Satan's Highly Successful Tool

[Chris]

Satan's Highly Successful Tool

Satan's Highly Successful Tool
By Ronald Graham

"…for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." 2 Peter 2:19b. If I was the devil and I wanted to motivate people toward a certain goal to bring them to a point of full bondage to me, what tool could I incorporate into their lives to control their minds, hearts, even their very souls? T.E.L.E.V.I.S.I.O.N. What a concept; a tool that would start out to be so very innocuous but would grow to become a highly successful manipulator. After all, it's always on.

Every Christian believer knows full well that it is Satan's intent to remove God from the minds of men - period. Just look how much freer Satan is now that he's able to introduce subjects more in line with humanities sinful nature and desires, without condemnation or much resistance, all through the medium of television. The enemy of mankind has created a "leisure time" product that has now infiltrated every home, and what a potential for leading the masses astray. Television has become the full-on corrupting influence of a major segment of earth's society. Television now dominates the human mind and heart. What better source of influence than television to bring evil right into the living room of every home?

Most children today are brought up in homes where watching TV is a way of life. In many homes television has become the family baby sitter. This includes many Christian homes as well. Does anyone reading this commentary honestly believe programmed television has had a positive effect on humanity? That's like saying Satan has had a positive effect on humanity. "Well Ron, we have to take some bad with the good". Do we? When humankind capitulates to the enemy it only enhances Satan's position as corrupter in chief. Taking the bad with the good only further enables the bad. A mustard seed of corruption is as leaven in a loaf of bread; eventually it will permeate the whole loaf.

In today's culture it's almost unheard of to go anywhere in public where there isn't a television disrupting the peace. Department stores, restaurants, gas stations, tire outlets you name it, television is always on and it's thriving. We've been programmed to watch television every waking moment, and to believe in its content. All the while our minds are being polluted with the god of this world's concepts of good vs. evil. Conversely, his concepts of good and evil are both equally evil.

The following is a quote from a recent article on the Fox News website: "TV producers look for ever-more salacious and twisted reality plot lines. Reality TV is cheap to make and producers battle to find the most bizarre plot line that appeals to devils of our nature. It would be nice to find something on TV that is uplifting and inspiring, not depraved and abusive," said Dan Gainor, Vice President of the Business and Media Institute. "To the entertainment industry, there is no such thing as ‘too far,' so making fun of young grandmothers and pregnant teens is par for the course."

"For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Peter 2:20. By becoming entangled in the world of the satanic television, humanity is being systematically drawn away from God, away from our Lord Jesus Christ. Television corrupts, and although many have been introduced to the knowledge of the Lord, the entanglement into the pollutions of television becomes overpowering as that influence outweighs any other. Why? Because televisions are always on, while Bibles remain closed. Here's a simple rule to gauge your television addiction. Ask yourself these two questions. First, what's the first thing you reach for every morning? The remote or your Bible. And second, what's the last thing you put down each night before bed? The remote or your Bible. Overcoming the demonic influence in your very own home can be a daunting task as television becomes embedded into your very nature.

"…and to keep himself unspotted from the world." James 1:27b. The world loves television. In His word, God tells us to refrain from becoming defiled (unspotted) by the world. We have become an idolatrous generation creating our very own god which we cherish. People are predisposed to follow their god no matter what kind of idol that god turns out to be. The god of this world promotes his agenda through the medium of television. He and his lackeys pump mankind with deceptions that in turn men begin to believe; thus when presented with the truth of the Word of the One true God, that truth is regarded as fantasy or myth. Many today, because of the adverse influence of television, look at God's Word similar to the way they would look at a children's book of fairytales.

The world is upside down. Through the systematic infiltration of programmed television into our homes, we're being taught that every form of wickedness is now acceptable in our new and enlightened society. On the forefront of wickedness is worldwide acceptance of abortions – murdering the innocent unwanted. Next is the newly created belief that the act of homosexuality is natural – even God ordained . My brethren, this should not be so .

