"Look well to your going....

your coming in, your going out."  My grandfather told me that often.  (Thank you granddaddy.)

I have two cats, Scrappy and Vick, they are extremely cautious, almost paranoid.  One will come to me, meowing, indicating that he wants to go out.  I will open the door, he will approach the open doorway very carefully, creep to the entrance lithely, on "cat's feet", very carefully look left, then right before moving, before either one of them will venture into the "world", they will sniff the air.  I am standing there irritated that this cat is taking his sweet time.  My cats don't care.  The look in Scrappy's eyes say; "Look heifer, this is my life...don't you rush me!"  If  the air doesn't smell right, he will turn around.

"Crazy cat!" I grumble, upset that this cat does in fact control me.

When he finally ventures outside he does not run, very cautiously and carefully Scrappy finally steps outside.

You can learn a lot from the study of cats.  Never eat out of a dirty dish.  Smell your food before you eat it.  Don't come running every time someone calls you.  Study people, stare at them, if you get around someone or something that you don't trust let them know.  Get in a defensive posture.  When that hair stands up on your back get ready to fight.  Keep your claws sharp.

Don't hang out with dumb dogs, people that are beneath you, people that are unworthy of your company.

I am not saying that you should be paranoid but you should be careful.  Always think for yourself.  Be wary of people that insist on thinking for you.  Particularly when their lives are a hodge-podge of mistakes.  Make sure you know that some people do not want the best for you.  Do know that some people will pretend that they love you just to ruin you.

They get some kind of kick out of it.   Something went wrong with them a long time ago.  Got on the wrong road and stayed there.  "...scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts," (1 Peter 3:3b)

They are just as confident, proud boasters, totally without fear.  It is mind boggling I tell you.  "...and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming?  For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."  (1 Peter 3:4)

These foolish people think that it is a lie, they don't believe.  They (secretly) don't believe that Jesus is coming back, they don't believe in the Rapture.  So, they put on their phony "religion", sneak up in the "church" to snare, to prey, to take advantage of the "simple".

"But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the LORD one day is a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  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!"  (1 Perter 3: 8-9)

What an  awesome GOD I serve.  I quit saying "we serve" because I found out a lot of people are lying, faking, just trying to get over.

"I don't know what you came to do, but I came to serve the LORD!"  I can't help it.  I am truly humbled by the Goodness of the LORD.  I don't know what He did for you but, I know what He did for me.

He didn't let that monster murder me.  Her cruelty made me seek Him!  PTL!  She is so evil, creepy and Demonic, the LORD spoke to me when I was four years old.

I can brag, I have enjoyed and intimate relationship with the LORD since I was four years old.  I was four years old and knew that it was the LORD!  I don't care what you say that's awesome.  I don't need your permission to acknowledge my strength and my redeemer.

You hate me!  PTL!  You revile and rebuke me!  PTL!  You include me out, don't want me around, don't want me on your team!  PTL!  You stalked me for sixty years secretly and stealthly trying to destroy me!  PTL!  You labeled me weird and undesirable!  PTL!  "You duh fool!"  "You ain't S***!" were your not so secret insults and instruments of  torture.

What really frustrated you?  Surely to GOD you never believed you could defeat GOD with some "dust".  I didn't put you down there in that hole.  I never committed those sick sins that you did.  I can't help you feel better about yourself.  I can't turn your mountain of lies into the Truth.

There is nothing I can do but press on, Love the LORD, thank Him for delivering me from sin.  Thank Him without ceasing for revealing You to me.

I can continue to study His WORD everyday.  "but grow in the grace and knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.  To Him be the Glory both now and forever. Amen." (1 Peter 3:18)

Be richly healed and blessed today family.  Love the LORD, seek His face.  Remember; "Apart from Christ you are nothing."

Much Love, Peace and Happiness,
Rachel