O That We May Not Be filled With Our Own Fancies!

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 i keep thinking about the film, Field of Dreams and how Ray's father came back to throw the ball back and forth because Ray built the field so he could come back.  Beautiful, romantic, hard to swallow for today's generation while baby boomers like myself jus eat that stuff right up.  "Is this heaven?" his father asks.  "No, " says Ray, "it's Iowa."  The state where now satanic plaques are being displayed inside the state capital building.  O that we may not be filled with our own fancies! -[Proverbs 1:31]  i trust You, Jesus, more now than i ever have, so You need not say "Farewell" to me.  i only wish there were more people like me that i know personally.  The ones i could hang with.  Take a long bus trip with and travel to the Iowa state capital building to vandalize and  destroy some plaque honoring some satanic society.  They didn't have to build a shrine to him so he could come.  He's been here and everywhere all along.  He indeed has a very long chain.

i need to plant a huge hedge around me to be shaded for the sun also shines on the dunghill.  i don't want to be known as a soldier of the cross who turned my back in the day of battle, especially knowing that we've already sealed the victory, thanks to and only to our Lord and Savior suffering well on the Cross many of us would only tremble at its appearance.  Many may claim to know Jesus, but does Jesus know us...really?   "Periodic godliness is only perpetual hypocrisy." -[C. H. Spurgeon]  

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, He who despises the gain of oppressions, Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, And shuts his eyes from seeing evil; He will dwell on high; His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; Bread will be given him, His water will be sure. -[Isaiah 33: 15-16]

Imagine what the world would be like if there were more people like Jesus and those of us would be able to think and feel in our hearts.  Those of us who try our best and put forth our greatest effort to be like Christ.  Imagine what the world would be like if there were more people like us!  But if we were to say that aloud it would be like Joseph telling his envious brothers about his dreams.

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