The Gambler In Us All

Oh boy, yes at one point in time we were all definitely willing to go to hell. That my friends is a gamble because we are not assured of life longevity and we could have died before we had the opportunity to say yes to Jesus. Millions have gambled with the salvation message thinking that they would simple do a death-bed conversion you know so that they can sin up to their necks just before going to heaven. Ha, like it’s a step down to go to heaven compared to the pig-swamp we live in down here. And but yes, this could have been any one of my listeners as was such as I was. Now that’s podcast Preachin’ right there.

I waited for 34-yrs escaping death at least 4X’s before finally opening my eyes and seeing that this world is not what so many think it is. Oh I know there are at least three different versions of the story.

The first is that it is as I see it the way that it is which is why I gave up on relying on it to bring lasting peace, security, freedom from the fear of death, knowledge deep enough to explain away the horrid things people do to each other, and stuff like that. As it is – that’s one version.

The other is to believe, because we don’t want to believe my version, so we believe that it is not really that bad, and we think this not looking into the closets that hold the history of atrocities that we have done to each other in the name of everything that is evil. Oh I mean in the name of whatever we relabel evil so that we do not have to see things as they are but what we would imagine that they would be. Yup, this is the old me and I believed in that earth-narrative for 34-years of my life. I contrast it to someone who is standing on the autobahn hoping that the cars will never hit them. as that person standing on the freeway is of course gambling with their false belief that because they are human the drivers will never run into them, and if they did it would be an accident so no harm no foul, except that you are now standing in hell, both you and your false reality of a story that unfortunately you let guide you into hell. So this version sees the world through a glass dimly lit hoping that as time marches on things will get better.