“God’s standard of love, for the whomsoever’s, applies across the board. His directing us to address our subjective doctrines is a mercy and  kindness and reflects his heart for us to, “come up here”, come up to a higher place where we can see better. I believe there is a “seeing” that happens over and above what regular people can see the moment people believe in Jesus. However they come to that faith is how they come to that faith and God gives them a seeing into the distance which they did not have before… of course what we do with it is another story.. It is a mercy that the Lord untangles our heads and all of the man-made stupid stuff that just floats around and bind us up in craziness. Like the seeds planted in my head from when I was a child, my mother’s words “what will people think of you” grew in my head many years ago and even bugs me to today. God says “don’t worry about what people say, that’s their problem.” Just getting the silly little doctrines out of my head, like “don’t judge me”, may seem small but  they are major attitude and life tipping things that float around in there which prevent me from knowing Him, and it is a mercy that He is untangling us. Primarily I want my madness untangled, not so I can get it right to make sure other people know that I’ve got it right, but so I can know the Lord. So let us go, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn. He will come, he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rains watering the Earth. And In Heaven There was a book brought forward and the names of his people who spoke on his name often was written down for a remembrance.

Social Porter said, “I want to be in that book more than I want to be in the movies.” He said: “One day i came to the end of myself, so,

I took off my “well pressed I know” clothes,

and put my “buffed to a high shine important person” shoes back in the closet.

Then I went over to the long hall,

with the tall walls of who’s-who,

which did this and that,

and said such and such,

and took down my pitiful little picture

and I hung up pictures of electricians

and tile layers,

Home Depot workers and cake makers

i hung up pictures of book-keepers,

service workers,

word-typers,

and floor sweepers.

Then i felt the pleasure of the Lord, and that made me happy.”