truck driver

[gary cook]

many years ago ,not knowing ,JESUS CHRIST never leaves or forsakes us .I did some evil .Thinking my LORD will not for give me .I was driving on a road with no railings on either side .You could see a very long way down .I was driving about 70 miles a hour .I said LORD ,I do not want to live in this world without you .I refuse too .If you are not with me .I see no reason for life .I will go to hell and start suffering .If you are still with you .YOu will drive this trucK ,if not I know you are no longer with me .So I folded my arms and closed my eyes .I waited .well after a short time .I said ,I should be dead .I was going around a big curve .I watch the wheel turning slow around this curve .I said LORD ,you are with me .oddly I now was a little fearful to touch the wheel ?But I slowly put my hand on it and started praising MY LORD telling HIm .I will try harder to please HIm .This was a foolish prayer as I look back .as I have made a few ,I am sorry for .been better to have read HIS LIVING WORD and known it .but we do make dumb decisions at times .not the only one I have made .But as I grow in the LORD .I have put more trust in HIM .But I never loved this world ,nor the things in it .But it does show our LORD will do about anything to protect us even from our selves .I don"t really see how this testamony will bless anyone ?but it does show ?He will never leave or for sake us .As HE has been wonderful to me .and I sure have not deserved this great love and mercy .I was aways a loner all my life no dad and 4 sisters .never hung with the gangs or others as I would not go along with the crowd .I did what I believed was right ,but of course not always right .never following any one .even as a child ,I would not follow the bigger kids or obey them .I was a little odd and fearless .I hated a bully and would go after them . as I was small also .but a lot of fighting spirit .I had been beat up by a big kid when i came back from being sick for a year when young .And I think this great hate of that boy stayed with me for many years .long story will tell it some time.funny how things in our child hood can stay with us and cause us many problems ?

[Brother Love]

When I was a kid I always enjoyed beating up the Bullies, the girls loved me. Those were the days my friend, I thought they would never end. (I should write a song)

[Pilgrim]

Mat 4:5  "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

pilgrim

[Brother Love]

Mat 4:5  "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

pilgrim

What does this mean Pilgrim?

[Pilgrim]

Mat 4:5  "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

pilgrim

What does this mean Pilgrim?

It wasn’t in reference to you but to the story Gary told. I believe he was tempting God in a manor that Jesus refused to do.

Quote from Gary’s story:

 “If you are not with me .I see no reason for life .I will go to hell and start suffering .If you are still with you .YOu will drive this trucK ,if not I know you are no longer with me .So I folded my arms and closed my eyes .I waited .well after a short time .I said ,I should be dead .I was going around a big curve .I watch the wheel turning slow around this curve .I said LORD ,you are with me.”
   
It seems that Gary’s reasoning was more like Satan’s than Jesus.

Mat 4:5  "Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

pilgrim

[gary cook]

Our reasons why we do things is much more important ,that what we do .He said if you do evil and don"t know any better .he may have mercy ,but if you do evil because you like it .woe is you .
But my motive was the LORD was everything to me .which HE looked into my heart and saw .I was in perfect TRUTH with HIm .I loved HIm .so much that I would die ,rather than live without hIm .Not many feel this way .I am not patting me on the back .Because I have failed hIm in other ways .But He came and gave HIS very LIFE for you and me .Yopu think hE has not done More than we should ever expect .And still we do not pick up HIS cross and follow HIm .Yet we judge each other always .He has told us ?we Can not see the full truth .Yet we look for a fault in each other .Yes I have faults many .But guess what ?in my weakness .Then is hE perfect .Because I know I am weak .I am meek and humble toward others .And I bow before my LORD JESUS CHRIST .Plus ,there is a scripture that says try me ,see if I will do as I said .I do not think i temped my LORD .Because I wanted to know ,would HE or could HE forgive me .And HE should me great love and mercy .If i had it to do over ,with the TRUTH I now have ?No i woulod not .As another time I prayed LORD make me cry ,I can not cry .What a dumb prayer .I cried like a baby ,because I failed my lORd This was also many years ago .We say or at least I have said some dumb prayer ,I try to be wiser now

[Pilgrim]

Our reasons why we do things is much more important ,that what we do .He said if you do evil and don"t know any better .he may have mercy ,but if you do evil because you like it .woe is you .
But my motive was the LORD was everything to me .which HE looked into my heart and saw .I was in perfect TRUTH with HIm .I loved HIm .so much that I would die ,rather than live without hIm .Not many feel this way .I am not patting me on the back .Because I have failed hIm in other ways .But He came and gave HIS very LIFE for you and me .Yopu think hE has not done More than we should ever expect .And still we do not pick up HIS cross and follow HIm .Yet we judge each other always .He has told us ?we Can not see the full truth .Yet we look for a fault in each other .Yes I have faults many .But guess what ?in my weakness .Then is hE perfect .Because I know I am weak .I am meek and humble toward others .And I bow before my LORD JESUS CHRIST .Plus ,there is a scripture that says try me ,see if I will do as I said .I do not think i temped my LORD .Because I wanted to know ,would HE or could HE forgive me .And HE should me great love and mercy .If i had it to do over ,with the TRUTH I now have ?No i woulod not .As another time I prayed LORD make me cry ,I can not cry .What a dumb prayer .I cried like a baby ,because I failed my lORd This was also many years ago .We say or at least I have said some dumb prayer ,I try to be wiser now

My concern is that there will be others out there reading your story and tempt God in like manor to prove if He is with them. First off, I don’t believe your story is true. Second, even if it is true, it was a dangerous stunt that I pray others reading about it are not so foolish as to copy. Again, your testing of God is the same reasoning that Satan used to temp Jesus. Jesus rebuked Satan and refused to temp God by putting Him to a foolish test. I hope others reading your story will react the way Jesus did, and not as you did, when tempted to test God. May God open the eyes of your understanding that you may present His truth rather than the reasoning of Satan. God bless.

Pilgrim

[gary cook]

I also think I did wrong .But GOD keeps us even from ourselves .HE is faithful .And this is the part ,I would like all to know .As for weather you believe or not .That is between the LORD JESUS CHRIST and you ?I have nothing to do with it .But weather we like TRUTH or not ?Does not change the facts .It is still part of my testamony . as THE LORD hates a lair .But too be honest ?You should ask the HOLY SPIRIT to reveal this TRUTh and ask HIM ,if this is TRUTH .WHAT can you gain from it .And if it was a lie .You should NEVER read MY POSTS again .Because ,it would only confuse your mind .As we must put TRUTH in our minds always .Because we are what we eat .[spiritually ]