GOD is so good.  ALL THE TIME and ALL THE TIME GOD is good.  And the thing about it is...HE doesn't have to be.  Think about it.  GOD is GOD.  He doesn't have to be Almighty great and GOOD.  He can just be Almighty.  HE can clearly wipe me from this earth and have good enough reason to do so.  HE has given me so many chances and I have failed so many times...HE could just end my life right now and say "YOU KNOW WHAT?  I TRIED TO HELP THIS BROTHER.   BUT HE KEEPS DOING WRONG!  I AM GONNA HAVE TO WIPE HIM FROM THIS EARTH!!!"  But, yet, and still HE gives me a pass and blesses me time and time again.  Thank you, Jesus.  Even when I complain and dog you and question what the hec you are doing with my life...you still have my back.  You're probably laughing at me hysterically sometimes.  THIS IDIOT.  DOESN'T HE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS I DO I DO FOR GOOD FOR THE GLORY? CAN'T HE JUST BE PAITIENT AND JUST ALLOW ME TO WORK MIRACLES IN HIS LIFE??? Halleluyah.

The thing is...it iS so easy to do wrong.  It is so easy to think wrong, act wrong, be wrong.  It really is.  It is easier to live unholy rather than to live HOLY.  Fighting temptation is like fighting Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali with one arm tied behind my back.  Fighting temptation is like fighting sleep for seven days.  Fighting temptation is like fighting a lion in a cage and you are on crutches.  Fighting temptation is like trying to go back in time.  Fighting temptation is like arguing with your college professor on why you think 4+4 should NOT equal 8.  Fighting temptation is like fighting with the one you love on an argument that you know that you're right on.  You can't win that fight, even though you KNOW you are right!!!  Fighting temptation is like fighting the urge to dance when a Micheal Jackson song comes on (at least for me that is a problem).  Fighting temptation is like wrestling an alligator in a pool.  It is hard.  And in some fricken cases, I would venture out to say DANG near impossible.  It is not, but it feels like it is.  And if it ain't...it should be. 

But, like the saying that I have in my phone...temptation is an opportunity to do good.  The problem with that is...it is also an opportunity to do bad and LORD knows, I have done bad all too many times.  And if I think about it...I wonder have I taken this opportunity and done more bad than good...hmm...I don't know.  Ughh.  I am afraid to think about it.  I could really be a bad person.  You know, there was a time, where I really thought that I might have been an evil person.  I just could not resist ANY kind of temptation from any kind of sorts.  It was crazy.  If temptation wanted an easy victim...they came over to my house.  I really started to think that I had the devil in me or that I was just inherently evil.  I don't think that now...but geesh, that wasn't too long ago.  

Anyhoo, I think I want to cover that in my next SPOKEN WORD MINISTRY CLASS.  The next class starts the first MONDAY in July and I want TEMPTATION to be the subject.  So, join us...if you think you can hang.  It is an awesome class...and I don't even say the word awesome.  We laugh, talk, play games, share our faith and just really have a great time fellowshipping.  And if that is not a word than FORGET YOU!  If any of you know me, I can't do things that are boring.  That is a good thing, but also a bad thing.  I am gonna be at my funeral and wake up from the dead if you aren't laughing and having a good time.  I want the world to be merry.  So, I say that to say, that if you come to the class, don't expect a normal BIBLE STUDY...oh yes, we talk about the LORD, but we also laugh, eat, play games, laugh some more, write poetry, read poetry and just plain have a good old time.   So, if you wnt to sign up, go to www.poetriworkshop.com and sign up NOW!  Hey, that sounds liek an infomercial.  Oh, yea, the class is freeeeeeeeeee.   

Okay, whew!  I didn't mean to go that long on my SPOKEN WORD MINISTRY class.  How did I get on the subject?  Oh, yea, temptation.  How hard it is to fight that mug.  I need a booklet.  Maybe in class, folks can give me a couple of pointers...i am sure no one has a harder time than me...hahahaha.  We will see.

But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.   

Keep it Natural.