of your family?  We are told by God to resist him and he will flee.  How are you resisting this travesty?  Or have you lain down your weaponry, given up hope and determined to get what you can from this marginal existence?

Father, I am helpless, powerless, broke, tired and ineffectual.  Please help me to look past these obvious excuses to my status as a joint inheritor or everything.  These two states of being are mutually exclusive.  How can I be powerless if my Father has all power and authority?  How can I be broke if my Father owns everything, all the Gold, Cattle and Countryside?  How can I be tired and ineffective if the Lord’s Joy sustains me indefinitely and His power allows me to do the impossible?  There is something awry.  That something is my choice, my will, my desire to drop the excuses and become the man for which provided me salvation.  What, you think he saved me just so I could sit around and be happy with a get out of hell free card?  Really?

We all know that is not the case.  We were all taught statements like, nothing comes for free and if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.  Is salvation free?  First of all it cost the life of the only perfect man ever.  Second it required God to humble Himself and come into the world as a man, be spit on, beaten, whipped, punished and abused, then hung on a cross to die, forsaken by His Father for our crimes.  Third it took the lives of countless innocents in the enemy’s quest to hurt our Lord by killing us.  And finally here is the greatest testimony of God’s greatness, our Salvation is a Free Gift.  Yes, there I said it, salvation is free to all who will accept it through repentance, belief and faith.  Oh, so you say it’s not free because you have to turn from your sin, believe in Jesus and the Work that He did on the Cross and accept the Holy Spirit by faith.  You think those things are worth keeping?  You think that you are getting the short side of that trade?  Really?

So you are moved to tears by the chaos in the world but you refuse to give up this world to change it?  Okay, sounds like you want this world and the pain within it so that you can get your groove on?  Oh, I get it too bad that there has to be orphans, sick people, drug addicts and sex slaves.  You’ll cry about it but you won’t do the one thing in your power to change any of it.  The pain must not be close enough to home.  Meaning your little sister didn’t get used as a sex slave and your Mother is in an old folks home so you are okay because it isn’t touching you personally.  I get it, you’ll shed the tear but that is all you will give to set them free.  Again with the Free.  Do you think it is a strange coincidence or just irony that Freedom starts with Free, especially when it cost everything to buy our freedom?

What moves you?  Does it move you far enough to get you off the couch and out of the house doing something about it or to the floor on your knees and face crying out to the Lord for intervention?  Please Lord Let me be Moved to Action especially when that action is Prayer.  In Jesus’ Name.

My Family, please take care of your selves.  You are so desperately needed for the fulfillment of God’s Plan that it is imperative you take your health in great regard.  Be a good steward of this body, mind and psyche that the Lord has provided.  Work hard, play hard and rest easy.

I am seeing so many over do it that it really is time to remind folks of their resemblance to the Father.  He worked six days and purposely took a day of rest, not because he needs it, because He is God after all, but because He was setting an example for our needs.  Why did He give us a book that is governed by time, considering man’s short existence when He is outside of time and space?  Imagine that, it was for us to use in our pursuits.  Yes, the entire Bible speaks of balance, moderation, wisdom, good counsel, yet we seem impervious to its clarion call.  Why is that?

Self is a powerful intoxicant.  Don’t get addicted to the elixir of self direction, it will blind you with self actualization, kindle you will false empowerment and guide you into the labyrinth of self absorption.  There I said it, stop worshiping yourself King Gotta DoBetter and Queen Never Sleeps and take God’s sovereign authority seriously.  I have seen lately, especially within the last month, many of my Christian Brothers and Sister falling out for lack of self repair and proper relaxation.  Remember why the Jews went into captivity for seventy years, wasn’t the seventy because they hadn’t observed the rest days God had commanded.  What they went into slavery rather than take God’s prescribed rest?  That is foolish.  Mirror much?

I don’t want to invite hazard on myself for calling you Raca or Fool or any of those titles.  Let me just remind you that you are mortal, you break down, you need servicing and maintenance like any created thing.  Are you looking to God for that provision?  What you mean God will keep my life running at peak performance?  Of course again with the not so observant Christian faith.  He is your PROVIDER.  That is why He gave you life, designed this body, protects you from sin, colds, cancer, disaster and all the other creepy crawly things that want to make a sandwich out of you, because He loves you and knows the very best for your life.  So eat right, exercise, relax, learn and rest, then do it again because you like it.  Relaxing should not be tedious or some reward that is short lived it should be part of a life lived with God, sensibly.

