Dear Lord,
I write an open letter to you. I guess it is a prayer, but an open letter sounds different. It sounds like I am coming at you at a different angle. It sounds like I am changing and want to reach out to you a more sufficient way. Prayer is the best...but my prayer life is not the best. It ain't where it used to be, but it is NOT where it should be. Maybe if I call this a letter to you, it will reach you in time to save me. Maybe if I send it UPS or even better Fed Ex, it can be returned back to me with a response of hope and blessings. I need to receive that hope and blessings from you, Lord. No matter how it comes. I need it.
For some odd reason, I am becoming to enjoy the after effects of sin. Not really...but kinda. I mean, my sins have led me to extreme levels of guilt and desperation. I have felt like jumping off the end of a cliff on days after. But, lately, I have taken these sins as signs. It means that I have to step closer to GOD. I go for a period of loving the LORD wholeheartedly and for a second or two, I take a few steps back and get my sin going. I get my mind thinking of this world and not of the Lord. And then I do things that I regret and hate. But, then, because of my guilt, I delve deep back into the word. I absorb everything that I walked away from two days earlier. I read the Bible more. I pray more. I hope for days of no sin...more.
Of course, that is not going to happen. I am always gonna sin. Ughhh. I hate that. But, maybe I can use it to my advantage. Maybe, I can still get closer to GOD. I don't have to sin as much as I do, obviously. I can take a chill pill on that. But, when I do slip. When I do fall...I can prayerfully fall back into the arms of my Savior. I can fall back on HIS word. I can fall back into the church. I can fall back into the places that I need to be. And then I can grow even stronger. HE will save me. He will lead me away from all of this bullcrap. This world...I hate. I long for Heaven.
This world is nothing but a test. I have learned that and re-learned that in Purpose Driven Life twice now. I need to make a memorial to stick that fact in my head. It is a test, a trust and shoot...something else. I just read it, too. But, whatever the point. I am not living here in this world. I am just passing through. This is not my home, my car, these are not even my clothes. I am borrowing these things from the Lord. Once I die, I can't take these things with me. Nope, some one else will have this house. Someone else will have the parts from my car. So, why am I tripping? If I know that this is a temporary assignment by GOD, one that I need to pass, to get to the true home, why am I tripping? I need to be on my best behavior. I am just hanging on here to get to Heaven. I shouldn't be complaining. For in a minute, this part will all be over. I should e rejoicing. I should be celebrating. I should be the happiest guy on earth. I should be telling the whole world. No one should see me down, cause if they knew what I knew...ohhh, halleluyah.
I need to walk with the Lord. And my little time here on this earth should be used for nothing but HIM. I should make people smile. I should laugh more with folks. I should share the GOOD NEWS. I should be a cheer-er upper. There are so many things, I should be doing. I should not be walking with my head down. I should NOT be discouraged. I should not be dismayed. I know these things are gonna happen. But, I should bounce back like a a man on a trampoline. Halleluyah. I should be jumping for joy. Yes, Lord.
Alright, lemme go. I must go beat my wife in TROUBLE and then read the Bible, then pray...again. And then get back on this computer and promote for THIS THURSDAY. Halleluyah.
Oh by the way, does anyone know how to shrink a video file? I have been trying to upload KRISPY KREME on YOUTUBE since 1912. Someone help me.
Bless me indeed and enlarge my territory. Keep your hands on me and keep me from my enemies so that I may cause no pain. Halleluyah.
Keep it Natural.