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To: Lazamataz
Prayers for you and for your friend.

We are all basket cases, and prone to fall into the abyss of sin and destruction.
We need to read Genesis 3 about our first parents, and understand that we've all inherited the disease that they fell into -- but magnified and mutated over the generations:
'Eve saw that it was good for food, pleasant to the eye, and something to be desired to make one wise...' and her husband Adam went along and chose to follow 'mankind' rather than God'. So yes, we all have a tendency to look at something from its outside appearances and imagine that it'll be really good for us. We all are attracted by the things that sparkle. We all want to go our own ways - and not the path which God has shown us. We all feel the tug of the world - and don't walk in the light of God's Word.
But we have to remember that even though Adam and Eve had disobeyed, and thus had justly received the condemnation of death and banishment from the Garden - God remembered them: 'Unto Adam and his wife, the Lord God made coats of skins, and clothed them'...He did not leave them alone.
We are all sinners - come to Jesus just as you are and rest on Him. He is our covering, and He'll gladly cover our sins by His Righteousness.
He'll get you through the storms of life.

Romans 5
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

93 posted on 04/23/2008 11:03:35 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

Not the time or place for preaching.


166 posted on 04/23/2008 3:25:19 PM PDT by jude24 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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