I pray for you that God may give you all the blessing He has prepared for you and more.  In Jesus’ Holy Name.

He can’t be manufactured, certainly may be mimicked with significant flare and just won’t go away no matter how forceful the enemy or ridiculous the onslaught.  He completes, whispers, calls, demands, beckons and guides and gives beyond measure the necessary power, potency and words to silence Kings.  He seals, purchases, signifies, clarifies and rarefies the humble with a resolve to achieve the impossible.  He translates, separates, denies and imbues bodies with joy, peace and the power to overcome all enemies.  He shares, controls, counsels, convicts, defeats and restrains spirits to the high calling of Almighty God.  He hovers over the formless creation the power unrestrained, unrivaled, immeasurable, the beginning and the end of creation, forming and reforming through Directed Word to become or dissolve time and material forever.  He is shapeless exceeding the volume of space and all known boundary, for He is and was and always has and will be the Holy Spirit of Almighty God.

Have you met Him?  No, then you are not saved for without the Holy Spirit you cannot be born again to the everlasting.  He is the Spirit that fills, binds, signifies, sanctifies and protects.  He is the indwelling life of God with the form of every Christian and the only reason that the anti Christ may not yet show his face.  Don’t you think you ought to know Him, since you say you are Christian and have been born again by the baptism of the Holy Spirit?  What they don’t preach that at your Church, they better, because if He is outside knocking trying to get back then all inside are in desperate need of salvation.

Do you feel His wonderful convicting hand upon your life, guiding, counseling, rebuking and setting your vehicle straight on the rails?  You will know a man by his fruits, sound familiar?  What fruits?  The fruits of the Holy Spirit, you say.  And I am supposed to begin to reflect those aspects as evidence of my salvation?  Wow, that is something upon which I need to pray.  Good, because it is the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus that makes that prayer session possible.  So God doesn’t even hear me if I don’t have the Holy Spirit?  Sorry, did I come at a bad time?

Let’s read a bit about the Holy Spirit and His position and importance in the Life of every Believer.  Ephesians 1;13-14 In whom you also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise.  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

And then again in the Words of Jesus; John 14:15-17  If you love me keep my commandments.  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

Then again in John 14:25-26 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Again I ask, Do you know Him?  According to Christ you should and if you don’t you are in the same boat as the world who cannot know Him because He doesn’t live in them.  See why Peter and John were so concerned to see the evidence of the Holy Spirit in new believers that they sprinted across town to lay hands on new believers and pray.  ACTS 8:14-18  Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)  They laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

So did you see it, without the Holy Ghost or Spirit as we say, you have only said a prayer, you have yet been sealed for eternity.  Please don’t let the money changers, false prophets or prosperity Gospel preachers goad you into saying a prayer, getting a pep rally and then never going through to the point where the Holy Spirit indwells you.  The Spirit is the indwelling Spirit of God, the Power to move mountains and the seal of each believer as the earnest of our inheritance.  If you don’t know the Holy Spirit isn’t it time you did?  If your Church doesn’t have the Holy Spirit as guide, comforter, counselor and God what do they have?  If you don’t have the indwelling power of God inside you then how do you expect to do anything in this world through Christ who strengthens you?

Impassioned speeches about togetherness, wellness and respect for humanity, delivered from silken tongues and the bright teeth of demons pent on bloodshed.  They do not want us dead, no rather enslaved, serving them in chains as we serve God in our volunteer, surrendered fervor.  They are meant for the fiery Lake of God’s Wrath and will end up there regardless of my action, failure or ineptitude.  What then shall a man fear if their end be determined.  Right oh.

If I know the game is won, I am going to incessantly charge the lane, passing, dribbling, twisting and jumping looking to jam the ball home.  You see I just know that it is now time to run up the score for their certain defeat to demonstrate to those of uncertain will, the God we serve.  We are winners not slaves to unrighteous Kings.  So if you see me coming at you demons, Get Outta My Lane!