Satan knows full well that to entangle us in his deceit he mustn't simply offer sleaze as far as television programming goes, but that to influence us to a point of addiction he must also incorporate stories that touch the heart strings of humanity These plus breaking news stories of world events are all intentional to keep us glued to our chair as we stare at that inanimate object in the corner of the room, many times to the exclusion of all else.

On the surface television seems innocuous. But do you sense that the inception of television was a well thought out plan? If you answered yes then your senses are working fine because it was a very well thought out plan. The problem is it's a satanic plan created to entice us while polluting our minds. It entraps us and brings us into submission to the god of this world – to fulfill his agenda. Humanity has become so engrossed with programmed television that Satan now has them for all seasons. Today most people are so ensnared in their relationship with their television that that piece of furniture has become their god – satanic as it is.

People today want more entertainment than ever before. Television has been designated to be the force that fulfills that desire, and they don't even need to leave their living rooms. I've spoken with many people who agree with me that programmed television is a perversion and that we should not be watching it – especially those who claim to follow Jesus Christ. Yet these same folks continue to watch their desired programs – they are addicted. A line from the movie "Fireproof" would fit quite well here, "Watch out for parasites."

A while back there was a concept promoted with very little fanfare, or acceptance for that matter, and that was, "If you don't like what you're watching turn the channel". Well that didn't work because Satan is fully involved and he put the trash on every channel. Next a new promotion with basically the same concept was, "Just turn it off if you don't like it". That too was short lived because people were already so completely addicted to programmed television that they couldn't just turn it off. Finally there was cable and people could order the programming they wanted, but it was bundled with offensive programming so they had to pay for the bad to get the good (remember we're talking about a media outlet that Satan has designed to fit his parameters). Most would call this entrapment.

In 1995 when I became a Christian I was addicted to television. But it gradually occurred to me that I was watching a plethora of filth. Not only that, but as I began to realize and embrace my role as the spiritual leader of my family, I also became fully aware of the satanic influence I was allowing my wife and our daughter to be filled with. On Sunday morning we would head off to Church to worship with likeminded believers, but all week long our minds had been filled with the refuse supplied by the god of this world instead of the word of God. In the year 2000 (yes it took five years) my wife and I made the decision to never again bring programmed television into our home. Our youngest daughter was 10 years old and the things we were watching on television were so very offensive that we just couldn't allow our daughter to be satanically influenced.

When programmed television was eliminated in the Graham home, Bible study became our focus. What an eye opener that has been for us. Now, some twelve years later, I'm able to share my God given understanding of the Bible with millions of people around the world. I've honored God with my persistence in studying His word while eliminating that satanic influence in my family's life. Satan hates me because I follow Jesus Christ, but he despises me because I've turned my back on his influence. Yes, we still own a television, a video player, and a DVD player and we will occasionally watch a movie. But we are not inundated with the filth that the god of this world has designated for all homes to be saturated with. We refuse him and his invasion into our lives. There is nothing godly about programmed television.

Most people, including Christians, can easily give the score of the latest professional sports matchup but have no idea who Levi is in the Bible. Can we not see that this is intentional? Satan does not want us to read our Bibles, let alone actually study them. Therefore he's given us an alternative, which is television – a venue that is not only distracting but most people will derive much more pleasure from television than from studying their Bibles. Satan has been very successful at distracting people and leading them away from God. Certainly Christians should see this evil. Sadly many don't, and won't. So let me ask you, my friend, what does the Bible say about being led astray? "I don't know, I've been watching television". That's a truthful answer, but it's a sad commentary on Bible study.

"…and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1 Peter 3:15. How many Christians do you know who can give an answer for the hope that lies within them? For that matter, how many Christians do you know, personally, who are able to give a sufficient answer to a nonbeliever's inquiry concerning the validity of the Bible? "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." 2 Timothy 4:2. I wonder how many Christians today understand what it means to preach the word, or how many are always ready with all longsuffering to reprove, rebuke, and exhort using correct doctrine. My guess is not many.

So, what do we do about gleaning information concerning current events without the television blaring in the corner of the room? There are alternatives. Some are not much better than television. Believe me, the god of this world has his hands in every form of media. But there are still newspapers with world reports, magazines, books, and radio. Most people have computers and can visit many websites that offer a huge amount of breaking news and other content without being infected with Satan's shenanigans. But let me just add, if you seek the filth you will find it. Satan guarantees it.

