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Hi there!

This is a place where I keep my stuff.  It’s a bit more organized and much easier than saving everything to “my favorites” for future reference.  I  post what I think is interesting, dangerous or a blessing.  I don’t write my own stuff but rather post what I have been reading, watching or listening to.  If something strikes a chord somehow, I save it here.  Simple as that.

As far as pastors,sermons, articles and websites;  I post what is helpful to me…in some way.   It doesn’t mean I agree with everything written or said by anyone that I have  posted here.  There are very important main issues, and there are issues which can be debated.  Scripture alone dictates the outcome of the debated issues.  If scripture is clear…the issue is no longer debatable.  If scripture is silent, then scripture is silent.  I reserve the right to accept or reject the teaching or ideas of any man based upon what the Holy Scriptures say or don’t say about the matter.  My opinions from 10 years ago are not the same as they are today, and I’m sure in another 10 years, they won’t be the same either.  I reserve the right to change my mind as I learn and think.

Propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and distractions.  Sometimes these things are obvious, but the most dangerous stuff is very subtle.  The best lie is mostly true.  You would be hard pressed to find just one person who hasn’t fallen for at least some of it.  Myself included.  Do you ever wonder how much is just there to take your eyes off of the truth?   I do.  What is truth anyway?

1 John 2:21:  I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

John 14:6:  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 15:26:  “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 17:17:  Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 1:1-5:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God.³All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men.⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

1 Corinthians 2:12-14:  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. ¹³And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. ¹⁴The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Ephesians 1:12-14:  so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. ¹³In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

1 John 1:8:  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

There is no religion,  political party, “activist” group, tradition or theory (you get the picture) that is sacred to me.  Though it is not my intention to offend, there will be some that are offended.    Truth, Jesus Christ, The Word is sacred to me.

As I look around  at all the confusion these days bring, Jesus Christ is my light shining in a dark place.  He is the Truth that I cling to.  Through His Word, I can see Him, the Son,  who purchased me with His Own blood.  He saved me from my sin and a most certain death.

He knew me before I was born.  He chose me, called me out of this world and saved me.  He showed me truth.

I don’t know why God chose to save me.  I’m despicable to the core.  A past and present prideful hypocrite;  an unloving being.  Yet, He did.   When He sees me, He sees His Son.  He sees His child.  I’m not despicable to Him.  I am not what I once was, nor what I will become.  I am in complete awe and so thankful as I ponder His complete sovereignty, love, mercy and grace.  I am eternally thankful, knowing that He alone stands between me and eternal darkness in the Lake of Fire.

He said whoever believes in Him will not parish.  He does not lie.  I still find it so hard to believe that He would even think of me.  God, who is no respector of persons, saved me.  How can I ever repay Him?  I can’t.  He did it all.  He bore my sin.  He paid my penalty in full.  All I can do is serve Him in my thankfulness and be content with all the many many blessings He has given me.  I can trust Him to take care of me.  I can do everything I do truly as if unto Him.  I can do what He says.  I can count it joy when He chastens me or when trials come.  I can examine myself and grieve over my sin.  I can know that He has forgiven me and loves me.  I can know (or in my stubborn case, being reminded time and time again) that these things grow fruit and purify me… making me ready to stand before Him.  I can’t do any of these things myself!  I wish it could be easier, I wish I wasn’t so stubborn.  But He can.

In time, little by little, He changes me.  He changes my desires.  He causes me to love Him.  He changes those things that hinder my relationship with Him.  He shows me more and more truth.  He shows me Himself.  Line upon line, precept upon precept.  Here a little, there a little.

He IS truth and I am safe in His hands.  Because He lives, I live.  I can hope.  I can wait.  I can make my way through the darkness as I live in His light, being sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise.  One day,  I will bow down before Him and see Him face to face.

For those with eyes to see…take a look!

Dawn

1 Corinthians 1

¹Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, ²Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s: ³Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; ⁵That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; ⁶Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: ⁷So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: ⁸Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹⁰Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ¹¹For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. ¹²Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. ¹³Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? ¹⁴I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; ¹⁵Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. ¹⁶And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. ¹⁷For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. ¹⁸For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. ²⁰Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. ²²For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: ²³But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; ²⁴But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. ²⁵Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ²⁶For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: ²⁷But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; ²⁸And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: ²⁹That no flesh should glory in his presence. ³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: ³¹That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.