Are you only a Christian when God is around?

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God tests Hezekiah to see "all that was in his heart". A few verses prior we read that King Hezi had to repent of his puffed up view of himself. Here God allows the king to encounter the princes without his help, and now the true heart of the man will be shown.
His church friends are not around, he is there being praised for all the wonderful riches in "his" kingdom. What will he do? Will he remember the God that delivered him with the power of an angel only a short while before? Or will he so soon forget what God has done and how God has caused these blessings to fall upon him?
But isn't this where we all have been? Out in the world,away from our Sunday friends and suddenly it is hard to tell that we are any different than those around us. Who do we praise for the things God has given us? Just chalk it up to our talents and hard work, or do we give praise to the giver of all good things?

May God help me and you my friend to give honor where it is due. To God be the glory, great things He has done.

Please don't die

Ezekiel 18:31-32

It doesn't matter how much you have done wrong. Starting now live for God. He will forgive you if you leave off sinning and start living right. His son, Jesus, made a way for your mistakes, your evil deeds to be forgiven. Will you accept this forgiveness and live? If you look for him you will find him.


- Rocky

Some Free Wallpaper

Here is a collection of some desktop backgrounds I made up. Enjoy.

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Michael Jackson's Death

Let me start by sending condolences to his family. At only 50 years old it appears this was very unexpected.

It always makes me sad when I hear of people like Michael Jackson passing from this world. Only God truly knows Michael's heart, but from outward appearances it seems he did not know God. And this is what troubles me. Michael Jackson had a lot of things in this life. He traveled the world with fame and fortune, lacking no finery at any point along the way. The sadness though is that these things often keep us from obtaining the one thing we really need, Jesus Christ.

The Bible warns us that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. Riches cloud our ability to see ourselves as needy. There is nothing wrong with being rich, but often the riches are loved above all else, and this makes them wrong.

Jesus warns the rich young ruler that his riches were keeping him from heaven. The young man was a good and righteous man on the outside. He worked hard, was faithful to his family and church, but his true worship fell on accumulating wealth. When Christ asks him to sell all that he has and to give it to the poor the man cannot bring himself to do it, and goes away saddened because he is not a follower of God.

The man had a very good reason for being sad, but it seems his sadness came not from being outside of God's family, but rather from being unable to take what he thought would be a prestigious and gainful place next to Christ. It seems his sadness was more from a heart of self pity, instead of a heart of repentance for the greatness of his sin and the strength with which it held him.

Let us check ourselves as we hear of this sad news. Remember the God who gives you all things, and remember that he has given the one thing you need, forgiveness from your sins if you come and accept Jesus Christ. John 3:16-18