T.E.L.E.V.I.S.I.O.N. is an acronym for "The Evil Lies Everywhere Visible In Satan's Invasive Offensive Nonsense". Don't fall for his deceptions, they are many and they are destructive. We are admonished in God's word to separate ourselves from the world, but how do we do that when we are so addicted to the things of the world? One way to break the addiction is to come to grips with the satanic influence being assimilated into our lives. My wife and I realized the adverse effect that television was having on our daughter early on, and we were determined that while she was a child we would do everything possible to eliminate that pervasive wickedness which was coming into the sanctuary of our home through programmed television. By doing so God strengthened our own resolve to eliminate that segment of the satanic influence in our lives and bring Bible study to the forefront. We also homeschooled our daughter which added a huge amount of responsibility to our everyday lives, but it was well worth it in the long run. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6. We watch our youngest child today at age 22 growing into the young women we always wanted her to become. And we are sure that's what God wanted also.

I can't say it any plainer than this, turn off the television and your life will change for the better as you learn to honor God in all you view and all you do.

God bless you all,
Ron Graham
All scripture is from the KJV and God breathed

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[KissimmeeBeliever]

I agree yet I think we may have a bigger problem with I.N.T.E.R.N.E.T but I don't know any way to break that down. Between television, internet, and now smart phones people are blinded. Watched a family sit down the other night at a table in a restaurant and each one was on a smart phone. People can't spend time with G-d while constantly being stimulated with wordly things. I wonder sometimes if the internet may be just about what every warning given from the Lord was all about. A person can only serve one master.

[AndyM]

I think it is all of technology in general. TV was first but the internet is so more immoral to an infinate degree. But just think how much technology has played in the spread of the gospel through out all the lands. My minister once said God uses sin to advance His plan. Grant you that technology has so so much sin associated with its us but it has Gods good words of salvation as well. As Christians we must thank God Almighty for His grace He as poured on us to focus on His truth and not the sin of this world. Walk with us Jesus in these difficult days ahead for we trust in your ways and know they are the truth to salvation. In Jesus name. Amen

[mattfivefour]

Ron overstates his case, as we all sometimes do when trying to make a point. (After all, when you're stuck in a ditch you have to cut your wheels hard and give 'er the gas to get out. Steering slightly away from the direction of the ditch will just keep you sliding along it.) But, having acknowledged that, it is so nice to see a good message from Ron again! This is the kind of teaching we used to know him for.

[mikhen7]

Favorite Line: "Most people, including Christians, can easily give the score of the latest professional sports matchup but have no idea who Levi is in the Bible. Can we not see that this is intentional?"

No more needs to be said. Here is another subtle deception: Multiple Bible translations!! I told the Church on Sunday to just listen to me read the Scripture instead of fumbling around trying to find where I am in their personal Bible. This way they could hear the full text and not miss the reading of the Word while being distracted through wondering why what I am reading isn't in their Bibles!!

God Bless!!

[ANY MINUTE]

Favorite Line: "Most people, including Christians, can easily give the score of the latest professional sports matchup but have no idea who Levi is in the Bible. Can we not see that this is intentional?"

No more needs to be said. Here is another subtle deception: Multiple Bible translations!! I told the Church on Sunday to just listen to me read the Scripture instead of fumbling around trying to find where I am in their personal Bible. This way they could hear the full text and not miss the reading of the Word while being distracted through wondering why what I am reading isn't in their Bibles!!

God Bless!!

Romans 10:15-17

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent?as it is written, How beautiful the feet that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esias saith, Lord who hath believed our report?

17 So faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.


Thank you for preaching the Word Pastor Mike.

[mikhen7]

Romans 10:15-17

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent?as it is written, How beautiful the feet that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esias saith, Lord who hath believed our report?

17 So faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.


Thank you for preaching the Word Pastor Mike.

