How this has to break our Dear Lord's heart. All he ever wanted for us is "the best!" He created us, He was sustaining us in the garden. A perfect place for mankind to thrive and walk with God. He gave us a few rules to make our life perfect, and we threw them in the trash heap. How He must long that we would wake up, and follow His truth, His will and His ways...
Perhaps the reason is easier to imagine than we think.
Looking every day for the new heaven and new earth. Weary of the mess here."If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God's glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner."
Martin Luther (letter to Philip Melanchthon, May 8, 1521)
(aka, "sin boldly")
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I went to Mardi gras when I was seventeen yrs old back in the 70s.
I also remember having to go to New Orleans back in the early 70’s to take a state board exam for a P.T, license, and the location was smack in the middle of Bourbon Street. It was “shock and awe” even back then, and that was just during a “normal” day. I can only imagine what Mardi Gras is like, and especially since Satan is “on a roll” these days.
