It's All About the Truth

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 It's amazing when i see rainbow-colored gear people are wearing so openly and freely as i once did.  YAH, thank You for forgiving me well in advance.  i'm so glad i paid heed so that You would pay heed to me, and i know i am not separated from You.  i see many folks who are choosing that separation right now and i know You might eventually turn Your back on them.  It's sad, but i can only do so much.  i'm glad i was able to do for myself what i could when i could.  i know that i worshipped paganism in my day, so i can't rightly judge anybody--i'll leave that to You.  i'd rather worship You now because i know i can experience joy.  There's no more sorrow in the midst of current circumstances.  Joy transcends and defies my current circumstances.

Sometimes i think back and wonder if i knew then what i knew would happen now with the worshipping and serving other gods and idols in this civilization that has departed from God, i would have changed then and i wouldn't have had to go through all the pain and agony i went through.  It's all about truth.  It isn't about them and it isn't about me.  It's about the Lord Jesus and about truth.  i think back to how i really admired the HBO film Normal and admired the courage of actor Tom Wilkinson portraying a man who wanted to go through a sex change or die. i think back on it now and what a fallacy he had when the pastor at his church told him that God wanted him to be a man, and the Wilkinson character said, "But I believe God wanted me to be someone else!"  i don't think so.  That line in the dialogue has always bothered me.

i can't imagine ever being for abortion.  That, too, was a sticky subject when all along i should have realized that abortion is murder, and i don't care about this argument, "It's my body."  Only Jesus Christ can say that, along with "this is my blood."  It's all about the truth.  It isn't what i think and it isn't what they think.  It's all about the truth and what God thinks.  Stop warring against God, y'all!

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