What is your Ego like?

Mr. Webster defines "ego" as the conscious part of the personality component that is conscious, most immediately controls behavior and is most in touch with external reality. Maybe an easier way to describe it is the part of your mind that decides how you will act and react to the events, people and God in your life.

Basically there are at least two types of  EGO, they are the ones that:


Edge                                                    Exalt

God                        Or They                God
                                    
Out                                                      Over Everything!

Your freewill, a gift from God, gives you the choice to do either. But guess which way will make you truly happier...you guessed it. You and I were created in God's image to glorify Him.

"Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the catle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."    Genesis1:26 (NASB)

(There are two things I would like to point out in this passage, first, when God the Heavenly Father was talking He was speaking to Jesus the Son of God and the Holy Spirit. These Three are known as the "Holy Trinity." Second mankind was made in God's image. We are not all our own little gods.


"Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."                                   Corinthians 10:31 (NASB)

"If you will return, O Israel, declares the Lord, "Then you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detested things from my presence, And will not waver, And you will swear, ' As the Lord lives,' In truth and justice and in righteousness; Then the nations will bless themselves in Him, And in Him they will glory."                                             Jeremiah 4:1 and 2 (NASB)


Another great passage that descibes the heart of a Godly person is Psalm 145. As we do the things God seeks in us He abundantly blesses our life not always with health or wealth but in the eternal blessings of the soul which far out weigh the temporary life we live today.

"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."     Micah 6:8

 Should you choose to edge God out of your life, God will deny you a place in heaven with Him.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rains fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed that house; and it fell- and great was its fall."
                                                               Matthew 7:24-27 (NASB)

Jesus said it, I believe it and hope you do too.

Coping with Extreme illness

  I remember the day the doctors told us my Grandma Mason had liver cancer. I thought my world would crumble.  She had been the best grandma I could have ever had. Who would listen to my ideas, console my hurts and laugh with me when she was gone?

  Three weeks latter our family was saying good bye to her and burying her body. That was over 31 years ago now but there are days I still miss her. Grandma Mason was a rock in my life.

  In August of 2003 a doctor told me that I would be dead within 30 days. A colonoscopy revealed Crohn's Disease in its final stage. I was bleeding to death. My daughter Heidi couldn't accept this diagnosis. She called several gastrointestinal doctors in Atlanta who said they probably couldn't help me. Finally, Dr. Binderow told her that he would see me. He read the reports and examed me. He didn't give much hope, he said there was less than a 50% chance I would live through a surgery to help stop the bleeding.

  I agreed to let them try to help me. I lived through twenty-seven more surgeries by 2007. The last surgery was so horrible. After two days on a ventilator, I woke up with tubes running out of every part of my body. Ten tubes were draining blood and fluids.  There were IVs in my neck putting fluids and medications back into my body. Who can forget the nasty N.G. tube sucking blood and bile out of my stomach?

  I looked down at the incision which was from my breast bone down to the pelvic bone. Part of the incision was stapled shut and part of it was left partially open so it could drain. I looked in the mirror, my hair was mated and filthy. If it killed me I was going to wash my hair. (By golly, it almost did kill me before a nurse came in and helped me.)

  She was kind enough to help brush the tangles out. Having clean hair helped my attitude a lot. Prior to this I had cried and asked God why he had let me live through all this. That was a really bad day. What do you do to get through horrible days?

  After the shampoo and a sponge bath I was hurting worse than I've ever hurt. The pain from having mesh filleted off my stomach muscles, hernia repairs and having my one and only bowel restructured was so bad I was sure I'd die. I remember calling out to God,  "Please just hold me and take away the pain."

  Not long after that, I slipped into a really deep sleep. Have you ever cried out begging God the Father to hold you? It's an awesome place! Imagine being wrapped in His loving wings,  totally surrounded and secure in warm loving peace. His wings will literally shelter you from any storm the world can throw your body into in this life.

  I slept safe and sound for several hours before I woke up again. I woke up refreshed and even mustarded enough courage and strength to hobble down the hall way with my IV pouches in tow. Seven or eight days latter I was able to come home, yeah hey.

  The best way I know how to cope through the worst of days is to let God my heavenly Father scoop me up in His loving arms. I stay there until I'm strong enough to battle the rough spots with Him.

 Jesus never minds carrying us when we can't walk on our own but we do need to ask for His help.

"Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, For my soul takes refuge in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge Until destruction passes by."  Psalm 57:1 (NASB)

Although the storms maybe raging you always can have eternal peace in Jesus. There's NEVER a time we have to walk alone once we have accepted Him as our Savior.

"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:39 (NASB) 

  I hope you'll take time to read Psalm 57 and Romans chapter 8. Take these things to heart and thank God your Savior for them. In troubled times rest assured God will see you through them.

 

Sorry It's been so long since I last wrote to you.

  Goodness it has been such a long time since I sat down and scribbled my thoughts. Honestly I've missed writing. Have you missed my posts?

  If you know me or know my heart from my books or posts you know I write from my heart. Whether it's a good or bad time in my life I express my thoughts. Your choice to read or ignore my words is totally up to you.

  How have you been? What has been going on in your life? Are you happy or is this a sad time in your life? honestly, I would love to know so send me a message.

  Mark and I are still reading through the Bible. It still amazes me that after forty-one years of knowing Jesus as my personal Savior I learn something new everyday from that little black book. Passages I have read, heard and learned gain new depths every time I read or each chapter. God's word really does apply to every part of our life.

Like children, God keeps us captivated, interested and growing in His word. Baby Christians are happy with a little milk and some fellowship. But sooner or latter in all our lives the excitement and good times become troubled waters. As the world watches, we all either fall away or run to Jesus.

 The bumps and bruises often make us ask, "If you love me God, why did you let that happen?"  If we don't pull away from God, sooner or latter we will learn and grow from that bump in the road of life.  The meat and tatters of the Bible sure can help us through those bumpy times; can't they?

  The depth of our soul depends on the time we spend getting to know God through His word, prayer and so often the times He picks us up and holds us in the storms of life. I have truly learned to be content in whatever state I am in; not because of who I am but because of who God is. The Three in One (God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit) have never let me down. There is nothing to come that God will not see me through.

 As I grow in Christ, I'm ready for more of those luscious nuggets of wisdom from God's Word. They are new and fulfilling every single time. I bet you have a favorite meal; what is it? One of my favorite meals is fried chicken with taters and gravy. Could you pass the peas please and when we're done, how about a piece of apple pie and a cup of coffee? :) As much as I like that meal, there's no way I could eat it every day; unless I wanted to start clucking. God's word is full of a variety of wonderful meals in just a chapter or two at a time.

 Just as you get physically hungry, I hope you eat great spiritual meals daily. There's no need to starve yourself from Jesus.

 "For I know the plans I have for you declares the lord, plans for welfare and not calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find Me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile."  Jeremiah 29:11-14  (NASB)



 
 That whole chapter is full of good spiritual food. God Bless 

Sometimes I Ask God Why? (This post Is Not for Children)

Imagine gong in for a medical procedure and coming out to find you've been violated. I've heard it has happened but never dreamed it would happen to me. The good news is my scopes were great-no Crohn's and I can even avoid surgery for a while.

Waking up in the recovery room was odd. I went in the procedure room with a gown on but I laid naked, except for my socks, under a sheet. When I lifted the sheet, part of the bag that was cut out of the pouch for my stoma laid between my breast. I asked the lady who woke me up why that was there. She didn't know. She took it and threw it away.

The bag laid on top of my stoma, as human waste trickled down my left side. The top sheet was also covered in waste. "Why isn't my bag attached?"

"Derek, must have cut the opening out but forgot to attach it,"she said. Quickly she removed the tape and put it over the human waste on my skin. I started to pull it back off.

"I need a new bag and I need to clean this poop off my skin." She grabbed my hand and stopped me.

"No, you'll be fine. It will stick."

(How many of you reading this would want your human waste left on your skin and just covered with something? I didn't. I was afraid of smelling-not to mention the contamination factor around other people. There are times I hope these nasty people, who do such things, will one day have to live with an ostomy.)

I couldn't understand why my vagina hurt so much riding home. It felt like lots of sharp jabbing and burning pains, that were thrushing upwards. When we arrived at the restaurant I went to the bathroom to find a bloody slimy discharge in my underwear. I wiped it out and even smelt it. Fortunately, it wasn't semen, only my on bodily fluids with a little blood. I didn't say anything to my husband.

Of course I removed that bag, showered and put a new bag on when we arrived home. The next morning I woke up to find some one's art work on my stomach above my stoma.  A side ways "S" had been carved into my belly just above my stoma. No, it wasn't deep-just scratched in with a scalpel or the sharp end of scissors. Dried up blood added to the evidence.

