Testimony

Lately I have been doing some more thinking. I know I know, I think too much. It may be entirely true, but on the other hand I believe that my thinking is God communicating with me. To some this may not make sense, but for those who do get it, it makes a lot of sense doesn’t it? God is a lot of things to me. First he is what moves me, what allows me to breath; literally, spiritually, and physically my savior! He is my conscience. He is my insight. Anything good that comes from me, He is responsible. Though my mind takes control of me and my sinful desires overcome what I want to do, the Lord is what I truly want to follow and live like. And by the way, this is another long one, sorry!

            Here at school I have been doing quite a bit of thinking about what my actual testimony is. At first thought my mind was blank. I had no idea what my testimony was. I have heard so many stories about amazing transformations from lives of sin. One of my best friends gave his testimony Wednesday night at a church and his message was powerful. He had grown up in a Christian home and at a Christian school but never really understood Christianity, or the love and grace of Jesus. He saw Christians as the hypocrites that they were being and eventually became bitter towards Christians and even closed his heart towards hearing the Gospel. A long story made short- He hit rock bottom and God revealed himself to my friend. (I do not want to ruin his story for you because it will move you) He turned his life around and, from the song written by a friend of his, is “changing the world.”

            With his testimony I became very confused about my salvation, my “come to Jesus moment”, and my testimony. Until now my testimony has simply been about the day I got saved. I have told everyone who has asked that I became saved when I was 10 years old, which is when I first realized I was indeed a sinner in need of God’s saving grace through his son Jesus. The pastor read from the book of Matthew and explained the story of 2 gates: one leading to death and the other leading to Life. To spare you the details, and boredom, I will make my old testimony short. I accepted Jesus’ call into my heart that day and I was baptized. That is pretty much it. Not much of a transformation story is it? Exactly! I don’t think I was truly saved that day. I think my time came a few years later at a Christian camp when I accepted Christ and actually tried to follow Jesus and do His will. Though I did not remain completely faithful then, that was my first attempt at actually trying to change my life through Jesus.

            This is my real testimony. This is what really happened. Nothing is made up. Take this or leave it. I have been ashamed for a long time of what I had done, but not anymore! I came to my senses and God asked me why I was ashamed of my past when he has forgiven me. He revealed again that I should not be ashamed before men because the One I will answer to has already forgiven me. He has forgiven and forgotten, so why should I worry?  Anyway, here goes nothing…

            My entire life I have grown up in a Christian home, in church, and with a Christian family. I attended Sunday school as a child and I was involved in anything and everything a church could possibly have for me.  I was told about Jesus time and time again. My mother talked with me constantly about Jesus. My grandmother is probably the most spiritual person I know. She literally cannot have a conversation without ending it with something that the bible can relate to that subject. By the age of 8 I knew all about Jesus, how he died on the cross, how he rose on the third day, and how he died for our sins. I even knew that everyone sinned and that God was the only perfect being, along with His son Jesus. What I didn’t really understand was that salvation is a little more than just saying the prayer. Yes, Jesus forgives your sins, Yes all you have to do is ask and they will be forgiven. Does that mean you are going to Heaven? Honestly, at this time I am not 100% about the whole “faith without works” argument. One day I hope to gain an understating about that. As of right now this is what I do know. God sent his son Jesus to live a perfect life to then die for our sins on the cross. He died in advance for our sins, so technically our sins were paid for even before me were alive. We just have to ask for forgiveness. I also know that if we are truly sorry for what we have done we will do our best to keep from doing those actions again. Just as we would do for earthly people, we are to do for God. The thing is, we should be even more sorry for sinning against God. We are to be so sorry for the things we have done and so happy for the grace He has shown us that we ask for forgiveness and never turn back to those sins again. We are to remain in Him. If we remain in him we are in His love. If we are doing His will for us then we are truly saved and I have no doubt in my mind that we will go to heaven if we remain in His love and do His will. The whole last part of the paragraph I did not understand until fairly recently. You will be amazed how much you will learn by simply reading His word. I have truly found out so much that I did not know, that many preachers just “forget” to tell you. For my whole life I had known about God and I may or may not have been truly saved (I believe I was not), but the fact is I knew about God. I actually knew, not the “knew” when you just think something may be true, I actually knew that Jesus was the Lord over this world and that out of love he dies on the cross for me. But what makes that a bad thing is that I still just did whatever I wanted. I was ashamed of telling people about Him and how He made me feel and how much He is worthy of every bit of anything I could find here on this earth to give. I only once told someone I knew about Him, only once! And the only reason is because I was coming back from a “D-Now High” and the theme thing that weekend was “friends don’t let friends die and go to Hell.”  I told that to my best friend and he accepted Jesus in his heart that day but since then he has slipped away. I am completely convinced that it was my selfish actions that kept him from staying in God’s grace. (Hopefully he will read this, and for that I am sorry man-I Truly am!)

