A Lesson From BOROMIR

THERE ARE JUST CERTAIN WEEKS  that one finds himself

so entirely busy, so bogged down with a workload, bogged down

with news from this front and that front, so feeling bombarded

on all sides ... like you're Boromir in Lord of The Rings, taking

arrow shot after arrow shot ...

Ever had one of those weeks? 
Well, I've had several! 
And when you have "news" hit you, like a wave, 
"news" that may be a 
'heavy revvy' ... an enlightening but shocking truth ... 
or you just found out

that your best friend or favorite relative 
has been lying about you ...

It can be devastating.

No. I am not going to tell you what I have been 
through the past several months. 
Not yet.

Perhaps when I collect it all, 
sift through it all, "digest" and analyze

it all with the proper words, in the proper setting, then. 
Perhaps.

In the meantime, 
I will forge on.

I will continue to do the music that God gives me, do the video

work that I'm assigned, produce the artistic endeavors and assist

up and coming talent, write amazing and thought-provoking blogs

and still love my family and raise my kids and receive love from my

wife and be used by God to be a LIGHT to people all around me,

I trust ... continue to TRUST My God, the one and only True Living

God, and preach the Gospel of Grace, that God does NOT live or

dwell in edifices made by human hands but IN HIS PEOPLE.

We ARE the Temples ... We are the CHURCH, we don't "go to it".

I WILL CONTINUE to tell people that GOD IS LOVE, in spite

of wars and rumors of wars, in spite of the economy up and downs,

in spite of the price of gasoline, in spite of who is in the Oval Office,

in spite of some wicked despot ruler's activities across the pond,

and in spite of tons of religious, so-called "well-meaning" christians

who want to send the majority of the earth's population to judgment

and wrath for all eternity!

LOOK.  JESUS has NEVER, 
No, NEVER ever, ever, ever FAILED ME.

Nope.

I may have failed Him, but never He to me!

Sooooo, some believe that God and Jesus failed, somehow.

I can soundly say that THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD

DID NOT FAIL when He reconciled ALL MANKIND and set them ALL FREE

from SIN.  Yes. That's what I said. FREED ALL from SIN.

You see, the religious world wants you to believe that God tried ... He just didn't

quite succeed in getting all reconciled, and sadly, "all won't be saved". Puh-leeeze.

Folks need to read their Bibles again, and reading in context.

Romans.  2 Corinthians.  First John.  That's just for starters.

Folks start saying junk like, "Well then, everyone is going to have a license

to do as they please and just keep sinning and then go to heaven, right?"

They say it like it's some kind of joke.

GRACE is a power from God, it is the opposite of license!  Sheesh.

Some don't even understand GRACE, and want to keep you from

knowing about it and "wielding it." Me O My O.

The WHOLE WORLD is now dead to sin. Because Jesus took sin,

nailed the whole thing to the cross, took the rap sheet, took the

punishment, and satisfied Almighty God and satisfied wrath.

The whole world goes free ... because of Calvary.

"Dead to Sin" ... Alive in Christ. Only problem is, they all don't know it yet.

Did you know that "the free gift of righteousness" is available to all??

Go Back and read The Book again. Read it with the "glasses of Jesus".

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IN THE END,  Boromir fought to protect Merry and Pippin, and indirectly, Frodo

and the Ring.  He once was tempted to take the Ring. He later said he

did not understand. He once rejected the idea of Gondor having a king,

and certainly rejecting Aragorn as that potential king. Now with "many arrows"

in his body, he did get over himself, having fought the good fight ... and he finally

recognized the True King (Aragorn).

I love his last words:

"I would have followed you my brother, my captain, my king!"

And with that, I'ma sayin' that Ima gonna keep following Jesus, my captain, my King ...

regardless of what the rest of the world does, regardless of preachers

denying his deity, regardless of folks telling people lies, or folks lying

on others or folks giving up and lying down! Doing nothing is not

the answer!  Giving in to discouragement or depression accomplishes

nothing! The LOVE OF GOD constrains me, motivates me, drives me

to fulfill "my density", er, I mean MY DESTINY and by that 
SAME GRACE 
(I mentioned earlier) 

I WILL reach my goal!

It's just ...

I like to travel that road with no arrows 
stickin' in me.

UNTIL NEXT TIME

I REMAIN

TONY ;)