Faith!

 from mangledman:

I am once again falling behind in life.  We get up each day thinking life is going to carry on like yesterday with zero glitches and no shortfalls just like before.  People manage to travel through life thinking “I got this”!!  Nooo problems.  I’m a good great and wonderful person everything is sunshine and roses.  Then IT happens.  The parade gets rained on.  Tragedy happens in one form or another.  Some people are so wrapped up in the delusion of self, that it only takes ONE small bump in the road to go into crisis mode.  If you think this sounds extreme, think about the reaction over a presidential election.  We are all just one heartbeat away from the next life.  A lot of people just keep moving plugging along, and when this life is over its like”oh I’ve been a good person GOD will understand”,  If HE don’t then I didn’t like HIM anyway.  Our world has been filling up with these kinds of people while we slept.  A GOD of justice and judgement is what everyone wants and seeks, but they put all the FAITH of knowing who GOD is from a Human point of view.  The GOD that used to work for Mom n Dad, and Gma and Gpa, and the people that started this country is outdated.  The TRUTH, and FAITH in it always coming to LIGHT, being exposed, and bringing JUSTICE, is an outdated concept.  I don’t know about everybody else, but I am the slow learner type.  I believe in GOD, the TRUTH, JUSTICE, and JUDGEMENT.  I have been on this path since I was little, but, I was living a deluded life, thinking I’m tough, I got this.  One day, I woke up and that entire world was shredded, destroyed, and I looked up and told everybody GOD’S got this, and picked myself up and kept moving forward MY WAY.  My ways were diminishing.  I look back, and the creature doesn’t much exist that I used to be.  I have no clue how I ever made it this far, but here I am.  I have been living from one apocalypse to the next, and my strength doesn’t even seem to come from me.   Faith is what keeps us going.  Faith that GOD has got this no matter what.  Justice will come, in this life or the next.  This is what keeps us from meting it out ourselves.  This world is going to face what it has earned.  Faith is what keeps us waiting for the TRUTH to finally come to light for all to see, so
that those that are blind might finally see.  I, myself have a hard time grasping what a life without TRUTH, and things ABSOLUTE could possibly be like.  Having been a student of the truth for a long time.   ABSOLUTE, and TRUTH hasn’t let me down.  JESUS being TRUTH, never changes, and remain after I am gone.  Having FAITH that Justice will see the light of day has me waking up day after day, certain of absolutely nothing but these simple facts.  I don’t know if the roof will be over my head, if food will be available, if I will even be able to stand up, or even crawl.  We have no clue as to who will be alive, or if our world might end in a flash.  We all wake up each day with some measure of faith.  We have hope that things will continue.  I have that FAITH that when I close my eyes for the last time here, I am going to wake up on the other side.  It  is Faith that leads me on, and FAITH that will lead me home.  I know I still can’t live up to my own standards let alone someone that can say “LET THERE BE LIGHT” and it is up there until he says otherwise.  The awesomeness and power is wild, let alone FOREVER.  There is so much about this life and world we aren’t meant to understand.

Once most of us figure out that the TRUTH is  the way to go and that a CREATOR can speak a world into existence, and breathe a soul into dust to create any dadgum thing he wants. We start to appreciate that FREE WILL in a world full of good and bad choices, we can escape the consequences by FAITH that HE created just such an escape.  In a world full of sinners, some of us were experts.  I guess that is why human nature is not surprising to some of us.  Some of us have been practicing how not to be experts for a good while now.  I heard somewhere some guy says:  “I’m so wholesome I make ME wanna puke”.  I feel like this some days.  Faith is what keeps me out of a lot of trouble.  Faith in the fact that the truth sets us free, and keeps us free.  Especially from the consequences of disobedience  of straying from what I know to be true.  I have weaknesses, give me wheels and a throttle, temptation is always there.  Getting older,  we figure a lot of mistakes require some healing processes.  We also have FAITH in the fact there might be an unforseen bump in the road.  Beware the road you walk upon.  Some old grayfaced ex hippie might come along and ask you if you know the TRUTH, or do you have FAITH,  will you already know it, or want to know more?

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!