            Not sure if I properly ended the paragraph but I noticed how long the thing was getting so I cut that one off just to start another one. Anyway, so basically I knew about God but denied him any chance I got, whether it was by my lifestyle or by my words I denied to the world that I even knew His name. For some reason, which is beyond my comprehension, I did not want people to know about God. Maybe its because I was not really saved but I am not completely sure about that. If asked I would say” yes I am a Christian” but in no way, shape, or form could anyone tell. There are so many verses that describe exactly how I was acting so just look up Romans 2; verse 24 explains how I was acting, except I was 100 times worse. I never was a really bad kid. I had always been taught right from wrong and I knew the consequences of wrongdoing, here on earth. Just a side note: I want to be a pastor-possibly youth pastor- and I don’t have one of those stories about how I was high and drunk and wrecked my car into a family and spent several years in prison where a fellow inmate taught me about the Lord (I am not saying at all that there is anything wrong with that because every story has the power of God’s grace to your life, just mine isn’t that story is all I am saying). I was never a really bad kid, by the world’s standards. I did not party much. When I did party I would do things I wasn’t proud of the next day. Though I was never an alcoholic or drug addict, every sin is the same before God. The one and only, perfect God is so holy that all sin, even the sin we see as small here on earth, completely disgusts Him. I broke every one of the Ten Commandments. I didn’t realize I had at the time, but Jesus explains all the commandments and elaborates on each one. I had broken every single one of them in some form or fashion. With every Law I broke God was right there telling me it was wrong, convicting me, making my stomach ache with that feeling you get right before you are going to do something you know you aren’t suppose to do. For a while I had convinced myself that I was saved and I was going to heaven but I was not remaining in Him, I was not seeking after Him. No change had been made in my life to show that He is Lord! I convinced myself that I was a Christian but really I was just making Christians look bad. And the worst thing of all was that I actually knew He was there. I knew that He was sitting there watching me make His name less holy among men. I was the very reason that atheists will never believe in God. Why would they believe in something whose followers were not living the way they spoke and preached about? I can tell you I wouldn’t! I hate to know how many people I have caused to stumble from Christianity,

            Luckily, one day I began to seek after God. I began reading my Bible. I began finding answers and I began realizing that I was not any better than anyone who had been an addict, because I was an addict myself. I was addicted to me! I was addicted to making me look good, to trying to be popular-which I never fully succeeded at, by the way! God pulled me to my senses; He revealed to me that he was all that mattered. Not one thing here in this world matters. He tells us to not store our treasures here on earth because moths and rust will destroy everything, but not in Heaven! I was disgusted with my self because I knew all along what to do I just didn’t do it. In my eyes that is worse than living a horrible life and then having a salvation/transformation experience. At least the horrible life was before they knew God-before they fully understood everything that I knew this whole time I had been doing my own thing. Ignorance is understandable but what I did I cannot even think of any word to describe besides stupid (to the extreme). Every year I would go to a Disciple-Now weekend and hear the same stories from the same kind of preachers and they were all the same to me. I was confused because I always had this correlation in my mind between sinner and what these people were doing. I always just figured I was in the light because I wasn’t as bad as them. The thing I didn’t realize was that I knew but didn’t do anything about it. Faith without action is dead faith. You can have faith without action but what good is it doing? The action that comes with true faith is a bit hard to explain. One thing I can say about action is that faith is the action of belief. You can believe that the parachute in your backpack is going to open, but faith is actually jumping out of the plane. I thought iwas better than the ones who had done all the drugs but in reality my sin was exactly the same. If I would’ve had true faith I would have had the action that the true faith brings. I would have been living right instead of wrong (yes I realize that was quite the elementary sentence, but it sums up what I had to say nicely). We were put here on this earth to first accept God’s call into our lives and then to spread the Gospel to everyone. Our lives are to be a ministry; ministry and missions should not be our job but our lives.

