Truth Garage

HALLELUJAH! Thank you, Father, you are HOLY, your Wisdom, Forethought, and Precious Promises are Fulfilled in your Provision of the Word, your Son Jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit sent in Grace and Love to instruct, correct, and comfort. Thank you, Jesus, you are The Truth! As i walk with you The Way is made straight before me! Walking in the Garden with you as we reflect in The Truth I am forever changed, Strengthened with the Knowledge of Grace and Love and how to freely give that which i have received being Fruitful and able to Multiply the Kingdom of God and gaining Life!!

I am Blessed. I share an apartment with my oldest daughter, and we have Church every day! That is to say we discuss our day or moments of, always looking for our shortcomings and how if we would have applied what we know, The Truth, The Way, and The Life, the scenario would have been different. One day, after she had found some new friends, she was telling me about one in particular, I must digress for a moment. When I was 17 or 18, after a hard night of partying, my mom started telling me to stop hanging out with this particular dude. I played coy until she got loud and described my friend to a T. Even down to his hair style and glasses. After that every time I was doing something wrong, I would say “Jesus, please don’t tell my mom?.” LOL. Anyway, as soon as my daughter started talking about this person my hackles immediately went up and I knew it was not good. I was in knots for several weeks because I was in a Law mindset thinking “I know committing one sin is the same as committing all sins, but we all know a little white lie is not as bad as steeling. And this one is on the big side of the scale”. If you don’t know, that line of thought was completely false in having been fulfilled. We’ll examine that more later. So, I’m tied up in knots for weeks with worry the whole while the Holy Spirit is telling me Truth and giving me Comfort but, in my flesh, I kept the ball rolling constantly wanting to discuss it and basically making my kid feel distant instead of close and comforted. My middle daughter called and asked for help, she lives 2 hours north. The anger thing. Yeah, that comes out more when driving for sure. I went in the garage and started talking to the Word. this how it went. “Jesus, I am so worried about ##### (before I even get it out, he said, “I got her, I’ve had you all this time, where’s the trust?”. just as he has from the beginning 3 weeks ago) she is in danger of falling and turning from you. I can’t believe she would do this after all you have done and given her. And now I have to drive 4 hours for a 15-minute thing. 2 hours up and 2 hours back and I know people are gonna piss me off and make things worse, especially in those 55 mph zones. I need Peace and Patience”. Immediately he said, “you have Patience, The Holy Spirit supplies everything you need”. “Really” says I, “It doesn’t seem like it”. He said, “do you remember when your daughter was colicky and you would be up all night, take her to Walmart and push her around the store because the cart comforted her, or when the bartender was slammed and you waited 20 minutes for the beer. Both times you had all the Patience in the world. You’re just choosing not to use it, to use your Patience you must use your self-control and choose life”. Still not giving it up because I’m looking out for myself, my comfort, my ease, my daughter (they’re his children, I was just trusted to look after em for a bit), I responded “If I had self-control on tap I wouldn’t be eating this box of doughnuts” and without hesitation he said “If I magically poofed that box of doughnuts to a bowl of kale you would literally starve to death before you ate it. If that isn’t self-control, I don’t know what is”. Touche! Normally my trip planning is, ok, 2 hours there, 2hours back. I can knock off 10 minutes each way and make up for bathroom stops and the 15 minutes there. After our discussion I decided, it was going to take me 5 hours to do the 4-hour trip. I got in car and said, out loud and with the motion as if to charge a shotgun, “Patience, engaged!” “Self-control, engaged!”, I am sure it looked as silly as it sounds but I have no shame when it comes to following Him. On the way north, several times I realized I was the one doing 53 in a 55, LOL. It was one of the most pleasant car rides I’ve had. I was about 15 minutes from home when my oldest daughter and that situation came to mind and I started getting worked up. I did notice my speed was increasing but assured myself “its o.k., his point was made, lesson learned”. There was a pickup in the hammer lane doing about 2 mph faster than the car in the right lane. Knots over kid, dude is slow, temperature is rising boy. I know and am comfortable with the size of my car and as soon as I knew I’d make it I floored it. When I weaved in between those two and took the right lane I guarantee there was less than a foot between bumpers, front and rear. As I’m passing the pickups passenger side window, I’m screaming expletives and curses. As I’m passing his front bumper, in an instant, He let me see the culmination of the last 3 weeks and the lesson and repentance was in effect. I spoke blessing on them both as I have no doubt my taking offense, impatience, anger and not using self-control gave those two people a massive amount of discomfort. How selfish to endanger others because I lost sight of Truth. As you spend time observing Jesus restoring this classic 1969 model in Truth, bear in mind a lot of damage has occurred in the decades. This is what I was shown. In all the decades of my rebellion and self-destruction he was always right there. He protected me in many situations where I should have died, I am sure He and I will have discussions in the future that will enlighten you. He always provided a way even if and when I didn’t know it was Him or gave Him credit. Why would I think his daughter deserves anything less? Why would I take offense for Him when he went to the cross, Fulfilled the Law, and took the sin of the World, “Behold the Lamb of God who TAKES AWAY the SIN of the WORLD!” He didn’t come to be served but to serve. When you take offense, you can’t serve, your too busy being anxious and nervous which will not add 1 second to your life. I wasn’t really Trusting in him. I let the world win out, just like when Peter started seeing the wind and waves. When I started my trip, having had a good talk with The Truth, I was at peace and operating in and through Him for the whole trip! Towards the end I started looking at the wind and waves (thinking about the kiddo and the world) and the first thing to go was my Patience. That quickly followed with anger and all the stresses that brings. Ending in me not reflecting my Lord and Savior but the beat up 1969 I used to be. It is easy to get lost in the moment, maybe even a season, when we lose fucus on Who We are in and through Him. Fortunately, God knew and knows this and gave Salvation, The Way, who is in You and You are in Him, and Sanctification by his renewal in Truth! You are The Kingdom of God; He goes everywhere you do! Keep him in the fore front of your mind. Go for a walk in the Garden and TALK to your Friend, Jesus Christ. Ask him to open you up in Truth and reveal a short coming you have that needs your attention. Have a relationship with Him. Thank you, Jesus! We receive every good and perfect thing you have for us and freely give what we receive in Jesus Name! Amen. Now, be FRUITFUL and MULTIPLY!