I am constrained!! 2 Cor 5:14 2 Corinthians 5:14 I have a sticker on my truck "He died for me; I will live for Him!"

compels/constrains συνέχει6 synechei + present active indicative --> An ongoing repetitive action of not being able to keep my mouth shut about God. How is that for my Greek??

God Bless!!

[MikeD]

This is why I LOVE my work schedule. Have NO time for tv. A few things I do here and there on the Internet, thus being here, and spend some great time with the Lord while driving around. Just have to learn to stop "fussing" at the 4-wheelers.

BTW, it is good to read an article again from Ron G. I'll simply say, we need to pray for him and his family. Satan's really attacking them tremendously. But, he's sold out to the Lord and is holding on. Just pray for him if ya get the chance...

[ANY MINUTE]

I am constrained!! 2 Cor 5:14 2 Corinthians 5:14 I have a sticker on my truck "He died for me; I will live for Him!"

compels/constrains συνέχει6 synechei + present active indicative --> An ongoing repetitive action of not being able to keep my mouth shut about God. How is that for my Greek??

God Bless!!

I'll have to take you at your word on the Greek, but that is a cool sticker. Should be written on all our hearts.

[ANY MINUTE]

BTW, it is good to read an article again from Ron G. I'll simply say, we need to pray for him and his family. Satan's really attacking them tremendously. But, he's sold out to the Lord and is holding on. Just pray for him if ya get the chance...

Ron is a friend of mine, my wife spoke to them recently at the store. Yes he is sold out to the Lord, a fellow brother in Christ and I do pray for him and his family.

[Hannah]

I'm sorry I believe mankind have all been given a mind to think with and if they don't exercise their mind and think about what they are listening to and being taught that is their own problem.

Being too lazy to question what you are being bombarded with is not a valid excuse for being taken over by Non-Christian ideas, beliefs or thinking.

As a child I questioned most things I was introduced to either at school or by others around me. As an adult I continued to wonder if things I was told or taught were actually good/bad, right/wrong.

I think Ron Graham has forgotten God gives us all a conscience that He designed to respond to Him. The Bible clearly states for man to accept what is wrong or evil as good we have to FIRST reject God and what we instinctively know as being Right according to God.

RO 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Mankind literally has to Suppress God's Truth, God's right way before they can accept wickedness in it's place.

It isn't just a matter of brainwashing stopping us from finding God's Truth. Mankind has no excuse and we are all given the ability to know right from wrong as God defines it.

1TI 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

Every man and woman is given a conscience that is tuned into God and his ways. For us to abandon what God says is right for what is wrong or of the Devil, our consciences have to be literally seared so that it cannot respond anymore to what is of God. Here it says seared as with a hot iron, so that means it takes some doing to no longer respond to Gods right ways.

[Robert]

I'm sorry I believe mankind have all been given a mind to think with and if they don't exercise their mind and think about what they are listening to and being taught that is their own problem.

Being too lazy to question what you are being bombarded with is not a valid excuse for being taken over by Non-Christian ideas, beliefs or thinking.

As a child I questioned most things I was introduced to either at school or by others around me. As an adult I continued to wonder if things I was told or taught were actually good/bad, right/wrong.

I think Ron Graham has forgotten God gives us all a conscience that He designed to respond to Him. The Bible clearly states for man to accept what is wrong or evil as good we have to FIRST reject God and what we instinctively know as being Right according to God.



Mankind literally has to Suppress God's Truth, God's right way before they can accept wickedness in it's place.

It isn't just a matter of brainwashing stopping us from finding God's Truth. Mankind has no excuse and we are all given the ability to know right from wrong as God defines it.



Every man and woman is given a conscience that is tuned into God and his ways. For us to abandon what God says is right for what is wrong or of the Devil, our consciences have to be literally seared so that it cannot respond anymore to what is of God. Here it says seared as with a hot iron, so that means it takes some doing to no longer respond to Gods right ways.

