Hanging on

More often than not it seems that we hold onto the chains that tie us down, things we need to let go of, but it seems we'd rather not.

What does it say to the world when we are free, and yet choose to stay in bondage?

We have eternal life and freedom. We need to realize that eternity does not start when we die. Eternity is now. We have life now. We have freedom now, joy everlasting now, salvation now.

We hold onto the past, but we can't change it.

We hold onto the future, but there is no promise of it.

We hold onto our sin, but it has been forgiven.

Let go, and hold onto GOD. HE will lift you up, not tie you down. Let go.

Pray this prayer....

And you shall be saved.

Sounds nice doesn't it? And it's usually a very nicely worded prayer too. Probably written by someone with good intentions, well educated in grammar and spelling. Possible a Christian themselves.

And boy am I sick of seeing them.

Let me spell this out for you, THERE ARE NO WORDS IN THE HUMAN LANGUAGE THAT WILL GET YOU SAVED. Binary, or Maritain, or Klingon either.

Then why do you pray?

Here's a little picture of someone whose about to get saved.

Broken.

If your lucky to force together a cohesive sentence at all, it still doesn't matter. Your heart is crying out to GOD in an incomprehensible language, and some people find they haven't said a word at all, and they're saved. Just like that.

It's your heart, and GOD. You give up, and GOD does it all. No fancy shmancy prayer needed. Just whatever comes out. And if that happens to be fancy, or stutteringly simple, or nothing at all, it doesn't matter.

Conformity

We are supposed to be set apart from this world, something different. But what do we do? We invite the world in, we set ourselves up to look like the world so that the world will join us. But what are they joining if it's not different??

They've made a Bible that is a magazine. Filled with gossip and pictures of celebrities. Why did they make it? Because Christians are to afraid to put out a Bible on their coffee tables, or out in their waiting rooms. So we conform to the world to put our minds at ease, and so that someone might possibly mistake it for some junky gossip magazine, and read it.

What is wrong with us? Why are we conforming, when the Bible that they disgraced clearly says not too? WAKE UP! We are in a Spiritual crisis and it is not going to get better when we are making merchandise to make people feel better, instead of getting out there and winning souls from an eternal pit of fire. That's right. People are going to hell, right now, and we're so concerned about offending others, we're just going to ignore that aren't we? Well, when they get to hell, and know that you didn't help them, they might be a little offended.

Somebody, that you know, right now, is on their way to hell. Are you gonna help them? Or are you scared of offending them? Perhaps you should make it seems nice and cheery, worldly even. Why, everyone else is doing it. Why can't you?

Get your facts straight people. When sinners die, they go to hell to be tormented forever.
Christian life is not all miracles and blessing, growing hurts, but GOD is great and Merciful, and Gracious, and will never break you.
We are different, and we need to start acting like it. Appealing to the world is not one of those requirements, they should look at us and see that something is different, and wonder what it is.
Our life is not our own, our fears and apprehensions no longer matter. GOD says go, we go. End of story.
Stop conforming to this vile temporary world we live in. Don't you know our home is above?