The Kingsmen are coming, taking no prisoners for the judgment is God’s.  You want mercy and grace then answer God’s call, from us you will get an unrelenting barrage of incessant Spirit Filled prayer and bombardment of the Word of God until you cry out to him for succor.  We pray that he has mercy upon you, but that is not our job, ours is to bring the Seed and the Word of His Mighty Gospel so that He may free those in the desperate clutches of your impending doom.  Welcome to your nightmare, Christians filled with Christ, from him you have no rest, no solace, no protection and no peace.  Oh my forward’s too fast my guard to swift, don’t fret about them because here comes our towering center bringing it to the hole.  Get outta our Lane!

And those who would run with me, sweating, joyful working together toward victory in spirit and truth.  Ready to bring in the harvest of the souls meant for Christ.  Please know that we welcome, enjoy and love you and look forward to the outcome.  But for now, for now we are meant for the work, for the camaraderie the faith expression of our kinship to the Creator of all things.  Let us put our shoulders to plow our hands to harvest and our hearts to the day as the dark night approaches where we may not work.

This is a race that is only valued when finished.  So, run my Brother, dazzle them my Sister, rush them as they stand there gawking.  Join your shields, open your hearts to his Spirit and pull that two edged sword, proclaiming, “Get Outta My Lane”.

What do you know in that pregnant moment of silence?  That glorious or fearful moment sitting alone in the cold, dark night?  Is there a presence of peace or anxiety at the bumps in the night, the noises in the waiting forest?  Do you await the song and message of angels as the herald the coming King, gazing at the stars in awe of God’s plan?  Or do you fear the coming judgment having failed to choose correctly?

Breathe in what is the sense, the spirit the emotion riding that air within your lungs?  Is there grave concern, worry, question, tension and pause?  Or have you breathed in the peace of His Promised redemption?  Do you know rest, have you known rest or are you chasing the thought of it?  Where do you sit, can you remain there, patiently waiting for the voice of God?  Does the driven restlessness wake you, forcing you from silent contemplation back to the world of feelings and things?  Are you okay with God wanting you to relax?

Father am I following you or some broad road, believing it to be the best possible course for a determined future.  What is the course I’ve charted?  What you wanted me to stand still and I have embarked on the journey of a lifetime?  How could this path not be the one intended?  It seems so right, it answers my quest, fulfills my needful heart and gives me safety through control.  How could that be wrong?  I cannot imagine a God that would not want the best things that I want for myself?  Oh, your Word says I was supposed to die to self daily, that causes a problem with my thinking.  Oh Your Word says he who loses his life for my sake shall gain it.  That really causes conflict for me Father.  Now I am agitated, why did you have stir me up so?  Can’t you see that I have what I wanted?

Father, I used to fight you, this, of course you know.  There are no lies between us.  I want a prosperous, wealthy, healthy, simple life with a good woman, growing old over time, observing my faith and living in humble respectful environment with order, comfort and peace.  The rub is that is not what you have chosen for me in your plan.  So, that dream rests, has been put away, given freely as I know my highest calling is to lose my life for your sake.  Forgive me for grieving these many years as I attempted to get what I wanted over your desire for my life.  Thank you for letting me learn these lessons of my own regard.  The greatest of which was I could never truly know Peace and Rest without living this life for You.

There is no comfort in my quenching the Holy Spirit.  There is no life for me but in service of the King.  My life is yours, my quest yours, my result yours to create, control or deny.  I am filled with a joy that I never understood until now.  The joy of being perfectly within your will.  Let me not waver.  Let me stand upon this rock of ages and even if I fly to land upon it each time I return to Earth.  There is no other life for me but in Christ.  I am fulfilled and thank You for it all.

In Jesus’ Name.

Have we gotten so far from God that we no longer have a solid foundation for determination of right and wrong?  Have we as Christians lost our capacity for discernment?  Are we open routers for all forms of data; film, picture, text?  Have we abdicated the filter for our own minds or is it that our filters have not been re-calibrated to accommodate the social modification of our senses? Have we become numb or dumb to the slow steady movement of the goal posts, such that we have allowed bracket creep to the categories of what is unacceptable to see, hear, touch, taste and smell?

We are the watchman of our own lives and of those entrusted to our protection.  So what the world has determined it is okay to see murder, gore, battle, sex and persecution?  Are we incapable of making those decisions for ourselves now?  Do we need some government handlers to step in and tell us what is approved viewing?  Do we know what God says is unacceptable or unholy?  Oh, that’s it we have strayed from the Word, so we are easy prey for an enemy who seeks to steal, kill and destroy.

