I want to speak of being a Christian. IN my life there have been times that I was not able to, “keep the faith.” I wandered off into the “garden of delights” at a time. Take that as you will. However, I spent many years since then climbing back because that “garden” was not Eden. It was hedonistic and a betrayal to my core beliefs. What brought me back onto the straight and narrow was my finally being at peace with combat. If you speak to a combat vet you know, they will tell you how deeply affected they have been. It is, in some cases, almost throwing away all that one once considered holy.
However, the same thing can happen to those who never fought in combat and I have watched many that I know wander off into this dark place. Some never to return. Suicide being one point of departure. I was once tempted to do the same but if I had you wouldn’t be reading this and that would have served no purpose.
I don’t come here as a preacher or one who thinks Heaven awaits me. I’ll be fortunate if I am not judged but my knowledge that I will be judged is what brought me back from the brink. Selfishness is what I contemplated. Doing away with myself to the pain of many who love me. If there is an unfair deed in life it is denying love and human comfort to these.
We are at a crossroads here on this planet, which is what was in the back of my mind when I began here. There are two ways to read the sign post. One is to shelter in Christianity and the other is to disregard it all and have a good time with sex, getting high, and cutting loose. It strikes me that it takes a certain maturity to actually be a responsible adult and the first aspect of being one is to grow up and act your age. Acting like a teenager at forty years old is a certain way to cancel your ticket to eternity. Eternity is what is promised but you have to take a journey to understand what this entails. Part of that journey is of the mind and the change of that mind that needs to take place. Look out at this world and see if it holds promise. If it does then you have missed all the signs that are evident now and that jibe with Scripture.
A person can say, “Look, it’s (the world) always been this way.” This disregards the thought it takes and nobody said it was easy. “A generation full of self,” is your first clue. I, me, mine . . . and no one else, is the attitude now. That is also what Jesus said when asked of the signs of the end.
Look at the internet, watch your TV, listen to conversation all around you. It is usually, “ME.” There is so much more, though. There is, “us.” We are fellow human beings and we are born imperfect. Once you realize that one of us is really no better off than the other there is a revelation. Doesn’t matter the money or status, in fact, those are the trip wires of Satan. There are many trip wires and, unaware of them, we fall again and again. There is, however, hope and that hope is offered by God in forgiveness of our trespasses. I am a prime example of this and that is what I will show you here.
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