Just Past the Bend

I recently had a birthday, over fifty now, cough, cough 😆,and I noticed the ads on my X Timeline had changed from normal everyday products to graphic ads for erectile dysfunction. And when I say graphic, I mean graphic. I'm like, where did this come from? Is X changing it's formula for ads due to the bigger companies pulling advertising? And there is probably some truth in that assumption, but that wasn't it completely. Then it dawned on me, I had, had a birthday, and in marketing's eyes I was now an old man, and I am, but not that old!  So I had the bright idea to go into settings and change my birth year to get rid of the ads. Harmless enough, no one cares about it but me right? Well, I was correct that did do it, it got rid of all the ED ads, but I changed my year to reflect me as a thirty five year old man, and like I said that got rid of the graphic ED ads. I chose thirty five thinking what could possibly be broken at thirty five, right? But I didn't think abo

Time has a way, Of decomposing all things. Be they mineral or organic, Time is the culprit,  For the rot that it brings. Ship’s made to sustain, An enemies torpedo shot! Lay at the bottom of the ocean, Engulfed in rot! Planes that once flew, Record heights. Now sit rusting alone Incapable of flight! Much is lost, To time and rot. For when one is not preserved, Time demands, that they be forgot! The Bible tells Christians, “You are the salt of the earth.” But if we lose of our savor, Then what are we worth? Salt preserves, Though the saltless rot! Salt leaves a taste after it’s gone, The saltless does not. Are we that taste Not soon to be forgotten? Or have we lost our saltiness, Like the tasteless and rotten? We are called to add taste, To any situation.  Not to throw in with the crowd,  Or chase our temptations.  So if things seem a bit,  Rotten or bland. Just remember, Add some taste,  right where you stand! #GODLo

  I bet all of you know this verse.  1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV) 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. Look around the room, does the view appear dim?  No...  Well it is, I know we have been conditioned to filter our view on things of the earth, by the only sight we currently have. You see, (pardon the pun) in our current body's we see what it's seeing, but the day is coming when this old view will be remembered as utterly dim. How do I know this?  Those are Paul's words. Read the verse again, slowly, "For now we see in a mirror dimly" , what does dimly imply? A limited view, not seeing as plainly as possible, unable to view what is actually there. That last one is very interesting, unable to view what is actually there.  Do you remember when you were baptized? Did you try to peek up through the water?  I did, but I was baptized in a river, no chlorine, but my view wa

  Is the Rapture Pre-Tribulation or not? The part of the world I grew up in never asked the question above, it was always pre-trib, I can honestly say that the times I spent fellowshipping with Baptist, Pentecostals, Methodist, and Independent brethren, down through the years, this question rarely if ever, came up. If that were the case today, I wouldn’t be writing this. I am amazed at the number of good brothers and sisters that embrace the theory of the post trib rapture. Now some may say what difference does it make anyway?  It doesn’t make any difference if the church of Jesus Christ is appointed to wrath, if it’s not it makes a serious difference. So what’s the truth?  To say that truth is relative to a point of view is error. Truth is never relative, it doesn’t have first cousins, aunts or uncles, it is what it is, and it stands solely by itself. So if it truly stands by itself, why are so many confused by truth? More times than not it is simply one word, context! To take somethi