            For so long I thought I knew God. Yet I was ashamed to let people know about Him. I wanted to be “cool”. Little did I know that you can’t ride the fence for long and one day you’ll have to pick sides. I picked the wrong side. I picked me instead of Him. Thankfully God set me down and showed me the error of my ways. I finally chose to listen to him. I don’t actually know the day I was truly saved because my Christian walk has been more like a rollercoaster. I have had the highs and lows, flips and turns, and even started back at the beginning a time or 2. To tell you the truth I don’t really care what day it was, the date isn’t going to matter one bit in heaven. As far as I am concerned I could say the day was today. God knows the day and I know the day came and I also know that now I am on the right path. Without a doubt in my mind I know that I am in God’s will. Through prayer and time spent in His word I have finally come to peace with God and I am more than happy that I finally quit doing what I wanted. My journey has been a long one and if God is willing it will probably be a lot longer (though I defiantly would not complain if He were to take me Home). I hope that my story has inspired you to receive God’s call into your life and stop running from His will. I wish I had not run from Him like it did. I can tell you I definitely would not have wasted a year and a half at a community college for the degree I wanted when I was running.  My blasphemous past makes me sick when I think about how I destroyed the Lord’s name the way I did. What really makes my stomach hurt is when I think of the fact that I KNEW! I KNEW about God! Please don’t be like me. If you are reading my posts its because God led you to my page. Please listen to the words he has spoken through me and accept his call. Until next time, Thanks for reading, God Bless you!

More Than Another Textbook

Well it has definitely been a while since I have sat down with the intention of writing for my audience of probably only 2 or 3 people. Either way, for you 2 or 3 people who may or may not be reading this I believe you will get at least a little something from this post today. Since I don’t really edit my writings on here, rather I just put on paper what I feel the Lord has placed on my heart, I cannot make any promises at this time whether or not this is going to be a long post or not. As it stands right now I am not planning on being long “winded” in this particular post and also do not plan on citing any bible verses. The irony of the fact that I am not citing verses comes from the topic itself. Today I have been doing a bit of thinking. Thinking about what, is what you are probably thinking. For those of you who have read my previous posts know when I have been thinking, that immediately means that I am going off on some tangent that is nowhere near the place I started. And if that is the case this time I do not apologize because I feel very strongly that when I remain in God he can, and will, use me to speak his words.

            As you may know, I attend a Baptist college and every day the Bible is used on this campus in one way or another. “One way or another?” you say! Yes, indeed. The Bible can be used in things other than its purpose. First I think it is necessary to explain to you the purpose of the Bible. The Bible was written so that we, citizens of Earth, can read and actually see God’s word. Through His word we can know Him. To know Him we have to constantly seek Him. The Bible is how God communicates to us. His word IS the Bible. Everything that the Lord wants us to know is inside of it. If I am being a little redundant than my point is being made clear! I want for people to understand this. The only way to know God is to be in His word. That is the only way we can grow closer to Him, to read His word. Maybe that got my point across and if not maybe I can get it across better later in this post.

            Here at a college centered on the Bible, sometimes we can use it in a way that is not actually its true purpose at all. Sometimes the Bible becomes just another text book that we only read before out test on our New Testament or Life of Jesus classes. Sometimes we only read it in the few minutes before class because we forgot to the night before. So many times we do things like this and think there is nothing wrong with it. Personally, I have done this my share of times and for so long thought that I was actually doing good because I was reading the Bible. I was reading it, but I wasn’t deep into it-trying to find out the true meaning.

            This is coming straight from the dictionary of me, so please don’t criticize my personal definition. My definition of a textbook would probably be something along the lines of “a book used for a course or class, that contains information about a specific topic or topics that would benefit the reader in the course.” How kind of benefits does this mean? Benefits on the test would be a good grade, which is helping you pass the class. If we are using the Bible as a textbook, here on a Christian campus, are we really using the Bible for the right reasons. In a way, we are abusing the Bible/taking it for granted. We are only using it to pass our classes and to get a good grade. If that is the only reason we are opening our Bibles are we actually here for the right reason in the first place? I am not trying to cast judgment on anyone, because I too am jut as guilty as the next, but my answer to the question would be that we are not here for the right reasons. Too many times we allow school to come between God and ourselves, even here. If we put God first then we wouldn’t even need to “cram” in the Bible before class, because it would already be in our hearts.

