Light v Dark Toast

I am one  of  those folks who likes my food  ever so slightly overcooked.  I like the cheese on my pizza to be golden.. maybe even a 'dark' golden.  I like my bagel toasted dark contrasted with a spread of cream cheese. I  want it to hear a slight CRUNCH when I  bite into it.  And I like DUSK where the sun has  just dropped peacefully below the western horizon but before the  black of night,

Of course choosing dark over light in the weighty matters of bagals and pizza is fine, but in matters of the SPIRIT.. always choose the LIGHT.

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This  Present Darkness is a Christian novel by Frank Paretti published in 1986 for adults showing a contemporary view on angels, demons, prayer, and spiritual warfare as demons and angels interact and struggle for control in our lives and communities.  And though this book was  fiction, I  believe this  battle is  real.

Of course there is obvious  DARKNESS of this  world, but I am  surprised by many Churches Frog in the  Boiling Pot perspective on life where God is fit into societal norms rather than the other way around as  God intends.

"In God We Trust" may be the official motto of the United States of America, but in this  world's  shadows we move closer to a Godless reality found in Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. ​

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How else can explain our society where

• Crass is considered clever
• Profane is  considered  Profound
• Greed and Envy is in the  heart of man
• Hatred, War, and  Genocide exist
• Women are degraded and used via Pornography

• The gentle word CHOICE masks the ongoing hollocaust of Aborting babies
• LGBT is lauded as normal and 
• Gender is just another 'selection' on the happy meal of life.​​

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Some items from this list of our world's woes are pitch black dark, but all of  them lurk in this land  of  shadows where Wrong is considered a gray area defined  by man rather than God.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.  John 3:19-21

So these very words of Jesus make it clear.. It matters what we believe, our choices matter.  JESUS  WAS NOT TALKIN' TOAST.  

So I prayer God finds us IN THE LIGHT, living in obedience to  His  word, loving and truthful in our  words  and deeds with others, and never lingering in this  world's shadows. 

Enjoy this life in the LIGHT.

Blessings

Jeff (dark toast please) Larson

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