I have to agree with Hannah on this: we can blame "technology" all we want, but then, what caused Cain to kill Abel? It wasn't a TV set or the Internet, that is for certain. Yes, TV has become a wasteland, and the Internet is a vast array of crud as well. But discernment isn't just for scripture, but our walk in ALL aspects of life. If we get rid of technology, then we are back to "stone age conditions", then what do we blame for evil? Yet, in conditions like those, murder, rape and other sin and evil still happen. No, I am not advocating that the garbage on TV is innocent, nor am I trying to vindicate the filth on the Internet. But at the same time, if we are saying that technology is evil, then we are also saying that God made man to sin by giving him a creative mind! Creating devices is not in of itself evil, but the intent and use of them is where the sin lies.

One last thing to keep in mind: we can sin with words and thoughts as much as we can with devices and gadgets. Adam and eve didn't need a PDA or a iPhone to sin against the Lord in the Garden of Eden....


..and BTW: Jesus used carpenters' tools in His living on earth. But a wood chisel can hurt or kill another person if used wrongly.

[KissimmeeBeliever]

I agree Hannah, guns don't kill people it's people that do that. Yet we have generations now that are so caught up in this deception that it is no longer as clear as gun/person any longer. These people spend every waking moment on the internet like a person addicted to drugs. Basically the sin of it, as I see it, is not what is on the internet it's the internet itself. My wife can spend Saturday and Sunday on Facebook and never come up for a breath. Spent all weekend on one site and accomplished nothing. There is so much at a person's fingertips I believe there are many kids that see this technology as man's lack of need of G-d. People can be everywhere at any moment. Can find out the thoughts of others across the world in a second. The scope of the internet, I believe, becomes people's G-d while also believing that we as people who invented this technology are superior in some way and really have no need for a higher authority. Just imagine what this does to a child just realizing the internet. Kids could view this as omnipresent/omniscient just like G-d. We look at this from an age before this technology existed so we know how to seperate ourselves but do these children and future generations?

[Robert]

I agree Hannah, guns don't kill people it's people that do that. Yet we have generations now that are so caught up in this deception that it is no longer as clear as gun/person any longer. These people spend every waking moment on the internet like a person addicted to drugs. Basically the sin of it, as I see it, is not what is on the internet it's the internet itself. My wife can spend Saturday and Sunday on Facebook and never come up for a breath. Spent all weekend on one site and accomplished nothing. There is so much at a person's fingertips I believe there are many kids that see this technology as man's lack of need of G-d. People can be everywhere at any moment. Can find out the thoughts of others across the world in a second. The scope of the internet, I believe, becomes people's G-d while also believing that we as people who invented this technology are superior in some way and really have no need for a higher authority. Just imagine what this does to a child just realizing the internet. Kids could view this as omnipresent/omniscient just like G-d. We look at this from an age before this technology existed so we know how to seperate ourselves but do these children and future generations?

The problem is: if we are not teaching our children to use it responsibly, what does that say about us? Anything has the potential to be used wrongly, in the wrong manner, and as a "replacement for God".

To put it another way: there was no internet, television, cable, books, or anything to feed Cain's mind when he and Abel walked the earth. Yet in a fit of jealousy, he murdered his kid brother and tried to deny any knowledge of the incident ( No, it was not "CSI: Eden" that prompted him to this!).

If someone is having trouble with a certain outlet, they should not use it without the discipline to do so. But to say technology should not exist and that we should simply do away with it is impractical and unrealistic for 2 reasons:


1) It is shunting responsibility from the person to the inanimate object ("The internet made me do it!!")

and

2) Sin is not inherent with an electronic device, but humanity. It wasn't computers that ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Proof of this is that in purely agrarian societies, civilizations with no technology and cut off from the world, and primitive cultures, murder, rape and other evil happened all too often. The Waodoni of Ecuador are an example of this: without the outreach of Rachel Saint and other missionaries to them, they would have of a certainty killed themselves through tribal war into extinction.

I am by no mans saying let kids wander the internet as they please; they need guidance and protection. But at the same time, if we start assigning sin to objects en masse, then we'd best remove every rock, tree and stone from the planet in the process.

The sin nature is in man, and even in a barren wasteland, he will find a way to sin. All technology does for sin is what it does for everything else: it makes it easier to accomplish.

