Good evening and Thankful Thursday. As we continue in the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19 I can remember it well as though it happened yesterday. The year was 1975 (ancient times) and I had saw my Dad, whom I adored ( and still do ), smoking a cigar. I thought this was so cool. I saw this as a passage to manhood. So each day I would take one of his wrapped cigar and place it in my mouth and act as if I was smoking it. One day my Father, whom I love, saw me doing this and was a bit perturbed. I thought I was going to get another epic whipping ( I would say the extension cord was part of my young life, like a best friend so to speak). But he did not. He instead ordered me to smoke the cigar. I coughed and wheezed all throughout this ordeal. My Father was trying to teach me a lesson before I would become older and he thought this would curb me from Slipping Into Darkness.
Before I get further into this teaching I want to define the words slipping and darkness. I go to my source of definitions and that is dictionary.com. The word slipping means as follow; to go easily over the surface; to
slide involuntary; or to become disengaged. Darkness means as follows; the state of being dark, absence of light; and wickedness or evil. The next three paragraphs will have scriptural reference along with a personal story as well.
As we get into the teaching of Slipping Into Darkness I go the Word of God and Deuteronomy 13:1-3. In this passage it explains how God tests our resolve to see how strong we are. After my fiasco with the cigar
my next step was in 1976 when I began my journey into darkness. I was going easily into the surface to a state of being dark when I began drinking Hamm's and Stroh's beer because I listened to others than my parents and saw my grandfather and uncles drinking beer. As in the times of when the people of Israel was Slipping Into Darkness, so was I.
In looking at another example of Slipping Into Darkness in the Word of God I go 1st Kings 12:25-33. In this passage Jeroboam has become king of Israel of one half of the kingdom ( Judah being the other half ) and
ordered two golden calves to be built so the people of Israel can give them honor which goes against what our God represents. In 1986 I listened to my peers and saw what they did and began to slide involuntarily into the absence of light by doing California Sunshine, Window Panes and Yellow Dots, which is LSD in the pill form. I was Slipping Further into Darkness as was the people of Israel.
In looking in the last example of Slipping Into Darkness in the Word of God I go to Matthew 27:3-9. In this passage we see where Judas after betraying Jesus commits the suicide. There was a time in my life in 2000's
when I was becoming disengaged and evil thought were going through my head. Things were not going well for me and I wanted to give up. As when Judas thought about what he had done and saw life as empty so did I and I was Slipping All the Way Into Darkness.
As I come into the conclusion of this teaching it is easy for a person to Slip Into Darkness. Job loss, foreclosure, being attracted to some one other than your spouse and acting on it. Being prodded by peers to take drugs, drink or forget your morals is another way to begin the Slipping Into Darkness. Your patience, trust and faith can be tested and you can Slip Into Darkness. We have to lean on God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit in these times. They bring light into the darkness and will keep you from slipping. Have a great weekend all. I give God all the glory and honor for this teaching. Please join me for my untitled teaching at this time. May God bless you and keep you all.
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. This past month I was riding with my friend Angela Francis. On this particular day she had to go get her hair done and her friend Roxanne' shop. I had done this numerous times in the past so when I was getting ready to leave I told Angela I was going to the forest preserve to sit and wait as she got her hair done. At the forest preserve I would be able to do two things while I was there. I would be able to think of ideas for my blog, my radio show and my daily postings on Facebook. When you attempt to write you sometimes get writer's block and need to get to a different atmosphere ( Hmmm Writer's Block may be a blog soon LOL ). The other reason I wanted to go to the forest preserve is because it was hot that day and I needed some shade. So as I approached the forest preserve I put on my left turn signal and waited for traffic coming southbound to clear. After
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. Growing up we used to love to take pictures. Maybe not myself because I had a self confidence problem, but everywhere you went there was someone taking pictures. In grammar school we took pictures every week. In high school we took them every year. At church we took pictures. In the club we took pictures as a group to show we all went to a party. Most of the pictures we took were with a Polaroid camera which had great quality then. But if you wanted the best pictures you wanted the photographer to take your pictures. This was one of the coolest professions back then because all the ladies who wanted to be models or actresses had to go to the photographer to get that photo to take to the different agencies to show how they look. So in order to get the best quality the photographer had to go someplace where he could get the best results. It was his Dark Room. This is the na
Good morning and Happy Friday. The summer is now beginning and the weather is now reaching its highest temperatures. It has reached a high point of 90's so far in the Chicagoland area and it appears to be nothing in sight to relieve us of these conditions that are almost drought like. As the summer gets ready to start in earnest next week we anticipate the warmest temps of the year after a winter that saw a little snow but the hawk, ( that's what we call the wind in the CHI ) was in full effect. But the sun has been out daily and we need a little moisture in our lives. We expect things to get wet in order for us to not only cool off but to wash away some things and bring a freshness of new things in our lives. The hotness of the weather coincides with the hotness in our lives. We need things to cool off a little bit but need some things to come down so we can enjoy the things in our lives that is promised to us as Christians. We are faithful and trusting in his Word. So as we
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