            With all of that said the Bible should be a textbook. But not for school! It should be a textbook for out lives. The course we are enrolled in is life. We need to read the Bible to grow closer to God so that we can really know Him. As we begin to know Him and how awesome He really is we will start to gain knowledge of how we should act in the world. We must seek God first. There is nothing that is more important than putting Him in the front of our lives.

            Though having the Bible as a textbook in a classroom is not what it was intended to be for, having It as a textbook in our hearts can benefit us more than any book we purchase for our classes. I hope I made my point clear today. If not, you know what to do! Until next time, Seek Him First!!

He is the Vine, We are the Branches

Warning: This Post Will Be Long! I taught last night on the vine and the branches and now since they have heard what I had been led to say, I will express my words to the world. I am not completely sure how the whole thing went but I must say, for the one or two people that expressed their gratitude, I am content with the words that I said because the Holy Spirit spoke through me to at least one person. With that being said I do not want to sound like I am putting myself on a pedestal; I am simply giving God the credit for the words he allowed to be spoken through me. Anytime I seem to be bragging, though sometimes I do and do not mean to, I am actually trying to give God the credit because I can do nothing without Him. Just for the Record I recommend you reading John 15:1-17.

         John chapter 15: 1-4 summed up is: Jesus is the vine, God is the gardener. For those who have never done a lick of gardening in your life, me, I did some research on how you are actually suppose to grow, prune, and keep a grapevine alive.(Jesus refers to himself in this passage as the “true grapevine”) Most videos and articles I read helped me out to spiritually understand this concept. When you think about it, Jesus knows everything and to fully understand his parable of the grapevine we must know about the earth and how it works. When we understand the earth we can grasp further the fullness of God.  The videos and articles said the best way to grow a grapevine is to have a wire running parallel to the ground above the vine for it to grasp on to for strength. After the vine reaches the wire it grows along the wire stay off of the ground. The vine has branches that branch from it, hence the name branches. The branches are you and I. We grow from the vine and, as said in the scripture, cannot grow apart from the vine.

         Lets get a mental picture going here; picture a vine growing from the earth, up to a wire, across the wire, and then branching out down toward the earth. Now picture the wire being heaven, where God “is.” The earth is still earth, the vine is still Jesus, and the branches are still us. The vine is the connection between heaven and earth, God and us. Jesus is God in the flesh, God here on earth. We are to remain in Jesus to remain in his love. I went to a summer camp this summer and one of the days’ themes was REMAIN. I did not actually fully grasp the whole concept of remain until I dove down deep into these verses. We are to remain in Him, Him being God/Jesus. How could we expect to remain in Him if we are not remaining in his word, his teaching to us. Every single thing we need to know is in the Bible and it is just sitting there for the taking. It literally wants to be read because It is the Word of God. It is one with God. God wants us to know him more, the only way we can do that is through his word.

         In the next section of the passage, Vs 5-8, we go a bit deeper. Yet still not as deep as we will by the time I conclude. Just as a reminder, Jesus- Vine, Us- branches. One thing I haven’t mentioned yet is the fruit we are to be producing. I looked up the definition of fruit and got several answers but a few stuck out to me the most. Fruit- 1: Ripened, seed bearing part of the plant when fleshy and edible; 2: Fleshy material covering seeds; 3: ripened reproductive body of a seed plant. As I read these things I began to understand more and more about this “fruit” I am to produce with my life. Jesus said if we remain in him we will bear much fruit. This basically means that to benefit anything from Jesus we have to remain in him. Remaining in him is obeying his commands and staying in his word. If, and only if, we remain in Him we can bear fruit. I know by this point you are probably wondering why I haven’t really told you what fruit actually means, spiritually. I could tell you now but I think it is better saved for the end of my “sermon.” Again, in order to remain in Him we must remain in his word. His word is His communication with us. How can we expect to know Jesus if we don’t even know his word?

