A couple of questions I was asked.

While I will not give out the name of the person that sent me these questions, and I did answer it late last night, this is an attempt to answer maybe a little better. The person who asked this said they have started reading one of my blogs.

1)

Wasn't quite sure but from what I gathered you are saying that Lust is a bad thing?

First we have to know what the word Lust is. Words are simple the annunciation of feelings. Simple a verbal display of what is in the heart and mind. What resides there controls the soul and the spirit. For the word Lust we have this meaning:

Lust: 1. a: pleasure, delight b: personal inclination: wish 2. intense or unbridled sexual desire: lasciviousness 3. a: intense longing: craving a lust to succeed b: enthusiasm, eagerness admired his lust for life.

As we see a couple of words that aren't bad, Pleasure and Delight, but Personal Inclination can float either way, for now one is thinking of one's self. All of those at the top of the power structure have personal inclinations toward profit and personal pleasure. As long as your pleasure and delight are pure and bridled, and you do not have a personal inclination to intensify these feelings, while putting God and others first. Do that and it is a good thing, anything less isn't.

The next definition refers to sexual. As long as it's your wife you keep it under control, that isn't a bad thing, provided that there is more than sex and you are making love. Every animal I know of has the capability of sex.

Lascivious,

is a word synonymous with lustful or lewd or unruly

. Things like weird sex, porn, etc, so the definitely ain't good. Most Serial Killers have that trait.

The last and final thing is what the ones who you spoke about feed on... the eagerness for what they call life. Don't get me wrong, you should have an eagerness for life... to an extent. Everything we do here, buy here, sell here, collect, build is nothing more than Moth & Rust. Just as well said, dust in the wind. We should have a desire for what is to come one day while enjoying what God has given us now. Thing is, through media and deceit, we're taught what they call life and how to enjoy it their way. For TPTB, this is life and all there is to it. For Christians this is life and the best is yet to come one day, should we remain steadfast.

So now you see why I think lust is really bad. It is the shiny hook dangling and swaying ever so gently in the water, tossing glimmers across the way. Appealing to the eye, looking more valuable and less dangerous than the old hook dangling beside it. Like the fish we bite it, realizing too late in many cases that it was the same old line, just polished up a bit.

2) you said that for all the wrong you asked God for forgiveness and were given it. This leads me to ask an obvious question. If we can be forgiven can't we just live like everyone else. Most people don't have the opportunity or the tools to know what you have learned. Won't they be forgiven as well? From what I gather we are only judged by ourselves in the end, is that the underlying message. I know you will have a more in depth answer to this question I hope. I realize the message is to not do the wrongs but just curious on your thoughts.

I often wonder what would have happened if I had just dropped dead on the spot. I've had friends that just went in the blink of an eye, so we're not guaranteed that we will have time to ask for forgiveness. Even when we do though, I wonder if during life's journey, once off the path, do we realize just how far off we've drifted?

My daughters and I were riding the waves onto the beach, (when I was healthier), and when we looked up we couldn't see our umbrellas. The tide had slowly carried us away to what at first looked the same, yet our familiar umbrella was no longer in our sight. Of course we found it, but it did take time. Thing is, will we have that time?

Or the time I was using a map dad had loaned me to go to the beach. He had not bought a map since WW2, and I didn't look at the date on the map book. We drove at least 2 hours the wrong direction, lol.

I guess what I'm saying is that we can go so deep in the woods that the trees get in our way of sight. We become lost and while we may eventually find our way out, what happens if it happens in a blink of an eye. While I'm not into pain, the pain I felt that night was a small cost to pay to end up being in God's light. I was blessed with time.

As far as judging, we are not judged against another human. We are judged by God's laws. I think He knows that we will all fall short... way short, but He offers Grace through Jesus Christ to fill in the gap between us and Him. So while God doesn't judge us to others, He judges us to His own laws that He has set forth. He isn't this big angry God just waiting to damn anybody, if we are damned then we damn ourselves. We are His creation, as are all things, and He is full of love.

I had a lady a while back say she didn't believe in Hell. This really puzzled me. How is it that we can believe in Heaven without Hell looking about at all the world? I thought back to a vacation we went on where we forced the kids to go. They stayed so mad that it pretty much made the trip a mini Hell. We didn't do that but twice, after that, we left the ones that didn't want to go at home.

While I believe that anybody can ask for forgiveness and receive it, there is a catch to that too. Say I walk up and hit you, then say I'm sorry. Chances are you will accept my apology. Then I hit you again and repeat the same thing over and over. It isn't going to take you too long before you see that I am offering only lip service and that I am not truly sorry. I'm basically saying repentance.

In the Light of God there are no shadows, no corners, no place to hide anything. That was one thing I observed that really stuck with me... no shadows. Everything was brought to light and man do I mean everything. Thoughts, spoken words, actions, the basis for those actions, feelings. Imagine you have to watch a movie, 3D, of your every thought. You are there and you know this is you and suddenly you want to scream out and tell yourself better than to think or act that way. But you can't. The only thing you can do is observe and then answer back yes or no. You are no longer seeing yourself through your own eyes but through perfect eyes. There is no going back and there is no being good enough to get to the level that is deserving. That is where two things God has, Grace and Mercy.

I think that through my studies over the years the most corrupt people would be Rothschild and Rockefeller. They make Hitler look like a saint. In my honest opinion, even they can be forgiven if they are sincere and turn to God. That would mean they would have to give up their current god though and change, but it could happen. They could repent.

There is a song that the line was taken out of the Bible, "God is mighty to save". I don't know, nor would I even guess, how God will judge those who have not had the opportunity to know Him, but I truly believe He has all that worked out. But often what I believe and what is said are two different things, so let's take a peek.

Luke 12:

48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

In that same Luke 12, there is a quote that also answers why we should try and live better. So let's go back and see what Jesus said about living right.

Luke 12:

41Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

This is just one of the instances where I believe that one is judged by their own actions and deeds. A person can be Saved and Baptisted and yet not Born Again . That isn't the general info that many Christians believe. Thing is, when your eyes open, the things of this world no longer bring you pleasure and when you look back, they didn't back then either. Just a quick fix until the next fix... ever longing, full yet still hungry. So I do believe that it takes more than just faith in God, even Satan and his angels have faith and believe that God is God. It takes a saving faith. Then our deeds and actions will fall into place. Rather than bumper stick or fish symbol on the car, you will be know by your fruit to be a child of God. The right God.

So I could go into more detail on this, and I will be glad to do it if you want. The biggest message I guess I want to convey is that you are loved, wanted, needed... even at times when you don't love yourself, God still loves you. He still wants you. While times may get tough and may even become a living Hell, there is still a peace that only He can give. You may fall from time to time but a fall doesn't determine who or what we are, it is how we get back up and how we conduct ourselves after we do.

One can spend their time here in this world running from fix to fix, always wanting. One can collect all the "finer things" (or so we've been taught), never having enough, always in search and lust for more. Treasures that you cannot take and in time will return back to where they originated from, yep, even plastic. Or you can spend your time working on improvement, one that can go with you, one that you leave something that all the world's money can't buy to your children....a good name.

This will by no means bring peace always, the world has it's was of beating one in the ground at times, but it will make sure that you will never be alone. If God be for us, who can stand against us.