Tale of Two Cities

If Seattle is a problem let me continue to throw fire on the flame. When in Seattle I stayed with my friend at her hotel. She of course was there for a conference, I was there for fun. Visiting my daughter, seeing the sights, the San Juan Islands, whale watching, Mt. Rainier, sightseeing, and lots of wine tasting. When I was at the hotel on Monday morning after spending a wonderful day on Sunday on the mountain, I got up early, went to the whirlpool, walked around the regular pool doing water aerobics, I felt good. She had to go to a workshop so I was on my own for the morning, I was meeting Jarrod and the boys for lunch. Now just to make things clear, she and I are not Lesbians. She had her bed, I had mine. I had to make that clear since sex is on your mind at every encounter. After all, I think you think all women are slutty seductive hoes, so it really doesnt  matter what I say. After I got dressed I went down stairs looking for coffee and french fries. I found my friend and some others who were at the conference with her. One man was there with his wife and he and I started talking about business, grandchildren and retirement, after the others left. We talked for about an hour. It was nice. That's all it was. I got my french fries and went to the room to wait until I was picked up a few hours later. Was he flirting, probably. Did I pick up on it and encourage, maybe, he was fun to talk to, but that was all it was. I know how to control myself and I know that his wife is there and I will not embarrass myself or my friend by sleeping with the husband of one of her friends. I don't do stuff like that.  If I did, I would have slept with the married man from church who sent me a porno link in an email. Or maybe I would have said something more to the man on Sunday who saw me holding my grandson in my lap, resting his head on my bosom and said, I wish I was him and my head was there. Now this is church for Christ Sakes!!!! WTF!!!! But then the creme de la creme are the women that come to me talking about how they have confessed their love to you and how they know they can rock your world. I have two right now who feel they are the one for you. I say nothing. Just ask them to pray for guidance and deliverance. I personally know three women right now who are waiting for you to leave the church so they can convince you to be their one and only.You are always going to have women hitting on you. I will always have men doing the same thing. I don't know how couples who are involved with people and enrich their lives handle the infatuation clause. Its inevitable. You cant take it so serious or yourself so serious.



Tale of Two Choices
I struggle to live according to God's law.I wonder about the reward for doing so. I continue to ask the question, will there be a difference for those who do the right thing and those who live their lives in rebellion against God's love? Our choices now make an impact on God's judgment of us in the future. I try to do what is right, I see others who dont play by the rules and they seem to be very successful. Where is my blessing, where is my reward? I thank God for the assurance of my reward in salvation. I know that God does not only reward in heaven but also here on earth. I thank God for my reward.
Revelation 14

The Lamb and the 144,000

 ¹Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. ²And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. ³And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. ⁴These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. ⁵No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

The Three Angels

 ⁶Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. ⁷He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and

the springs of water."  ⁸A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
 ⁹A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, ¹⁰he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. ¹¹And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." ¹²This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
 ¹³Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on."
      "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."

The Harvest of the Earth

 ¹⁴I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man"^[a] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." ¹⁶So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.  ¹⁷Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. ¹⁸Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." ¹⁹The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. ²⁰They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.^[b]