Facebook Parables In Life: August 2014

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Smoke Alarm Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting: 21 August 2014

PARABLE:

Awoke this AM to 2 blasts from smoke detector & blaring electronic voice "Fire! Fire"... and then silence. No problems detected.. It's 4 months old.. Can't find a detector that really works. (Suggestions welcome!) With heart pounding for 1/2 hr, decided 'gotta get some parable outta this'... sorta a 'Romans 8:28' resolution for the moment's terror. Here 'tis: We pretty much ignore smoke alarms blasts now because of so many false alarms for 10 years. 2 Peter 3:4 EASY PATTERN 234 > "...scoffers will come in the last days... saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming?... all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” THOUGH: These days they scoff too much to admit to "Creation."

SO WHAT ??

First Peter 5:8 - God clearly repeats through Jesus's beloved disciple
what Jesus already said in John 10:10 and John 8:44 ... that
Satan HATES you.
WANTS you to get careless,
   to think there is plenty of time...
Satan puts into your mind the thought
each time you wonder if you should be following Christ more closely,
       "There's plenty of time.... you deserve a break.... God wants you to rest......."
            Ignore the lies you think... TIME IS RACING! Jesus said so --
John 4:35
"Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

What does LORD God say ?? CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO SCRIPTURE

2nd Peter Chapter 3, continued from above:
5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,

not willing that any should perish

but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

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Friday, August 15, 2014

General Anesthesia Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting: 15 August 2014

PARABLE:

It starts with an awareness that something's horribly wrong.
Grows into fear-- you can't figure out what's happening that's like
slamming ocean waves about to drown you.
Then it becomes a TERROR that you're trapped, & NOTHING you do will make this terror stop....

That's the common reaction many people have to general anesthesia. You awake shaking for an hour+, fearful of slipping back into sleep. My Dad who dearly loved LORD God, had absolutely no fear of death knowing that he'd go to be with Jesus, dreaded each surgery only because of this HELL EXPERIENCE. And it lasts only a few hours. The real thing NEVER stops.

SO WHAT ??

........... Don't expect a follow-up 2014 movie HELL IS FOR REAL.
But Hell IS. Jesus said so. LOGIC says so:
God is Just. There's no justice without hell for those enjoying this life while destroying others emotionally if not physically.
God does not lie (CLICK FOR LINKS: Titus 1:2, Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 6:18.
ALL through the Bible, starting in Genesis 2,
God has lovingly warned of how we can avoid death.

.......... YET GOD..... Yet God loves each person so much that from the beginning that
He begs, "CHOOSE LIFE"! - Deuteronomy 30:19.
Verse 20 includes the How: "...love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life..."
Jesus said He, God (Isaiah 9:6) did NOT change his mind: Matthew 5:17-19.

Just a short while of HELL on earth, of whatever kind, should
RAISE OUR **FERVENCY** to join our LORD in PRAYING
FOR people to not experience hell...
in begging people for their sakes to choose Life Eternal that Jesus only provides...
logical because Jesus only is God (Isaiah 9:6 as well as John 10:30).
How unbelievable that many Christians are scared to URGENTLY obey Jesus's COMMAND at the end of Matthew-
GO AND TELL OF HELL.
.... Hell: The TERROR you're trapped in,
& NOTHING you do will make this terror stop....

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Monday, August 11, 2014

Ugly After Worship Tale - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting: 11 August 2014

A TRUE STORY... may it teach as a parable:

Know how old memories suddenly surface at odd times?
A number of years ago, someone started excitedly thanking God during the worship service's Prayer & Praise time-- he'd lost 10 pounds!

After the service was a fellowship dinner. I overheard a leader of the church laughingly whisper to some people toward the end, "He's going to gain it all back if he keeps eating like that!".... I happened to know that, with physical metabolic issues, he ate almost all of his daily calories at lunch to give his body time to burn them off before bedtime...

This was so many years ago-- Yet that ugliness right after the beauty of Worship got trapped in one of my brain wrinkles.

