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From the beginning it was not so...

shunammite

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How to pull thoughts together quickly before people get BORED...

*thinks hard*

Marriage, Divorce, Love, Death, Salvation, Damnation, all like pairs to me.

For the hardness of your heart, Moses allowed you to say "I don't like you, get lost." To the one who was BOUND TO YOU, in your youth...

But, from the Beginning, it was not so...for this cause shall a man leave his mother and his father and cleave to his wife.

When my mother and my father forsake me, then the lord shall take me up.

The "wife of your youth"...the Lord Himself, I believe...we were full of joy and confidence, as little children, greeting every stranger with a smile, confident we were "worthy", curious about everything without fear.

"Moses"...the "law"...gives us "reason" to DESPISE other people, with a "clear conscience", lolol...a hard conscience...dependent on BLIND EYES, dependent on our weakness, our vulnerability to VANITY...and we will pass that one back where it came from, Rom 8:20.

He that loves is born of God, he that despises despises God, I John 4:7, I Thess 4:8.

It is the "strange woman" that teaches us to hate, to "save ourselves", lol..to set one another at nought. Joseph ran like the very devil to get away from her, she pulled his clothes off and he landed in prison, but hey it all turned out all right.

FLEE HER CLUTCHES, there is a way that SEEMS right, but it is not THE WAY...that leads to Life.

We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately...on a tree...cursed is every man that hangeth on a tree...he was made a curse for us...but we are all cursing also, and paying the penalty, either with, or without Understanding...

Well it is impossible but that offenses should come, woe to them by whom they come, for an "offense" to really OCCUR, it has to be RECEIVED...granted, the flesh cannot really stop bullets like ol' Neo in the Matrix...but the Spirit can. Sorry I'm not receiving assaults at this time. lol

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men, Rom 12:18. Die trying, as it were. Because it is NOT really "possible", you would have to ABANDON YOUR BIRTHRIGHT...and that is not an option, "it is required in a steward that a man be found faithful", be thou faithful unto death.

But strive anyway...after that Mirage, the White Rabbit, the Peace with All Men, that must accompany any sort of "holiness", to See God...

He that endures to the end can see that which is Invisible.
 

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Yikes the titles don't show up much, mine said,

lol Well I'm an INSANE METALLICA FAN!!!

But they aren't "death metal"...Het has two pair of praying hands tattooed on his chest with a cross in the middle...and his kid's names...

I am trying so hard to describe Life...but I guess death and life are sort of intertwined...

Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except it DIE, I Cor 15:36.

But there are some kinds of "death" associations that are just pure useless vain EVIL to me...however I suppose they would not exist, even in the minds of people, if they didn't serve some purpose, for some limited time.

I have a 24 yr old son, mentally ill, over the "fear of hell", I'm pretty nutty myself, "naked and not ashamed" too.

:)

Thanks for reading, btw. And responding.
 
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