Cara Called Bubbling Over with Joy. Wow!

My 20 year old daughter, Cara Beth, called me today and said that as she waited at Starbucks Coffee Shop to go to church, a young man struck up a conversation with her about God. He explained to her that the Bible was not any more inspired than his own opinion. That every person has to make his own way to God.
She told him that that doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and that his reasoning was circular and defeated itself.
If your opinion is as good as anybody else's, then at least the opinions in the Bible are good. If they are not, than neither is yours.
Further, it stands to reason that there would be a protocol to approach God, since there is a protocol to approach any other person of importance... Kings, presidents, or even the mayor of a small city.
The Bible gives the protocols and since I've used them, I have experienced tremendous personal experiences with God.

The protocols for approaching God successfully include understanding what you are through sin; where your present choices are taking you; and what you can do to alter that destiny. Here are the protocols.

• For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ( The Bible: Romans 3:23, 24)
• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord. (The Bible: Romans 6:23)
• We are proclaiming: That if you will confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (The Bible: Romans 10:9, 10)
  That, she told this man, is the proper protocol for approach to the Lord God King of the Universe.

Now we pray that the Holy Spirit of God will supernaturally follow up on all who hear those words or who reads them here, convincing them of their sins that seperate them from God and cause everyone to need a savior; of the reality that God sent Jesus for everyman and woman on the planet, as a way of escape God's righteous wrath against sin and those who do it; and that by giving himself to die in our place, he took responsibility for creating humanity even though he knew what some would chose; that the Spirit would reveal the judgment that will fall on those who reject Christ's free gift of eternal Life.
Cara was pumped up and full of life from her encounter.
If you have never accepted his free gift, I recommend Jesus to you.
I'm a satisfied user...
Later!

Some Flowers Have Fangs

A friend sent me a picture this morning, of a rattlesnake ready to strike, hidden among some beautiful wild flowers. It inspred the following poem:


Some Flowers Have Fangs

Watch your step,
And how you drive,
Life has dangers,
You must survive.

When you walk,
Must stay alert;
Avoid the things,
You know can hurt.

When you're driving,
Other people strange;
Among the flowers,
Watch for fangs.

All that glitters,
Is not gold;
Don’t believe,
All you are told.

Things look so good,
When seen from far;
Don't sell your soul,
To chase that star.

Guard your family,
Kids and wife;
Bless your husband,
Drop the strife.

What God has said,
You can trust;
To learn his Word,
Is life's great "must".

Watch your step,
And where you dive;
The traps of life,
You can survive.

Some things glitter.
But they're not gold
Don't "buy in"
To all you're sold.

If slick man's tale,
Predicts great things;
Among the flowers;
Watch for fangs!