My Unusual Journal
My Unusual Journal 48 - Tuesday, November 08, 2011, 10:18 PM
A Little Something for Everybody
My Unusual Journal is turning out to be a spiritual smorgasbord containing various free-wheeling thoughts on God and a few mini-treatises that are more formally presented. It is a gentle inquisitive push into theology and, loosely defined, what is theology but a study of God? We are looking at 1) who and what God is; 2) how should we come before Him in worship; 3) do we even dare to come before Him, intruding into that august Presence; and 4) the mysterious, complex matter of our salvation, which is at once very convoluted in its labyrinthine details, but simple in application to the human life.
I have to hastily add that "My Unusual Journal" cannot make any claims to being an in-depth theological study. It is a simple work written by a simple man dedicated to passing on to his descendants, bit by bit, what he has been taught by others, especially his own father, and what God has seen fit to give to him. There are no revelations here, no claims to having obtained from God what other more spiritually enlightened and better skilled writers have obtained. These Unusual Journal entries are not even a ripple on the face of the sea of the knowledge of God, which I nonetheless have to pass on to my descendants, hoping they will become true men and women of God in their own right.
It is an elementary fact of life that there can be no accomplishment, however small, without an effort expended to bring the accomplishment to fruition. What I do here with My Unusual Journal constitutes my effort to accomplish the spiritual enlightenment of my numerous progeny. That would include all who descend from me – a host of people. It is evident I cannot sit around wishing for this or that to happen and not lift a finger to cause it to happen. I am now “lifting my finger”; as a matter of fact, I am lifting up my whole body like an angry bear disturbed from its winter sleep.
I can no longer wait for “this or that to happen”; by the grace of God I must cause things to happen. I will expend my time and effort to do what I can to bring the truth of God to family, friends, casual acquaintances and all the people I can bludgeon and in any way compel to hear the Word of God.
I have a burden for souls saved and unsaved; I want to bring those who are not saved to Christ and bring those who know Him casually to see what a wonderful Savior they are so lightly esteeming. I have inherited this wonderful treasure while so many of my fellows on this accursed planet are poverty stricken. But no longer do they need to endure with others the estate of the wretched poor nor do they have to suffer hunger and thirst when my Father has food in abundance and a palatial home for all who will turn to Him right here on this earth.
If you don’t know my Savior, give your heart, your life and your all to Him at this moment. If you know Him only casually, why are you living in spiritual poverty when all you have to do is give up all you hold dear for the pleasure and wealth He will bestow on you when you make Him – Jesus – the center of your life.
God help me to share my wealth wherever I can!
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