I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH GOD!

OMNIPOTENT…You are not!

OMNIPRESENT…You are not!

OMNISCIENT…You are not!

LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY.  A PARABLE:

I BOUGHT A PUPPY FOR CHRISTMAS SOME YEARS AGO.  A PRECOCIOUS PUP.  OF PEDIGREE STOCK, A LABRADOR RETRIEVER AND POODLE MIX. A LABRADOODLE, TOO CUTE FOR HIS OWN GOOD.  ANYHOO, I BROUGHT HIM HOME AS A SURPRISE FOR MY DAUGHTER.  WELL, WE NAMED HIM AND ALSO IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO TRAIN HIM TO GO POTTY OUTSIDE.  HE WAS SOME QUICK LEARNER TOO.  HIS WHITE FUR MIXED WITH THE WINTER WHITE SNOW WAS MORE THAN I COULD HANDLE AT TIMES.  BUT I TOOK HIM EVERYWHERE WITH ME - IN THE CAR TO THE STORE, MOST ERRANDS, DROPPING THE KIDS AT SCHOOL, AS WELL AS TO PET STORES WHERE THEY WELCOMED PET VISITORS. HE LOVED EVERY BIT OF ATTENTION WHEN RIDING IN SHOPPING CARTS AND GREETING HUMANS; SUCH A NOISY, CURIOUS PUP HE WAS. 

TO CUT TO THE JIST OF THE STORY – ONE DAY, I HAD TO GET GROCERIES FOR DINNER.  HE RODE IN THE BACK SEAT WHICH HE HATED, BUT IT’S JUST THAT WHEN I ALLOWED HIM UP FRONT HE MISBEHAVED (REACHING FOR GEARS, TRYING TO SIT ON MY LAP, ETC.).  I WENT INSIDE, FINALLY GOT MY SHOPPING DONE ONLY TO RETURN TO MY CAR &  GUESS WHO WAS SITTING IN THE DRIVERS SEAT????? HE LOOKED SO SILLY!  HERE HE SITS IN THE ‘COVETED’ SEAT HAVING NO CLUE WHAT TO DO WITH IT!!!!!!  HE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE CAR GO, HE ASSUMED SITTING THERE WAS THE TRICK FOR MAKING THE CAR START! DUMB, CLUELESS PUP…WHAT DO YOU THINK I DID?  RIGHT.     

{There is ONE seat, only one}.  Period.  WHO DO YOU THINK WILL SIT IN GOD’S SEAT?  RIGHT, AGAIN!

WITHOUT WALLS, IN PLAIN SIGHT

THERE EXISTED A PRISON WITHOUT WALLS LONG AGO IN A LAND CALLED EGYPT.  WITHOUT WALLS, I SAY, BECAUSE OUTSIDE OF A FEW TASKMASTERS TO PUMMEL AWAY ANY AMBITIONS WHATSOEVER, THE HEBREW SLAVES WERE NO MORE CHARGED TO BREAK THE HERD TOWARD FREEDOM THAN SHEEP.  HOW COULD IT BE?  COULD IT BE THAT ONCE, LONG AGO, WHEN A FAMOUS RELATIVE OF THEIRS [JOSEPH], SAVED THE DAY BY WAY OF A DREAM AND BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE, THEY THOUGHT EGYPT WAS NOW THEIR PRIZED-POSSESSION!  DID THEY THINK THAT THEY WOULD RIDE THE COAT-TAILS OF JOSEPH IN INFAMY.  NO DOUBT, THEY WERE WELCOMED AND TREATED WELL FOR AWHILE.  THEY GREW AND PROSPERED AS A PEOPLE. THEY LIVED UNDER THE PROTECTION OF PHAROAH.  THEY WERE ABLE TO KEEP TO THEMSELVES AND PRESERVE THEIR CULTURE AND HERITAGE.  THEY KNEW THEIR FATHER WAS ABRAHAM AND THEY KNEW EGYPT WAS NOT THEIR HOMELAND.  HOWEVER, THEY SEEMED WILLING TO STAY AS CITIZENS FOREVER, CONTENT EVEN.  NOT A TRACE OF MOTIVATION TO SEEK GOD OR HIS LAND OR HIS WAYS OR HIS GOVERNMENT OR HIS FACE.  UNTIL.  UNTIL IT FINALLY HAPPENED! 

YEAH, A NEW PHAROAH.  HE DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE SAW, SO HE CHANGED THE LAW.  SLAVERY.  KEEP THE MASSES TAME LIKE SHEEP.  DRIVE THEM HARD WITH LABOR, LIKE CATTLE.  MAKE THEM FORGET THEY ARE A GREAT PEOPLE!  MAKE THEM FORGET THAT THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!  MAKE THEM SCRAPE AND FIGHT AMONGST EACH OTHER TO VALIDATE THEIR MEAGER EXISTENCE.  LET SURVIVAL BE THE ONLY FOCUS THEY CAN MUSTER UP!  MAKE THEM FEEL THAT THIS IS ALL THERE IS TO LIFE!  THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO SAVE THEM FROM IT!  NO HOPE.  NO ESTEEM.  CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, THAT ALL THE WHILE, THERE WERE NO WALLS TO HOLD THEM?  THEY WERE A 'NUMBified' PEOPLE WELL PRESERVED IN FEAR, AFRAID TO STIR.  YET MOSES WALKED OFF THAT VERY SAME LAND AND NOT ONE FROM PHAROAH'S ARMY PURSUED!  40 YEARS LATER, AARON, HIS BROTHER DID THE SAME WHEN HE WENT SEARCHIN FOR HIS BROTHER, AND STILL NO ONE PURSUED.  AND IF AARON KNEW WHERE TO FIND MOSES, SO DID AN ANGRY PHAROAH....

NOW, LET'S FAST FORWARD TO TODAY:

...I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS,
   I WANT TO BUILD MORE PRISONS...[sublime]

THE MIND IS THAT SOUGHT AFTER PRISON, ULTIMATELY.  OUR MODERN TASKMASTERS OF TODAY, PATTERNED AFTER AN ANCIENT AGENDA, STILL DO NOT USE WALLS.  

 SET FREE, LORD.  SET THE MINDS FREE.  OPEN BLIND EYES. LET THE MUTE, SPEAK.  LET THE EARS HEAR AND PERCEIVE WHAT THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IS SAYING TO THEM.  LORD, LET YOUR PEOPLE KNOW THAT...

this is not a test>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>