Remain is hammered into my mind again when this passage talks about how a branch severed from the tree cannot grow. It says that the branches that have been cut off are gathered up and thrown into a fire. Last night as I taught about this story I read part of Ezekiel 15. The first 4 verses of this chapter is talking about branches of a vine being cut off and asking what they are good for. In 4 verses the root word “use” is used 4 times in several different ways: useful, useless, used. The main point here is that the branches cut from a vine are completely useless and are not good for even fueling a fire for more than a minute or two. The branches that are cut off are our sins. God does not cut us from the vine He cuts our sin. To grow again we must start over with repentance. When you cut a dead branch from a vine, or tree for that matter, you make sure you cut all of the dead stuff off. God cutting off the branch is Him cutting off our sins, throwing our sins into the fire where they belong. Our sins are absolutely useless and God removes them when we ask for forgiveness to allow us to grow again. Still following me? I hope so! I know, I know- I told you it was going to be long, stay with me though it’ll be worth it.

So what have we learned so far? God is the gardener, Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, and the dead branches are our sin. Our sin gets cut off to allow us to grow. That’s the basics of what I have discussed. Now we will talk about the pruning. Pruning is when you cut off some of the good parts of the plant in order to yield bigger parts of the plant when harvest time comes. In other words, cutting off good stuff so that you get more good stuff. I was going to wait and see how long I could keep the meaning of fruit from you in order to tie it in at the end with a bang, but now seems like it will be a good place. Fruit is our usefulness to God. Fruit is what we do for the kingdom. Using what He gave us to further his kingdom. To get lots of fruit on a plant, sometimes you have to cut off some to get more. If I fully explain the whole process of pruning I will not only confuse you I will confuse myself, as well as make this go a lot longer than it actually should. For that matter I will just explain it like this: when you cut off some of the good stuff to get better good stuff you are really just cutting a place the plant is giving nutrients in order for it to spread the nutrients to the rest of the plant, making fruits in that part of the plant bigger. (hope that made sense)

With all that being said we are now moving on to my favorite part of the message Jesus spoke when he told about the vine and the branches, Vs 9-17.  Here Jesus drives in REMAIN more and more. I love it! He starts off by saying that He loves us as much as God loves Him. Pretty self explanatory, huh? Well just incase you don’t fully have this in your head- God loves us as much as he loves his son! I don’t have kids but I could image how much I would love them, God’s love for Jesus is infinite times more than that. And if you could come up with a number there then that is how much God loves us as well. It truly is amazing. Jesus again says to remain. He says if we obey his commandments we will remain in his love. He obeys his father’s commandments and so should we. Obedience is the key to remaining in his love. He tells us these things so that we can know how to receive his joy. This joy is beyond no other and can only be found through him.

Jesus then goes as deep into love as anyone ever could. This is when he makes his command for us to love each other.  Jesus says there is no greater love than to lay down your life for a friend. Think about it for a second. There is no greater love than for your friend to lay down his/her life for you. How would you feel if your best friend jumped in front of a bus or even took a bullet for you? (I hope these things never happen to you by the way) I know Jesus knew what he was doing when he worded his speech. He said that to then tell us that we are not slaves to God, but we are friends of God. A slave doesn’t know everything about its master, but God told us everything he knows-making us friends of him. When Jesus was talking about “no greater love” he was alluding to his own death. For those of you who are Christians or either simply know either Old Testament prophesies or Biblical literature, you probably know that was crucified on the cross. But, do you know why he died on the cross? Not legally why, but spiritually why? He died to save us from our sins. He was sent as the Lamb of God to die for us, HIS FRIENDS! He died for his friends, to save us from the penalty of our sins. 

Jesus told us to then go out and produce lasting fruit. What is fruit? It is usefulness to the kingdom of God. Our fruit is what plants the seeds of Christianity into the hearts of non-believers. Our fruit puts what God wants into others hearts through us. (if that even makes sense to you) Jesus said that whatever we ask in his name will be given to us. This is where some people begin to doubt faith and God al together. They see this verse and say, “well I want a new BMW”, and when they don’t get it they think God isn’t listening or simply is not there. There are two things being done the wrong way here. First, the Bible says not to test God. Second, if we are really asking for something in His name we won’t be asking for something foolish like a new luxury car. We will be asking for something to further his kingdom, because, if you haven’t found out by now, is the only thing on this earth that matters. King Solomon was talking to God one day, in 2 Chronicles 1, and God asked him what he wanted. Anything he asked for would be given to him,. Solomon asked God for wisdom and knowledge so that he could govern God’s people correctly. Solomon told God he realizes that no one on earth is actually qualified to lead God’s people, but with God’s help with wisdom and knowledge he could do it a lot better than he could on his own. God gave him what he asked for and also gave him many worldly things because he was so selfless with his wants.  We should be like Solomon and ask God for things we can use to further his kingdom, not further our pockets/closets/etc.

