A couple years ago I was in America driving from Dallas, Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas. I had the radio on to the Sean Hannity Show and he kept interrupting the normal show with a breaking story that just GRIPPED my heart!
It seems that they were following this huge home made balloon like a weather balloon that a man had built. He said that he had left his kids out playing in the back yard and that the littlest one evidently had crawled INSIDE the basket attached to the bottom of the balloon and that then the tether BROKE and that the balloon was now sailing across country with this little boy stuck in it!
They even had the AIRFORCE TRACKING THIS BALLOON trying to figure out HOW ON EARTH TO SAVE THIS CHILD!
The whole COUNTRY I'm sure was just as heartbroken as I was. All I could do as I prayed for his safety was think OH GOD! THIS LITTLE BOY! PLEASE LORD! HELP HIM!!!!!!!!
And they followed the balloon across the skies and by then that is ALL Sean Hannity or any of the other stations were talking about!
As I drove I could only weep and pray for that little boys safety!
And then the balloon came back down to earth!
They rushed to the balloon, Looked inside......
"IS HE ALRIGHT?????"
NOTHING!
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
NO BALLOON BOY!!!!
IT WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY!!!!!!
Did he fall out unnoticed over the country side, Oh NO!
Did he somehow get OUT????
Nope.
It was all a HOAX! He had never been in the balloon in the first place!
A CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED AND THOUGHT OUT LIE!
His FATHER had cooked up the whole scheme to use the media attention to further HIS agenda!
You know that is one of the most horrible things you can experience in life , DISCOVERING
that YOU are the VICTIM of a HOAX!!!!! That you have been USED!
THAT THINGS ARE ***NOT*** AS THEY SEEM!
God had created something that he loved so much that he actually had created it in his OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS!
Something that God could take great delight not only in LOVING but in TEACHING and developing!
He made MAN!
He gave man EVERYTHING!
It was ALL for him!
He was to rule and reign over all creation! It had been made expressly FOR man! Man didn't know it but when God looked at man he saw some of himself in man!
Man was the very epitome of Gods creativity!
HIS SON
There was just one thing God told man!
"You may eat from ALL the trees save one. The Tree of the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil!
Son, The Day You Eat From That Tree Is The Day You Die!"
The tree wasn't a "BAD" tree.
Trees have no innate virtue or evil, they are just TREES.
But the thing that made THIS tree so important was that it represented a very VERY IMPORTANT principle!
Man NEEDS God!
For as many as are led by the SPIRIT of God They are the SONS of God!
The tree was just a physical type of a spiritual TRUTH!
That even if man could master all the THOU SHALT NOTS and the THOU SHALTS
IT STILL IS NOT ENOUGH!
MAN NEEDS GOD!!!!!
God didn't set a temptation in front of man. God merely appointed a tree as a symbol of a reality inherent in man. That he had been created with the freedom in his spirit to CHOOSE or NOT CHOOSE to obey God! God pleaded with man
"CHOOSE ME! YOU NEED ME!"
You see what God was really saying is "It's all yours son! All of it! It's all for you! I love you! BUT don't EVER EVER EVER think you can get to the place where you don't need me! Son the day you think YOU don't need ME is the day you DIE!"
Sure enough the Devil came with his HOAX!
The Very First Words Ever Spoken By The Devil In The Bible Are...
"YEA, HATH GOD SAID????"
He started his shell game with the woman God had created for Adam...
" Yea! Hath God Said you have to keep this whole garden., work here among ALL these trees and you can't eat from ANY of them??? That hardly seems right!"
" Oh NO!" Said the Woman, "It's not like that at ALL! We can eat from ALL of the trees! All of the trees except ONE! The tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil! The day we eat from THAT tree we will surely die!"
" AH! I SEE" said the devil.
" WELL YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU WON'T DIE! OH NO! YOU KNOW ***WHY *** GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU TO EAT FROM THAT TREE? BECAUSE THE DAY YOU EAT FROM THAT TREE, ***YOU WON'T NEED HIM ANYMORE****! THAT'S RIGHT! THE DAY YOU EAT FROM *THAT* TREE IS THE DAY YOU WILL BE LIKE GODS YOURSELVES! "
HOAX! BIG EMPTY BALLOON BOY HOAX!
As the woman ate she ingested something that STILL plagues the human race today, The Thinking that...
IF I CAN JUST DO ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT TO DO AND DON'T DO ANY OF THE THINGS THAT ARE WRONG TO DO THEN I WILL MAKE IT! I WON'T NEED GOD!
That is why Paul wrote and said ..
That by the works of the Law shall NO FLESH be justified in his sight!
YOU AND I NEED GOD!
You and I are surrounded by a humanity that so often has no time or room for God in their lives!
"I LIVE A GOOD LIFE! I DO GOOD THINGS! I AVOID DOING EVIL! I DON'T NEED ANYTHING ELSE!"
and yet day by day the emptiness and desperation of a Godless life slowly wears them out and brings them down.
And yet Jesus stands ever ready to forgive and create a NEW heart in each of us! One that realizes its NEED of him!
The song said it so beautifuly
"BORN TO DIE
JUST A BEGGAR IN THIS WORLD
I WAS BORN TO DIE
JUST ANOTHER EMPTY SOUL
BUT THEN ONE DAY
THE LORD BAPTIZED ME WITH
THE HOLY GHOST
AND NOW I'M BORN TO LIVE!"
You may be living a life that has drifted far from God.
You may have said to yourself
I DON'T NEED GOD
IF I CAN JUST KEEP ALL THE THOU SHALTS AND DO NONE OF THE THOU SHALT NOTS I WILL MAKE IT!
HOW'S THAT WORKIN' OUT FOR YA?
God stands ever ready not only to forgive but to save!
To HEAL
TO RESTORE
TO DELIVER
YOU NEED HIM!
Don't come to the end of life only to find it as empty as balloon boys balloon. Come to God today! He loves you and longs for that relationship and friendship with you that a good father longs for with his son.
Have you experienced him in the fullness of the Holy Ghost?
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