Somewhat lousy golfers, you can battle back and beat the blues but to
do this you will have to decide to stop pushing Satan's knife sticking out of your back in even further.
Yes, somewhat lousy golfers that's right. You will have to stop saying life in
Satan's bunker is good.
Lovers of peace on the golf links, evil- behaving Adolf Hitler was and is no golfer to
emulate. He was a human vessel that Satan, our enemy, used for his destructive
purposes. Hitler was a
traitor to the cause of peace. Never idolize such a person.
Our
celebration is Jesus Christ. Only He can bring us peace with God.
Golfers with lawless legs, those fig leaves of self-effort that you are
attired in will not solve your problems with your putter.
Beware, fellow golfers, for God notices cheating on His golf
links. Lovers of golf Jesus Christ, God Almighty, is not a golfing snob. When
your cries for help to improve your game are sincere He will not snub you.
Isaiah 53: 6
All we (God's
creation) like sheep hath gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him (Jesus Christ) the iniquity of us all.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him (Jesus Christ); he
hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin...
the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Precious readers, help is available for you; so that you
desire to limp home to God Triune, Our unique Creator and Author of the Holy
Bible. Our understanding is fast forwarded when we make an effort to learn
about names and places.
Present day Jerusalem, as in the time when Jesus Christ was on
earth, was and remains a city filled with great tension. Its inhabitants are
surrounded by enemies and peace appears a distant prospect.
Jerusalem, however, when analyzed consists of two
words city and peace. Jerusalem is God's city of peace because the Prince of
Peace, Jesus Christ, offered (and still offers) us peace with God as we trust
in Him and what He accomplished on the Cross. Even though Jerusalem's
inhabitants and occupiers throught history have ongoing mistreated and
murdered God's messengers God has used this most violent of cities to do His most beautiful work of
grace, mercy and love through Christ's suffering on the Cross.
The events of Calvary show us the type of God we have in Jesus Christ. So profound is His perfect love that He can take
those who are vile and murderous and transform them into praiseworthy
peacemakers. Soon when He returns to earth He will return to Jerusalem as Judge.
He will soon recreate heaven and earth to His own liking.
Battered and bruised golfer, with the ludicrous golf
swing, don't be tempted to limp off somewhere else before you have given
divinely compassionate Jesus Christ a fair go.
Not very good high jumpers for excellence, if you are
starting to realize that you are too shaged and knackered to high jump your
way out of Satan's bunker you can begin to feel pleased with yourself; for you have taken your first step to safety. Turn then now with your second,
third and fourth steps to Jesus Christ; for only in trusting Him can He launch
the adventure of catapulting you safely to salvation.
Macho self-sufficient men and women
, when will you
stop imagining that you have seven daggers hanging out of your back. Do you
not yet grasp that manhood isn't proved by a false imagination? Super tough
guys and girls, don't you yet understand that arming yourselves with knives,
guns, grenades and a rebellious spirit is not the way to hallow the name of
Your Creator God?
Don't you yet understand that danger runs through Satan's
bunker where God's word is being trampled on?
And don't you yet understand that the evergreen flower
called true faith in Jesus Christ can't grow in corrupted soil?
Ladies and gentlemen stuck in Satan's dignity-destroying
bunker. Satan's bunker is a grim place where true faith, true hope and true
love can't blossom, yet miraculously rescue is possible for you just as much
as it was for me when I was in the same predicament.
Do you know, neighbors stuck in the soil of
secularism, that we have a God who is still willing to offer to rescue
the lawless who are legging it from one lawless act to another? Yes,
remarkable comebacks are still possible no matter how much you are limping,
but for this to happen, limpers will have to stop clinging to their current
collection of lunacies.
Look, spiritual lazybones, God didn't put us on earth for a life of
spiritual inactivity. Let's pull no punches human beings must renounce their
false belief of using guns to sort out trouble. Haven't we learnt yet that
terrorism is best fought with a pillow and pure prayer?
The pillow is used to get a good sleep and prayer is used to
beseech God to disarm terrorists.
True enduring peace will only ever be procured without
resorting to guns.
Jesus
Christ, precious, Rescuer of sinful mankind, help any inelegant golfer
who desires to be helped. We turn to You; for only You can help the suffering
climb back from being spiritually dead to being obedient to God's will. Precious Author of
Grace, You know every living golfer who hasn't got his game all together.
Mark
5
2 And when He (Jesus Christ) was come out of the ship, immediately there
met Him out of the tombs a man (Legion) with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no not
with chains:
Loving Lord Jesus Christ, just as You helped and cured Legion we know that you
can help those who behave like him.
All golfers (whether they study the holy Bible or not) have
the capacity to yell for help, so isn't it about time we started yelling for
help?
Can't you sense, golfers who never or rarely pray for divine
guidence, that the soles of your shoes are stuck on the worthless chewing gum
of secularism?
Can't you sense that the life of a godless golfer is very, very
unnecessarily tough?
Can't you see that Satan's soul tormenting bunker is a place of
alcohol-fueled, shameful incidents?
Golfers, if you are stuck in a lifestyle of
lunacy my prayer is that you grow to understand that the healing Christ
has the power to transplant and transform you.
Precious, precious Father God, Yours is a love that can wash
off fear and terror etched on any face. Mighty glorious, healing
power resides in Your precious being.