SO WHAT ??
My Facebook friend Morgan Trotter suggested that we might want to read
'Loving God When You Don't Love the Church:
Opening the Door to Healing' by Chris Jackson.
IS IT NOT HORRIFICALLY SAD that so many books like this are being written....
in the Truth of Ephesians 4:15 and First John 3:18?
If our words so horribly wound people within
our own church,
HOW can we draw people to see
the need for Jesus as Savior, to escape Hell forever?

What does LORD God say ??

....... We can say and sing all the words of love that we want in church service...
but God calls to us, DEMANDS of us, "love one another fervently with a pure heart."
First Peter 1:22.

JAMES 3 -- remembering it is GOD who inspired this (see also 2nd Timothy 3:16) -
CLICK HERE FOR LINK

...
See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.
The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body,
and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell....
9 With it we bless our God and Father,
and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not to be so!"

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Green Acres TV Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting: 7 August 2014

PARABLE:

My parents made us watch Green Acres when we were little.
Made us have family time around the 1 TV.
It's a bit less boring in color TV with all the outfits Lisa wears; I think I was in college before Dad decided the B&W was dead enough to replace... Anyway...

that was back when Mom & Dad provided for all our needs, helped us learn how to avoid snakes (literal ones:} & kissed our ouchy boo boos. Back when we didn't have a clue what Europe was-- much less politics!

Today I figured out that this is probably why I wearily plopped
in front of a still rather boring Green Acres marathon.
Trying to feel like the peace of those days (minus the snakes). Apologizing to God. But still sitting here.

SO WHAT ??

First Kings 19:   Elijah has been much criticized for "lack of faith" after
all his victories for God, when he starts whining in fear after Jezebel - from a
distance - sends a bitty note. But NOT criticized by God:
God gave Elijah food, deep sleep, time to recuperate... and THEN the still-caring order to "get moving" so Elijah could go help others. A model for churches.

A model for each of us: When depressed, worn out, keep praying for wisdom
and trusting God ... including realizing that GOD UNDERSTANDS what it's like.
Jesus "suffered the same temptations" as us ( ) - including to dire weariness.
Re-read Hebrews 5 and you'll most likely find joy in God's discovery for you. LINK

What does LORD God say ??   2nd Corinthians 1:   LINK

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort

those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves

are comforted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us,

so our consolation also abounds through Christ....

8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves,

that we should not trust in ourselves but

in God who raises the dead,

10 who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us;

in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,....

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

ALL ACCESS Music Festival Pass Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting: 5 August 2014

PARABLE:

It is *SO* cool to have an ALL ACCESS pass
hanging around your neck at big music festivals!
The huge burly guards see you coming and Quit frowning,
      but Smile wide as you walk past them to go backstage.
Tech crew members nod greetings to you.
After a band's concert, you can chat with band members in their
       private lounge/ practice area-- like friends!

SO WHAT ??
Compare to God's stringent Laws (punishment was instant Death) in Leviticus 16...
Everyone except the high priest ONCE a year were 'peons'
who dared not even 'walk onstage', much less
          go back behind the Tabernacle's or (later) Temple's Curtain to be
              right there in God's Holy Presence --
NO WAY God allowed this by sin-filled persons !

What does LORD God say ??
....... ENTER JESUS, GOD'S SON, JESUS:
On the cross He paid the
impossible- for- anyone- else-to-pay
perfect sacrifice price
for an ALL ACCESS PASS to God--- a
AND JESUS HOLDS IT OUT to you... to each person:

   24/7 ability to enter God's presence and talk with Him as a friend--- but only if you reach out
and accept the gift of His ALL ACCESS PASS
         as you agree to follow Jesus --
who after all is the only High Priest ever to be the Way to God.
LOGICAL since He IS God........ see Isaiah 9:6 and John 10:10.

Jesus who paid for your ALL ACCESS
so that God ripped down the curtain between Him and you.
(Hebrews 2,    Matthew 27:51 )

..... written with deep thanks to LORD Jehovah for His deep mercies thru another year.

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