Just a test

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A.W.Tozer is listed by many as a great writer. He wrote to Christians and the majority of the time he had some real harsh criticism that no one denied were true. Those are generally ignored, even though they are true. One thing interesting I like about him. He called himself a minor prophet and while many toos those ideas out...I don't. He was.

I read this mans words and sometimes I wonder Why can't a christian be a Christian?
Devotional

One thing is certain, a Christian's standing before God does not depend upon his standing before men.

A high reputation does not make a man dearer to God,
He knows us each one,

As I began to write this BLOG, I realized I had started to Outline the Devotional. Thirty years ago I used to do that with Bulletin Boards (Remember those?) I decided to stop and consider reviving that here as a Almaniacal Idea...,

Benjamin Franklin Christian

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Everyday that I do in fact read this gentleman's work I am always challenged to reexamine my fortitude in the bright spotlight of his words : Devotional.

Dare I stand the cross examination when it would be easier to have a blogger, or a investigative reporter, maybe a paparazzi, or the current fad of a leading
expert proffer their opine on my behavior, action or attitude?

Hah!! Then I could appear on Larry King Live talk show to explain myself, my words, my attitude or even my spin on what I am or what I did. Is this what its all about? How to influence, justify, persuade, deceive, conceive or in some way present myself better than I am?

I am me. You are you. God is God. After that it's all rhetoric. A TV spot. One story to make or break you. I like this mans words to me a Christian. Remember I said for me, it is not for you, frankly, you aren't ready for it, no offence.

1.) After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost; He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation.

Whoops. Not what I want to hear.

a) After sanctification or being set apart for a purpose.
"ahhhh you mean I got saved for a reason and it's not to beat up on every other unsaved person in the world?

2) If you seek great things for yourself - God has called me for this and that; you are putting a barrier to God's use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God's interests. You can only get there by losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.

Uh oh. Somebody got it wrong.

Why can't I be a Doctor, a Lawyer, an Indian chief? a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker?

YOU CAN, I cannot. I have to remember I have a God you do not. My God requires me to do as he chooses for me.

I have purposefully, persuasively, intellectually and intelligently relegated my inalienable freedom to be an idiot of free will and free choice to NOT BE FREE.

I AM NOT.

You are.

You can and do act any way you see fit and can do so without respect to race, creed, color, morality, civility, integrity, or even penalty. Of course if you get caught you suffer consequence if the Laws of your land detail it.....unless you can spend enough, buy enough, lie enough, spin enough , or sway enough people to do what you want.

Guess What? I CAN'T. Rats!!!

3) I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say - Lord, this gives me such heart-ache. To talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do any thing He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness. Self pity is of the devil, if I go off on that line I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. I have "a world within the world" in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten.

Lucky for you he means me, you can't do this, you're no the Christian...... I am.

You know I really would like to stand up and say Mr President I don't like..., and blame the President for Iraq, or Iran or whatever, but he said he was a Christian so if I read this right......I gotta Blame God, after all that's who he says he is responsible to.

In fact when all these wrong things happen he even won't let blame Him cause whether I know it or not...,

I am NOT God.

Maybe you are, but I am not.

Maybe you have to be prodded into actions, responses, careers, choices and decisions you know darn well you're not smart enough to know what will happen tomorrow.

Me? I know I am not God. I know I am not the President. I know I am not You.
I do not know what you may or may not do. I only know me and this:

When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do any thing He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

There are a lot of people that tell me what the Bible says or what their favorite Pastor says or priest, mullah, President or Leader but frankly....I really don't care. What I care about is me.

Sound familiar? You are you. I am me.

I am Christian, what makes me that way is not really what you say or I do but implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness. I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do any thing He chooses.

I will never be held up as an example, but I will be challenged by what I follow and that I know is only Him.

#Radical Extremism? God I Hope So.

Benjamin Franklin Christian