My neck was bruised with two fingers and a thumb imprints right on my jugular vein. Had I started to wake up while someone was molesting me? Did they pinch the jugular to make me pass back out? Why was my vagina so sore? It felt as if someone had rammed their extra long fingers farther into my vagina than it had ever been reamed.

I went outside to help Mark mow. As I pushed the mower it felt as if my innards especially my vagina was screaming out in dire pain. I sat across from Mark at lunch time. "What's wrong-you're awfully quiet today."

I looked up.

"What are those black and blue marks on your neck?"

The tears began to flow. "I think I was Finger F%^ked after I was scoped yesterday!"

"What-Why didn't you do something to stop it!"

"That's pretty hard to do if you're asleep. I think the marks on my neck are there because I did try to stop it."

"Why didn't you stop it?"

"Mark, I couldn't. You must know I'd never want this to happen. Look at my neck-someone pinched my jugular to make me pass back out."

I never wanted anything like this to happen but it has. I don't know why God lets things like this happen. I do know it's Satan's favorite ploy to discourage me. I even considered suicide yesterday. There's no good in giving Satan that victory.

This isn't the first time I've been violated sexually, maybe it will not be my last. I am glad there is a hell for demons and evil men like this. Personally I hope they burn extra hot in hell, while I laugh in heaven.

Please pray for Mark and me. We are struggling. I'm thankful for these verses in Romans chapter eight. I hope they encourage you as well. God bless you.


¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that^[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[i] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

More Than Conquerors

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[j]

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God's Awesome Family

  Thinking about making the trip down to Decatur today made me sick to my stomach yesterday.It would be a lie to tell you I'm not afraid of semi trucks since my wreck with one in May. While I was getting ready this morning, I heard the rain hitting pretty hard on the bathroom window. But I had resolved to leave my fate on I-85 with God.

 Yesterday I asked my mom and a few close friends that are always close in my heart to pray for me. I always appreciate the people who care enough to pray. I know God hears their earnest prayers! I experienced many traveling mercies today, thanks to God. It seemed as if I had a gentle bubble around my big ole car.

 Remember when you were a child, and you'd ask one of your favorite siblings,"Would you go ask Dad...?" Anxiously, you waited for their return to see if their persuasion pleased your father. Remember how happy you both were when they came back with a big smile and said, "He said, "Yes!"  :)

Being part of God's family is like that when we share our prayer request with each other. Together we feel the joy of our Heavenly Father's blessing. For those of you who have shared those special blessings with me I hope you know how much I love you. You are near and dear to my heart forever. You are part of my FOREVER FAMILY. I'm even more thankful for a wonderful Savior who goes before us in every situation. We are so blessed to be a part of His love and grace!

Thanksgiving and Prayer  2 Thessalonians 1:3-12 (NIV)

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,^[b] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. ⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

⁵ All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ⁶ God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you ⁷ and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. ⁸ He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might ¹⁰ on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

¹¹ With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. ¹² We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.^[c]   

                                                                                                                                                                 

Romans Chapter 8:14-26

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,^[g] Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs —heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that^[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
                                                                                                                                                                   
     God Bless you- I'm praying for you too. I love you.

 

Victory always belongs to God

The only book that always applies in any believers life is the Bible. I am so thankful we were given The word of God. It is full of history, grace and wisdom from God to His people.

Mark and I have been reading through the Bible together. I am constantly amazed the way God works things out even when victory over the enemy seems impossible. When God tells us to do something He has a plan that will give us victory. We just have to follow His directions.

Nothing is impossible with God. Failure comes from doing things "our own ideas."
The Bible is full of wisdom and guidance. God's people must constantly seek His Face and grace in prayer and supplication. (Supplication means we go to Him sincerely and humbly.)

Judges Chapter 4:1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. ² So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. ³ Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Isreaelites for twenty years,  they cried to the Lord for help.

⁴ Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading^[a] Israel at that time. ⁵ She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. ⁶ She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. ⁷ I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands. ’”

⁸ Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”

⁹ “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. ¹⁰ There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.

¹¹ Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law,^[b] and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

¹² When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, ¹³ Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.

¹⁴ Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him. ¹⁵ At Barak’s advance, the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

¹⁶ Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera’s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left. ¹⁷ Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.

¹⁸ Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

¹⁹ “I’m thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.

²⁰ “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?’ say ‘No.’”

²¹ But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.

²² Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.

²³ On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. ²⁴ And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                            Judges chapter 4 (NIV)

True victory only comes from God. We are Nothing on our own. The only good in any saint is  The Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

We Serve A Risen Savior; He's in the World Today!

 May 16th, 2012 was a beautiful warm summer morning. Mark and I were going to take his car into Cumming GA. to have it serviced. I was following him. At 7:15 am, I entered  I-85 southbound at the Jefferson entrance ramp. Traffic was bottled up because of a skidish driver at the front of the ramp.

I looked over in the Left lane and saw nothing out the window or my rear view mirror. As I entered the left lane I saw a beautiful bright light with lots of beautiful colors in it. It had to be the Angel of The Lord. In fact, I smiled and said, "Well good morning Lord."

The bright light came right into the car and was sitting beside me in the passenger's seat. I remember being amazed at all the brilliance of colors radiating like a huge glowing diamond. But as quickly as that light came in, almost instantly I heard and felt the car being hit.

I never panicked, but knew I was in a lot of danger. Accidents on I-85 often end in death. Immediately after the first impact, my Buick slung around to the left. Now I could see what had hit me. As I looked out my driver door window I saw the grill of an eighteen wheeler. Thankfully the window was up. Had it been down I am certain my face would have melted from the engines heat. It felt like a five hundred degree oven door had just been opened.

Everything was going is slow motion. As I looked back out the windshield the northbound traffic was going so fast. I knew I didn't want to cross that barrier. The voice next to me sounded like Mark's, "Kathy, slip the shifter into neutral, take your feet off the gas. DO NOT TOUCH THE BRAKE!"

Immediately, I put the car in neutral. I never touched the brakes. A vision of one of my first days in   Physical Science reappeared like Deja Vu. As I sat in the front row, he wrote and said, "An object in motion will stay in motion."

I was proving that theory works as the semi pushed me down I-85 sideways. The heat was horrible, I reached up and turned the air conditioner down as low as it would go. My face and left side were so hot. As the semi gained control, he was able to slow down enough to pull his rig off to the left side of the road.

As the force slowed down I was now about a mile and a half from where this all began. Traffic in the right lane was still coming but I was a little a head of it so I slipped the transmission back into drive and put my car on the right shoulder of the road.

The bright light was gone instantly as I made it to the shoulder. I know it was the Angel of The Lord. I still felt His presence in a different way. A man rushed to my driver's door. I couldn't open the window or door it was caved in, but the glass never broke. My seat was broken and pushed sideways-but still in tack. No part of me was broken or bleeding.

The man said, "Lady, how in the hell did you survive getting hit by a semi? He had to be going 80 mph when he hit you."

I couldn't say anything. Several people came to the passenger's door. Someone opened the door, "Lady, you have to get out of the car now."

I just shook my head, "No." Mark walked up, "Kathy, you need to get out now."

"I can't leave me alone." Then a police officer told me I had to get out. Reluctantly, I climbed across the seat and out the door. The officer was afraid the car might explode. The semi had hit my car just above the gas tank. Ironically, His step up on the left side and his gas tank were what made the first impact with my car, but we didn't blow up.

The truck driver said, "Lady, I can't believe you are still alive. Do you know I was going 80 mph as I came over that hill and hit you? God had to have been in that car with you."

I looked up at him and said, "He was."

The truck driver drove for Moses Logistics. He sure wasn't traveling like Moses through the wilderness. I live on Still Water Lane and believe me I know I have walked through the valley of the shadow of death. I fear no evil because Jesus never leaves or forsakes me.

Latter someone called me a liar. They said there is no way you could get hit by a semi and live to talk about it. There are witnesses to that day. Mark was one of them. He watched as I sailed past his car.
My God is not dead-He is fully Alive. He is the same God who delivered Daniel from the Lions den. Just as God delivered Daniel out of the fiery furnace, He delivered me from what could have been a huge explosion on May 16th, 2012. Do you suppose some people called Daniel a liar too?

¹³ Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king, ¹⁴ and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up? ¹⁵ Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. ¹⁷ If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us^[c] from Your Majesty’s hand. ¹⁸ But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. ”

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual ²⁰ and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. ²¹ So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. ²² The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, ²³ and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace.

²⁴ Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?”
They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”

²⁵ He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

²⁶ Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”
So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, ²⁷ and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

²⁸ Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. ²⁹ Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.” Daniel 3:13-29 (NIV)





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