Well said. Doesn't get any simpler than that! God offers so much, and asks for so little. Who wouldn't want to have a love affair with God?! Like Satan, when you are in love with yourself, there is no room for anyone else! TR In agreement ... until their last breath .. they still have a chance ... there have been many deathbed conversions. Friends: Time is short and I think I'm losing my mind! Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality would determine that my id is operating to provide me immediate gratification for all my endeavors in my conscious mind. He would also assess that my superego is unconsciously internalizing ideals (which I have acquired from life’s learning and past experience) to suppress my realistic urges and to behave morally. Due to my current state-of-mind, he would conclude that my ego is desperately attempting to mediate between my desire to remain under the radar so as not to be attacked any more by satan and his minions – while simultaneously trying to make good decisions, forsake temporal pleasure, and to reach out to the lost in these final stages of normalcy before the Tribulation rocks this world. So what is my point? You got me! I guess I've gone off the rails and I'm just one messed up individual! Any practicing psychologist would diagnose me as delusional for confessing my sins at the foot of the Cross, for sacrificing earthly desires, and would place me into some type of psychoanalytic group therapy. Any respected psychiatrist would heavily-medicate me for my Rapturous illusions and fantasies. He would reason that Christianity is a restrictive hindrance that deviates into Heavenly compulsions, Divine obsessions, and Spiritual visions. Actually, I wouldn't argue with any of that analysis and diagnosis -- heck, I suffer from all of these!! A frantic cry would soon echo down through the halls of the sanitarium -- “Forget about the zip code, this Christian psychopath needs to be shock-treated!” However, no matter what the treatment (I don’t care much for inkblots, psychoanalysis is a drag, and Free Association only makes me reconcile the Old Testament prophecies concealed with the New Testament prophecies revealed), they can form their own conclusions -- I'll still believe in Jonah’s whale. They can certify me as crazy, they can lock me up and shut me down in a cell of padded foam, they can take my car, steal my 401k, evict me from my home, and continue to call me insane -- but they can never change the first sentence of the Bible whereby "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." Those that can't believe that first sentence shouldn't waste their time reading the rest of the incredibly-inspired Word of God. Nobody can steal my Eternal Salvation, or diminish the power of Jesus’ Name!!! They can try to implant an "innocuous tattoo" into my arm or a translucent mark into my forehead, but they will need to decapitate me first. I guess that I am currently struggling to find a happy medium in life and I am failing miserably. Thus, Freud’s conclusion that I will become tense, anxious, or angry has become an eventuality. I am tense because this world (as prophesied) is upside down: right is misconstrued as wrong, wrong is considered right, good is misrepresented as evil, and evil is perpetuated as good. I am anxious because I want desperately out of a world that I am stuck in against my will. I am angry because I no longer want to be told that I am in the minority and I need to shut up and take my narrow attitude outside. I am at the end. I have tried to divert the paths of nonbelievers toward our eventual destiny -- Heaven. I have tried to dissuade ego-centric individuals from their path down the highway to hell -- but to no avail! I have not been strong enough to overcome their rebellious hearts. I have not been able to overcome the id of my family, friends, and acquaintances that want to tolerate evil and remove me from their presence. Having said all that (did I really say all that? -- God forgive me!) I will not give in, I will not give up, I will not back down, I will not remain silent, I will not be forced to deny that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior -- with my last breath on this earth I will share our Blessed Hope with anybody ready, willing, and able to listen! May we continue to plant our seeds where we can, may we continue to water any seeds planted before us, and may we continue to praise Jesus Christ for bringing the increase!! God bless you Sisters and Brothers in these final moments! Humbly :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: We will all receive our blessing together, when He returns! TR
