Love is our Lord, or Sin is our Lord.
Jesus is our Lord, or Sin is our Lord.
God is our Lord, or fear is our Lord.
The Holy Spirit is our Lord, or lust is our Lord.
Integrity is our Lord, or deceit is our Lord.
Sincerity is our Lord, or Hypocrisy is our Lord.

We comply with God or we comply with the world.
We take hold of God’s wisdom and live in humility
or we parade our arrogant ignorance as superior wisdom and live in pride as fools.
We honor God or we mock God.

At the end, on Judgment Day, will God lie or tell the truth about us?
On Judgment Day, will God judge righteously?
When Ananias and Sapphira sang “I Surrender All”, did God look
down on that and smile?
When Simon Magus offered to buy the Holy Spirit from the apostles, was Peter greateful to have a customer?
Did God’s wrath end when Jesus went to the cross and rose again?
Is His wrath a contradiction of His love?
Did God get rebuked and choose to amend His ways in favor of love after learning a new lesson and seeing that wrath produces nothing but bad things?
Or are we projecting human problems onto the nature of God?

Do we understand love if we can watch a sinner go to hell unwarned?
Do we understand love if we can comfort a sinner into hell?
Do we understand love if we can take God’s Word and give it a twist to fit our poor human concept of convenience of what we think love should be?
Can we judge another and call them liars and hypocrites because they contradict us even though they are true to God’s Word?
If we get all jaded, disappointed, disgusted, tired, worn out, burnt out, faithless, hopeless, pessimistic, and just don’t want to deal with it anymore, can we just coast along through life with a “live and let live” attitude avoiding conflict and escaping confrontation as if to tell God, “Just give me heaven and shut up already”?
Or is God entitled to some respect, love, understanding, and honor?
And if God be worthy and require it, is it for nothing but to stroke His fragile ego? Or is it for the greater good of the entire universe?

Do we even know God?

I don’t know about you, but I know there is nothing at all that is good about me except that which was brought about by God, and knowing that, I am happy and satisfied and thankful just to have a relationship with God.

I don’t give a rip about appeasing those who fight for ways to justify slaughtering babies in the womb. I don’t care about the moral or ethical requirements that sin would impose on God or His servants. I don’t care about keeping a fair balance between God and Satan according to Satan’s perspective. I don’t comply with the demands of a redefined rendition of love. I don’t want to be running from ghosts that are not there. Nor do I want to be entertaining ghosts who are there while pretending they’re not. I don’t give a rip about getting Satan’s approval of what it means to be a Christian. Nor am I seeking permission from anyone to trust in God.

Now if that is somehow repulsive or arrogant or proud or naive or indecent or hypocritical or foolish or abusive or whatever in your eyes, get over it. It’s your problem. Not mine. I care about people of all races, religions, and such, but I don’t care about the gods of all religions in the least. If you wish to take that as disrespect for the people who engage in other’s worship, just remember that this is not my concern.

If you are an atheist crying out for me to be fair according to your standard, I would ask you how well your atheists are doing in treating Christians fairly, say, in North Korea, or in China, and how well did your Stalin and Pol Pot do in regard to “tolerance” toward Christianity?

If you are a Muslim, I may love you and respect you dearly as a friend, but if you feel I have a moral obligation to respect and honor your religion, I would ask you how well your religion did with our WTC, with the 500 to 600 churches that were burned down in Indonesia only a few short years ago? And how tolerant is your religion when a Muslim wants to convert to Christianity in, say Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Lybia, Somalia, Malaysia, and many other Islamic nations? Would you like America to promote your freedom to promote your religion here the same way Muslims promote freedom for Christians to promote our religion in those lands?

And how about Hindus. Would you like to have the same respect and freedom given to those Dalits or the “Untouchables” caste in India who were poor and destitute and had their villages burned because they wanted to convert to Chritianity, a religion that believed people of all races were precious enough for Jesus to die for?

When you speak of “tolerance”, what do you mean? Tolerance of the poison that would send a soul to hell never to hope for escape through all eternity? Is that love?

Or is the problem that sin has been redefined manipulatively and abusively in order to control individuals, such as in the selling of indulgences to support the building of churches and advancement of a religion, or the carrying out of Inquisitions?

To whom are we accountable for our lives? A tall hat? A collar? An institution? The approval of man? The manipulations of a charlatan or abuser or cult leader? Do we need a mediator between God and us other than Jesus Christ to filter out His Word lest we be led astray by the Word of God? Or does wisdom demand we listen to everyone who asks, “Has God really said not to eat of the that tree?”

Ministry is not about getting people to worship and serve and honor us for our superior wisdom and position in religion. Ministry is about serving God and being faithful and loving in God’s eyes. It isn’t even about getting others to believe we are faithful and loving in God’s eyes. It’s between God and us. It may be true that we cannot be convinced when someone lies and says their religionship with God is real and that’s all that matters. Their relationship with God may be nothing more than something they hope will protect them and win undeserved trust, and their claims may be nothing but an attempt to strike back and abuse those who don’t have a legitimate reason to trust them. Yet it remains true that our relationship with God is a choice we make–a choice nobody else can make for us. We can be liars, or we can be honest. We can love or pretend to love. We can manipulate or bully and hurt people, or we can trust God. And people on the outside will judge us falsely whether we’re good or bad. We may receive honors we don’t deserve and slanders we don’t deserve.

Whatever may happen, on that final day, where will we be with God?
That’s what matters.