Empty Gas Gauge Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       5 November 2014

PARABLE:  
Within 1/2 hr of driving, van gas gauge went from indicating 1/4 full to showing an orange warning light- and the Range indicator saying I had 22 miles left.
Managed to get to a station within 10 miles.
Sure enough, pump showed I'd had only 1/2 gallon left: 13 miles.

I BASICALLY like my van model to get same model after
Snowstorm Tree totaled old van.
But I've always hated this feature that's same as 2010 models...
AND that we can't leave on headlights when we get out &
go to front door in the dark-- The company thinks we're too stupid 
      to know we left the lights on for 30 seconds....  THE LIGHTS GO OFF.

SO WHAT ??

....... The company that makes my van never asks its customers                 
what they do or don't like-- so   the vans Never Improve.  Bad features stay.   

And... I've been in dozens of churches as a traveling visitor:
Only 1 has ever given visitors a form asking 
"What would you suggest we change?" 

And for almost every church: In cold OR hot weather, 
no one stands outside the closed front door to welcome anyone-- 
even minutes before a service....
........ I've literally sat in my van some days at 10:50 for an 11 AM service, fighting the urge to drive away. Once in PA, I did.... So let me here commend a Stafford County VA church that even had greeters waiting *15 minutes after* service started-- telling me as I walked up late, "Welcome Home!"   Thank you, Strong Tower Ministries!: I certainly felt welcomed & comforted as I entered a new place to worship our LORD.

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Yet Another Bill Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       4 November 2014

PARABLE:  
Each time I think I've met all requirements... here comes another bill.
Been 3 months, really feeling better after operation, but seems no end-
though the doctor's office had told me beforehand of only 2 bills that would come.
God is great... we can afford to pay.  >>>>>>
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SO WHAT ??
God is helping me to realize a parallel as I study CULTS that claim to be Christian: 
People are (1) promised they will feel better if they come, 
(2) told a few things they must "do to be saved". 
And so.... they're happy awhile in their new "church".....

But over time, they're told they've graduated to learn of
"one more thing" they have to do ("pay") .......  
         & then.....  and then.....

Some Christians / churches use God's Bible the same way:
First they declare TRUTH of Romans 10:9 as only 2 requirements;
but then tell people they must join & serve in a church, .... and then
be baptized.... and then BE this & DO that...
and oh, of COURSE must tithe & give lotsa $$$ to that church to be "really saved"....
exactly what God had to teach AGAINST thru Paul. 

        See Galatians 1, titled "Perversion of the Gospel".      Click here for link
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    PEACE,   Jesus promised (John 14:27).    
PEACE that even CHILDREN can understand His Promise & Way of Salvation.
       Luke 18: 10 "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”
    FEAR,   Satan tries to bring   (John 10:10, 8:44).     
Satan lies--- tells you it's too easy, you must be misunderstanding....
the LIE that SURELY you must DO something to be saved......    besides accept Jesus as LORD, like Jesus said.
As Paul wrote in 2nd Corinthians 11:3,
"But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,
             so your minds may be corrupted from 
                                            the   SIMPLICITY  **  that is in Christ."
                       CLICK HERE FOR LINK  to 2nd Cor 11:3;
                   ** "Simplicity" is Strong's Greek 575 = "free from pretense and hypocrisy"

God is a LOVING Father.  FAITH in God trusts that He hasn't
HIDDEN something about His word so that only scholars can find the true meaning.
Children listen to their father's word and believe it -- and
TRUST His forgiveness if   they mistakenly think something about His word.
    PEACE,   Jesus promised ....   We can trust the   
     Peace of  2nd Timothy 3:16, God's Bible Truth.    
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Commandments are "statutes forever"  link
                              (research that & Matt 5:19 "least of these", Strongs G1785),
and tell what God Likes:
       and we try to  please those we REALLY love.
BUT keeping them canNOT save us. 
  ** ONLY **    
accepting Jesus's gift can save anyone.

What does LORD God say ??  
Isaiah 43:11 is one of the verses that PROVE Jesus our Savior IS God.... 
AND proves that YOU cannot be your own savior.  
If you ASK the LORD, He SHALL help you remember it (John 14:26) 
when someone says to you with a smirk,
        "There's no proof of  that church word 'Trinity' - People just made it up."
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GOD says
"I, even I, am the LORD, And 
BESIDES ME, THERE IS *NO* savior." 
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FAST STUDY of word "Savior"    >>

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=savior&t=NKJV#s=s_primary_0_1

CLICK HERE   for    LINK to 2nd Timothy 3:16  (re peace in trusting scriptures....
                                                                               many versions, compared)

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Picture Window Facebook Parable - by DianDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       3 November 2014

PARABLE:  

~18 months ago, we finally got courage to spend $1,500 to replace our house's huge picture window system with insulated glass. Cold air had seeped thru for 25+ winters despite heavy draperies. Even when I pulled back draperies in summers, thick cloth blocked part of the view of the field & forest beyond.
NOW: Barely-there filmy curtains are decoration only: 
They don't cover any glass. 

It's such a JOY to see so much of God's world 

that was ALWAYS there, 

hidden because of my choice to keep draperies....

SO WHAT ??

Just as it's such a JOY to keep finding  "treasures" 
in God's Word that have been there all along: 
Found as I keep seeking His truth while
praying for wisdom 
(as God promises He will give when we ask -- like John 14:26, James 1:5-6).
Like Hebrews 12:1-3 -- such a comfort when I'm weary of people------   and of me.

What does LORD God say ??  

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

3 For consider Him who endured such hostility  

from sinners against Himself,                                 

lest you become weary                                            

and discouraged in your souls.                             

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From actual Facebook parables posted... For future use in original songs at FREE 
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