[mattfivefour]

I understand and support your point, bro. But there is also another point— that too many Christians watch too much garbage under the guise of entertainment. We are suppose to be in the world but not of it. But much of our lives still revolve around the things of the world and the pleasures of life IN the world. I wonder if an alien arrived on planet earth and studied individual human beings throughout their daily lives, outside of Christians going to church would he find any real difference in behavior between the unsaved man and the so-called saint?

[broxi bear]

For me technology can be used for good and bad, like money can. They are not evil in themselves but are used to do all kinds of things. Eg, Internet/TV/Money can be used for porn or Christian ministry. They can be amazing & powerful tools for all kinds of things for the Kingdom.

[mikhen7]

For me technology can be used for good and bad, like money can. They are not evil in themselves but are used to do all kinds of things. Eg, Internet/TV/Money can be used for porn or Christian ministry. They can be amazing & powerful tools for all kinds of things for the Kingdom.

This is where I stand, however, I still agree with Ron in many respects. If we are able to tame our usage and monitor it for ourselves then great!! The uses for God's work are immeasurable. I have two young girls that if allowed would watch tv or internet 24 hrs a day. Even a percentage of the day requires a parent to monitor everything they watch. Most parents do not have the time to do this. If they did it would be a full time job and nothing else would get done. Ron is looking at the big picture, I think. Most Parents do not take the time to monitor everything that comes across that machine. I wish they did. Therefore, it has become an idol and a distraction. Competition for the Lord's time and a host of other things. I like the television and for me it is no issue. But here is my limit, a Christian movie once in awhile with my family, an old tv serial from the early days when tv was clean(er). the weather. Thats it. I have too many other more important things to dedicate my time too.

You are correct, it can be used for good or bad. It is an evangelism tool because the lost and many shut-ins are watching. But the majority of homes in the world that have access are not using it for that and there is a lot of corruption coming over the airways. It has a way of shaping world views that are not God glorifying. As Adrian said earlier, Ron does overstate his point.

God Bless

[Robert]

I understand and support your point, bro. But there is also another point— that too many Christians watch too much garbage under the guise of entertainment. We are suppose to be in the world but not of it. But much of our lives still revolve around the things of the world and the pleasures of life IN the world. I wonder if an alien arrived on planet earth and studied individual human beings throughout their daily lives, outside of Christians going to church would he find any real difference in behavior between the unsaved man and the so-called saint?

You raise a good point, bro. :)

[YeuEmMaiMai]

Here we go with another blame [insert technology here] thread. All you are doing is shifting the blame from the real reason. We are sinners and it takes A lot of effort to do the right thing in today's society and blaming inanimate objects such as TV, Internet, cell phones, etc is just skipping over the issue at hand.

I dunno about you guys but I can control what I watch on the TV and the Internet and what I buy on DVD/BR-Rom etc. As I find myself moving more and more towards God, I find that my habits are changing accordingly....

[mikhen7]

Here we go with another blame [insert technology here] thread. All you are doing is shifting the blame from the real reason. We are sinners and it takes A lot of effort to do the right thing in today's society and blaming inanimate objects such as TV, Internet, cell phones, etc is just skipping over the issue at hand.

I dunno about you guys but I can control what I watch on the TV and the Internet and what I buy on DVD/BR-Rom etc. As I find myself moving more and more towards God, I find that my habits are changing accordingly....

Awesome!!! God's precious Sanctification at work! Now if the rest of the majority of America had an active God-fearing relationship with Christ, TV and the Internet would be changing their programming. I heard a quote on Moody radio last night that struck me in the heart: It was a testimony from a Christian man who said he loved Jesus but realized one night that he spent the majority of his free time watching sitcoms, reality TV and others. That same night the conviction of God fell on him and he realized that every night he watched TV that in all honesty he was laughing at the very things Jesus died for. He repented and turned to the Lord for forgiveness. It was a real eye-opening and heart-wrenching realization. I wonder how many times WE have been guilty of the same. I know I have but I am assured that in actively pursuing a closer relationship to God that He will continue to turn the shovel over in my heart. I know He will do the same for all of us if we want Him too.

God bless