I know right now it probably seems like I am far from the branches and vine. Really Jesus wanted us to see much more than just the illustration of the vine. He wanted us to think about it and apply it to our lives. When we understand how gardening is done and how plants grow we begin to understand a bit more about how big and awesome God is. He knows how the plants grow that how he was able to compare our lives in Him to something as overlooked as a vine. Many times we overlook Him in the world and don’t pay much attention to Him, but regardless he is always there; always there to help us through our every need. All we have to do to receive his blessings is to remain in his love. To remain in his love we have to love each other. Loving each other is the key to remaining. He remains in us, his friends, by loving us unconditionally(all the time, no matter what!!!). If we love him we must love each other because he loves us all. So, remain in God and he will remain in you. Bottom line: remain! God Bless!

p.s.- I hope there are not many grammatical errors or anything confusing in this. If so, like every other post, you can contact me on here if you need to. 

Your Choice is Where Your Heart is

OK so in my Humanities class today we had a discussion. The discussion was centered around rules that each group in the class came up with to govern their own "school" based on Benedict's rules. (not completely sure about Benedict's rules but the point here is that we had to make rules) Each group had about 15 minutes to think of the most rules that made the most sense to govern our "school." As we made our decisions, my group tended to make decisions based on how it would benefit our lives, mainly selfishly. We made rules about how classes should not take attendance and things to that nature, because rules that lean this way benefit a more “lazy” lifestyle.  The more and more our group went on the more personal disagreements I had with them. Overall I agreed with most of the little things that we decided upon. When the class finally discussed their decisions, as a whole the topic became more of a debate than a discussion, which brings me to my sole purpose for this post today.

         One group in particular I did not agree with at all. I will say this up front: I do not have children and do not know exactly how I would react if I did have children, but based on my views now this is how I see things. The group I disagreed with was mainly making what I call “left-winged” decisions. The first point we talked about was having a required quiet time (a daily time where one spends time with the lord and nothing else). These people wanted to make quiet times mandatory and at certain times of the day. I would like to point out now that I think quiet times are very beneficial to a Christian’s walk with the lord. I do not, however, think it should be mandatory due to so many circumstances that come in to play. One instance would be about my mind and how that works, and from the people I have discussed this with today, they believe the same way. My mind works like this- if I know I need to do something, more than likely I will do it. If I do not do it then I do not benefit from that and that is all there is to it. If I am forced to do something, like sit down at 10a.m. everyday and have my quiet time, I am not going to want to do it. I will actually be bitter and not gain anything from it at all and the time set aside for that specific purpose would have been in vein.

         Another topic that this group had was about required chapel attendance (chapel here at school is not required but it is encouraged). I feel like the same principle applies here because if someone is forced to go to church and doesn’t want to go, more than likely nothing will be gained from it. Don’t quote me on this but I believe Paul teaches that if you are fasting and all you are thinking about is eating than to go ahead and eat because your fasting isn’t serving its full purpose anyway.

         I believe that we should have a choice whether or not we have a quiet time, or go to chapel, and etc. The bottom line is that God knows and we know. We know that going to chapel/corporate worship and having our quiet time can benefit us in our daily walk with God. God knows whether we are there or not and whether or nor we are there for the right reasons. When we are forced to do these things it takes the love and worship out of our motive for going. Our heart chooses what is more important to it (ties back to previous posts). As we go to Chapel and have our quiet times we should be doing that to grow closer to God, not because we are forced to. I fell when we are forced to do things we have a bitterness, which I talked about earlier, toward going and we lose our true motivation for why we are going.  We cannot be monitored at all times of the day (except my God). Basically this is my whole purpose in writing today: Choices we make affect our every move. When we try and force others to do as we think we must also think how they think. People who govern must think of those below them, the ones who are receiving the rules. If our government took those statements into consideration before making the decisions that they do the country and world would be in a lot better place. But also, if everyone knew Christ the world would be a much better place. Just something to think about until next time, God Bless!