Return of the Eagles

Most likely to become the least popular of these small writings, I will press on anyway. Besides, if popularity were the goal, those of us with marketing skills would just revert to them and say whatever was wanted rather than what was needed. But we will leave that to those who put together most of the large mailouts that comprise 90% of what I find in my mailbox each day. (I said most mailouts, not all)   

Marketing to draw attention to what God is doing or saying is not wrong, as long as it is with the right purpose, and done usually with the plain, raw, audacious manner that God likes to do stuff.  You know, like burning bushes, smoking mountains, fire from Heaven, walking on water, raising the dead and so forth.

Smoke, mirrors, taking anything that belongs to God, and doing anything to call more attention to ourselves than Him? Well, might want to leave all that outside the door when doing the King’s business.

But I digress…

All I started out to say was this:

At the deepest depth of sin, we take the right to ourselves.

It is what killed Adam and Eve.

The moment they took the fruit and ate, they died. They died, not because the fruit was bad, but because they took themselves out of the everlasting, loving hand of God, and in that split-second realized they were naked.

Without covering. No protection. Alone. Separated for the very first time. Do you see this and understand?

They tried to cover themselves with fig leaves. They may as well have wrapped themselves in the darkest, thickest fabric that would eventually be produced. Nothing would cover what they were now feeling for the first time.

We cannot understand this because we come into the world this way. We are already in this state…UNTIL the time when the Holy Spirit falls upon us with conviction of sin. And THAT is the day of our salvation, the ONE day we are PROMISED CONVICTION in our lifetime. (We may get more, but we aren't promised them)

But you already know all this don’t you?

So back to the part that is for YOU, you saved person, you…

Every time you and I sin, we are taking the right to ourselves AWAY from God, and BACK into our hands.

We are doing what Adam and Eve did.

Why would we want to ever follow in their example when it cost SO much to buy us back from the prison, the hell we were sold into?

Imagine being in a spaceship that is programmed for a destination far across the galaxy to a place that took some amazing math to program the onboard computer so your ship would actually reach that planet. But halfway there you get bored and turn off the autopilot and decide you want to wing it. Play it by ear. Just kinda feel your way.

Talk about lost in space…

You can’t take control of a spacecraft like that! You don’t have to be a highly skilled astronaut to know that!

Neither can you nor I take control of our lives like that.

How many times can you take control of your life before you are completely dead?

Do some sins kill you quicker than other sins?

Does God have one of those giant thermometers in Heaven with an angel using a red magic marker to fill it in whenever I sin and when it gets full I am completely dead and lost and go to hell?

1-I don’t know. 2-Maybe, I don’t know. 3- I’m pretty sure not, but like, wow for asking such a question.  Just, like, please make sure your KIDS go to Sunday school.