Today, I went to a movie, hoping to catch something that would be acceptable in language, principle and content.  Unfortunately what I got was a direct assault on Christianity and a mockery of God.  The film, about a half breed fish man.  As a child my brother and I learned to read by comic books.  Neither of us were really into half breed fish man but I believed it to be harmless.  Man was I mistaken.  Let me tell you what they called half breed fish man as the story unveiled and he comes to Atlantis to take his rightful place as King.

He was referred to as; “The One True King” and when he emerged into his position one of the main characters proclaimed, “He is Risen”.  Additionally, Atlantis was revealed as the society that was so advanced that long ago it had, “evolved” into an advanced civilization of technocrats who had been prideful and caused the civilization to collapse.  Are we so desensitized to this type of assault that we have forgotten the enemy we face?  Our enemy twists the truth just a little from center and thus leaves the majority of the truth, just twisted.  That is the nature of deception, it tricks the eye into believing what it is seeing is the right, true and correct version of reality.  In this instance the population is slowly being lulled into a slumber from which they will never wake or wake as the vehicle is plummeting off the cliff to the rocks below.

Movies are no longer safe.  Our Kids are no longer safe.  We face a satanic serving roster of humans who have gone out of their way to create an economy that requires both parents work so that they can raise our kids and indoctrinate them to Communism and even worse satanic sympathizers.  None of us can protect the world, but we know who can.  None of us can reverse this travesty, but we know the one who can.  None of us can defeat this enemy, but we know who has already defeated him.  Have we lost our desire for victory?  I hope not.

We are the Ambassadors of the most High God and He will not be mocked.  They have crossed the line.  Yes, we should have stood up long ago, but now is still a good time to stand and be heard.  I am a Christian, I will not allow you to sell me products that mock my God and use His name in vanity.  If you choose to show this content or play this music or send pictures that torture, maim or abuse the innocent, I am not open to receiving them.  I am in charge of the data my mind receives, for some things cannot be unseen.  I may not be able to stop you, but I know who can.  His name is Jesus and the Blood of Innocent Cries out to Him for Justice.  Justice will be served by the only one worthy to serve it.  Jesus Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, get ready because he is coming.  Father protect us from the poisons of the wicked, let us remain pure and unspotted by this world determined to flush itself down the drain.  Watch over those who are susceptible to the deceptive whiles of your enemies, keep them safe, guard their senses.  Thank you my King, my God, my Father.

What have you left at the landing?  Did you leave those things that tied you to a desperate past, the emotions, memories and missteps of an angry man?  Did you leave the desires and unprofitable aspects of a consciousness determined on short term gratification?  Did you stack up and push away the service of things and the idolization of material gain or fame garnered?  Have you become that person God intended through rebirth or are you still reluctant to step through the sliding door to the rail car toward a new future?  To reach new lands you must let go of the ropes lashing your vessel to shore.

How distant are your memories?  Do they wake you nightly, reminding, pestering , pulling you toward a determined destination or do you slumber restfully contemplating lands yet reached and places unknown?  What is the level of your hope?  Are you filled with expectation, that joyous perspective of children, joyfully awaiting what God brings next?  When you discuss your life with friends, family or even acquaintances do you find that you concentrate on historical episodes of conquest and glory or is your speech about now or future events?  If there is any control that we may exercise over our own destiny don’t you believe that the time to utilize that authority would be right now?  Your choice, remain powerless in the past or embrace the promise of a powerful present/future.

What then of the Spirit’s evident indwelling?  Do you clearly see his characteristics reflected in your daily action, your thoughts, relationships and prayers?  Are you patient, peaceful, kind, gentle, etc… do you suffer the mistakes of other human offering forgiveness without recrimination?  Does it hurt when you behave poorly bringing you to your knees in repentance for the offenses to God and others?  How is your heart remade, to look as God’s in reflection or are you the “same ol’ same ol”?  Doesn’t rebirth portend a different opportunity, a chance to live another life.  Wouldn’t we all appreciate that opportunity?  Would we waste that chance by remaining restrained by the unpleasant or under performing aspects of our reluctant past?  Have we become or are we becoming someone different through Christ?  Don’t you want to.  Try it today.  Be that man or woman God is calling you to be.  In Jesus’ Awesome name.