The Big Lie

"For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Gen.3:5

The big lie of the serpent in the Garden was not that you will be God, but that you will be more than human. He told them that as you are is not enough. His lie is that there is special knowledge that God has and that you do not have. And that knowledge will open your eyes to wonderful and exotic things.

What is the lie told to people today? That you only use 10% of your brain and that AI can do things that you cannot do. That you are not beautiful enough or thin enough or tall enough or strong enough. Men wanted to live like women, and women want to live like men. Men chose to become feminine and women chose to become  masculine. And in all of this there is a glaring absence of God.

So the biggest lie of the serpent was that you are not enough as you were made. That God is holding back what you need to be more than human. Satan is always promising things that he cannot deliver on.

Society shows me over and over again why the first word in the Gospel is repent.

Missing Church

I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was occupied at home staying busy when my phone rang. The guy who was calling never calls me. He asked if I was on my way to church. I looked at the clock and I realized that for the first time in my Christian life I was going to miss church. I wasn't sick or working late. I was distracted. I forgot what day it was. 

Today is a new day. I hope to never miss church like that again. 

Love And Marriage

 Here are my thoughts on love, marriage, and sex.

When I met Kathy, we did not fall in love as much as we grew in love. I liked her, I married her. And I loved her far more at the end than I did at the beginning. 

Sex in marriage is a good thing. But it is not the only thing. A marriage built on sex will not last.

The seven year itch describes what happens to a marriage built on sex. You get bored. You start thinking about someone new. This happens at the seven year mark in many marriages.

I encourage people to marry young and grow up together. You will develop a lot in common.

Marriage is a commitment. Marriage is an adjustment. You have to want to be married. You have to work at marriage.

Romance is overrated. You cannot keep up those appearances very long.

She thinks she can change him. He thinks that she will never change.

Marriage is two selfish people learning how to live under one roof.

Get married, enjoy sex, and you will learn how to love someone besides yourself.