Golfers living life on two dodgy legs, no matter how wearied
your body or soul is you can still pray. Pray now in the name of the good Samaritan,
Jesus Christ; for God Triune longs to hear honest prayers.
A
word of information for your good ear: you will need to start praying right now in order to stop dashing about on that scooter
called "secularism". Surely, adventuresome golfers, by now you understand that there is no helmet that can keep you safe on that dangerous vehicle.
Future friends of common sense, whether you are imagining that you are a
golfer on a runaway scooter or a golfer on stilts or steroids God's Word to
you is be still and know that He is God.
Ladies and gentlemen, God owns our time and
talents. Our challenge is to acknowledge this truth by word and deed before Him.
Ladies and gentlemen, too many of us in our society are swerving about on
scooters looking for foolishness to crash into, acting like real goats,
blissfully shrugging our shoulders as we announce that we are innocent of any
illegal driving on God's highway.
Such indifference to God's highway code will only ever be endorsed by our enemy, the rebellious liar Satan.
Dads and mums, my word to you today is that you should stop stalking
trouble.
Dads and mums, it is worth remembering that Satan operates in the
battlefield of our mind. It is worth remembering that even after our mind has had a thorough shower in God's word and been blessed by
a gracious, generous splash of deodorant from God's cleansing love we still stink somewhat of
sin.
Fellow sheep, let us bow our head and pray for all sheep who are dying
before our very eyes; because they have chosen to drive scooters called
"this suspect direction away from Jesus Christ and no other".
Studious sheep, speeding on your scooters
through the door of
Science in preference to the door of Scripture, God's door of love, will
result in you running out of petrol. Where is the fun in that?
Heavenly Father, Our faithful God, it seems to me that one of the root
causes of strife in today's world occurs because we are trusting in guns to
solve our problems.
Continue to teach us that guns misused become tools of terror.
Heavenly Father, Our faithful God, in Exodus 20 You command us to love You. To love You will involve us having praise in our heart
and mouth for You. Ladies and gentlemen, in order to demonstrate that
we have faith in God's word His holy Word must become our sufficiency.
Just as God brings healing with His Word; so too can we in this human body.
Lovers of golf, you too can desire to get up at the crack of dawn like me and start
bellowing out, somewhat like a rooster, God's glad tidings.
I have some encouragement for you. No matter how many prangs you've had on
your scooter, two legged lawless sheep, you can still decide to hand over the steering
wheel to Jesus Christ.
Fellow sheep, are you as silly as I was and still sometimes am? Then you'll
have to stop thinking that you can ascend into the sky and drive through the
atmosphere into heaven on that scooter that you are refusing stubbornly to jump off from.
Trust Your Creator God; for I know that some of you are starting to long to understand that we were not designed to play golf independently from
God.
Just take your eyes off your own scratches and bruises, wisdom-seeking golfers, and
remember, with praise in your heart, that Jesus Christ endured an awful
battering on the Cross to put back a smile on your face.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you agree that there is nothing to be
gained by indulging further in lunacy.Who then is a
lunatic?
A lunatic is anyone who intentionally limps from one nightmare to
another without asking the LORD for any help. If you sense that you are locked
into lunacy now is the time to ask the Lord Jesus to set you free.
As you catch up with me you'll be aware that many a golfer, who looks
remarkably like me, is getting off his scooter, with a scowl on his face, and
is beginning slowly and somewhat resistantly to long to limp home, from some
act of foolishness, to Their longsuffering LORD.
The voice of a not always wise sheep has had his say for now.
I'm limping off the stage of cyberspace now to bury my student's face in
God's Word to gain some much needed wisdom. Whether you are a limping lunatic,
a sometimes silly sheep or just plain lost and silly I encourage you to be
sensible and follow my lead.
May God bless your limp with His hot iron as He is doing expertly with
mine; so that you can find laughter, consolation, assurance and increasing fulfillment in your
challenging predicament. Will you allow yourself to be catapulted from the
bottom of Satan's bleak-in-prospects bunker to the foot of Calvary?
Whether it takes days, months, years or decades it is the only adventure
that will bring you to the door of your rightful destiny.
Will you start searching for life's only truly reliable golfing Instructor, Jesus Christ, before everything you own rolls into Satan's bunker?
I know as you study the Holy Bible, with great attentiveness and sincerity, that God Himself will encourage and embolden you to follow His
instructions.
Isaiah 53: 6
All we (God's creation) like sheep hath gone astray; we have turned
everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him (Jesus Christ) the
iniquity of us all.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him (Jesus Christ); he
hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin...
the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
May God Triune always bless you, fellow golfers, as you flutter around God's golf
course like only a faithful, diligent student of God's Word, in hot pursuit of
increased faith can. Persevere patiently and happiness will find a habitation in your heart as you keep your feet firmly fixed in God's garden of grace, the
Holy Bible.
O privilege to remember with gratitude that the sunlight of God's love is
still shinning and wipes the scowl off our face!
No brighter evidence of this is provided by the finished work of Christ Jesus at
Calvary.
And what joy, what supreme joy awaits all who learn to trust in Jesus
Christ's triumphant victory.
Make a serious
effort and you, too, can discover and experience the sparkling, life-fulfilling companionship of Jesus Christ who can change your life
like no-one else.
Study the Holy Bible and you will discover that Jesus Christ has a scooter called "I am the Shepherd of your soul"
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