All The Weeds Pulled Out of the Garden

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 Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation ---[Psalm 27:9] The long, long years i had left You weren't long at all according to You because it seems You hadn't left me--not for one minute.  If i were You, i'd never had started over again after the flood if i had known things would've turned out like this.  The upside to the current events is that there's a hint that the end of all is near.  A better earth is coming with all the weeds pulled out of the garden.  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God --[Romans 3:23]

For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord --[Romans 6:23]

Why should i be part of a gathering of counterfeit Christians?  Ones who happen to be in cahoots.  Plotting against the real Christians while after the services they walk in the parking lots to their cars and SUVs?

CERTAINLY NOT!


He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. --[Psalm 91:1]  i know i can't have You all to myself, but if enough people think like me there still could be at least two or three gathered in Your name.  We just won't have to be on our way to our cars in the parking lot after the service.

I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress.  My God, in Him I will trust.  [v.2] He protects me from the stares and snares and assures that i must be doing something right in order to alert those fowls and pestilent creeps --[v. 3]

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