All the Technology I Need

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 If i love the people God blesses, then i shall love everyone and everybody...technically; and that's all the technology i need!  That's a very hard concept, considering each of God's people one by one.  i can name the God's people i don't like--two by two.  Every true believer in Jesus is a saint; it's difficult to think of myself in those terms, yet i could name those who are still around--one by one.  It all began when i knew the love of Christ and i began to be filled with the fullness of God--[Ephesians 3:19]

...Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  for the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. --[Galatians 5: 16,17] O, to have this snow on my roof!  Older and ... wiser?  Maybe just as energetic as i was when i was younger i find that as i'm paying more attention to Scripture i'm beginning to put the foolishness of my youth in perspective.

Folks who have known me in the past back when i was living foolishly and making the wrong choices knew the man who is now dead.  The author who wrote strange homoerotic books passed away.  He was a man who had turned away and had been creating his own gospel--[Galatians 1:6] That man who everybody hates and criticizes isn't here anymore, so they're screaming at phantoms.

But none of those things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God--[Acts 20: 24]

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